>>53187829>cute Froge>becomes an assassin frog>unique HA for the 1st & only speedy Water starter>chosen for Smash, okay cool>anime starts with equal time on all 3>Chespin becomes Oshawott2.0/Piplup3.0>Delphox has such a bad design they keep it as a Braixen until years later>just a normal fucking mon until half-way through Frogadier>slowly but surely imbued with dangerous levels of AmoxiShillin>writers shat themselves into a corner & didn't give Ash a traditional Mega>for 1-2 world popularity polls Gren won the WHOLE thing>Trash-Gren & anything that it ever touched killed anything original about the whole line>writer gets singled out for the sheer amount of soulless shill levels>Kalosleague torn to shreds from BURASUTO BAAN>awful implementation into the mainline games>gave a bone to Raincucks that absolutely didn't need it>was in the SWSH beta but cut for ever encroaching on CHARIZARD's terf>tried to do the same thing with Cinderflop but didn't filly commit due to G-Max & flopped HARD>Trash-Gren retconned out of existence with Meowscarada gaining a nerfed Protean as wellI'm just glad Gren's back, but was it enough to become a semi-regular mon again?
An interesting case-study for sure but either way I will forever lawl.