In the TCG it carries more collector weight than any other Pokemon
After those tournaments, the 9 regional junior-division winners were invited to Hawaii in late August 1999 to compete in two further tournaments: 1) The Best in Japan tournament, which was to determine the best junior-division Japanese player
Card draw is a struggle and it's easy to run out of steam with so many low-cost, low-impact characters, but it's a puppy-themed deck that lets you flood the board with adorable dogs, so it gets a huge pass on its relative lack of synergy
Boxes are often structured differently, pull rates arent the same, and many sets combine cards from multiple Japanese releases, which changes how you collect them
Where the Stellar Tera-type Crown can look goofy on some Pokemon, it just fits here