Oh man. And over here I thought I was optimistic about Greninja lol. But real talk, after talking to Venia so much personally, his chart is more or less about what I thought he would post if he were to make one so I'm not as surprised as I would have been.
Not sure if I buy into the whole "losing 0 MUs" thing, but I can understand how he believes Greninja with the overall best mobility in the game allows him to be a threat to every character to the extent where he isn't shut out by anyone hard enough (no -2 MUs). This might be the main thing driving him to consider MUs such as Sheik/Fox/Sonic (some of the only few characters that can actually keep up with him in speed and still have good frame data & comparable advantage states to boot) not -1 anymore like he previously considered months ago.
Not to mention how much he actually studies specific or little MU interactions and looks at things deeper than just what you would consider on the surface (hurtbox shifting is a good example; Gren has a low running animation & dtilt & dash attack lower his profile while using them, pretty useful for Bayo nair for one).
Venia may come off as crazy af, especially to people who don't understand the character, but to a certain extent, I can kinda see what he's going for with some of this. Well, at least when you view it from his perspective. He told me it took him a very long time to see things this way, he actually wasn't always *this* optimistic about Greninja either.
When he detects a particular strength or scenario, he may or may not have a case of overrating strengths and underrating weaknesses to where he makes certain things seem more oppressive than they really are, but he's pretty solid at backing up what he says. I can't say I outright agree with everything, but knowing how Venia works, I see where he is coming from and why he thinks the way that he does.
He's been tearing through everyone in New York lately, so I can see how he is able to gain so much confidence in his play and his character. I genuinely hope he is able to travel out of state soon with the way he has been playing and turn some heads. Not even just him either, Greninja's everywhere been slowly racking up results on the side, who knows what'll happen if they all travel to the US on a consistent basis. While I haven't reached Venia's level of "wokeness", I'll continue to remain optimistic about the character's future at the very least.
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