>>36012720Gonna give you the answer and be forthright without being dickish as much as I can, since this is a friendly thread and wanna keep it that way but also don't want to sugarcoat stuff for the sake of a genuine answer.
You were around pre-release, right, when the owl was being hyped as "the next Greninja" and its fans shat on the other two hard? Yeah, well. It turned out to be a total joke stat-wise to where it is dropping in the Smogon tiers like a rock since release, its typing even makes in-game runs difficult, and its hidden ability Long Reach is as useful as Overgrowth. Meanwhile, in the anime, it's stayed a Rowlet because Rowlet is easily the most marketable of its line but its "comedy relief" antics poking endless fun at its expense have furthered its joke status and by extension, the entire line - not to mention lore bits that work against Decidueye like being panicked easily in surprise or not being able to fly according to the official Pokemon website. Even some of its merchandise has suffered, no one is really defending the official plush's awful quality. It's gotten to where Incineroar and Primarina won out over Decidueye in the official Nintendo Dream poll. Considering the hate those two got in the early part of the gen, that's something.
A lot of people took schadenfreude in all the bad luck the owl line had, in turn a lot of falseflaggers posing as "owlbros", "hyping" Decidueye up for "inevitably" evolving in the anime or being a "shoo-in" for Smash, claiming the official Nintendo Dream poll was "rigged" by Incineroar fans without the slightest shred of proof, and acting like smug, delusional autists doing so. Obviously, none of their claims happened yet, but there's some True Believers out there like the Comedy Relief Anon
and I know you're the artist, buddy who have gone from merely hyping Decidueye up to defending it over its poor luck to openly shitting on Incineroar in other threads over the course of the generation.
