>>56165216>1) RillaboomHe's popular in his own way. Grookey is a fairly popular starter, he's just stuck between two other starters with way more mass appeal. Rillaboom has the meta on his side though, different from the other two.
>2) QuaquavalSynthetized from Greninja's and Inteleon's popularity, also inherited their failures and in the end got shafted in favor of Meowscarada, Game Freak's pet shillmon furbait for the gen. Cultural oddities and differences coming from his design origins also ostracized him heavily from casual fans unfortunately.
>3) ChesnaughtChespin was too cute for his own good and his final evolution being a buff fighting-type discouraged people from picking him after finding out. There's nothing inherently wrong with him, it's just not what fans expected and the other two starters were already being shilled to high heavens because they were so good.
>4) Gen II startersOriginal victims to Game Freak's shafting tendencies. Purposefully made to be jobbers to the original Kanto starters, everything about them is some kind of remix of the original trio, even their stats are identical. I'm not saying they're bad for it, but they were not made to be popular and that's that.
Typhlosion only escaped fakester hell through being the most picked one and nostalgia did its thing. He even got a regional form for his troubles. Doesn't change the fact it's one of the weakest fire starters there is.
>5) Gen V startersGeez, where to fucking start. I have to mention that i have nothing against Gen V or its starters but they're 100% the weakest trio. There's no real depth to them outside of a "multicultural" theme. Samurott is a four-legged samurai for some reason. Snivy becomes Lady Oscar but loses their legs and their arms turn stubby. Tepig goes from a luchador to a chinese warlord in the blink of an eye. And Emboar, being the only evolution with a secondary type, is the THIRD fire/fighting starter in A ROW. And they all share the SAME BST.
