>>50678986it's super super popular with furries, but that's a given. outside of that? probably its god awful (lack of) lore and reason to exist. combined with the hype for gen 8 that still existed at the time, as well as the outrage over LGPE, and it was likely just overshadowed due to other stupid shit out of its control (as it deserved to be). same thing happened with meltan/melmetal to a lesser extent, I think.
