I do find it hilarious that Maractus of all mons survived the initial culling. Maractus falls into that category of mons that I'd call "known for being unknown": If it is brought up in conversation, it's typically along the lines of "Hey, who remembers this, amirite?".
I find it hilarious how a lot of pokemons got popular because... they were unpopular. Everyone knows vanilluxe and garbodor because a lot of people didn't like their designs for example. Garbodor is the only non gen 1/8 that has a gmax iirc.
Remember when bidoof was forgettable ? Now it's a huge meme (no one remembers bibarel though).
I actually really like maractus, just because of the 0w0 derpy face, also because it was one of my first pokemons in a randomizer nuzlocke in B/W, and it absolutely wrecked things up with needle arm.
Another gen 5 mon that i think is unfairly unpopular : Golurk. This thing is AWESOME, giant robot that has jet engines in his arms AND it's a ghost type, which is one of my favorite types with dragon, steel and bug. You're telling me the gen 5 mon that got a mega is AUDINO and not that ?!
On the topic of dexit : Of course i was against it at first, i absolutely hated that they took out the "catch 'em all " of the franchise. But now, after the 2 DLCs, i think it's alright, we got back ALMOST every pokemon (i am still sad for some evolutionary lines, RIP Greninja, replaced by a Nesquik bunny, RIP Staraptor, you're still UUBL in my heart and RIP Empoleon, you were an awesome starter)
Also i don't know if it's unpopular but i don't think Blue was THAT much of a jerk. I played a hack of Fire Red like i said before, (which didn't edit Blue's dialogue) and i was surprised to see him being like "oh wow, you trained your pokemons well ! Well good luck buddy, smell ya later" almost every time. He even gives you directions to help you !
He was kind of a dick at only 3 occasions :
-At the very beginning, when he says he's the better trainer and you just lucked out, and says he'll tell his sister to not give you a map
-After the nugget bridge battle, when he says "it's a shame you're always behind me" and gives you the fame checker while being like "it's perfect for you, you always worry about gossips"
-He was absolutely SAVAGE at the pokemon tower : "Oh ? What are you doing here Red ? Are your pokemons dead or something ? Well, i can always make them faint haha !". Blue knows you're nuzlocking.
And i felt really bad for him when you beat him at the end, he's like "What ?! But... i was at my prime..." and then Oak says "Blue, i'm dissapointed in you". Like what the hell man ?! Not only did he fulfill your dream of completing the pokedex while i didn't, he also beat the e4 first (actually he was literally always ahead of you) and became champion.
So you're dissapointed in him because he didn't PERFECTLY trained his pokemons and he wasn't a tryhard like me with held items ?!
Blue didn't deserve to get scolded after he did all those efforts to reach that point.
