>>58753631>n-no, see we didn't do it as badly as the birdfagsSorry kek, the fact remains you're pushing untrustworthy horseshit, in a vain attempt to make what we've got canon fucking evidence directly contradicting it true speaks to your inability to accept the facts. If it was worth a fuck, not just to dipshits partaking in a data farming exercise, Game Freak would not have given it what they did. Because they did, they knew M Greninja and the ranked event shit would immediately overshadow any other water starter that wasn't Primarina that didn't have a mega (and as they had specific plans for those with megas, the alternative of using them was off-the-table). Best to use one no-one truly gives a shit for, because it's a generic Gen 2 animalmon (I believe that was a slight pitched at Typhlosion for being chosen for L: A and all).
And yeah, shockingly and stunningly, pokémon proven to be casualfag, utterly normalfag tier popular with the entirety of the fanbase placed highly and well. Making the aberrations like decidueye outpacing its pre-evo, one of the most popular pokémon full stop, much less base or starter pokémon so glaring and disconcerting. Normals gonna normal, but when normals ignore something for years n end, only for it to show up in an utter normalfag-focused data farm exercise, it's proof there was an element of spergs making their voices heard, thinking it meant a fuck (Decidueye got a repaint, which also faild badly, if you remember).