#its weird bc like. pauls pokemon arent devoid of personality or substance even tho he does swap them around | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

vaugarde · 3 months ago

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yknow, it is kinda weird that they made paul’s gliscor a recurring character with a sympathetic story about being driven out from its home and unintentionally creating this whole gligar pack (trapping them all in the city with it), getting ash’s gligar as an underling, implied it was going to be a rival to ash’s gligar, tying ash and paul’s teams together even tighter with the chimchar conflict, and then they just. didnt do anything with her after she beat gligar’s ass that one time

#her story never comes up again either #its weird bc like. pauls pokemon arent devoid of personality or substance even tho he does swap them around #i guess maybe they were concerned about the audience getting confused and not telling which is which once gligar evolved #but like idk thats an easily solvable issue to me. she’s already smaller than paul’s. why not give her an accessory to make her stand out?#this is the game where you dress up your pokemon. bunearys got a little vest sometimes #i mean. i guess maybe they didnt know where to put a potential resolution… i mean i think its important that ash only beats paul at the leag #league #and i think gliscor vs drapion in that battle is more cohesive and maybe a gliscor v gliscor confrontation would’ve distracted from the infe #infernape stuff #which is way more important than the gliscor stuff #but idk. maybe replace staraptor in that one ring catching competition with gliscor and paul uses his own gliscor #and ash keeps gliscor on the wind training episode and gliscor has learned to master the wing #wind #something paul’s couldnt do and was the whole reason they got trapped in the city #and seeing ash’s gliscor surpass it in that way makes it respect her #and when she defeats it its like closure for both of them #and that still gives them a resolution in their own episode without giving ash a battling win over paul before the league #but in the show itself… they dont even mention that ash’s gligar was paul’s gliscor’s underling #they just play it off as a power imbalance bc shes unevolved #(even tho i think she’s panicking bc thats her old boss but WHATEVER)#echoed voice #no one understands her like me

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