>>37420141read between the lines:
>pokemon slot came down to incineroar or decidueye>it was close, but sakurai chose incineroar because he wanted to add a wrestler to the gameknowing that sakurai was set on adding a specific type of fighter that only incineroar applies to, there's only one possible reason why the slot almost ended up being wasted on decidueye anyway: blatant shilling from game freak.
add in the fact that decidueye isn't even popular enough to belong in the discussion, and the truth of the matter becomes obvious. game freak was shilling the owl.