Of all female E4 members to be the most popular and have the most fanart, why her?What was the reason(s) again?
>>58206924OP here, I also want to know why she’s so much more popular than Olivia? Who also had a presence before the endgame (which is more than I can say with most E4 characters overall)
>>58206924Because most artists are women, and Rika is popular with girls for her "androgynous" design
>>58206924She appeals to trannies (which make up the majority of the adult Pokemon fanbase)
>>58206964based brownchad
>>58206947Men are fickle and can't stand by their waifus. They have eyes for a girl but then move onto the next piece of ass that becomes the Patreon flavor of the month. Rika doesn't appeal to men, she appeals to women who are a better fanbase to net because they're much more faithful and exploitable than men. For every franchise that's a gigasuccess it's not because men bought the merch, it's because women were first in line with their autistic fanfics and shipping that keeps things around and only a smart IP holder is able to retain that fanbase while being able to push the appeal to men who only care about pop shitNote Elite Four members were NEVER popular characters until Unova, where they EXPLODED thanks to Grimsley, Caitlin and Shauntal. Even to this day most Elite Four members just aren't popular. Turns out sitting in a room doing nothing and being a surprise boss fight at the end of the game doesn't make for a popular character. Lance would never have been popular if he wasn't running around Johto and wasn't ChampionSo while Olivia did have presence outside of the E4, she didn't really have much impact compared to other characters (about as much as Hala or Hapu) and while she's sexy, people ended up flocking to later brown girls like Nessa anyway. Shit nobody stuck with Shelly while Courtneyfags are dime-a-dozen
>>58206924>before Gen 7 the Elite didn’t get to do anything except stand in a room >Gen 7 women got mogged by Shillie >Gen 8’s Elite 4 was Dexited so game freak could spend more time making high quality models for trees >Gen 9’s only other female Elite 4 is this thing That’s why
>>58206924Because women.
>>58206924Because she gave countless women their lesbian awakening, particularly women who are into "handsome" girls.
>>58206924I have no clue. She's a legit top 5 most generic/forgettable design for me. I can't even tell what her type specialty is supposed to be and don't care enough to bother looking it up. I've never seen anyone waifu her, so I assume most of her fanbase is female. But then again, I don't know why girls would latch onto a green-haired office lady of all things. Idk maybe it's some "girl power" thing because she dresses like a man? Kind of ironic, but I can't think of anything else.
>>58207053They want to fuck her.
>>58206924Men wanna fuck her cuz she's looks like a lesbian and women wanna marry her cause she looks like the bishoujo prince of their dreams
It will never not surprise me how utterly oblivious straight men are when it comes to identifying what women like
>>58207378if women would just say what they like instead of passive-aggressively beating around the bush this wouldn't be an issue
Lesbians.Also Clodsire
>>58207482Chandelure being the most popular Unova mom never helped made Shauntal anymore popularBut go on
>>58206924>>58206947All the other female e4 Olivia are kind of old , it's almost been 10 years since sun and moon was released. Rika and Poppy are the only new e4 members and it's difficult for artists (mostly western artists) to draw Poppy because of obvious reasons... Rika on the other hand usually gets fanart about how "cool" she is and she looks like an adult so everyone can draw her without facing any problems.Usually the new pokemon games sell well and new people of all ages get into the franchise so new artists will start drawing her as well
>>58208009*including Olivia
>>58206924Gen Z have fucked up aesthetics.
>>58207388They like Rika. It's not hard.
>>58208013This.
>>58207388Women say what they like but men are too retarded to understand it because their preference is just "big ass and tittties and will have sex with me whenever I want" and can't relate to anything deeper than that lol
>>58208566>She has big ass and huge tittties and will have sex with me whenever I want
>>58206924Because she's easily the most attractive one
>>58206997hear me out
>>582085665/10 femcel cope.
>>58208641It's true though.
>>58206924Because we want to have sex with her
>>58208731it doesn't even make sense, you essentially built a strawman out of men to make them seem EXTREMELY clear about what they want, even though those things are a gross mischaracterization of what men actually want from a partner (a list that would reasonably look more like "comfort, love, affirmation of their legitimacy as individuals, stability without the paranoia of being abandoned, and CLARITY OF COMMUNICATION") without defending your stance that women are clear about the things they want from my accusation that they're often passive aggressive and beat around the bush - constantly throwing out the age old line "you should already know" and a roll of the eyes before a hefty helping of the silent treatment and/or deflection, as if they want to intentionally obfuscate their true feelings and make shit intentionally obtuse. this is shit i see from the women in my life every day. you can't just deflect onto a mischaracterization of men's issues to ignore the essence of my post, least of all when the deflection - with a high degree of irony - backs up my position that men value clarity, while you say nothing to defend the alternative and in fact literally fall into the trap of being passive aggressive and confusing about it!! tl;dr, autism beams collide, i conclude we may both be too smart to engage in a conversation like this on the pokémon board of 4chan and to bridge our ideological impasse, our only recourse is to make out sloppy style right now.
>>58208821>"comfort, love, affirmation of their legitimacy as individuals, stability without the paranoia of being abandoned, and CLARITY OF COMMUNICATION"Women hate all those things, it is known. They are so mysterious, if only they wanted those exact same things...
>>58206924She attracts women and gays which is a much larger field than simply appealing to heterosexual men.
>>58208821>"comfort, love, affirmation of their legitimacy as individuals, stability without the paranoia of being abandoned, and CLARITY OF COMMUNICATION"Uh huh all the guys in the waifu threads totally talk about these instead of just how hot their (completely off-model and mischaracterised) waifu is and how much they want to fuck her, definitely
I like to think Rika would have a "raspy" voice like the English dub voice of Lina Inverse, the English dub voice of the frog girl in My Hero Academia, or a husky/deep feminine voice. So, it would probably be really hot to do ear play with her.
>>58209036I like her Japanese voice in Masters
