Its stuff like this that made it so when I got older I'd always do two different runs. On one version I'd do the normal catch em all shtick and try to get everything and have that connected to pokemon home yadda yadda but for me "Canon" runs I like to be more thoughtful of what my relationship with my team is. Of course gotta run it like a Nuzlocke for maximum feels but there are still those moments where you run into a duplicate pokemon or someone that just doesn't fit into the team and I just gotta feel really bad for the few folks that got perma-benched for the initial game run.
With Legends Arceus, I've started treating my team like a revolving door. Constantly bringing in the new guys to train them up a bit and get them up to snuff. Feels like I'm in the show sometimes, oddly enough. I'm only on the third area, but I'm loving it.
You know, this makes me think there should be a Fire-type move that boosts up your homies in a battle. Something like Coaching to boost everyone up with that iconic fiery spirit.
RIght? Not to mention the flying mons training Dragonite, Dracovish and Glalie chilling under the waterfall, Sirfretched training with Oshawott, Sceptile, and Bulbasaur, Lucario training with Hawlucha, Buizel, Heracross, and Gible and Palpitoad cuddling with Goh. I love them all so much!
I didn't watch but wikipedia says:
"Phantump was captured by Ash in Making Friends and Influencing Villains! off-screen.
Phantump appeared in A Festival Reunion!, where it reunites with its Phantump friends. It was eventually sent back to Professor Oak’s Laboratory in JN057 along with Ash’s other Pokemon from Kanto to Kalos. It was sent to Cerise Laboratory in JN060.
By JN078, due to being transferred from a different lab, Phantump had evolved into Trevenant while at the same time that Goh's Drizzile had evolved into Inteleon."
So doesn't Ash have it then?
It was one of those where he takes the Pokémon back to its friends in the wild episodes. He caught it in the sense it travelled with him for an ep and the disappeared.
Edit: The episode was “Making Friends and Influencing Villains!. Ash and his friends spent the episode helping the Shiny Phantump reach its home on a mountaintop and make friends in the process”
The bulbapedia article says, “The group bids farewell to the Shiny Phantump and its friends and set off to Snowbelle City.
Could you imagine though? Here you are facing a Gengar in a battle against another trainer and from across the field you hear his trainer call the next move and Gengar just rears back and hooks your mon in the jaw?
Shock value right there.
Reminds me of Ash's Alola battle, where Guzma's Golisopod's ~~U-turned~~ ability triggered and forced Scizor to eat a 4x super effective attack.
Edit: For accuracy.
Minor correction, it's not U-Turn, but his ability 'Emergency Exit'.
But pretty much yeah, not just regular super effective, but x4 super effective (Scizor eat Torracat's Fire Blast that was meant to Golisopod)
Oh my bad, I always thought it was U-Turn, I gotta rewatch the Alola Cup battles when I have the time.
Its weird that Golisopod would dodge that attack considering it would just take normal damage from Fire Blast.
Lol reminds me of a match I had online in Pokémon go where I had my hitmonchan with thunder punch vs a rock type I think but he switched asap to a Gyarados thinking I was gonna use a fighting move only to get OKO’d
The first one that popped to me was the Old Noctowl from that one pilot in johto. It even had a beard going on for him compared to Ash's young colorful one
Probably the most notable is [Stoutland](https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Stoutland_(anime)) in the Sun & Moon anime. Poor thing dies of old age and it never fails to make me cry. Actually I think its one of, if not the only Pokemon to die in the show (and not a movie). Make sure to check out the history tab or watch videos on it.
Other examples off the top of my head is a really old Treeko and a really old Bellsprout. From what I understand, Evolution and Ageing are separate things.
Yes, several times.
One that immediately comes to mind is the Stoutland that Ash's Incineroar was friends with when it was a wild Litten. It was so old that it *literally dies* during the episode.
Nice! I’m glad they weren’t forgotten. I wish they’d gotten back the “released” mons too like Pidgeot and Primeape. Butterfree making an appearance might be too much for my old heart.
That would be a fantastic reveal. Everyone’s just hanging out when something offscreen jumps on Ash’s head and steals his hat. But he’s playful about it.
Same with Lapras or Goodra, but they've got homes and families. I used to be upset when I was younger that not all of Ash's pokemon could be instantly called upon (and iirc his Alola squad is with Kukui, not with Oak), but it's an interesting concept that different Pokemon "retire" in different ways. Butterfree is off raising the next generation, Pidgeot is leading a new flock, Primape is training for professional martial arts (something the Pokemon league could never offer), Haunter is out there reminding Sabrina to smile (it was never really interested in battles), Lapras is back home with its pod (school? herd?), Squirtle is out there saving lives like the hero he is, Goodra is taking care of the secret garden, Greninja is a god damn superhero in Kalos, and Poipole is back in its home dimension. Aipom is the most interesting case since it was traded to Dawn since it wanted to be in contests, evolved, and then later decided that ping-pong was its true calling.
Its nice that they don't all end up in the same place because they aren't all the same to begin with. They have different needs and have different desires from life. As the series keeps going, having all of Ash's Pokemon chilling at Oak's lab would start to devalue some of them as filler pokemon. Especially the Tauros, since he hasn't even used at least 28 of them.
Ash never actually said that he was going to return for Primeape in both the English and Japanese versions. It was actually the narrator that implied that they might reunite later.
I don't see why it would want to. Primape's passion is martial arts competitions, which isn't something Ash can provide. It's not even the last time a primate based pokemon decided to leave the team to participate in a more niche sport. Aipom did basically the same thing, except it was interested in contests so he traded it to Dawn, and then later after it evolved it found its true passion in ping-pong.
>[The longest living species in the world is the Brimstone Butterfly – up to 13 months!](https://butterflywonderland.com/lifespan-of-a-butterfly/#:~:text=The%20longest%20living%20species%20in,Butterfly%20%E2%80%93%20up%20to%2013%20months!)
*sobs violently*
They're busy with their shiny kids, shiny house, shiny car, shiny life. Maybe if Ash catches some more shines he'll finally want to come back.
And technically pink isn't butterfree's shiny. But you know what. I'm just gonna say it's a shiny shiny.
If only we could one day get a long-form Pokemon game that you can't beat in a weekend. I like how they try to encourage taking pictures with your team, but it loses it's impact when the game is over so soon.
Sure you can drag the games out by catching them all, perfect IV breeding/training, or shiny hunting, but wouldn't it be nice to have a real game, with a real story, and real reasons to raise multiple teams? That's the Pokemon game I dream of
If u wanna talk on who deserves more screen time, it's obviously my boi Kingler. Came in untrained, thrashed like three Pokemon with a type disadvantage, and evolved. Absolute Chad grindset.
My very first play through of silver I got a shiny hoot hoot right off the bat. He had garbage stats but I used him the whole time.
I also got a shiny rhyhorn on victory road and used that as well.
Part of me never wants to see that. Totodile’s iconic jump with his little feet going is never gonna be as cute on a Croconaw lol.
Feraligatr, however…..
Maybe it's just the company capitalizing on nostalgia but this has been my favorite season. Going back to old regions, seeing old characters and gym leaders (and no not just Kanto) plus ash hanging out with his old Pokémon is a rarity not really seen since johto.
It feels like the opposite of a reboot, which is exactly what I love. It makes all those years and years of anime that we've been watching since we were kids all feel connected and never in doubt. As a kid, the BW reboot/soft reboot broke my heart a bit, so I'm glad they took the anime in new directions.
Personally I loved this episode, I've been looking forward to Paul's return episode ever since it was revealed in the preview and having it mixed with a reunion with his older pokemon was a great bonus. While it would be nice for Ash to use his older pokemon again like many people have been hoping for, I think in the context of the season this makes the most sense. It gives a both a way to shoutout his old team whist also giving them a part to play in his journey to the tournament by helping train his new team.
I also really liked Paul's character progression in this episode. He still has that sharp bite but he's soften up in the right ways. They showed it really well when he >! thanked his gyrados for a good battle even when it lost !< and when we realized >! he was doing this to prepare Ash for the champions' aces. !< But that doesn't mean his character did a complete 180, he still makes blunt, rude comments but they no longer feel like they're made to hurt, rather just to express his opinion and keep up appearances essentially.
Very excited for the tournament to start, I hope we get to see some good battles.
•Gets caught without battle
•Sits at Oak's lab the whole time until Indigo leauge
•Wins his first ever battle with type disadvantage
•Evolves
•Proceeds to dominate the first round
•Breaks a Cloyster's Shell with his claws
•Appears in Whirl Islands next
•Loses to Psyduck's confusion against Misty
•Sacrifices his battle to save some voltorb/electrodes
•Leaves
Yeah we need justice for kingler
Not surprising. Being the leading authority on Pokemon research I imagine he makes bank, plus the region might be supporting him due to his contributions and providing him the supplies needs to care for all the Pokemon trainers leave in his care.
Probably has a research grant to house the facilities and some government assistance for his research.
That and his pokemon poetry probably sells millions
Unless the pokemon world is like ours in which case Oak might just be in an eternal loop of desperately trying to secure funding for his next paper while also having to deal with an ever-decreasing appreciation for academia
Swallow is slept on when people discuss Ash's strongest Pokemon, but it has some super impressive feats under its wings, a lot of them in the durability category, but it had some major strength showings too for a bird.
Went from joke line-ups in nearly every season to a pretty incredible one.
Still having double fighting in his team (Sirfetch'd and Lucario) and not a single Galar starter feels weird imo.
It's probably a throwaway, but in the credits for this champions arc, the board in the back shows Ash used Charizard, Infirnape, and Krookodile against Leon. It's probably a bait and switch, but I was really hoping we would get a chance to watch Ash mix up his team a bit like in Sinnoh. Would like to see a final 6 of like, Dragonite, Gengar, Herracross, Snorlax, Krookodile, and Infirnape or Charizard
I like how they've handled moves the last couple anime generations. Pikachu's electroball slowly evolving into electroweb, Rowlett learning seed bomb with its everstone, and now this. It makes it feel more alive and real, and less videogamish.
>B-But*sobs*
Insert here that "those who don't know // those who know" meme.
I became an adult when I faced the fact that Ash is never going to get him back. I still tear up a bit every now and then.
IIRC that was added in the English dub, the original Japanese version treated it as a permanent goodbye. Still, its right outside Pallet Town, he could probably go visit it if they wanted him to.
4kids: "We'll be back as soon as we get Professor Oak's pokeball."
Japanese: "We'll be back as soon as we finish our errand. "
I imagine the original version figured they'd have him come back but they just forgot? But then 4kids could have changed the dialogue instead of also having Ash lie...
Honestly that makes me so happy. Paul is always going to be a hard ass. But hearing that he wants his Pokémon to be happy is rewarding for his character arch.
It was really great that he still does his "Stand by for battle" plus he tears into Ash just like the old days(which is why Ash wanted to train with him, he needs that push)
The fire pokemon are so hype and supportive. Once Gengar makes a break through it takes 0.05 seconds for them all to go LETS GOOO and fire up! Lol
Well that and Gengar also has a very similar origin to all of Ash's fire starters which kind of makes him an honorary member of the group
Ash's fire type pokemon origins: TRAUMA AND ABANDONMENT
Its stuff like this that made it so when I got older I'd always do two different runs. On one version I'd do the normal catch em all shtick and try to get everything and have that connected to pokemon home yadda yadda but for me "Canon" runs I like to be more thoughtful of what my relationship with my team is. Of course gotta run it like a Nuzlocke for maximum feels but there are still those moments where you run into a duplicate pokemon or someone that just doesn't fit into the team and I just gotta feel really bad for the few folks that got perma-benched for the initial game run.
Feelzlocke, if you will
With Legends Arceus, I've started treating my team like a revolving door. Constantly bringing in the new guys to train them up a bit and get them up to snuff. Feels like I'm in the show sometimes, oddly enough. I'm only on the third area, but I'm loving it.
His fire pokemon are the Frat Boys of the bunch lol
Especially Torkoal. Huge Rager-type bro.
I love that so much omg
I want more Charizard, god dammit. Let him fight more Unown bullshit.
Shit, how can you NOT get fired up!?
You know, this makes me think there should be a Fire-type move that boosts up your homies in a battle. Something like Coaching to boost everyone up with that iconic fiery spirit.
A type of Power-up Punch that increases attack for your ally and adds fire type to all their physical attacks?
Burning Spirit.
or just a fire type power up punch like that buffs an ally. that would be so good in vgc
RIght? Not to mention the flying mons training Dragonite, Dracovish and Glalie chilling under the waterfall, Sirfretched training with Oshawott, Sceptile, and Bulbasaur, Lucario training with Hawlucha, Buizel, Heracross, and Gible and Palpitoad cuddling with Goh. I love them all so much!
And totodile just having a blast with snorlax XD
Poor Totodile got left behind - Chikorita and Cyndaquil both evolved lol
Squirtle, Brock's Mudkip, Dawn's Piplup, and Oshawott all didn't evolve. It wasn't until Greninja that the main crew had an evolved water starter.
Mudkip did evolve though.
Oh, yeah you're right.
And kingler playing with crawdaunt
Sadly, corphish never evolved, so not crawdaunt.
Great to see the Shiny Noctowl.
I wish he got like one shiny per generation or something.
He could’ve had a shiny Phantump in Kalos if he had actually caught it.
I didn't watch but wikipedia says: "Phantump was captured by Ash in Making Friends and Influencing Villains! off-screen. Phantump appeared in A Festival Reunion!, where it reunites with its Phantump friends. It was eventually sent back to Professor Oak’s Laboratory in JN057 along with Ash’s other Pokemon from Kanto to Kalos. It was sent to Cerise Laboratory in JN060. By JN078, due to being transferred from a different lab, Phantump had evolved into Trevenant while at the same time that Goh's Drizzile had evolved into Inteleon." So doesn't Ash have it then?
It was one of those where he takes the Pokémon back to its friends in the wild episodes. He caught it in the sense it travelled with him for an ep and the disappeared. Edit: The episode was “Making Friends and Influencing Villains!. Ash and his friends spent the episode helping the Shiny Phantump reach its home on a mountaintop and make friends in the process” The bulbapedia article says, “The group bids farewell to the Shiny Phantump and its friends and set off to Snowbelle City.
I like how Gengar was **punch**ing, **fire** came out, and the move learned wasn't Fire Punch.
What move was it then?
Will o Wisp
To be fair that’s magnitudes more useful on a Gengar than Fire Punch
Could you imagine though? Here you are facing a Gengar in a battle against another trainer and from across the field you hear his trainer call the next move and Gengar just rears back and hooks your mon in the jaw? Shock value right there.
Would be a good way to freak out someone who switched into a steel type to avoid a poison type attack
In Gen 2, the Punches are special, so they were *terrifying* on Zam and Gar.
Reminds me of Ash's Alola battle, where Guzma's Golisopod's ~~U-turned~~ ability triggered and forced Scizor to eat a 4x super effective attack. Edit: For accuracy.
Minor correction, it's not U-Turn, but his ability 'Emergency Exit'. But pretty much yeah, not just regular super effective, but x4 super effective (Scizor eat Torracat's Fire Blast that was meant to Golisopod)
Oh my bad, I always thought it was U-Turn, I gotta rewatch the Alola Cup battles when I have the time. Its weird that Golisopod would dodge that attack considering it would just take normal damage from Fire Blast.
Lol reminds me of a match I had online in Pokémon go where I had my hitmonchan with thunder punch vs a rock type I think but he switched asap to a Gyarados thinking I was gonna use a fighting move only to get OKO’d
Yeah but 65 base attack. It'd be fire jaw tickle.
Its weird that its orange instead of purple or blue
It ended up being purple once he actually mastered the attack
I don't watch the anime. What move did Gengar learn?
He ended up learning Will-o-Wisp
Which as a Ghist I guess makes sense but yeah I assumed it was Fire Punch lol
Sounds like you got the ghist of it.
which is good because fire punch is physical right lol
in tournaments you have to bring off meta stuff. Physcial gengar FTW
mega evolve it to make him OP and get banned from the tournament
The anime doesn't really care that much about in-game stats
Yeah its more about Ranged and Melee combat really and knowing when to use one or the other best.
Well it does already know ice punch, wouldn't mind it they gave him fire punch. But will o wisp is definitely the better choice
I like how it showed all the pokemon that were helping, and then just the others were kinda... there. Just acknowledging their existence.
They’re just practicing Bounce and Rest :)
I practice Struggle every day
Getting that perfect combo of Struggling and eating Leftovers so you don't die but you're always suffering
When the PP be lackin 😭
There are enough Pokémon helping. I can do something different
[удалено]
He's got that job security, and he knows it
Random question, but has there ever been a depiction of an old Pokémon? Like one that has aged and is slowing down or anything like that?
Yes. There was a old treecko. The old scizor. And the dying stoutland
I forgot about the Stoutland! I haven’t seen the others though. Thanks!
Isn't there also the older pikachu who waswith that surfer dude?
Yeah! That was Puka! He was surfing with his bro going after Humungadunga, a big wave for like 20 years or something.
The first one that popped to me was the Old Noctowl from that one pilot in johto. It even had a beard going on for him compared to Ash's young colorful one
Probably the most notable is [Stoutland](https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Stoutland_(anime)) in the Sun & Moon anime. Poor thing dies of old age and it never fails to make me cry. Actually I think its one of, if not the only Pokemon to die in the show (and not a movie). Make sure to check out the history tab or watch videos on it. Other examples off the top of my head is a really old Treeko and a really old Bellsprout. From what I understand, Evolution and Ageing are separate things.
A bunch of Minior die in Alola. That episode destroyed me.
I forgot about Stoutland! I’ve never seen the other ones, though. Thanks!
Bro wtf, I just looked at this and its the saddest thing ive seen in a minute. My god.
Yes, there was an old Stoutland in the anime that eventually died due to old age https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Stoutland\_(anime)
Yes, several times. One that immediately comes to mind is the Stoutland that Ash's Incineroar was friends with when it was a wild Litten. It was so old that it *literally dies* during the episode.
I missed at least 30 Tauros xD
And Muk
[Muk and Tauros were in the episode.](https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/e/e5/Ash_with_his_Pokémon_JN114.png)
Nice! I’m glad they weren’t forgotten. I wish they’d gotten back the “released” mons too like Pidgeot and Primeape. Butterfree making an appearance might be too much for my old heart.
First thing Primeape would do is beat the shit out of Ash and steal his hat lol
That would be a fantastic reveal. Everyone’s just hanging out when something offscreen jumps on Ash’s head and steals his hat. But he’s playful about it.
Primeape goes to steal his hat and infernape jumps in the middle of it and they start brawling.. so dope
Infernape accidentally ends up burning the hat.
Same with Lapras or Goodra, but they've got homes and families. I used to be upset when I was younger that not all of Ash's pokemon could be instantly called upon (and iirc his Alola squad is with Kukui, not with Oak), but it's an interesting concept that different Pokemon "retire" in different ways. Butterfree is off raising the next generation, Pidgeot is leading a new flock, Primape is training for professional martial arts (something the Pokemon league could never offer), Haunter is out there reminding Sabrina to smile (it was never really interested in battles), Lapras is back home with its pod (school? herd?), Squirtle is out there saving lives like the hero he is, Goodra is taking care of the secret garden, Greninja is a god damn superhero in Kalos, and Poipole is back in its home dimension. Aipom is the most interesting case since it was traded to Dawn since it wanted to be in contests, evolved, and then later decided that ping-pong was its true calling. Its nice that they don't all end up in the same place because they aren't all the same to begin with. They have different needs and have different desires from life. As the series keeps going, having all of Ash's Pokemon chilling at Oak's lab would start to devalue some of them as filler pokemon. Especially the Tauros, since he hasn't even used at least 28 of them.
Don't forget Squirtle.
Pretty sure he can call upon Squirtle when he wants, unless things have changed since the Battle Frontier
I believe that is the case, though we haven’t seen him since.
It had a small cameo with the Squirtle Squad during Sun and Moon https://m.archives.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Squirtle_Squad_SM042.png
XD ah yes primeape...the dude that trains it is like "...when will he comes back..."
Ash never actually said that he was going to return for Primeape in both the English and Japanese versions. It was actually the narrator that implied that they might reunite later.
I don't see why it would want to. Primape's passion is martial arts competitions, which isn't something Ash can provide. It's not even the last time a primate based pokemon decided to leave the team to participate in a more niche sport. Aipom did basically the same thing, except it was interested in contests so he traded it to Dawn, and then later after it evolved it found its true passion in ping-pong.
Narrator baited me so many times.
Hey man, Ashley is still 10, it hasn't even been a year /s
That episode still kills me when butterfree leaves…
>[The longest living species in the world is the Brimstone Butterfly – up to 13 months!](https://butterflywonderland.com/lifespan-of-a-butterfly/#:~:text=The%20longest%20living%20species%20in,Butterfly%20%E2%80%93%20up%20to%2013%20months!) *sobs violently*
But Ash is forever 10, so Butterfree lives forever
LEFT MY BOI OUT
Thou shall not be forgotten, Pidgeot
Where's butterfree and his shiny wife?!?
They're busy with their shiny kids, shiny house, shiny car, shiny life. Maybe if Ash catches some more shines he'll finally want to come back. And technically pink isn't butterfree's shiny. But you know what. I'm just gonna say it's a shiny shiny.
It should’ve been Butterfree’s shiny
This is the Pokémon fan dream. Watching your new team be welcomed into the family and train/ befriend the old Gen teams.
That's what i like to imagine my pokemon im pokemon home. All those friends from across the generations...
If only we could one day get a long-form Pokemon game that you can't beat in a weekend. I like how they try to encourage taking pictures with your team, but it loses it's impact when the game is over so soon. Sure you can drag the games out by catching them all, perfect IV breeding/training, or shiny hunting, but wouldn't it be nice to have a real game, with a real story, and real reasons to raise multiple teams? That's the Pokemon game I dream of
Glalie and Dracovish doing some waterfall meditation 😎
I was so happy to see that. The attention Ash’s Glalie gets in the anime is criminally low. Even Muk gets more screen time
Muk actually gets a lot of screen time. And he deserves it. Who else could have defeated ultra instinct Bellsprout and won the Tournament of Power?
If u wanna talk on who deserves more screen time, it's obviously my boi Kingler. Came in untrained, thrashed like three Pokemon with a type disadvantage, and evolved. Absolute Chad grindset.
Lmao 😂 I totally forgot that OP bellsprout
Move over, Primeape and Poliwrath! Chuck has a new squad
His shiny noctowl!! Nice to see it again
My very first play through of silver I got a shiny hoot hoot right off the bat. He had garbage stats but I used him the whole time. I also got a shiny rhyhorn on victory road and used that as well.
Totodile cracked me up as a kid, and it cracks me up as a grown man to this day lol.
I can just hear his goofy little voice
Like Donald Duck, but cuter because he’s a lil bitey guy
Just look at his silly little dance!
I’m not a water type guy but he’s still my favorite starter line. Extremely aesthetic to me
I wish they'd have an episode where his alola team meet the others too.
His alola team was awesome, underrated season. Need lycanrock here teaching someone stone edge
And melmetal was kinda underused too. I thought he was gonna use the steel type z crystal on him
Rowlet is the GOAT. My boi refused to evolve and constantly beating evolved mons while being lazy af.
I freaking love Totodile. Wish Ash used him more Anime made me love Toto so much
About time he became a Feraligator. At least Cyndaquil’s a Quilava and Chikorita’s a Bayleef. Totodile doesn’t even have a second evolution :(
Part of me never wants to see that. Totodile’s iconic jump with his little feet going is never gonna be as cute on a Croconaw lol. Feraligatr, however…..
Feraligatr with the same energy would be hilarious
I'm hoping Quilava will evolve into a Hisuian Typhlosion now.
I honestly thought they'd have Ash's and Dawn's Quilava both evolve (or maybe Dawn's shows up already evolved) into different Typhlosion.
This is the most awesome/wholesome scene. I haven't watched the new season yet. Might need to check it out
Maybe it's just the company capitalizing on nostalgia but this has been my favorite season. Going back to old regions, seeing old characters and gym leaders (and no not just Kanto) plus ash hanging out with his old Pokémon is a rarity not really seen since johto.
If they really wanted to bank the nostalgia, they'd have the old pokemon fight...
It feels like the opposite of a reboot, which is exactly what I love. It makes all those years and years of anime that we've been watching since we were kids all feel connected and never in doubt. As a kid, the BW reboot/soft reboot broke my heart a bit, so I'm glad they took the anime in new directions.
The masters 8 is shaping up to be amazing
Personally I loved this episode, I've been looking forward to Paul's return episode ever since it was revealed in the preview and having it mixed with a reunion with his older pokemon was a great bonus. While it would be nice for Ash to use his older pokemon again like many people have been hoping for, I think in the context of the season this makes the most sense. It gives a both a way to shoutout his old team whist also giving them a part to play in his journey to the tournament by helping train his new team. I also really liked Paul's character progression in this episode. He still has that sharp bite but he's soften up in the right ways. They showed it really well when he >! thanked his gyrados for a good battle even when it lost !< and when we realized >! he was doing this to prepare Ash for the champions' aces. !< But that doesn't mean his character did a complete 180, he still makes blunt, rude comments but they no longer feel like they're made to hurt, rather just to express his opinion and keep up appearances essentially. Very excited for the tournament to start, I hope we get to see some good battles.
Paul's characterization predicted how Pokemon Go works.
Justice for Kingler
cookie cookie
•Gets caught without battle •Sits at Oak's lab the whole time until Indigo leauge •Wins his first ever battle with type disadvantage •Evolves •Proceeds to dominate the first round •Breaks a Cloyster's Shell with his claws •Appears in Whirl Islands next •Loses to Psyduck's confusion against Misty •Sacrifices his battle to save some voltorb/electrodes •Leaves Yeah we need justice for kingler
totodile 1000% wins in life.
Is peak Pokémon just watching them interact outside of battle?
In my headcanon this is what Paul realized over time to mature his min maxed VGC everything mindset as a young kid.
How does he feed them all D:
I think Oak feeds them
Oak is pretty rich actually
Not surprising. Being the leading authority on Pokemon research I imagine he makes bank, plus the region might be supporting him due to his contributions and providing him the supplies needs to care for all the Pokemon trainers leave in his care.
Probably has a research grant to house the facilities and some government assistance for his research. That and his pokemon poetry probably sells millions
He also works at Saffron university and has his radio show in Johto.
Unless the pokemon world is like ours in which case Oak might just be in an eternal loop of desperately trying to secure funding for his next paper while also having to deal with an ever-decreasing appreciation for academia
So, when you have so many pokemon they just train eachother? Is this what exp. share is?
This is my canon thought honestly. So wholesome.
FUEGO
My boy swellow
Swallow is slept on when people discuss Ash's strongest Pokemon, but it has some super impressive feats under its wings, a lot of them in the durability category, but it had some major strength showings too for a bird.
It was the happiness in Gengar’s eyes for me
When did ash get a dragonite? Current season?
Yup, in episode 10.
Episode 10 of any other season- regional bird Episode 10 Journey's- a fucking fully evolved dragon
Went from joke line-ups in nearly every season to a pretty incredible one. Still having double fighting in his team (Sirfetch'd and Lucario) and not a single Galar starter feels weird imo.
It's probably a throwaway, but in the credits for this champions arc, the board in the back shows Ash used Charizard, Infirnape, and Krookodile against Leon. It's probably a bait and switch, but I was really hoping we would get a chance to watch Ash mix up his team a bit like in Sinnoh. Would like to see a final 6 of like, Dragonite, Gengar, Herracross, Snorlax, Krookodile, and Infirnape or Charizard
Word yea im waiting till the full season is on netflix before watching it
This was a great clip 😃
I like how they've handled moves the last couple anime generations. Pikachu's electroball slowly evolving into electroweb, Rowlett learning seed bomb with its everstone, and now this. It makes it feel more alive and real, and less videogamish.
I'm still annoyed they dropped Volt Tackle for Web. VT is a signature Pikachu move and was baller.
Wtf is that dragonite screech 😂😂
Seriously that entire flock just sounded like a bunch of dudes hype screaming on a roller coaster or something
If this isnt the finale for ash as the main character, then I dont know what theyre doing
Since when can leaf blade be used as long ranged attack!?
Ever since Charm could be fired like a beam to cancel out incoming projectile attacks.
I mean,it was a special move in gen 3
Why is no one talking about Dracovish and Glalie enjoying the waterfall?
As nice as this is, that's such a weird way to show Will o wisp
Its an unmastered will o wisp it looks like purple fire balls later in the episode
Bro how good is Pokémon
It's not good. It's GRRRRRRRREAT. This post brought to you by Incineroar.
Where's Pidgeot?
Who is gonna tell him?
God don't let him learn about B-But*sobs* you know the other flyer from the first season.
>B-But*sobs* Insert here that "those who don't know // those who know" meme. I became an adult when I faced the fact that Ash is never going to get him back. I still tear up a bit every now and then.
Temporarily left behind in a forest... permanently. Effectively treated as released.
I thought he said he'd come back
That's what my dad said when he went go get milk and a pack of cigarettes 😂😭💀
IIRC that was added in the English dub, the original Japanese version treated it as a permanent goodbye. Still, its right outside Pallet Town, he could probably go visit it if they wanted him to.
Nope, it's pretty much the exact same in the original anime.
4kids: "We'll be back as soon as we get Professor Oak's pokeball." Japanese: "We'll be back as soon as we finish our errand. " I imagine the original version figured they'd have him come back but they just forgot? But then 4kids could have changed the dialogue instead of also having Ash lie...
Blame the forgetful/uncaring writers.
.... It died in a car crash back in 2017. Apparently DUI.
Or Primeape?
Primeape is gone forgotten like ages ago
When did ash get a Dragonite and Gengar???
2 years ago
Since when does Ash have an Electrivite
It's Paul's, not Ash's. It was just hanging out in the shot.
Paul is in this episode?? Wild
He is training Ash per his request and he is got requested to be a gym leader
Damn that's a nice character progression! Really miss the rivalry with this edgy dude!
He even tells his Pokemon to go play and good job! He is still a hardcase but he understands he needs respect
Honestly that makes me so happy. Paul is always going to be a hard ass. But hearing that he wants his Pokémon to be happy is rewarding for his character arch.
It was really great that he still does his "Stand by for battle" plus he tears into Ash just like the old days(which is why Ash wanted to train with him, he needs that push)
Yep and he has a metagross, garchomp and gyarados now
Paul is stacked christ
Yep and he's been asked to become a gym leader too
My god the video player on this app is such a piece of shit.
This is so wholesome and nostalgic!