>Pikablu era hype>great evo>baby form in gen 3>fairy typing gen 6 why doesn't it have a larger fanbase?
It was consistently more rare than it was worth up until B2W2, and by then you had a shitton of other options for powerful water types
>>59234297the Tracey curse
>water type>in a series where water type is one of the best in the game but with other far more powerful creatures available to use alongside itA question the ancient philosophers would struggle to answer
>>59234297it wasn't named Pikablu. Yes I am serious that was a key factor in it not gaining popularity. Also it should have evolved from a water stone so that you had more time with the cute marketable plushie stage.
>>59234302It was common early on in Hoenn...Where it got Huge Power a gen before there were Physical Water moves
>>59234297You didn't get access to it early enough into Johto. Also water is a far more common type than electric so by then you already had a water type.
>>59234297Game freak made it way too rare despite it being early game strength and the ashime paired with that faggot Tracy >baby form shit That just tanked its popularity even farther
>>59234297It's tranny-coded.
>>59234748It was literally coded to be a tranny wasn't it?
>>59234297It was huge at the turn of the century. His movie vhs special appearance was huge. The leaks leading into gold and silver made him bigger. He fell off hard quickly because he sucked ingame. Then he got popular again in gen 3 because it was an early route encounter with huge power, but not really because gen 3 killed pokemania.Later on he was one of the more popular pokemon after the phys/special split. I remember facing a ton of azumarill on rain teams in the platinum era. Did something happen to make it unpopular again over the years?
>>59234365>>59234537>rare encounter in one of the first areas of Johto>evolves with water stone>Pic attached a canon Gigantamaxdid I save it?
>>59235499just add it as the pikachu equivlant to the Gold superboss fight in RSE and it's golden.
>>59235499honestly this should be the canon designbeing a bubble bunny instead of being just a blue fatass would actually save it
>>59234387Azumarill has no real physical coverage in Gen III.
>>59235032Quite.
