2013-06-19, 08:47 PM
Lucario was a great addition, mixing current interest in Diamond/Pearl and the movie, with an actual fighting style that was well suited for the game. It was definitely designed better than Mewtwo. I'm not sure if Mewtwo would fit fast enough for the upcoming movie, but if it has a strong focus in X/Y or the next movie, it'll probably be a shoe in. I doubt there's many more characters that would qualify though.
In regards to removing Lucario, I think it would be better to keep him as a representative of past generation Pokemon Games. D/P/Pt is pretty recent actually, and I know they can have representation from Stages and Pokeballs, but actual characters, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Pokemon Trainer are all R/B/Y. They could try updating Pokemon Trainer to a different version, or even adding a new one for G/S/C or R/S/E, but that's a lot more development work. I think the Plusle+Minun idea is really good and I hope to see that just for variety.
In regards to removing Lucario, I think it would be better to keep him as a representative of past generation Pokemon Games. D/P/Pt is pretty recent actually, and I know they can have representation from Stages and Pokeballs, but actual characters, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Pokemon Trainer are all R/B/Y. They could try updating Pokemon Trainer to a different version, or even adding a new one for G/S/C or R/S/E, but that's a lot more development work. I think the Plusle+Minun idea is really good and I hope to see that just for variety.