LogFAQs > #933096794

Byleth may be getting roasted and memed on, but you've gotta remember how high tensions were before the base game launched. Incineroar in particular got a ton of flak for multiple reasons:

-He was confirmed to be the final new fighter in the base roster, which was anticlimactic to some;
-He struck quite a few people as a "shill pick";
-Pokemon Sun/Moon have received significant backlash in their own right; and above all else...
-He buried the Grinch leak.

(I don't necessarily agree with these lines of reasoning, but they were common.)

Everybody was going at each others' throats after the Kencineroar trailer, it was wild. This feels tame to me by comparison. But that's just from my experience, and everyone's mileage is gonna vary depending on which circles they interact(ed) with.

If anything, it feels like the pro-Byleth folks are more vocal/"on the offensive". If you go to the Smash Ultimate board here, there's a fuckin' Gregorian Chant of "Hoes mad" in seemingly every Byleth thread.

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The music was thud-like.
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