>>551747441. Kanto came first, when there were no standards for mon designs, where simplicity could be more tolerated *at the time*
2. Charizard and Pikachu were *the* shillmons, forcefed down everyone's throats, benefitting from massive exposure no one else got
3. Nobody likes Dragonite apart from being a pseudo and another Dragon and the evolution of a mon people actually do like which is widely considered more popular than it; and even despite that is still not more popular than more complex mons from succeeding gens
>Clodsire is possibly one of the most popular new gen pokemonsIf that were true, it's because it's not a shitmon and is an evolution of a mon that was already very popular in its own time, and is now competing against contemporaneous designs many people do not like
