>>58711063Assuming you mean Ash-Greninja specifically, no, it's the deepest they've ever buried a mon.
It's legitimately the first time a Pokemon that could traverse multiple games was completely removed from the franchise, and not only that, it was immediately replaced with a proper Mega Evolution, which is what it should've had from the goddamned start, but instead OLM, the executives, TPC and GameFreak all had a tard-off contest to see who could be a bigger retard about the fundamental flaw of
>Hey, so this new game has this thing called Mega Evolution, right? Are there any new Pokemon that have those?>...No? Okay, so we'll need to bring back one of Ash's old partners? Wish we knew that before we brought back Charizard in Unova, but okay... huh? We aren't allowed to bring back his old Pokemon, either?>Then how the fuck are we meant to market the main selling point of this new game? Can we really not just have a Mega Evolution for one of the new Pokemon?>Oh, wait, you have one planned for the Hoenn remakes? Cool! So which one is->That's Diancie, a Mythical, we aren't allowed to use those, and it's too girly for Ash anyway. God damn it, fuck this, we're asking GameFreak for a favor.And thus, snowflake jobberfrog was born and subsequently took out back and shot when the Kalos League backlash was too severe, largely in part BECAUSE of snowflake jobber frog being presented as this "once in a lifetime special form that NO ONE ELSE HAS AND RIVALS MEGA EVOLUTION OOOOOOOOOOOO".
