>>56493752I'm tired of people pretending like Rowlet's not the shillmon of gen 7. It has by far the most amount of merchandise of any gen 7 mon, and generally in the top percentage of all pokemon.
It had way more prominence in the anime compared to Incineroar, featured in a lot of animated media whereas Incineroar only served as a jobber to Charizard in that shitty movie you mentioned, and Zeraora was just as relevant as any other new gen methical anyway, it didn't even get special treatment. Smash is ultimatley up to Sakurai, otherwise we'd have the likes of Eevee and Blaziken playable by now.
You can always argue who's the most popular fully evolved alola starter due to their varying popularity in different regions, but the only one constant is that Rowlet is always above them, with no exception.
Rowlet is the gen 7 shillmon and no amount of seething for the baracat or Zeraora or even Lycanroc is going to change that.
