GenesisSaga posted...
I disagree. Arcanine has always been a very popular pokémon, just not to the levels of Charizard and Mewtwo (and apparently Articuno on this board). It was pretty much proven to have decent amount of love by that other similar topic which I think was B8's Top 100 Pokémon. It ranked #3 after Articuno and above Mewtwo.
It was pretty much performing at exactly the level I expected and it's ranking was indicative of that: close to the top but never quite at the top.
Now it's experiencing an embarrassing drop in popularity or in supporters or both and it freaking sucks. It's now underperforming instead of performing at the level I've come to expect of it, and the poor votals as of late are more likely than not the cause of it, Mewtwo, and Charizard's recent uncharacteristic losses.
In fact the only "overrated" pokémon (as highly-ranked and well-beloved pokémon are so often called) that doesn't seem to be suffering popularity dips/downvoting is B8 favorite Articuno.
I'm not talking about the board specifically. Before coming to this board, all signs pointed to me that Arcanine was just slightly more popular than Ninetales, then when I came here and saw it beasting through the "Save my" and this contest I was like "...whoa?". I knew it was popular, but Charizard-Mewtwo-Articuno popular? Didn't expect that.