>>24578100>forcedly popularPerhaps the funniest meme of the past months. Greninja became one of the most popular instantly after its reveal. Even before Smash (which wasn't a GF marketing push, btw), he was elected best Gen VI pokemon pretty much everywhere.
Dorkly polls, IGN polls, Youtube asks, hell, even the Serebii polls all held it as victor. It's still hilarious how the seemingly one-sided starter poll in Serebii that was so unabashedly in Fennekin's favor suddenly went 60% Greninja as soon as it was revealed.
Greninja was literally the most natural case of popularity we've ever had in the Pokemon series.