>>26651264>People forget that Greninja was easily the most preferred starterThis too. Greninja was voted Best Gen VI pokemon on both Dorkly and IGN polls with +3 Million votes, Landed on 27th and 39th "Best of all time" list respectively and was declared the "New Charizard". And this all happened before he even had his Smash Reveal.
Greninja was an instant hit. It's just that later aparitions made him a Superstar. Like going from Is This It? in terms of an album that hit it big amongst the alternative (or in this case the Pokefag) crowd, to full blown Dark Side of the Moon status, as in, pretty much a household name.
