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Paratroopa1 posted...

Yeah there is. They're vastly more well known and more established, even the 'obscure' ones. I don't have any doubts that you'll find a fair number of people that count any given gen 1 Pokemon as their favorite. Even, like, Gloom, or Shellder, or whatever.

Obscure stuff from gen 4 on is a weirder bag. There's a pretty significantly reduced audience for it and a large % of that audience already likes Pikachu or Charizard or whatever. I'm not saying that there's definitely nobody that counts this stuff as their favorites but I don't find it that unlikely that there is at least one Pokemon that not a single human being is vouching for. I don't know which Pokemon that would be, but there's a couple hundred candidates.

The first Pokemon game I owned for myself was G/S. I only ever played Red/Blue at my friends' or through emulation. Because of that, for the longest time, my favorite Pokemon was Pineco. Fucking Pineco. I couldn't explain it. Something about a pinecone with eyes appealed to me.

Years later, my little cousin's favorite Pokemon was Ferroseed, and it stuck out to me because it was like "holy shit that's just New Pineco." His reasoning? "It looks like a football."

That was it.

I fully believe people could come up with just about any stupid reason for why something is their favorite.

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