>>33663128>at the begining everyone was saying how ugly and stupid it looked>everybodyLol. The leak was absolutely shit-tier quality. That's why everybody was hating it.
People did a complete 180 on his design NOT whe Greninjash became a thing, NOT when they discovered how his HA worked and NOT when they got him in-game. You know when it happened?
When this higher quality pic leaked on Oct 2. Seriously go check the archives for /vp/ and nearly any other website after the higher quality leaks and you will see a much more different story. Even before the game released, many already considered it best-of-gen and some even best of all time.
Just check out their respective leak threads and polls:
https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/14143758/#14143758http://www.strawpoll.me/497262/rGo to Oct 2013 and check the #TeamFroakie hashtag and hot it all of a sudden gained a near 400% edge on the other hashtags. Go to Serebii/Bulbapedo/Pokebeach forums and see him become the most beloved pokemon of his gen before the game released once again.
See the damn million vote polls in IGN and Dorkly, taken only 2 weeks after release of the game.
http://www.dorkly.com/post/57168/toplist-results-the-15-greatest-generation-vi-pokemon/page:5http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/26/the-best-worst-xy-pokemon-revealedAlso on dorkly, Greninja actually made it to 24th best pokemon of all-time. All of this was even BEFORE he even appeared in the anime and Smash. You can just imagine how big he is now.
