>>37621193OPINION/THEORY: "the new greninja"
>gen 6 had a clear winner in greninja>it's not even funny, no region has had such a divide between first and second place, even Kanto you saw a good chunk of people picking non charizard starters>greninja is the only one worth a damn in comp, it's the only one most can agree looks at least passable, etc.>people expect a similar thing to happen in gen 7>rowlet is the clear frontrunner, everyone loves rowlet, so it's final evo will be the new greninja>totally forgetting that froakie was the least popular of the first stage Kalos starters (fuck you guys I always liked it)>starters are leaked, nobody likes them>especially incineroar, people HATE it>stats are revealed>they're all bad, with decidueye as the worst of the bunch and incineroar with the potential to git gud due to HAs>seriously it looks like incineroar and decidueye were intentionally gimped, why does incineroar lose so much speed, why does decidueye have so much special attack>people actually end up liking primarina, despite popplio being the least popular (see greninja)>but it kind of looks like TPC had planned to shill incineroar (gave it the only good ability, great movepool, implication in concept art that it'd be a big player, etc.)?>but they also hedged their bets on people sticking with rowlet and put decidueye in pokken and seemed to have recommended it for smash (Sakurai claims that it was between the owl and cat for him)?>clearly hadn't anticipated the most blatantly girly starter being the most popularIn the end, the only one who won was rowlet. There was no greninja, because none of them were leaps and bounds better than the others. But damn did the people on the internet and almost certainly TPC themselves want there to be. I think they had planned to make it incineroar but backed off when they saw the lukewarm at best reception it got compared to the frog.
The rest is just 4chan tribalism/falseflagging.
