Apparently Tepig is somehow more unpopular than Chikorita and the Totoiletdile. Instead of acknowledging it, the pig lovers are getting smug because their mega is not an humiliation ritual. Their masks immediately went off and they have begun a starter civil war on Twitter calling fans of Totodile scat fetishists and accusing Chikoritters of being homossexual, which has only added to the trainwreck that has been ZA's release and the unprecedented, most negative reception in the history of this franchise. They tried every trick in the book to shill the pig and still no one wanted it. Not the old man on his death bed, not the babe in the womb of the mother. The least popular in Black and White, Black and White 2 and now Legends ZA, the back-to-back loser of the starter wars.

What a disgrace, the pig doesn't serve even for a shillmon.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/10/poll-which-starter-pokemon-did-you-choose-in-pokemon-legends-z-a