>>47503381Because Charizard get so much special snowflake treatment, Game Freak is actively shitting on anyone who just so happened have an attachment to any other fire starter that isn't Shillerderace. There's literally no reason for other fire starters to even exist (oh wait fucking Dexit Happened).
>which is really just a company utilizing one of its most widely recognized and loved charactersGet over yourself. The only reason Charizard is so "widely recognized" is because TPC and Game Freak keep shoving it in our faces. I will say that Charizard is a good design and even before it became Game Freak's pimp it was the most popular Kanto starter, but don't act like Charizard deserves all the dick-sucking it gets because it doesn't, it really fucking doesn't.