Why does gf keep taking risks choosing a pokemon to shill before

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Shove something down people throats enough and they'll begin to like it. Just look at lightning.

>>32579631
this is how I became gay

>>32579618
Because preparing material takes time.

It's probably why they shill Lucario, Blaziken and Charizard repeatedly. Because they're already tried and tested. At least if your new mememon fails, you have those guys to fall back on.

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There's also Midnight Lycanroc, who is anime!Gladion's ace and is being set up as a rival to Ash's Rockruff

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>>32579693
>Ash-Lycanroc
>Lycanium Z
>Ash Lycanium Z
>Lycanroc in smash
>Lycanroc in pokken
>Lycanroc statue in next game

>>32579710
Not even Greninja got a statue though.

>>32579715
Because the game was created before Greninja got popular..

>>32579693
the question becomes day vs night for the old cliche or Night vs Night for the more(?) marketable humanoid design

>>32579710
>still a shit mon

>>32579710
>lycanroc in smash

Well one of them has counter

>>32579618
tbf it worked out for them pretty well last gen

>>32579728
>implying that has ever stopped pikachu

Money talks over stats~

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>>32579710
>Lycanroc in smash

Hell, his Down Special is already made.

I won't be surprised at all if Midnight Lycanroc ends up being a newcomer in Smash Switch.

>>32579618
Because now Gamefreak has all the data to know which Pokemon will ultimately stand out. Its a formula.

>Have somewhat tough guy looking bipedal
>Give them a nice mix of humanistic and animalistic traits
>Make them the star pokemon of the region/and or movie
>Generally offensive mons, people hate stall shit
>Make them the most reoccuring mon that people forget the others and only remember the shillmon

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>>32579749
It's annoying when pokemon who get popular on their own merits barely get as much attention from gamefreak because they don't fit those traits.

>>32579748
Why is Blastoise such a jobber in the Ashnime?

>>32579748
It's so strange to me how they didn't give it a proper signature move

>>32579806
It's the only rock type with no guard and that makes it the most physically accurate rock type pokemon if it counts.

>>32579799
it's subliminal messaging
"hey, blastoise is pretty cool"
"no but we're still shilling charizard"
"yeah, but I like blastoise and blastoise can beat charizard"
"but it's shit though, see, look at how it does in the show"
"well fuck, guess I'm on team charizard"
and repeat. Siebold was an exception that threw everyone for a loop. The venusaur fanbase is sadly too small to be worth going after.

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>>32579618
Do people actually believe that Incineroar or Lycanrock any form is the next shill?>>32579631
>>32579693
>>32579748
>>32579710

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>>32579799
the rule of water starters being gay little retards is retroactively applied to squirtle line

>>32580853
Please Decidueye, stay 2d.
You look much better that way.

>>32580853
I'll bite.

All three and Decidueye still have the same chance to become a new shillmon. Or it could be something nobody sees coming yet. Everything is a speculation for now.

>>32579710
i honestly dont care
if they are interesting and unique they are good for smash

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>>32580853
*blocks your path*

>>32580864
Greninja took that rule broke it like a cookie and stepped on it.

>>32580951
It can't be the shillmon and you know it. It's the most popular, yes, but it doesn't fit the "shillmon criteria". >>32579749 explained it pretty well.
Mind you, I think Decidueye looks fucking gross and I love Mimikyu, I just don't see it becoming a shillmon outside of cute merchandise.

>>32580957
And it went back the way it was one gen after.

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>>32580951
Run the disguise over, and spirit shackles his soul for eternity.

Or
Just make friends with him and politely ask him to move.

>>32580957
What? Greninja IS the ultimate jobber.

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>>32580957
It sure did

>>32580971
i still think that's torterra sadly

>>32579618
Essentially they are the ones choosing WHICH pokémon the people will like.
People will gobble that up and start to like the pokémon that gamefreak chose.

>>32579618
>implying zoroark was shilled
it was only possible to get it through a fucktarded event
whereas shitroar and lucario are shoved down everyones throats

jeez you see incineroar in a quick trailer in the pokemon movie and everyone thinks its shilled
not like the movies about incineroar

incineroar wasnt even a teaser mon like Lucario blaziken or togepi

>>32581099
Technically, the movie was in production since gen 6 but was delayed to be in the 20th anniversary year of the anime, so you could say Incineroar, Lycanroc and Marshadow were planned to be teasers.

>>32581115
Source?

>>32579618
>>32579631
Noctice how it is always the furfag mons? Seriously, this shouldn't be allowed. Do they want to corrupt children into becoming furries?

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>>32579710
>Lycanroc statue in next game
For a moment I thought you meant this.

>>32579861
>The venusaur fanbase is sadly too small to be worth going after.
More like luckily.

>>32581607
Not my problem you hate certain Pokemon because some people do lewd stuff with them and in no way affects you.

>>32581607
Do you think children play Pokemon games in 2017? Do you think the majority of Pokemon players are not furries? Leave normie

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imo Zoroark deserved the popularity it was promised but didn't get

>>32584402
Probably because they made it event-locked alongside screwing over it's gimmick in the same debut gen. It was Gamefreak's incompetence to blame.

>>32584494

Team Preview was not new to Gen 5, it was in every console game.

It's a necessity for any PvP mode.

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Anyone dares thinking up an hypothetical gen 8 shill-canine? Not too different but not too similar?

>>32579631
People like Lightning? I've never seen anyone give a fuck about her other than cosplah sluts.

>>32584513
no it isnt

>>32584564
She second only to cloud...in japan at least.

>>32579693
Is that blood at 0:09?