Pokemon used to live such easy lives. Being popular was merely a matter of math — with 151 species total, each of them had a good shot at sticking around in people's minds until plush dolls and bedsheets memorialized them forever. But as the number of species increased, the smooth hill a Pokemon once climbed to attain stardom transformed into a jagged mountain.
As of Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, Game Freak and Nintendo are frighteningly close to reaching 1,000 different kinds of
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