Sumwun

* The mascot of ''Mario'' is Mario. The mascot of ''The Legend of Zelda'' is Link. The mascot of ''Kirby'' is Kirby. In case you don’t see a pattern, the mascots for all these games are one of their playable characters. However, [[Red (game)|Red]] has no superpowers, so it would make more sense for the mascot to be a Pokémon. The closest that a Pokémon could ever get to being a playable character would probably be the [[starter Pokémon]], since they’re both titular and obtained at the beginning of each game. Thus, I think it would make sense if all three [[Kanto]] starters could be mascots. Of course, they’d have to be roughly balanced in terms of both usefulness and popularity.  

* If some Pokémon were to permanently be a mascot, it should represent some concept that doesn’t change. Two concepts that have been significant in every branch of the franchise throughout the history of Pokémon are [[Pokémon battle|battling]] and [[evolution]]. No matter what you’re doing with Pokémon, whether you’re playing a core series game, a spinoff game, the [[Trading Card Game]], watching the [[Pokémon anime|TV show]], or reading one of the [[Pokémon manga|manga series]], both battling and evolution are very important and intriguing concepts. A good mascot to represent the former would be {{p|Magikarp}}. It’s one of the weakest Pokémon, but becomes better at battling through battling. A good mascot to represent the latter would be {{p|Eevee}}, which is literally the evolution Pokémon.

Feel free to tell me that I’m wrong, but please tell me why. That way, I can find and fix flaws in my logic and win more arguments.