>>31029715>puts greninja in smash before it even has a official nameThat was LITERALLY Sakurai and his team's bidding. He confirmed that GF had no idea who to promote out of Gen VI because the game hadn't released yet, and therefore, they had no idea who'd be a good representative, so they took the burden off their own back and let Sakurai choose whichever Gen VI pokemon they thought would suit Smash better. See the official Pac-Man reveal interview transript for source or
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/06/10/super-smash-bros-characters-decided-upon-early-development/for the condensed version.
>has a diverse as fuck movepoolMost water types do
>compare to Chesnaught and DelphoxChesnaught has both Great Stats and a movepool that is even greater than Greninja's. It's hindered by having Grass as a typing because grass is a consistently terrible type, and GF seems to have a boner for defensive Grass types regardless of how shitty Grass is as a defensive type.
>anime pushes things even further and gives it its own special "mega" formHe appeared in the anime TWO YEARS after his reveal and appeared in it for a whopping 30-something episodes. By the time they added the shitty jobber-form Greninja was already legendary. Hell, Greninja was the most popular starter in decades ever since he was announced.
http://www.dorkly.com/post/57168/toplist-results-the-15-greatest-generation-vi-pokemonhttp://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/26/the-best-worst-xy-pokemon-revealedhere's the >million vote polls that constantly get referenced in these arguments, but feel free to go back into the archive for /vp/ or the official Facebook and Twitter polls and you'll find the same results. And this was Pre-Smash.
The only legit offender is Protean, and even then, viability does not determine popularity. Klefki was a top threat, yet remains unpopular. Greninja isn't even a fraction of what Lucario got in terms of shilling.
