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Ash will win the Alola League. Things are actually different this time
- Thread starter Busaiku
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Yeah, but it's similar to Orange in that there are only 4 badges instead of 8 and you do weird challenges instead of just straight battling.
Until the next season when he forgets he has to weaken a pokemon before throwing a pokeball at it.
Holy fuck do I want to see Ash blow the 6-1 lead. I'm still mad he didn't lose to that dragonite in orange league. Imagine being that jabroni, getting beaten by a guy who only made top 16 at indigo.
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That's the point, Pikachu doesn't need to get bigger to be stronger.
Pikachu secured wins in the Orange League and Battle Frontier, along with doing the most against Alain and Tobias.
Evolving just undermines the point, that bigger is always better.
That's not progression.
Plus he has Pikashunium Z.
I guess it's the logic of "once Ash wins one league, what's his motivation for entering more leagues"?. They probably feel like it'll be even more special when he finally does win a league, even though it just makes Ash look lamer each and every year.
More like the target group isn't watching all Pokemon episodes but just for a few years until they grow out of it.
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Hau is the Sawyer equivalent.
Ash never lost to someone he beat before.
Yep, like Precure and Super Sentai, kids stopped watching the show by the age of 13 and by then a new generation of kids are there to replace them. The problem is that unlike those shows pokemon don't replace the protagonist every year, which ticks off adult fans who are still watching.
He literally did lose to Sawyer right before the league though. The writers knew there would be no tension if Ash fought Sawyer in the league and had beaten him last. That's why Hau's gonna pull a dark horse and roll up with a full team out of nowhere and beat Ash. Not to mention he still has to prove himself to Hala and winning the league will do just that and reflect what happened in USUM.
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He also beat him before then.
He also lost to Gladion before, but he's not losing to him in the League.
It won't be as fun. Almost no-one believes he will win this time unlike last.
#AVATARBETONASHWINNING
I DON'T EVEN HAVE AN AVATAR I HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE WHO WANTS THE EASIEST WIN THEY'LL EVER TAKE?
I DON'T EVEN HAVE AN AVATAR I HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE WHO WANTS THE EASIEST WIN THEY'LL EVER TAKE?
This. The writers will destroy their own narrative if needed to have him lose
Tobias and Alain are already proof of it. Alain even worse because the whole story arc was about Alain losing finally for the first time and growing from it, but some exec probably told the writers: "nah, you can't do that".
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Has anyone counted the number of days that pass during the series to find out how old Ash is? So much failure in such a short life.
True, but he needed to become humble and etc to complete his character arc. The way they did it was bad and it feels like he just got a trophy for cheating without getting punished for it.
You know what, OP? I can see it. Ash pulling a Blue and becoming Champion only to lose the title 5 minutes later is exactly the kind of bullshit I expect from Ash.
I never even considered Red. If they were ever going to introduce him to the anime, this would be the time, as he was on vacation in Alola in the games. That would be so mean and so funny.
Yes, in fact.
And the New York Knicks and Buffalo Bills will get a championship ring.
Man we had hope in that thread. The animation was amazing and the music was getting us pumped and they just left us drowning in failure at the end. There has never been as great as build up just for such a fantastic deflation in cartoon history that I have witnessed.
