>>36060970game serena wasn't popular even on xy days, as an NPC it was literally just a defeatist girl that nobody liked that was nice to you even when you crush her dreams in front of her and 1hit her stupid absol, and as a playable character it was as empy as every other
only the anime counterpart got popular
while lillie even if it's a shitty caracter of the worst games it's still its own character that waifufags can cling to instead of just the female counterpart of the protagonist