>>48115904>They're upset because nobody but horny furries like the starters despite the disgenious marketing behind it.In Inteleon's case, that seems to be the intended audience. And they aren't even particularly trying to hide it either. Twilight Wings made it a Super Model, The Ashnime gave it a smooth, sexy voice and there's even a subtle sex joke regarding it involving a female Kecleon (but even then it is all played for comedy and clearly just the writer's having fun)
Cinderace on the other hand has actually been proven to be quite popular with normies and little children. It's also the starter that gets by far the most marketing in Gen 8.
It's even the official mascot of a children's football association
Rillaboom seemed to be well regarded design wise but it's problem (besides the drums) is that it didn't really have anything to truly make it stand out.
The fact they put it in a band next to fucking Toxtricity of all Pokémon probably didn't help matters so it just sorta fell to the wayside
Inteleon got furry appeal while Cinderace got normie appeal. Rillaboom didn't have a niche crowd to appeal to besides VGC fans but that's a really small part of the community if not the smallest part.
