>>44205234It's a clever design, yes. Tongue out isn't anything new or unique in Pokemon, but Greninja's design is actually great. Stance is basically a frog but it also works as a ninja stance because they usually kept low. Frubbles are gone to show that it's a mature frog while it has those small bubble sections. The tongue ties it off nicely by acting as a scarf which is what a lot of ninjas are imagined with.
It got shilled because it got popular almost from pretty much from the beginning because a lot of its design was just perfect.