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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (2022)

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I chose the Pokémon for this week, and I decided to go with a Generation 6 Starter Pokémon, the Water-type Froakie. This is because Pokémon X & Y have been out for 10 years, can you believe that? Those were the first main series Pokémon games to have a worldwide release, and it has been 10 years since then.
I chose Froakie as it was the most popular out of the Kalos Starters, I originally preferred Fennekin when the games first came out, but when I saw the final evolutions, Froakie's final evolution was my favourite design wise, but I didn't like its popularity, I felt that its final evolution Greninja was overrated.
I breed for 31 IVs in at least 4 or 5 stats, and some Froakie have Protean, which did get nerfed in this generation where it only activates once per switch in, I went with Timid for the Nature, it can work with Hasty or Naive if you want to go with a mixed attacker.
For Egg Moves, I went with Retaliate, Counter, Toxic Spikes, and Switcheroo, Froakie does get Spikes, but I didn't go with that as Greninja learns it as a level up move, for Pokémon that can learn the move, it can get Counter from the Chewtle line, Toxic Spikes from Mareanie and Paldean Wooper, Switcheroo and Retaliate require the Mirror Herb, it can get Switcheroo from Zangoose, Shroodle, and Cutiefly, and Retaliate from Pawniard, Oshawott, Growlithe, and a few others.
Froakie's starting moves are Pound and Growl, it learns Water Gun, Quick Attack, Lick, Water Pulse, Smokescreen, Round, Fling, Smack Down, Substitute, Bounce, Double Team, and Hydro Pump. It evolves into Frogadier at Level 16, and into Greninja at Level 36. To note, Greninja cannot learn Round, Fling, Smack Down, and Bounce, which it has to learn in the Frogadier stage, or even as Froakie, but you can get Fling and Smack Down on Greninja through TM. Greninja learns its signature move Water Shuriken upon evolution, and it can learn Night Slash, Role Play, Haze, Shadow Sneak, Spikes, Aerial Ace, and Extrasensory.
Next are TMs, and I will go over what Greninja can learn, it can get Mud-Slap, Low Kick, Acrobatics, Thief, Trailblaze, Chilling Water, Mud Shot, Icy Wind, Rock Tomb, Swift, Low Sweep, Dig, False Swipe, Brick Break, U-turn, Ice Punch, Waterfall, Grass Knot, Rock Slide, Taunt, Swords Dance, Dark Pulse, Gunk Shot, Liquidation, Surf, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Water Pledge, Giga Impact, Hydro Cannon, Hyper Beam, Tera Blast, and Weather Ball.
With the nerf to Protean, Greninja is stuck with the type it changed to until it switches out, this was because Greninja got banned back in Generation 6, and Cinderace has Libero which is basically Protean but with a different name, and with that, Cinderace got banned in Generation 8. Greninja is versatile, it can use Surf, Ice Beam, Dark Pulse, Grass Knot, and many other moves, and use Protean to make it unpredictable, Greninja can even set up entry hazards with Spikes and Toxic Spikes, it has Shadow Sneak and Water Shuriken for priority. Greninja doesn't need to Terastallize, but for Tera Type, Water is the preferred to further power up Surf or Hydro Pump, it can go with Ghost to make it immune to Fighting-type moves, although Terastallization overrides Protean, Fire or Fairy with Tera Blast is another good option as Greninja cannot normally learn a Fire or Fairy-type move.
Greninja doesn't much use in Double Battles, but it does like Water Shuriken as one of its top moves used, and Annihilape as one of its teammates, I could see Water Shuriken being used on Annihilape to power up Rage Fist. Greninja can use Taunt to prevent opponents from using status moves, it has Haze to remove stat boosts, which can help against the Dondozo and Tatsugiri combo, Icy Wind to slow down opponents, and that's about as many as it can do, Greninja faces competition with many other Water-type Pokémon.
It can be good when going through the game, as it does get Water Pulse early on, and its TM access to moves like Trailblaze, Aerial Ace, and Low Sweep helps in the early game when making use of Protean. In Tera Raid Battles, Greninja can use Chilling Water to reduce the Attack stat of its opponent, but there are many better Water-type Pokémon to use in Tera Raid Battles.
I never would have thought that Pokémon X & Y have been out for 10 years, and Greninja has been the most popular Pokémon since those days, it has won two polls for most popular Pokémon, it was a playable character in Super Smash Bros. starting from 3DS & Wii U, it was playable in Pokémon UNITE, and it gained a new form in the Anime, which was first added in the main series games in Sun & Moon, you had to download the Pokémon Sun & Moon Demo, which you can no longer do as the 3DS eShop has shut down, and that was the only way to get a Greninja with Battle Bond, which would transform it into Ash-Greninja, a reference to the Anime, but in this generation, Greninja does not transform, instead its Attack, Special Attack, and Speed increase after it defeats a Pokémon.

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