Why does it seem like people only care about the female protagonist in Pokemon games anymore...

Why does it seem like people only care about the female protagonist in Pokemon games anymore? Nobody ever cares about the male protagonists anymore, or even the male rivals. Red and Blue/Green are the only ones that ever get any love. The male leads in every recent Pokemon game seem like they have been forgotten in time.

The rivals are usually pussies and the female protagonist gets better clothing options.
Also I like girls more.

Because the females are cute AND hot

Because females attract males, especially attractive females.

The same reason people don't care about protagonists in Piranha Bytes' games. There's nothing to talk about.

Because people are dirty pedophiles who pervert little girls in every media they consume.

Including me.

I liked all of them up to the fifth gen. Calem and Elio are obviously inferior as the other user said thanks to worse clothing customisation.

chicken-chan is literally the perfect pokegirl.
How will they ever top this one?

Big huge tits.

Because girls are nice and cute.
I imagine that a lot of us have a fundamental stress response to any sort of overt masculinity, and we associate it with fears of our own inadequacies, so a lot of us just want to be lesbians and live in a pretty pink soft safe girly world forever.

Most video game players are men/boys.
Men/boys like cute anime girls.
The female protagonist is always a really cute anime girl.
You can dress them up.
All the male protagonists/rivals suck since arguably gen 3. (inb4 buttmad Wally fans)

I think USUM male lead is alright though, his design is the least faggy I've seen in awhile. The problem really comes down to is that female protagonists just have to be cute and male protagonists have to be interesting and neither are ever really interesting but the burden is on the male.

Remember in X/Y, Serena and Calem are bland as shit and are terrible as rivals but Serena is cute as fuck. Calem is just shit though, his personality is nonexistent and he's a shit rival. They're too afraid to do an "edgy" rival like Silver again or a rival who's not always treading behind you. It doesn't help that the opposing gender trainer isn't even in the game most of the time. I think Hau is one of the better rivals as of late though but people write him off just because he's brown which is a shame, still he falls under the "always one step behind" problem.

>implying this dude didn't exist

To this day I'm still bothered that the white isn't his hair.

Anyway since OP posted Sun/Moon gal, I don't mind Hau and Gladion is a cool guy who's right about Hau being a lazy shit.

The series has been all about the pokegirls since people were rubbing it out to Misty.

Because population is majority straight. So obviously the girls will be remembered.
Everyone knows May, but the only reason Brendan gets remembered is because of his curious hat.

>I think Hau is one of the better rivals as of late though but people write him off just because he's brown which is a shame
I think that's just a meme because Shauna is pretty popular and she's brown.

I want to stick my dick in this cute little squirrel.

>Elio
That's his name? What's chicken-chan's real name then?

The female protagonists in Pokemon have more options for customizations than the male counterpart.

Shauna is a cute anime girl so she gets a pass just based off muh dick.

Selene. Both names come from default names in prerelease promo videos, and Selene is also the name used for the figure coming out later this year, so I guess it's more or less 'official' now.

The role the other player character is put in in XY is downright tragic. You play as the successful darling prodigy who gets everything and the rival guy keeps becoming more and more frustrated by losing to you. They're passive-aggressive during the midgame, until by the end they seem almost depressed.

Literally me.

The girls are cute also they aren't even rivals anymore, they're just your friends.

>Because girls are nice and cute
I agree
>all that other shit

Their designs suck. HGSS Ethan looks like shit, what the fuck are those shorts? Look at Lucas, he looks like he needs to be driving the mystery machine. What the fuck is Nate wearing, it looks like he's wearing striped stockings. Calem looks like he's wearing skinny jeans and overall looks like a metrosexual in a very tight outfit, those sunglasses are very gay. Hilbert is good though but he doesn't stand out, but I would have no reservations playing as him.

The male designs tend to be less flashy and memorable, and in the most recent games the male customization options are fucking trash comparatively to what the girls get.

I like platinum Lucas. He looks like a classy motherfucker who's gonna kick your ass in a battle

Because the girls are cute.

As for rivals... I've never seen a rival that was as much of a pussy as Hau. When he picked a starter weak to mine I first thought the game had glitched. Like, what the fuck.

Is it wrong that I enjoyed that?

Hau is the rival? I assumed that was Gladion.

>the white isn't his hair
What the fuck

Gladion is just the ~misunderstood~ bad guy.
Rival is the one that gets the starter along with you and keeps getting fights until the elite 4.

Few reasons:

>They stopped giving male trainers cool designs entirely
>So the fact that they are a prepubescent boy you have to be stuck as is ever present
>There is no asshole rival that gets red-blooded male players invested in defeating and stomping his head into the ground
>In the newer games female protagonists generally have better designs and wear more realistic clothing

>cute anime girls

I'd like them to go back to older protagonists on the switch, since Gen 5 and 6 had the best ones imo. I figured Gen 7's return to younger designs was partially so they could get away without using chibified models like in Gen 6.

You can give more clothing to the girl in x/y and sm/usum

Personally, I like Platinum Lucas. Looks like a suave motherfucker. I think Platinum Dawn is actually inferior to D/P Dawn but she gets a pass because cute anime girl and wearing an impossibly short skirt.

>females have better designs
>gen 6 may>gen 3

Not really, I just wish that fuccboi Calem had manned up a little bit. I pitied him up until that scene where he weaseled his way out of spending time with his group of friends and going to a haunted house with the excuse that he was 'going to train'. Like really, he couldn't fucking accept a loss and act like a friend to the player character; no, he has to be a little bitch and run away crying. After that, I enjoyed kicking his ass. Still a tragic way for a character to end up.

Agreed.
Pokeboys need more love and I'm ready to give them plenty.

Dawn was such a fucking slut with that skirt.

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Why care about anything else in this stale, repetitive franchise that hasn't seen any real evolution since its dawning? Its female character designs are the only things worth looking forward to, unless you're a sick furry which then you need to be gassed.

I miss criminal rivals that I want to kick your ass. Friendly rivals are shit.

I only care because the porn.

>What the fuck is Nate wearing
A wetsuit. Just like Rosa is probably wearing a bikini, since those pink straps around her neck look like bikini straps