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It definitely overshadowed the rest of the team, but it didn't take that much development away from the others. Gligar got an arc where Ash helped to bring out its potential. Ash traded away Ambipom to let it follow its own path, and trained Buizel. He defended Gible, trained it, and helped it learn Draco Meteor. Even though Torterra became a jobber, it still had a ton of focus with Ash.
DP utilized its time better, and the attention Ash gave to his Pokemon makes him look much better than his XY counterpart, I think. He helped his XY team, but not nearly to the extent of DP. Granted, DP had an extra year to work with, but XY still squandered a lot of the time they did have.
And your both saying that the XY team didn't get any development? And if the DP team was as developed as you say then how come only Infernape won 50% of his battles?Taking into account how much of an involved, critical, and important character Infernape was to Ash's intense rivalry with Paul, I'd say it's entirely justified in this case. This was much bigger than anything Greninja got with Sawyer's Sceptile, Infernape wanted to prove Paul, the actual trainer, wrong, not just his Electivire. You can't compare them because Infernape actually had an excuse; this was as much its feud with Paul as it was Ash's. Infernape's unique role in DP meant it needed to get more attention.
On that note, you can't just defend Greninja's inhalation of focus and screentime purely on the basis of "someone else did it before so it's fine" either. That's a pretty weak and flimsy argument if I ever saw one.