>>55238281>TPC only shills CHARIZARD to appeal to westerns >CHARIZARD is still makes it to the top 30 even in a Even if you want to claim its that its a Chicken/ Egg situation where CHARIZARD only go that high because of being constantly shoved in our faces (and to be fair that theory has some merit), it doesn't quite work because Blastiose and Venusaur are nowhere to be seen despite getting almost as much shilling as the Trust Fund wanna be dragon gets. nearly everything CHARIZARD gets Blastiose and Venusaur get just slightly later, yet they didn't make the list while Typhlosion (a pokemon that may as well be a Digimon with how TPC neglects it) somehow made the list and not even the flashy new and improved Hisuian form, the OG from most new fans probably didn't even know existed until the the mightiest mark raid and many MM mons didn't make it on the list anyway. .
So CHARIZARD clearly has a reasonably high level of natural appeal that partially justifies the shilling.