>>26878485Out of all of the above, number three is the only one of these conditions which can with any justice be said to have been fulfilled in the creation of Greninja; but, although it is important and indispensable, it is not in itself sufficient.
It is foolhardy and ridiculous to suppose that greatness will continue to show itself, generation after generation, if the very first conditions for its production are persistently scouted and ignored, as Greninja’s cloying oversights in the cohesion of its design perpetuate. Even a Pokémon breeder would hesitate to take as a mate a Pokémon that had not all the innate qualities and training of that particular class he desires, and yet for this vastly difficult and frequently underestimated in regards to its importance, mediocre designers are selected and fit to the company’s standards, almost at random and with the most frivolous carelessness imaginable.
I will say that Greninja, or any other confuted and hopelessly mixed Pokemon represents another Pokémon or a piece of inspiration that is selected at random, and developed and brought before the masses with a careless indifference to its ultimate purpose.
It would, also, be a great mistake to suppose, as many still do, that the creation of Greninja and Greninja’s subsequent gradual conquest of its Age was the struggle of the mind of an innovator and a work of art whose public required to be educated up to his aesthetic forms and to his ideas before they could appreciate him. This was not the case; for, as a matter of fact, most of the ideas he advanced were already victorious or nearly so before he became their poster boy.
>>26878471I occasionally partake in other threads, but not generals, at least not frequently.