>>43453136Pikachu is the worst thing to happen to the franchise and killed it before it could take off. It is legitimately the single most shilled character in the history of the universe.
>>43453142"Mascots" are worthless and destroy the entire purpose of the series, by homogenising all the attention, merchandise, screentime and buffs to shitty artificially "popular" shillmons. Pokemon shouldn't have mascots, every pokemon should get its time in the limelight. That includes obscure, mistreated pokemon like Huntail, Donphan, Drapion, Escavalier and so on.
>>43453187There is no "great choice of shillmon". Shillmon are fundamentally flawed and artificial popularity derived from foisting them into the games at every available opportunity doesn't represent the quality of the pokemon. Pokemon as a franchise would benefit from cancer like "mascots" never existing.
