>>28257018You see, I was going to say Lucario at first, but the majority of fans genuinly like Lucario. Lucario's popularity was a result of fan favoritism.
Zoroark was literally designed to be "Lucario 2.0". Its design screams "Focus Group", it's literally another anthropomorphic canid, but now with a cooler, edgier color scheme, a unique ability, a special event dedicated to it, being pushed in the merchandise, and so on.
Like Poochie, it was forced onto the fanbase with little success.
