>>28390467They don't.
After mallow blew up and """"confurmd"""" them, there was a strawpoll that lasted a whole day and broke 900 unique IPs--it had options for each of the three starters, and "box."
Box was in the lead for most of the day, and was only eeked out by rowlet by like a single percent.
The vast majority of people on /vp/ don't want these shitmon, but its more fun to shitpost about denialfags and how they're confirmed for 4 months than it is to NOT have something to shitpost about. Or that it is to just hang out in waifu threads all day.
So they're popular topics of conversation, but not popular pokemon by any stretch. I expect that /vp/ will be orders of fucking magnitude nicer to these things than the general public will, too. Imagine a normie genwunner gofag deciding to look at the new pokemon games, and the first thing he sees is that the 'new charizard' is fucking
lucha
litten
It won't go over well.
