>>56450554You forget that Gen 1 was expressly marketed as a boy game back in the day.
Primarina would've been a massive flop, at least in the eyes of the sales team, because their target audience were just kids who wanted the strongest monster to take down other monsters.
Pokemon wasn't big enough at the time to encompass the "Pop Princess" group you were describing, so Primarina might've just been an entire flop
Ironically, Incineroar might be the closest to what they were originally selling.
