>>57984661It was forced LESS and with part of that turning out to be ass-backwards. Lucario also got a movie, as well as multiple anime side-character gigs, a free egg, and a spot in the Smash roster spot, to say nothing of the merch I am clueless on.
Zoroark, in comparison, got a single character-of-the-day and famously needed an event to get before BW2.