>>32972430I don't just hate it, I DESPISE it for multiple reasons.
1: Its design. Its a fucking eyesore with its red spike thing on its head and its "hair".
2: The fact that it got so blatantly shilled by game freak to the point they and by extension the fans don't even act like the other two starters (Delphox and Chesnaught) even exist. In fact, I think game freak sabotaged Delphox's and Chesnaught's movepools, stats and HAs on purpose just so that people were FORCED to choose Greninja. How else do you explain the fact that Greninja, a water/dark type learns extrasensory NATURALLY to give it something to fight off fighting types with whereas Delphox, the fire/PSYCHIC pokemon, can't learn extrasensory in any capacity be it breeding or otherwise? Then Ash-Greninja happened, and Chesnaught and Delphox got literally NOTHING going into gen 7.
3: The fact that it was GRENINJA of all pokemon that got its battle bond form on Ash's team. Really? You give Greninja, a pokemon Ash was going to dump off as soon as he left Kalos the super power treatment based on "muh bonds" instead of a pokemon Ash has had literally since the beginning like Pikachu?
4: It was designed to be better than megas without having the LIMITS of megas. Not only does it not need a mega stone to achieve its Ash form, it has 10 more points overall in its stat spread than actual mega evolutions. Its the equivalent of when you were a kid playing superheroes with your friend and they'd just keep stacking superpowers on top of one another until you got fed up and left.
5: And my BIGGEST gripe with it is that it was basically a free pass for Ash at the pokemon league. He barely needed to strategize at all considering how he had this one overpowered pokemon that was statistically better than literally ANYTHING else in the tournament, and he was the only one who had access to this battle bond bullshit to begin with.
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