dman_dustin
Well-Known Member
Obviously it's not purely made up of fan fiction like I said earlier, because of the duck.
I'm not sure how Farfetch'd really counts in this.
I mean them choosing Farfetch'd was likely before we even knew Sirfetch'd exist on top of it being an 8th generation Pokemon.
It's hard for there to be argument that just because Ash is getting Sirfetch'd that negates the "Fan fiction" (not that I agree with that label) concept of Journey's of Ash getting fan favorites.
Because HOW can you have fan favorites for Pokemon that no one knows exist. And it at least likely takes over 6 months to take into consideration of any fans.
And even the top 30 poll of the Galar Pokemon must be taken with a grain of salt because not much time had passed, I doubt many hard opinions of the 8th generation. I do wonder if after all this time, if there was to be another Galar poll I do wonder if we'll get the same Pokemon? Because I doubt it'll be: Dragapult, Toxtricity, Snom, Alchremie, Cinderace, Zacian, Yamper, Wooloo, Inteleon, Sirfetch'd in that exact order. I mean it could be but I doubt it.
So 8th generation have to automatically be excluded here, because there's no way to take into account fan fiction ideals, and fan favorites when there was no such thing that existed.
After all I didn't know Grimmsnarl was a thing until it was leaked, so therefore that couldn't be my favorite 8th generation Pokemon before then, and it still wasn't my favorite 8th generation Pokemon when it was revealed because I didn't know what else there was, but after all this time, it has become my favorite 8th generation Pokemon followed by Inteleon, Toxtricity, Hatterene, Corviknight, Frosmoth, Copperajah, Morgrem, Impidimp, Eternatus, Rillaboom, Grapploct, Cinderace, Orbeetle, Dragapult, Centiskorch.
I think 8th generation has to be excluded from this conversation, there's no way they could know what people liked something if people didn't know it existed. They likely wanted Sirfetch'd as a counter to Go's Farfetch'd and probably because Sirfetch'd is the embodiment of Sword and Shield more to than Zacian and Zamazenta because it's one Pokemon instead of two.
Edit: However I'll give you some leeway, they should've at least known to choose a starter over Sirfetch'd in terms of popularity.