“This is also seen in Generation 2, but with weirder results… You see Charizard, despite being the worst starter in Generation 1 and faced with mountains of hurdles to climb over, is a massive fan-favorite. He’s considered a “warrior” and the choice for “hardcore players.” But in Generation 2, Chikorita had many of the same problems that Charmander did and she’s laughed at viewed as a garbage mon who nobody should ever pick. That’s quite a strange dissonance for two Pokemon who are arguably the same.
It’s almost as if they arbitrarily decided what was better based on a hypermasculine design and shunned the Pokemon that could have been percieved as “too feminine.” But that’s just absurd. I mean for that to make any sense it would have to be a predictive pattern of behavior of overwhelmingly favoriting aggressive and superficially masculine Pokemon (Charizard, Houndoom, Blaziken, Lucario), aggressively shunning and complaining about Pokemon that could be perceived as feminine (Snubble, Chikorita, Primarina, The Fairy Type), hypersexualizing feminine Pokemon that look vaguely humanoid enough for a warped and twisted nerd-mind to jack off to (Garedvoir, Lopunny, Gothitelle, Tsareena, Meloetta) and complaining so much when feminine-coded Pokemon are extremely powerful that Game Freak adds a more masculine version of it just to shut people up (Gallade) and what are the odds of all that happening?“ - Generation 1 Retrospective
Again where the crap is Lily getting Gallade was only made because people complained about Garedvior even coming from.
https://archive.ph/bNye1
“Lucario is toxic masculinity.” Fuck you, Lucario is awesome.
Anonymous
Lucario can learn Poison Jab. So nyeh
I can be a big child too. At least Lucario is playable in Super Smash Bros Ultimate while your icky Garedvior is just a lame projectile protector to any one who gets her out of the Pokeball. By the way everyone I am letting you all know I am joking because I know that people can’t tell jokes from seriousness on the interwebs in this day and age.