>>33621198With an enormous following. Former member of the FGC here chiming in to say that Pokken is just a niche game within the community. There are far more obscure fighting games within the community with larger followings. Guilty Gear and Melty Blood come to mind. They're not on par with FGs like Street Fighter and Tekken, however. Pokken seems to lean more towards casual, but eh.
>>33621220Unless things have changed since I left the fighting game world, the fgc was divided as fuck over whether Smash is a fighting game or not. But you're probably right in saying that that is what most Pokemon fans were thinking when they heard "Pokemon fighting game."
