>>50510852Not really, TPC doesn't have enough creative control over the development of the games to dictate a Pokemon's viability.
At most, they suggest to GameFreak "hey, our studies show this Pokemon has potential to be really, really popular with kids, maybe make it really good so they'll wind up loving it?" and see where that takes them, but with cases like Dracovish, it's entirely capitalizing on a niche market and taking advantage of a Pokemon's unexpected popularity.
Remember, GameFreak unironically did not expect Aegislash to be used the way it was back in Gen 6 VGC despite designing it with its ridiculous BST in both forms.
