>>42373148Lucario and Gerdevoir had a colored introduction with the PMD games. They were given a lot of lore and heavily characterized. All of this has been left behind in 2005-2006. Being one of, if not the only pokemon introduced at the time to be characterized with having supernatural connections with humans (and humanoid at that) it wasn't difficult to like their designs.
Then the furries attacked. Fucking hell.
Zoroark wasn't nearly as special but the furries went up and destroyed that too.
Same with Sylveon and pretty much any other pokemon with a design that makes for easy-appeal.
A lot of these designs are really good with a lot of room for appeal but FUCK if the shitters in the community don't wreck everything nice.
>>42373188Fuck you.
