>>58131632>still used commonly by NPCsproof?
>rival acenot a rival
>champion ace3 gens after the fact, when tpc realized how organically popular it was and wanted to cash-in
>PMDintra-gen-wise, speaking role only, little actual screentime, and this is a sidegame not made or managed by gamefreak
>one of two non-Eevee evolutions lines in Gen 4 to get a cross-gen branch evoand froslass exists too, whose line was never popular, so what does that actually tell you?
>constant movepool buffs?
its movepool was diverse from the start and there was lore reasons for that as well as balance reasons as a counterpart to Alakazam