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Zoroark was more like a story of self-sabotage than an attempt at a shillmon.
>line got its own movie, except the Zorua and Zoroark in question were a mother and child, boys don't like icky things like that and Celebi was the bigger focus in the movie anyway IIRC
>gimmick ability was snuffed in the same gen introduced due to team preview allowing it to be telegraphed a mile away
>can't even be obtained without an event normally in BW, B2W2 tried to fix it by giving you a Zorua, except it belongs to N so it's not even really yours like obtaining the Riolu egg from Riley anyway
It's like they were trying to replicate and make it Lucario but worse so Lucario would still be Pokemon's Mascot #2.