>>51167711And they're generally designed to attract specifically little girl, little boys or ambiguous enough for anyone to pick. (Delphox/Greninja/Chesnaught, Primarina/IncineroarDecidueye, Intelleon/Cinderace/Rillaboom).
And that's not getting into knowing their furry demographic and creating creatures to pull double-duty with kids and cumskulls. The ratio is a game mechanic, in-universe, they're presented more like 50:50 (Ash, much less all the female characters with confirmed feminine designed starters in recent series (XY, SM) having a 100% female hit rate is more than what mechanics would allow consecutively).