>>29154510>Do you think that GF does care about the popularity of its designs?They stated that one of the factors for mega evolutions they decided to do was how popular the pokemon is.
Also there are some Pokemon they obviously manufacture to become popular. It's not a coincidence that Lucario got a movie before DP came out and 10 years later it's still shilled to hell and back. They also put more effort into the starter and box legendary designs because they need them to be popular as they're the ones marketing the games the most.
