>>33088874Pixiv results:
>Primarina: 835 >Decidueye: 803>Incineroar: 550Instagram Tags:
>Decidueye: 11,729 >Primarina: 11,519 >Incineroar: 8,637 Deviantart results:
>Primarina: 6691>Decidueye: 4162>Incineroar: 3370The most popular poll we have, with 9k japanese voters:
>Primarina at 43%>Decidueye at 40%>Incineroar at 17%The second most popular I found (349 voters), from Gamefaqs, (%s are rounded up):
>Decidueye - 132 or 38%>Primarina - 124 or 36%>Incineroar - 93 or 27%I think the point is, no matter how you look at it, ignoring Refresh, Incineroar is ALWAYS last.
I personally think Decidueye is more popular in the west and Primarina is more popular in Japan, but Rowlet is still more popular than both, to the point where it became the face of Alola, and it would make sense for it to stay a Rowlet forever just so they can keep milking it and making more merch. So, if the anime only wants to evolve the starters based on what's more marketable, what
>>33088836 says makes perfect sense. Keep in mind Japan also gets more merch, so I ASSUME that matters the most.