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Alola Pokémon League |OT| Seventh Time's The Charm? *Spoilers*
- Thread starter Serebii
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Yep. It happened with Harrison. It happened with Tyson. It happened with Tobias
If not win the league then at least beat Ash
The series stays coming up with ways for Ash to lose when he should be steamrolling half the time. By the time.he loses he's going to have his team mostly fully evolved, everyone pulling out Z moves like crazy and whoever he.loses to is going to pull out some bullshit to explain why Melmetal, Inceneroar, Poipole and Pikachu all lost to a Sunkern.
Is there a list of essential episodes that skips filler episodes and sticks to the most interesting bit?
That preview for next weeks episode. @Serebii has hijacked the anime and planted the seeds that will be Ash's downfall.
Like seriously, what?
was not expecting a time travel scenario featuring Ash training a younger Kukui. Going back in time to secure his own defeat would be next level shenanigans
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This is just further fuel that Ash will win the League and Kukui will challenge him for Title Defense.
This league is such a different construction that I can actually see Ash winning it without contradicting the rules that the writers have previously set out. This is more like him winning the Club Battles in Black and White than what we traditionally know as a league.
Still reckon he's losing to Kukui, though- his big battle's probably going to be against Gladion.
EDIT: Christ, remember how the Black and White rival was so profoundly uninteresting that they dispatched him in a 1-on-1 battle and made Ash's battle with Stephan the centerpiece instead?
What an embarrassment.
Still reckon he's losing to Kukui, though- his big battle's probably going to be against Gladion.
EDIT: Christ, remember how the Black and White rival was so profoundly uninteresting that they dispatched him in a 1-on-1 battle and made Ash's battle with Stephan the centerpiece instead?
What an embarrassment.
Nah, it looks charming when they put money into it. Id like a movie in that style but that doesn't seem to be happening.
It's the opposite for me, it's the reason I dropped the series in general until they reverted or changed it into something new entirely
Too bad they made him look weird, it doesn't really feel like the "real" ash if he wins it cause they fucked up his face and made his eyes tiny. Everyone else is fine and i like the art style though.
edit: oh shit someone just posted basically what I was saying 15 minutes ago welp
edit: oh shit someone just posted basically what I was saying 15 minutes ago welp
We're dealing with a real possibility that the writers have found a way for Ash to defeat himself.
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There are still people that complain about Alola's artstyle even now after we've seen it in motion.
If we switch to a 3D CGI Style like Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution going forward into Galar. Blame these people.
And then Ash jobbed to a dumbass who didn't even have a full team.
Like, what the fuck were the writers thinking?
It's the opposite for me.
I just love the art style so much now that I cannot go back to previous shows.
Like looking at XY, it's just so bland, it's awful.
If they change the style for Galar, I'l finally drop the show after 20 years. Unless it looks better, of course. But a return to the previous style or CG, and I'm done.
Fitting, since Ash will have won his first canonical League.
I just love the art style so much now that I cannot go back to previous shows.
Like looking at XY, it's just so bland, it's awful.
If they change the style for Galar, I'l finally drop the show after 20 years. Unless it looks better, of course. But a return to the previous style or CG, and I'm done.
Fitting, since Ash will have won his first canonical League.
Kyle Reese theory stocks are rising. No fate but what we make.
Now that he's a phone I hope he'll be less prominent in the series. Mainly just speaking when Ash uses it to scan a Pokemon.
Besides gens 4 and 6, his league placements havent really been noteworthy.
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151 participant Battle Royal for the opening match, last 16 standing are the participants. The animation for this is gonna be off the fucking wall, especially if its an Iwane episode.
Runner up in Kalos. It was a fucking crime how dirty they didn't him in what was otherwise a fantastic battle.
But if he did, we could finally have a cooler new trainer storyline.
"but they'd have to move on if he wins" is the most bullshit excuse that keeps getting perpetuated.
Outside the Indigo League, I don't think Ash has finished lower than top 8, which is still the quarter-finals. That's pretty noteworthy.
If they ever swapped the protagonist they would be just as vanilla as Ash is.
Doesn't need a new protagonist, just better writing.
Right? If this were a real-world sport he'd be a celebrity at this point.
Peoples' perception of how the league works in the anime is clouded by the video games with their totally reasonable premise that a 10-year-old kid can be handed their starter Pokemon and become champion of the world in a week.
It's not "champion of the world" though. These leagues are regional competitions (and not even national ones if you consider how the four Japan-based regions for example follow the same "route" system so they're probably just part of a country). It's why you mostly see characters from the region itself in the league, rather than a bunch of competitors from around the world. So, his placements aren't actually very noteworthy.
Would you personally follow that name based on his first 3 appearances, top 16, 8 and 8. Gen 4 was noteworthy. Gen 5 would be an embarrassment. Gen 6 was noteworthy.
They aren't world contests, but they are continent wide(or country wide, if you believe the regions to be countries) contests. Which is still pretty rad. If I recall, Ash was famous enough that Max knew who he was in by Houen(but also went "lol you jobbed because your Charizard didn't obey you" if I remember. Or he just said he choked against Blaziken, can't remember).
Ash would totally be someone people would follow because not only he gets consistent results, he is also one of the few people that travel across different leagues. I can imagine people being like "hey wonder how he'd do in X league based on his playstyle" and make angry forum posts for like a few months, until it was revealed that he changed his playstyle entirely so all the angry trolling was useless.
Totally think he'd have at least a cult following among nerds who post on the internet. And they'd all be heartbroken every time he lost.
Ash would totally be someone people would follow because not only he gets consistent results, he is also one of the few people that travel across different leagues. I can imagine people being like "hey wonder how he'd do in X league based on his playstyle" and make angry forum posts for like a few months, until it was revealed that he changed his playstyle entirely so all the angry trolling was useless.
Totally think he'd have at least a cult following among nerds who post on the internet. And they'd all be heartbroken every time he lost.
Post Kalos, sure. But before that, that's a big stretch. Not to mention he doesn't even have his famous Greninja anymore.
Through Sinnoh, everything were somewhat close together (since everything was based on Japan at that point), but since Unova, he's been going across the world to every region.
Galar may be sonewhat close to Kalos, but by then, people will have moved on.
Kinda like how everyone forgot Goku and his group after they stopped going to the World Martial Arts Tournament.
Galar may be sonewhat close to Kalos, but by then, people will have moved on.
Kinda like how everyone forgot Goku and his group after they stopped going to the World Martial Arts Tournament.
Okay, I was never one to compare Pokemon to cock fight that much, but that sounds like some stuff shit.
