>>38769540>Typhlosion and Feraligatr are popularEh, not really. Popular amongst a subgroup of longtime avid fans, maybe. But they're definitely not popular to general audiences or to Gamefreak/TPCi. Like many Gen 2 pokemon, they were constantly overshadowed by Gen 1 and Gen 3 promotion. The fully evolved forms of the Johto starters barely showed up in the Gen 2 saga of the anime and when they did they were pathetically quickly beaten.
>Feraligatr shows up only to beaten by Snorlax and have an offscreen-battle in whirl cup>Bayleef gets easily beaten by Blastoise>Meganium gets easily beaten by Bulbasaur>Typhlosion only appears in one special in Gen 2 and the rest it's appearances are short minor ones in Gen 3>you never see NPC trainers using Johto starters in any of the games