>>36716446People want it to be the "next Greninja" when the "next Greninja" has been in front of us this whole time, it's just that they decided it wouldn't be a starter this time.
In actuality, Rowlet serves as both Comedic Relief and the First Catch Bird of the team, a general purpose Pokemon who later sees its uses get reduced into using [Flying Move] against Team Rocket and then stops being of use entirely.
