#path to the peak

[thefantastician]

I was story lead on Pokémon: Path to the Peak with an insanely talented crew!! New episodes every week (ep2 on Aug 16th!) so go check it out and look forward to more!

[dinolich]

looking at my 2023 comeback after my 2020-2022 was filled with unemployment, a thousand layoffs, and dream projects cut short— I AM HUNGRY TO MAKE MORE ART.

get HELLAWEEN here

[loullipopx]

Path to the Peak was sooooo good 😭😭 Go watch it it’s an order !!

[turboacek-blog]

Path to the Peak

Bellossom never looked so cool lol

[redbird-art]

okay okay okay okay this is a really charming little show so here's an Ava but with a look inspired by the oddish line

[pokemoninaction]

~ Path to the Peak Ep. 3

[jaybuilds]

If anyone wanted a gif of the Duskulls from Path to the Peak Ep.2, well…. Here you go!

[rhodomo]

Day 3: Path

Remember to have fun and be true to yourself on your Path to the Peak.

Based on this silly animation they made to promote the card game: https://youtu.be/xlUj-m6EO0s?si=vR4eEZDxPzSgCHv2

I love Oddish so it works out.

[hon-hon-baguette-eiffel-tower]

It's incredible that they named the cute animated Pokemon TCG series the same name as one of the most-used competitive stadium cards in the game

[belleandkurtbastian]

I cannot stress this enough:

LITTLE GUY!

[thefantastician]

Pokemon: Path to the Peak was nominated for an Annie award!! If you haven’t seen the four part series yet, give it a watch here!!

[dinolich]

Guess who got to put their grubby little hands all over this series!!! ME!!!! (and my friends) Boards for the first half are mine. storyboarding with Taiko Studios and Shaofu on Bidoof and now Path to the Peak has been a huge career highlight. As a life long Pokemon fan, but also the team and the amount of creative freedom we had to pitch and mold it into something special. Dream projects on every level. ENJOY!!!

[keystone8379]

Loses once:

Regarding the Pokémon TCG, I watched Pokémon Path To The Peak. You know, the little Youtube miniseries about a girl who becomes the best TCG player. They reach the peak, if you will. It’s cute! I liked it despite only having a passing familiarity with the card game. (Marvel Snap is the only collectible card game I play) What I don’t have a passing familiarity with, however, is competing in a fighting game. Even though the series is good, it’s not great, and there’s one big reason for that. (Aside from the fact that it’s effectively an ad for the card game but I digress)

Let’s get the big issue out of the way first. The pacing. I get that this is more of a by-product of the length of the series (45 minutes) but because of it, we don’t get to see a lot of what makes competing in a competitive game so fun: the locals. Of course there’s a lot of card game specific stuff that the series glosses over such as deckbuilding and strategy, but as a fighting game fan, the local events being offscreen is so frustrating to me.

Competitive communities are more than the big events, a big part of them are getting with your group every month or so to play at a game store, or having memorable moments within those locals, or losing and learning from those losses!! The show’s length means it’s forced to only hit the important beats for the plot and we don’t get to see a lot of Ava’s growth as a player. The most irritating example for me is when we’re told that Ava “only cared about winning” in episode 4 but we don’t really see enough of that to believe it. This was after she lost 1 set to get 2nd at a major by the way!!! That’s incredibly difficult!!!

There are also a lot of things that are almost good, but not quite. In episode 1, teaching someone a game only to stomp them is a more frustrating experience than anything as someone who has tried to do that many, many times as opposed to how Joshua reacted. In episode 2, Celestine’s complete personality 180 is jarring, despite how well she plays off Ava and Joshua later. Edgar being on “Team Falinks” is an interesting chance to explore how stressful the expectations of an Org sponsor can be…until you realize that Edgar is the leader of that team. It’s these little things that wouldn’t bother a normal person but do bother me.

That isn’t to say I didn’t like the series though! I do! I think the series is full of cute moments, it’s funny, the fight scenes are animated well, in fact the entire show looks quite good. The main cast is fun and play off each other well. I like how weird Ava’s team is, you don’t usually see Oddish as someone’s ace backed up by a Darkrai. (Also, I crunched the numbers on Twitter, Ava’s fully evolved Oddish would have beaten Edgar’s Groudon if she went first)

I enjoyed this series. It’s good, but it’s not quite great. I wonder what other people thing of this and I’ll read as many RBs as I can. I really do feel like the series has a lot going for it and is still a fun watch. I just wish it had more substance.

[toonstarterz]

Y'ALL FREAKIN' DID IT.

We now have an OFFICIAL JAPANESE DUB OF THE POKEMON WORLD THEME SONG OH MY GOD

[pqrachel]

Pokémon: Path to the Peak

The first episode of Path to the Peak was really fun and well animated. Kind of made me want to play the TCG again.

I just rewatched the first episode and decided to see what deck Ava and Joshua were using. Turns out they were both using the exact same deck. And I managed to identify most of it.

The link is of a 53 card deck. (I'm missing 7 cards.) The main Oddish card isn't out yet or is made just for this series or something but I couldn't find it, but it's in the deck 3 times. There was one card I couldn't identify that appeared 3 times in the sequence at 7:37 in the episode. And that brings me to 59 of 60. Which makes me think they did have a full 60 card deck in mind and I just missed one.

My best guess for the 4 cards I can't identify are: There's a dratini and a dragonite but no dragonair, as well as a duskull and dusknoir but no dusclops, there's a grotle but no turtwig, and a lot of basics without their evolution.

[pokemoninaction]

~ Path to the Peak Ep. 4