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Espio Vs. Greninja is popular, and it would probably make for decent animation potential, but it's so basic. Then again, any Pokémon match can be basic given only the rare few even have any importance or personality. But Greninja just is more versatile than Espio unless you arbitrarily give him every power-up, Wisp, and other non-standard equipment like Vs Battles does.

It's also a huge stomp for anyone who doesn't merely think base Sonic characters are barely town level and more than MHS+. DB doesn't believe in FTL base Sonic so Espio is gonna be slower or just a tiny bit faster with no hax to really capitalise on that while Greninja does have hax. Greninja will also likely be City level while Espio will barelt be there. Though, tbf, Espio and the like haven't scaled to Modern Sonic for a while now with how much of a Gary Stu Sonic is treated as nowadays, so their stats being so high are already questionable.

Unless DB pulls a sudden heel turn, it's easy to predict Greninja kicking Espio's ass, as Espio only wins with the Multi-Continent-Large Planet base form stats people attribute to base Sonic, and DB most certainly doesn't believe in such a placement. It's only somewhat close at best.