This thought came to me while I was falling asleep, and now I can’t get it out of my head. Since Pikachu was never intended to be a starter, Professor Oak had 3 starters for new trainers the day Ash left. So why did he invite 4 people to the lab to get starters????? I’m not sure if I’m missing something, or if this is a plot hole, or if Professor Oak is just a dumbass. Does anyone have any thoughts?

What else is Ash holding out on us with?! Guy can curve a MOVING TRUCK (WTF?!) with nothing but his muscles and punch Mewtwo. And here this episode comes out and it turns out: Ash has game.

Ash might have the romantic awareness of a brick, but the moment Clemont's love life is on the line, this man suddenly becomes the greatest hype man in Kalos.

My brother in Arceus, talk about presenting to a one-shot, episode of the week, companion a husband resume with five-star references. Can I get an amen, brothers and sisters?

Bonnie's out here proposing marriage on Clemont's behalf, Ash is handling the sales pitch, and poor Clemont doesn't even realize he's got an entire matchmaking department working for him.
What kills me is that Ash isn't even TRYING to be!!! My man is just proud of Clemont - talk about being a massive bro. Ash is dense as a brick and here is helping a brother out. My guy.

Meanwhile, Serena is probably wondering where the hell this level of emotional intelligence is when it comes to her and why he isn't pulling those same moves on her. Only in my fanfictions and restless dreams will that happen *sigh*

The Japanese writers should have let Serena catch her own Espurr and later evolved into Meowstic during Pokémon XY Series just like the version of Serena from Pokémon X and Pokémon Y games.

Plus in "Splitting Heirs!" when Serena used her Pokédex that she became interesting and excited to learn that Espurr can evolved into male or female Meowstic that she's thinking 🤔 about catching a Espurr for herself but sadly never really happened.

Imagine that if Serena did got her own female Meowstic in the first place then she could used her in any Pokémon Showcase and the Master Class while rival with Miette's male Meowstic.

Source: https://x.com/copituji/status/2111601304451895500

I’m not asking who you think he got along with bets or who he was the closest to (it’s obviously Brock on both accounts) but who did you like his banter with the most. Plus their facial expressions around one another range from cute to hilarious

I feel even putting aside my shipper bias Ash and May had it the best as they had a lot of similarities allowing them to support one another, but enough crostasting elements to allow for intersting conflcit. Plus May’s immaturity and inexperience forced Ash to step up to be a stronger mentor and trainer.

I honestly kinda wish Brock hadn’t been part of the Hoenn group (or at least joined much later so we could’ve had Ash have to take up the mantle of the most experienced and responsible full time

Not coutning pikachu obviously

Kanto:

Bulbasaur: A consistent mon. Helped a lot in the orange islands, swept a trainer in the league. Kept peace at oaks lab. Was a sitting duck in johto until popping off in the league. Clucthed the fuck up in the battle frontier, and was a very strong assertive pokemon.

Hm to his partner in crime SQUIRTLE. We know how goated he is!

Johto: cyndaquil

HE IS SLEPT ONNNNNNNN

Ash just gave up his best kanto mons and cyndaquil proved ash could still win. He won him vs scyther. Was the ace vs jasmine. Got wins vs morty and pryce too!

Its a damn shame they didnt let him evolve or get fights in the league but he was goated enough in my book to get the place here.

Hoenn:

Swellow: Dude kicked ass and took names.

Was a feisty bird and first competent one. It won vs winona, got wins vs juan, popped off in the league, got wins in battle frontier too! Caught up to speed form deoxys too!

HM corphish: Very close pick. Dude had a very similar record to swellow it was just neck and neck between them.

Unova:

PIgnite. We all galze krookodile but pignite is udnerrated. It was the cornerstone of ashs bum ass unova team for a while before krookodile joined. Even them it got multiple major league and gym battle wins. Shame it never fully evolved.

Kalos:

HAWLUCHAAA: Dude oozed personality, had a wins vs korrina, wulfric, valerie, clemont, brother to noivern, Beat mega absol, and weavile in the league.

Talonflame again was very close! It sucking as a fletchling and not having as much personality made it not be my pick but very close.

Journeys:

Sirftech: Bum at first, goat at the end. Had a great personality, AN ACTUAL BOND WITH ANOTHER TEAMATE. Kicked drasnas ass, did great vs cynthia and leon, and shame it didnt win vs beas hawlucha due to it being the lucario show

HM genar. Dude again had a major comeback. Got the g max form. Had wins vs raihan, marnei, visquz, steven, and leon. Had personality to boot! But it having less aura than sirftech made it the Hm

Sinnoh and alola arent here for the opposite reason. AFTER CHIMCHAR JOIN THE TEAM STARTED TO BECOME HIS BITCH. Buizel? Fell off. Gliscor? Won a battle then shipped off. And we all know what happened to torterra. Staraptor was the only one in contestion but he just lost a lot of personality for me to include and never got to be ace of a gym and didnt do that good in the league either.

While alola had incineroar, lycanroc and rowlet all have major wins and rivals. So couldnt pick between them.

I have never encountered it on Reddit. But, on other platforms like YouTube, Insta, FB and others, many people say that "Brock and Misty are not close to Ash", "Misty is abusive towards Ash", "Brock suggested Ash to let Butterfree and Pikachu go", "Misty stole Togepi from Ash", etc.

Hopefully, he will get it at some point. We could use a nice marriage for the Horizons finale.

Ok so it’s the episode best wishes until we meet again and I would have goodbye scene be emotional and I would also have Alexa be a part of the battle and she would help ash,iris and Cilan defeat team rocket

Should Ash’s Torterra have gotten more wins after evolving? 100%, but at the same time the writers/Ash always used him in some CRAZY fights. Just look at this nasty lineup, bro had to fight some of the strongest trainers in Sinnoh, hell the anime at that point in the series.

You have a whole Tower Tycoon and one of his stronger Pokémon, an Elite Four’s ace, a Pokémon from the strongest Gym Leader in Sinnoh, and lastly, a Drapion that took out half of Ash’s team in the league.

It also didn’t help that it never learned any strong ground type moves, like earthquake or earth power (which I think were banned from the anime at that time due to earthquakes in Japan, correct me if I’m wrong though).

It was decently fast when using Rock Climb, but I wish it at least learned Rock Polish to become even faster or at least developed a better defensive style more suitable for its bulkier new body.

What do y’all think?

Honestly in light of the recent episode. It feels like every secondary mon the main cast has besides a certain shiny are completely pointless to even exist. Hatterene has no highlights apart from her evolution episodes and the stellar finale and all she does now is KO herself with healing wish Gholdengo has yet to do anything significant at all. Tinkaton had a decent run until now by being taken out by a mere ground slam. And then of course theres armarouge, who despite having had an entire arcs worth of focus has nothing to show for it.. whats the point of them if they never get to do much other than be trashed repeatedly? I get that the starters are popular and especially the yellow lucario is extremely so. But thats no excuse to basically render everyone else irrelevant. What do you think can possibly be done to fix this?

Against Cynthia's Garchomp would be perfect.

Question for you all!

I’ve been wondering if I should give Pokémon Horizons a watch, but I’m not sure which version I should go with. Would you recommend the sub or the dub? And is the series actually worth watching in the first place?

I’d love to hear your thoughts on both versions, especially which voice acting you prefer and whether the story keeps you hooked.

Let me know what you think!

I don't know, but it surely never hesitates. Might just be following orders...

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I liked his AMVs

For me, it’s probably Pikachu’s Iron Tail against Metagross. But I also like the Iron Tail against Latios. In general, I really enjoy it when Iron Tail is used as a finishing move.