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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:32:29 No.23538299 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>23538311 >>23538412 >>23540416 >>23540906

>m-muh pandering

Quit being silly /vp/. In all honestly, nobody likes your favorite shitmon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:34:29 No.23538311 Report

Quoted By: >>23538341

>>23538299
Don't put those two in the same category, shitlord. Charizard earned its popularity. Lucario was pushed even before D/P.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:34:48 No.23538313 Report

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Bullies/cool kids picked Charmander.
Clowns and funny kids picked Squirtle.
Nerds, hipsters or girls picked Bulbasaur.

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:36:29 No.23538328 Report

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Charizard is my favorite Pokemon of all time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:38:04 No.23538341 Report

Quoted By: >>23538376

>>23538311
Charizard was pushed on the cover of the fucking game. Don't be retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:38:35 No.23538348 Report

Quoted By: >>23538368 >>23538393

Charizard is awesome!

His card does 100 damage!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:41:45 No.23538368 Report

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>>23538348
it was so energy consuming I never evolved my charmeleon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:42:55 No.23538376 Report

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>>23538341
All the Gen I starters were put in the cover, what are you talking about?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:45:30 No.23538390 Report

Quoted By: >>23539105

Charizard was FAR less forced than Lucario.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:45:44 No.23538393 Report

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>>23538348
Blaine's Arcanine does 120.

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:48:41 No.23538406 Report

Quoted By: >>23540008

OP is right.

Charizard and Lucario both are considered "cool" mons, they have amazing megas, both design and stats-wise.

It's obvious that GF is trying to appeal to us by using them as the poster boy.

What would you think it would look like if they used, let's say Druddigon or Ferrothorn or Kecleon or Wormadam? People would react, "what the fuck is this thing?"

What would they even make out of Garbodor if they were to use it as promotion? They don't, right? It's always the edgy / cool ones (Haxorus, Excadrill, mega Blaziken) or the cute ones like Sylveon, eeveelutions, Pikachu and its clones

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:50:01 No.23538412 Report

Quoted By: >>23538415

>>23538299

Here's your reply.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 16:50:36 No.23538415 Report

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>>23538412
Buttmad hipster detected

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 17:11:01 No.23538541 Report

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>>23538415

OP is the butthurt one for making this thread.

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 18:29:23 No.23539105 Report

Quoted By: >>23539153 >>23539211 >>23540920

>>23538390

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 18:36:03 No.23539153 Report

Quoted By: >>23540421

>>23539105
The thing is, Charizard gets this treatment as a response to its popularity. The fans love it.

Lucario was pushed before it even had any popularity to capitalize on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 18:38:10 No.23539181 Report

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But I don't hate Lucario because of pandering, I hate him because his design is one of the single worst visual designs in the entire series.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 18:41:23 No.23539211 Report

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>>23539105
That's the present day (i.e, AFTER it became and remained popular). Compare that to Lucario.

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 20:38:45 No.23539953 Report

Quoted By: >>23540054

I don't think Gamefreak would pander if the Pokemon wasn't popular

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 20:49:33 No.23540008 Report

Quoted By: >>23540366

>>23538406
If this was EarthBound, they indeed would use Garbodor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 20:56:32 No.23540054 Report

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>>23539953
They dropped Zoroark as hard as it bombed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 21:45:43 No.23540331 Report

Quoted By: >>23540393

>Lucario was pushed before it was popular!

Wrong. Being a next gen preview doesn't mean you're being pushed. Plenty of mons debut before their gen, and how many of them ever reached Lucario popularity?
None. Even some legendaries who get the movie treatment don't become as popular. And the fact that they tried to make Zoroak Lucario 2.0 shows that his popularity has nothing to do with Nintendo pushing it, but the other way around.

Nintendo doesn't pick who is popular even when they try, or do I have to remind you guys that Clefairy was originally gonna be the mascot, with Pikachu as no different than any other random wild Pokemon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 21:50:15 No.23540366 Report

Quoted By: >>23540737

>>23540008

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure that Earthbound fucking bombed in America.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 21:54:35 No.23540393 Report

Quoted By: >>23540471 >>23540827

>>23540331
Right, Lucario rank being the highest rescue team rank in the game in PMD totally doesn't show they're deliberately pushing it to make it popular.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 21:58:55 No.23540416 Report

Quoted By: >>23540742

>>23538299
But you're fucking wrong.
Nobody doesn't like nidoking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:00:00 No.23540421 Report

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>>23539153
So what? A lot of people like it. They tried to make a popular character and succeeded. What's wrong with that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:03:30 No.23540458 Report

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I hate Lucario, but that picture is cute. Maybe if Lucario was cuter, people would like him more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:04:05 No.23540462 Report

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"Video game companies should not attempt to popularize characters and then capitalize on that popularity."

That's the argument I'm seeing here. Anyone who believes that is seriously, literally, irrevocably autistic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:05:06 No.23540471 Report

Quoted By: >>23540498

>>23540393
You know that that game had 5 different next gen Pokemon previewed in it, right? They also "pushed" Munchlax and Bonsly, who were in XD unlike Lucario.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:09:13 No.23540498 Report

Quoted By: >>23540525 >>23540542

>>23540471
The difference is that they weren't hailed as some sort of superhero.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:13:08 No.23540525 Report

Quoted By: >>23540577

>>23540498
Who gives a fuck? If they want to make a Pokemon that's supposed to be "some sort of superhero", why does that matter to you?

PIkachu is everyone's cute buddy. Mewtwo is a destructive experiment gone awry. Lucario is a heroic aura martial artist. Why does it bother you people so much?

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:13:25 No.23540529 Report

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>"YOU IDIOTS! Instead of asking him what he wants, you're telling him what he wants! This is why we're getting killed by the Chinese!"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:14:51 No.23540542 Report

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>>23540498
>Oh, but his only two appearances before 4th gen made him look cool in them
If anything, Muchlax was pushed WAY harder than Lucario seeing as it was the first 4th gen mon when he debuted in the Deoxys movie, and was caught by a main character in the main anime series. It got way more exposure than Lucario did before 4th gen.

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:20:38 No.23540577 Report

Quoted By: >>23540611

>>23540525
this

Seriously. I can't grasp why people don't just get over Lucario. You dont have to like it, just...let it go. (I dont like charizard for instance, doesnt mean I care if someone else likes it nor so I shitpost on charizard threads) but honestly just get over it, gamefreak has made it very clear that its here to stay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:26:35 No.23540611 Report

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>>23540577
I'm trying to get over it, but Gamefreak keeps shoving it in my face.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:29:24 No.23540633 Report

Quoted By: >>23540656

What I don't get why whether or not he was "pushed" makes his popularity less legitimate than Charizard's.
Just pushing something does NOT mean it'll be popular. Its still up to the fans to decide to like it or not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:33:10 No.23540656 Report

Quoted By: >>23540687 >>23540702

>>23540633
Wait people actually like Lucario? I've never met a single person who likes it, ever. Not online, not in real life, whether they're on /vp/ or serebii or any other site like showdown the prevailing opinion wherever I went was it was ugly as fuck. I thought people were complaining because Lucario was hated by almost everyone but Gamefreak kept pushing it in spite of thay because it's Masuda's fursona.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:38:47 No.23540687 Report

Quoted By: >>23540767

>>23540656
>Wait people actually like Lucario?
Lucario is literally one of the most popular and loved Pokemon in the entire franchise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:41:49 No.23540702 Report

Quoted By: >>23540767

>>23540656

It's furbait and a Goku expy.

Of course the majority of Pokemon's fanbase is going to like it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:50:25 No.23540737 Report

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>>23540366
now become a cult classic for retro and JRPG fans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:51:07 No.23540742 Report

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>>23540416
Laughed
Then I realized how true that is

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 22:55:07 No.23540767 Report

Quoted By: >>23540843 >>23540853

>>23540687
>>23540702
I've never, NEVER, met a single person who liked or was even neutral towards Lucario. Everybody, without hyperbole who plays pokemon I've ever personally interacted with dislikes it. I have friends who play pokemon and they don't like it, my younger siblings and their friends who grew up on DPPt don't like it, people I interact with online whether it's the fanatic fans on /vp/ or casuals on Facebook don't like it.

If you told me Lucario was one of the single most popular pokemon I'd have said you couldn't have been more wrong. Does it like, owe the entirety of its popularity to the Japanese fanbase or something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:02:32 No.23540827 Report

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>>23540393
This, but don't forget that Lucario's movie came out before D/P.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:04:20 No.23540843 Report

Quoted By: >>23540850 >>23540861

>>23540767
...there is no way your act is real.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:05:00 No.23540850 Report

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>>23540843
...back to reddit

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:05:06 No.23540853 Report

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>>23540767
I love Lucario.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:06:39 No.23540861 Report

Quoted By: >>23540888

>>23540843
I'm willing to believe you, I acknowledge my own experiences are totally anecdotal, I'm just earnestly surprised after seeing it get so much hate from literally every pokemon player I personally know and a significant portion online.

and I do mean LITERALLY, literally.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:10:44 No.23540888 Report

Quoted By: >>23540891

>>23540861
yeah i guess you figured all that fanart only came from people who hated the fucking thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:11:41 No.23540891 Report

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>>23540888
I don't browse for fan art so I didn't know it had a lot.

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:14:41 No.23540906 Report

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>>23538299
Charizard is cuter, lucario is fine.
Nice dus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 23:18:07 No.23540920 Report

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>>23539105
wow Scutterbug fucking ovverrated piece of garbage stop with this pandering GAMEFREEEAAAAAAK

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