>>55318549It's pokemon, the games are not hard. Nobody actually gives a shit about the in game """meta""" except for adult bulbasaur fans because they feel like they need something to be proud of.
Fire will always be more compelling to us than water or especially plants, hot colors will always grab our attention more than cool colors. Dragons will always capture mankind's imagination more than turtles and toads. Warm colors, dragons, fire - those things either are dangerous or generally denote dangerous things, so we are hard-coded to recognize them and be interested in them so we don't die. Knowing that pokemon involves making these creatures fight means that the fire breathing dragon makes more sense than the turtle that spits at you or the toad. Even if kids aren't actively thinking about these things, they're all drifting around in their subconcious.
This is to say nothing of the basic pokemony appeal that a little lizard turning into a dragon has over a toad or turtle getting bigger, though the latter does do better by adding a more dangerous aspect in the cannons.
It would have taken a genuine miracle for charizard to not comfortably eclipse the other two in popularity.
