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Alola Pokémon League |OT| Seventh Time's The Charm? *Spoilers*
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I was wondering about Mimikyu actually. It might be the first Pokemon they keep between regions besides Wobbuffet in a long time. It's like the Pokemon was made to be in TR. they need to stop getting them to dump all their mons each saga like they started with in BW.
Bewear ain't coming I bet, but you can't tell me that Mimikyu is not goddamn perfect for Team Rocket
The question of Team Rocket's end of saga status quo is impossibly tough.
"Spying For the Big Guy!" provides the most clues of the direction.
First off, the dub ends asking if it will be happily ever after for TR in their Bewear home. Matori and Alolan Meowth were completely spooked off (and went down in an airship Hunter J style) but they were still able to make contact so there's no way they haven't been able to tell Giovanni about that whole fiasco. Either the staff completely wrote themselves into a corner with that or there's some kind of grand punishment coming for TRio's betrayal.
The TRio have no evil organization in Alola to say they bested. They don't want to give either of Mareanie or Mimikyu to headquarters either.
So there are two options.
1. Giovanni is coming for that Bewear himself and Team Rocket make a stand against him openly, quitting Team Rocket and completing their character development for a write-off.
2. The TRio are going to leave Bewear only to be demoted hard by Giovanni when they get back to Kanto, he takes away their high ranking position and they go back to how they were viewed before Unova.
"Spying For the Big Guy!" provides the most clues of the direction.
First off, the dub ends asking if it will be happily ever after for TR in their Bewear home. Matori and Alolan Meowth were completely spooked off (and went down in an airship Hunter J style) but they were still able to make contact so there's no way they haven't been able to tell Giovanni about that whole fiasco. Either the staff completely wrote themselves into a corner with that or there's some kind of grand punishment coming for TRio's betrayal.
The TRio have no evil organization in Alola to say they bested. They don't want to give either of Mareanie or Mimikyu to headquarters either.
So there are two options.
1. Giovanni is coming for that Bewear himself and Team Rocket make a stand against him openly, quitting Team Rocket and completing their character development for a write-off.
2. The TRio are going to leave Bewear only to be demoted hard by Giovanni when they get back to Kanto, he takes away their high ranking position and they go back to how they were viewed before Unova.
I think the time might have come for them to drop Team Rocket.
Don't get me wrong, they've been better in Sun and Moon than they ever have been previously, but they're in a good place now- let them quit Team Rocket and stay hanging around with Bewear in Alola, and do something fresh the next time out.
Don't get me wrong, they've been better in Sun and Moon than they ever have been previously, but they're in a good place now- let them quit Team Rocket and stay hanging around with Bewear in Alola, and do something fresh the next time out.
This episode was really bad. Half of it was stock footage of Z-moves and it felt like a cheap excuse to bring the former Poipole, now Naganadel(who evovled off-screen) back because the writers just noticed "Oh crap, this series didn't have a proper 6v6 battle yet!" If they wanted to bring Poipole back after that really great emotional goodbye, then I wished they did it much earlier with some sort of foreshadowing. You can even have it train with Ash and we can see its evolution. I mean Poipole was hardly used for battles at all so I'm not sure how's it going to fare in the upcoming fight against Kukui.
At least this episode gave us Team Rocket with the role reversal with them saving Bewear and
memes.
At least this episode gave us Team Rocket with the role reversal with them saving Bewear and
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If they have them fired from Team Rocket then that would be a more interesting direction for their characters. Maybe they could figure out how to retrieve all of their old Pokemon that are stuck in TRHQ. Maybe these characters become legit rivals for Ash(doing less theiving, more time to train their Pokemon) in the league. Just dropping them in Alola without at least addressing their other Pokemon would be a really bad way to say good bye to characters who have been in this show for 20+ years.
Naganadel's voice is really weird. I thought it would be able to speak to them like the other one could.
This league season helped me warm up a lot to Alola as a whole, lmao. Even Z moves were hype this episode.
And the bewear shit is hilarious.
What i wonder now is how will they justify pokemon being big af for dynamax battles in swsh. I really can't. It's nonsensical.
And the bewear shit is hilarious.
What i wonder now is how will they justify pokemon being big af for dynamax battles in swsh. I really can't. It's nonsensical.
I'd honestly love if team rocket stopped being villains and just became wacky rivals, because honestly that's when they're actually at their best anyways and a lot of the villain stuff they do ended up being super one note and repetitive
Was hoping they'd go in this direction after Diamond & Pearl with Jessie's focus on contests paying off (she was a worthy rival to Dawn) and James always showing more of a knack for battling and strategizing than he'd let on.
Seems like the choice to turn them into semi-serious villains in Best Wishes didn't pay off the way the writers wanted it to, and then they had no idea what to do with them other than just a lazy return to the status quo. They don't even show up in every episode anymore.
yeah the last episode was definitely more about "look at all these Z-moves WOW have fun never seeing them again" than actual interesting stuff but Guzzlord's voice levels it out.
Really shocked me that Kukui starts with Inceniroar. He knows what the people want I guess. Though it looks like Ash is doing some training to counter Darkest lariat in the preview (or at least training Melmetal to imitate it) so I wonder if it will be unstoppable tank we all think it is. Based on the preview I'm assuming Pikachu comes out first but is recalled, Ash sends out Lycanroc, Lycanroc gets that hard L, then maybe Kukui withdraws Inceniroar so Ash can fight the rest of his team.
Edit; Oh wait i missed torracat, I have no idea what will happen now lmao
Really shocked me that Kukui starts with Inceniroar. He knows what the people want I guess. Though it looks like Ash is doing some training to counter Darkest lariat in the preview (or at least training Melmetal to imitate it) so I wonder if it will be unstoppable tank we all think it is. Based on the preview I'm assuming Pikachu comes out first but is recalled, Ash sends out Lycanroc, Lycanroc gets that hard L, then maybe Kukui withdraws Inceniroar so Ash can fight the rest of his team.
Edit; Oh wait i missed torracat, I have no idea what will happen now lmao
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There's no way Matori is going to even tell anyone what happened to her with Bewear and Team Rocket. She'd consider it too embarrassing.
I rather see a Pokemon that hasn't been revealed yet. Give me some Johto Blaziken levels of shookness.
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I mean they revealed Blaziken for the anime before it appeared
Besides, Oha Suta will spoil whatever it is anyway
Ah they did? I couldn't remember the hype cycle for Gen 3 so I take your word for it.
And you are right about that last part. Oha Suta doesn't give a toss about spoiling stuff. And if it's a new Pokemon, it's gonna be posted on Gaming Side before the episode properly airs.
What an interesting team Kukui's got there.
With his Incineroar going out first, I felt like we might be in for a Tobias-style curbstomp, but that's not looking like the case.
Given the makeup of the rest of his team, I'd be very unsurprised if he had the final evo of a Galarian starter, Blaziken-style.
With his Incineroar going out first, I felt like we might be in for a Tobias-style curbstomp, but that's not looking like the case.
Given the makeup of the rest of his team, I'd be very unsurprised if he had the final evo of a Galarian starter, Blaziken-style.
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Question is...will his Venusaur Mega Evolve?
Mega Venusaur hasn't really seen any screentime in the anime
So Kukui trained for 20 years while Ash is stuck on 1+ year, right? The whole time travel thing is so bizarre
What! No way, dude. They wouldn't solve this mystery in such a lazy way! Everything to this point makes it clear the Masked Royal being Guzma. I can't believe that was a red herring all along! Bullshit!
Nah.
If there's going to be a power-up, I'd place my bets on them whipping up some anime nonsense and letting his last Pokémon go Gigantamax.
It is nice to see Ash being competitive against Kukui tho. Not a blow out like a lot of people were fearing.
The only power up that should be seen is Z moves and that's it.
The only power up that should be seen is Z moves and that's it.
If he does have a team shaping up like this, then Kukui has elevated himself into gaining near 'Player' level intelligence in going "Oh, there's WAY cooler Pokémon from other generations, why stick with one region? Steel penguins!? Big, tanky plant toads!?".
Maybe some people finally complained about the spoilers or there wasn't anything of note to really spoil this week.
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That makes things even more interesting. An All Region Anime with Ash could include cameos from previous series' team rotation of older Pokemon coming back, story continuation for previous travel companions and so much more.
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That doesn't actually say they'll be back. It says "what happens to them?"
Not that I don't expect them to be back
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Still hoping there's a new Protagonist next season and Ash gets sunsetted since he finally won a Pokémon League though.
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Winning a league doesn't make his journey complete, especially a Regional League when it has been established there are higher ones
Going with the whole "Ash is a Marketing Tool" excuse I see. I say It's been long enough. He's won a league. Just sunset him already for at least a series IMO
Id rather see him conquer the leagues he failed at while also exploring a new region. The style has been drastically shifting the last few adaptations to where its felt fresh enough while keeping a familiar character.