>>51462849Because it sells the most merch of any fully grown starter, the fact Shudo chose Charizard in Gen 1 was because kids in Japan lost their little shits over the fucking thing. It's also why the west took to it, a fire-breathing flying dragonalike is just innately cooler than a walking tree and a derpy fat turtle with american penis replacements sticking out its back, like a wind-up doll.
We get it, you like different thing, you also want to be "alternative" thus hate on something cooler than your stan (because it sure as fuck isn't popular and you devised this whole headcanon it'd be different if boogyman didn't exist to cope. Newsflash: Even if it didn't, no cunt would like your shitmon because it's a shitmon). Neither have any bearing on the fact nomies, the secondary driving force behind the franchise, like the fucking hing enough to make it more profitable than 800+ other shitters.
