Are mid-phase evolutions forever doomed to irrelevancy?
>everyone remembers the pre-evo because it's the original and the marketing is all around them
>everyone remembers the final evo because it's the last stage and what people use for the largest chunk of the game

Meanwhile mid-evos are just there for a little while and then poof into irrelevance.
What mid-evos are actually popular besides Pikachu (who wasn't a mid-evo to begin with anyway)