#the point to me is that ash is extremely unpredictable and doesnt play by the rules | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

perenlop · 8 months ago

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im starting to crawl to poketubers again and im watching lumiose trainer zac’s ranking vid on the gym battles and im realizing once again that i have a veryyyy different definition of what makes a good battle vs other people’s definitions

#then again idc about that aspect as much so. idk #like in a minor way i would have the elesa battle under the cress one bc the cress one is just kinda embarrassing and doesnt make sense #while the elesa one is just really awful all around from a battle and story standpoint #but idk i give the anime a lot of leeway in certain cases. like im shocked he put ash vs valerie so low just bc he broke trick room #like the fact that ash somehow broke the trick room was part of the fun for me even if it wasnt faithful to the game #the point to me is that ash is extremely unpredictable and doesnt play by the rules #also i dislike when ppl go ‘’ash was dumb here bc he brought a weaker pokemon to this typed gym!’’#like in some cases sure #but with hapu the point wasnt ‘’oh he just wanted to round things out with pikachu again’’#it was that pikachu lost to mudsdale before and ash wanted pikachu to redeem itself. plus he liked the challenge #of the one on one electric vs ground #idk like from a storytelling standpoint sure this happens kinda often but this is done to create an underdog story #its more of an obstacle to overcome if the weaker pokemon overcome the stronger one #which makes the win more rewarding #idk i definitely wouldnt put hapu on the same tier as elesa where ash’s writing is just straight up bad #as opposed to him wanting to give pikachu a revenge win in his trial battle #like in the elesa ep they make another joke that ash cant tell his snivy is a girl and he uses his dumbass palpitoad #echoed voice

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