>>30969172But they've been pushing Greninja since BEFORE it got popular, that's the thing. Even Sakurai decided to have it in SSB4 prior to XY's release because of how it looked.
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>>30968992 might have a point in that they deliberately screwed over Chesnaught and Delphox to make Greninja look more awesome than it is, ironic considering how much Greninjash jobbed/was otherwise useless during the last two arcs of XYZ despite the "speshul saviour" lore it had.