Do you think there will ever be a shillmon that's shilled to the same level as Lucario ever again?>One of the selected few Pokemon pre-Gen 4 to be revealed early alongside Bonsly, Munchlax, Mime Jr., and Weavile (A Pokemon that is shilled sometimes but nowhere near the same level as Lucario)>Got a special rank in PMD that exists to shill him which is explicitly just called "Lucario Rank">The only generation where a Fighting type specialist HASN'T used Lucario since his debut is Gen 7, for every other one there has been at least one that uses him>Has never ever been dexcut, mainstay alongside Gengar, Eeveelutions, and Weavile>Main focus on an entire Pokemon movie that isn't a legendary or Mythical Pokemon (the only other time this has ever happened was with Zoroark, a failed second Lucario)>Cynthia's design is based on him even though her ace is a fucking Garchomp>The fact that it's a gift Pokemon in DP basically means 90% of people are likely to have it>Came out in Smash Bros. Brawl barely even a year after DP released (replacing MEWTWO at the same time), would soon be followed by Greninja and Incineroar>Is the only starter in PMD that's not a previous starter Pokemon in any of the games>B2W2 heavily featured him in marketing, the game basically railroads you into using him since he's the only Fighting type available against Cheren>Basically the poster boy of mega evolution barring Mewtwo and Charizard, you have a fucking giant ass statue of him, he's your first mega evo in a LUCARIO VS LUCARIO FIGHT, and the anime shilled him further by making Korrina a minor but prominent character in X and Y, canonically the first mega evo besides FUG>As soon as Ash got him in the anime he became THE most shilled member of Ash's team that wasn't Pikachu
>gets cuckolded in her own region by her clonehow did we let this happen sinnohbros
>>56100934Observe https://files.catbox.moe/opztpk.jpg
>>56101085if H-Zoroark had been the original design that came out in BW it MIGHT have reached close to Lucario levels
>>56101256Zoroack’s failure has nothing to do with its design. Game Freak was too afraid to shill it because of Genwunner’s tantrum over Unova pokemon mogging KANTOOOOO Pokémon.
>>56101096In terms of favoritism (ie. appearing without Venusaur or Blastoise), Gen I Charizard has>Red boxart (it's always the first-billed game)Gen II>Used on Champion Lance's team (but his teamed is themed around dragons)>Gets a unique party icon>Appears in the introGen III>Appears on the title screen of FireRed>In one of Tucker's teams in Emerald, though his ace is SwampertGen IV>Appears as one of nine boats in Wi-Fi Plaza
>>56101272Zoroark literally failed because it had the most retarded abd completely sabotaged distributed method.You can find a goddamn riolu just purring and looking at you doe-eyed practically near the start of BW2Paldea makes riolus even easier to find.
>>56100934>Main focus on an entire Pokemon movie that isn't a legendary or Mythical PokemonI remember thinking he WAS a legendary, and being confused when I saw others>Zoroark, a failed second LucarioTrue, but it least that's one is still more recognizable that the yellow cat thing.
>>56100934Good design deserves to be shilled. Unlike garbages like Cinderace
>>56101666>Good design deserves to be shilledtotally!but what does that have to do with Lucario?
>>56101677Lucario banged your mom in secret
>>56101679He banged me too
>>56101462yeah, zoroark was fucking event-only AND an event that was distributed for an entirely different game at that AND it was locked to postgame so you couldn't even use it for your ingame teamlike they could not make a more difficult to obtain pokemon if they triedi would call it intentional sabotage but gamefreak is too incompetent for that
>>56101256I like OG zoroark better
>>56100934Lucario had time to cook. Once Diamond and Pearl came out and he stuck the landing by having the trifecta of being easy to obtain, good casually/competitively and having a cool design, all of his shilling payed off. You can't hype up a Pokémon or have them stick around long enough to stay in our minds if a new mainline game is revealed every year.
>>56101679Nah, that was Lana's mom, not mine.
>>56100934Lucario is both a coolmon and a coomermon. He would be popular even without being shilled.
>>56101666Cinderace living rent free
>>56101272Zoroark failed because they make it as unavailable as possible. Your conspiracy theory here doesn't work because you're too butthurt that people prefer Charizard.
>>56101085>>56101272You sharty subhumans don't even try to hide it.
>>56101272Lucario upset boomers far worse https://youtu.be/HZ2-1rccQesThis guy wasn’t an outlier. Most message boards were crying out over “gen-1 erasure” when Lucario replaced Mewtwo in Smash Bros. Brawl
>>56103518I don't miss genwunners.
>>56101666This, lol.
>>56103518Wew, that's super old.Here's a Mewtwofag melty from Smash 4.
>>56102472Based Rabbit
>>56104450lol lmfao look at that stupid-looking handless rabbit
>>56101272This. So much this.
>>56104450Cute Boyfriends
>>56104011witnessing rosterfaggotry makes me glad i never got into smash
>>56103570Cute gay throuple.
>>56100934>>The fact that it's a gift Pokemon in DP basically means 90% of people are likely to have itIron Island was optional in DP and BDSP (only mandatory in Platinum), so I would probably say less than 70% (if that) in terms of first-time playthroughs.
>>56100934Charizard
