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Bulbasaur has always been popular and charmander has always been popular but less popular than you’d think. Frankly charmander has just always been the least cute of the Kanto trio, and got the least amount of screen time in the anime. The big divide in popularity is between charizard, who is still far and away the most popular fully evolved Kanto starter, and venusaur, who is still very comfortably the least popular Kanto starter.
Blaziken is still very popular and if that person is talking about sceptile barely placing higher than it in that big poll, then
1) it was only by a few hundred points
2) sceptile has always been very popular too