Yeah, poor Flareon has plenty of issues (checking Smogon it's always been NU or worse) but not letting it learn Flare Blitz was just a really obvious hole compared to the stats, which it's probably stuck with since GameFreak are very conservative with changing those.
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Or Flareon, possibly the poster boy of this; it's always been very popular but look how awful it's always been in competitive; they didn't even let it learn Flare Blitz until gen 6.
I 100% get what you mean. Like how the Star Wars sequels blatantly wanted Phasma to be the fandom's new Boba Fett and it fell flat because of how obvious it was.
I think Greninja was sort of similar to Cinderace in that he was intended to be the popular one; not only was it the one the anime...
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