>>43778642Charizard is one of the franchise's biggest faces and names. Any fucking boomer can say "hahaha charizard! See son, I know pokeymans!" and then draw a complete fucking blank when you show them anything other than one of the starters, karp, gyrados, or jigglypuff. Honestly it's like a litmus test. If anyone in [current year] says their favorite pokemon is one of the franchise faces yet can't tell you anything of substance (favorite gym leader, or any evil team aside from Rocket) Is probably only saying they like the franchise itself to avoid being ostracized by their "friends" now that the status quo has shifted toward nerd-culture. It's like saying your favorite baseball player is babe ruth or "lefty" because they're the only names you know and expecting people to not ask "which lefty?" Slowpoke is KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO but obscure enough to not be marketed too heavily because it lacks a dynamic design and only people who played the games will have an attachment to it if any. But, of course, TPC sees another KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOO mon that is well known enough to make sales and not hated enough by the true fans like Zard is becoming; the combination of these two things is what they're trying to market at us. A middle ground. If they go too obscure(like dunsparce, volbeat, dartrix, etc) they might get the hardcore fans but they'll lose the normies that call rowlet hoothoot. If they keep marketing fan favorites like Charizard, the normies and some nostalgiafags will eat it up but eventually the nostalgia will run dry and the hardcore fans that would rather see ANYTHING ELSE will stop caring, which loses the attention of the normies too. Slowpoke and its line are popular, but untouched. Slowbro and Slowking are at least tolerated by the more serious fans and slowpoke's bright colors and simple design make it an easy ambiguous monster to market to the normies who can't handle complex things like the speckles on Venusaur. Sorry for the buzzwords.
