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I was highly upset to see May lose to Dawn. This was because they brought back the last female lead of Ash’s group only to lose to a rookie coordinator. I mean May has been in two Grand Festivals and ranked in the Top 8 and then the Top 4 along with earning 3 ribbons from Johto. Then she goes up against a coordinator with only one ribbon under her belt.
Not just that, but May grew on me as one of my favorite characters because of her “evolution.” She went from hating Pokemon to loving them and treating each one of her own like family. Now it seems that Dawn is about to take her leave from the series, and throughout her entire storyline, she never really gave me anything to like about her. At the most, it seems her time with the guys and being out on her own journey from under her mom’s thumb made her not to be so much as a mommy’s girl anymore. That was a good sign that she was “evolving” when she gave her mom back her ribbon. However, I’m afraid that’s the best thing I have to say about her.
The match was pretty good except a few things made me dislike it. For instance I was thinking that May should have had Glaceon freeze Piplup’s Whirlpool with Ice Beam and then smash it with Iron Tail to send a huge barrage of Ice Shards at Piplup and that would have made for a great appeal. Its Secret Power being just as strong as a Tackle attack was pretty sad as well. I was also disappointed that she would use an Ice type against Piplup to begin with, but given the fact that it had more experience made the loss that more painful.
If I am right Glaceon used 4 moves during the match; Mirror Coat/Ice Shard/Secret Power/Shadow Ball. The worst part was that at the end of the match May anticipated Dawn using a big attack, and Dawn decided to do just that. With Glaceon’s speed you would think May would have told it to dodge the attack from above and fire a barrage of Shadow Balls or Ice Shards. The kicker was Glaceon losing the match by less than a point. You would have thought May would have won because she would lose a few points for Whirlpool being beautiful and all, Glaceon deflecting the attack and taking damage would make her lose even more points, but Dawn should have lost a bit more since she was struck by her own attack.
I was so ticked when May lost it was like a blow to the back of the head for me. Sure it was a confidence booster for Dawn to get back up on her feet, but still to have May come back just for a defeat is heartbreaking. Then to have her lose by just a fraction of a point was really when it hurt the most. To think she had powerhouses like Venasaur or Blaziken (it was on a water field, but with its powerful jumping ability I don’t think it would have been a problem). Then again if she used one of them the match would have been over in the first 30 seconds.
Moving on to the GF, as soon as I heard that it was going to be at the same arena where the Wallace Cup was held I got a bad feeling. In the back on my mind, I figured that Dawn was not going to win. I was going off of the hunch of “lightning does not strike twice in the same spot” since she barely managed to win there before against May. Then I was thinking back to a few foreshadowing moments with Zoey. She mentioned after her and Dawn first fought and she won; Zoey mentioned that they would meet in the finals one day, and then when she won her fifth ribbon and was celebrating with Ash and friends along with “Miss Senior”, she mentions to Dawn “I’ll see you in the GF finals!”
From that moment I felt that the two were going to duke it out in the finals of the GF. In a sense, I was thinking that Dawn would win based on the fact that she never won before against Zoey. The only time she outdid her was at the Wallace Cup because she beat the coordinator that beat her (May). That final match was really exciting, but I wasn’t too thrilled with the anime breaking the rule on the Fake Out attack, it would have been acceptable if it had used Sucker Punch instead to knock Piplup off of its feet. I was not mad that she used Togekiss because I was thinking back to something Harley said to Drew/Ash/Brock when they discovered that he gave his Pokemon to a disguised Jesse in an attempt to keep May from the Kanto GF.
“It doesn’t matter who raises a Pokemon because a coordinator’s only job is to show off a Pokemon through appeals.” Meaning that it did not matter if Dawn raised Togekiss, her only purpose was to make sure that its qualities shined during a contest and she did a good job of it. The match was like a repeat of Zoey vs. Nando, I was upset that Nando lost because he had the better appeals similar to how Dawn’s one-upped Zoey’s in my opinion. She is like Drew and Solidad because she would take her opponent’s moves and uses them to make her own Pokemon shine. I was just amazed when her Glemeow used Iron Tail to catch Signal Beam and then Whirlpool.
I dislike how sometimes the judges can be inconsistent on the point board sometimes. Like when an attack misses sometimes they don’t mark it as a deduction like when Gallade’s first round of Psycho Cut missed the mark and then it tried a homing version of the attack. The final clash of Crimson Sky Attack/Peck and Thunderbolt/Psycho Cut was pretty intense. However, it was pretty awkward to me because if any of them took damage it was Togekiss and Piplup because they collided head on with the attack and Gallade was just caught in the shockwave while Glemeow was safely on the ground. I wish it was in English so I could have understood what exactly was going on at the time such as how the trainers acted when giving out commands. You can tell when they are overconfident and make mistakes because they think they have an upper hand.
Though if one watches Dawn’s mom throughout the match you could tell she had her doubts about Dawn winning. Like the first combo of Aura Sphere/Bubblebeam, Ash and Brock were impressed that she was using such a unique attack. However, Johanna was a bit concerned because she knew that Zoey was going to easily use it to her own advantage. This makes sense because she is a Top Coordinator along with the fact that she has a Glemeow as well. Then when Ash/Brock thinks Dawn’s about to gain a lead over Zoey you can see a look of concern on her face. Similar to Piccolo in DBZ, when Tien or someone thinks Goku (or whoever is fighting the villain) is going to win, you see Piccolo with a cold look on his face and his outcomes are usually correct. This holds true since he is an experience warrior, like Johanna is an experienced coordinator. Now, if you don’t like DB no harm intended it is just a very good example.
My final thoughts are that Dawn won with a fraction of a point against May, but lost to Zoey but only a couple of points. It really was a shame in the GF because Dawn and her rivals seemed to be near even with not one of the coordinators in a league of their own. Between all of them, it seemed that Nando and Ursula had the best and most unique appeals (Lopbunny as the dancer and Krientune as the musical conductor/the “eeveeloutions” in the appeals round along with the Sand Tomb/Scary Face combo during the match with Dawn. If I had to choose Zoey’s best appeal it would be the combo of the psychic wings on Leafeon. I hope the Sinnoh League match of Paul and Ash is not a downer considering the plot buildup and the epic let down to the fans by the way the GF was rushed.
Not just that, but May grew on me as one of my favorite characters because of her “evolution.” She went from hating Pokemon to loving them and treating each one of her own like family. Now it seems that Dawn is about to take her leave from the series, and throughout her entire storyline, she never really gave me anything to like about her. At the most, it seems her time with the guys and being out on her own journey from under her mom’s thumb made her not to be so much as a mommy’s girl anymore. That was a good sign that she was “evolving” when she gave her mom back her ribbon. However, I’m afraid that’s the best thing I have to say about her.
The match was pretty good except a few things made me dislike it. For instance I was thinking that May should have had Glaceon freeze Piplup’s Whirlpool with Ice Beam and then smash it with Iron Tail to send a huge barrage of Ice Shards at Piplup and that would have made for a great appeal. Its Secret Power being just as strong as a Tackle attack was pretty sad as well. I was also disappointed that she would use an Ice type against Piplup to begin with, but given the fact that it had more experience made the loss that more painful.
If I am right Glaceon used 4 moves during the match; Mirror Coat/Ice Shard/Secret Power/Shadow Ball. The worst part was that at the end of the match May anticipated Dawn using a big attack, and Dawn decided to do just that. With Glaceon’s speed you would think May would have told it to dodge the attack from above and fire a barrage of Shadow Balls or Ice Shards. The kicker was Glaceon losing the match by less than a point. You would have thought May would have won because she would lose a few points for Whirlpool being beautiful and all, Glaceon deflecting the attack and taking damage would make her lose even more points, but Dawn should have lost a bit more since she was struck by her own attack.
I was so ticked when May lost it was like a blow to the back of the head for me. Sure it was a confidence booster for Dawn to get back up on her feet, but still to have May come back just for a defeat is heartbreaking. Then to have her lose by just a fraction of a point was really when it hurt the most. To think she had powerhouses like Venasaur or Blaziken (it was on a water field, but with its powerful jumping ability I don’t think it would have been a problem). Then again if she used one of them the match would have been over in the first 30 seconds.
Moving on to the GF, as soon as I heard that it was going to be at the same arena where the Wallace Cup was held I got a bad feeling. In the back on my mind, I figured that Dawn was not going to win. I was going off of the hunch of “lightning does not strike twice in the same spot” since she barely managed to win there before against May. Then I was thinking back to a few foreshadowing moments with Zoey. She mentioned after her and Dawn first fought and she won; Zoey mentioned that they would meet in the finals one day, and then when she won her fifth ribbon and was celebrating with Ash and friends along with “Miss Senior”, she mentions to Dawn “I’ll see you in the GF finals!”
From that moment I felt that the two were going to duke it out in the finals of the GF. In a sense, I was thinking that Dawn would win based on the fact that she never won before against Zoey. The only time she outdid her was at the Wallace Cup because she beat the coordinator that beat her (May). That final match was really exciting, but I wasn’t too thrilled with the anime breaking the rule on the Fake Out attack, it would have been acceptable if it had used Sucker Punch instead to knock Piplup off of its feet. I was not mad that she used Togekiss because I was thinking back to something Harley said to Drew/Ash/Brock when they discovered that he gave his Pokemon to a disguised Jesse in an attempt to keep May from the Kanto GF.
“It doesn’t matter who raises a Pokemon because a coordinator’s only job is to show off a Pokemon through appeals.” Meaning that it did not matter if Dawn raised Togekiss, her only purpose was to make sure that its qualities shined during a contest and she did a good job of it. The match was like a repeat of Zoey vs. Nando, I was upset that Nando lost because he had the better appeals similar to how Dawn’s one-upped Zoey’s in my opinion. She is like Drew and Solidad because she would take her opponent’s moves and uses them to make her own Pokemon shine. I was just amazed when her Glemeow used Iron Tail to catch Signal Beam and then Whirlpool.
I dislike how sometimes the judges can be inconsistent on the point board sometimes. Like when an attack misses sometimes they don’t mark it as a deduction like when Gallade’s first round of Psycho Cut missed the mark and then it tried a homing version of the attack. The final clash of Crimson Sky Attack/Peck and Thunderbolt/Psycho Cut was pretty intense. However, it was pretty awkward to me because if any of them took damage it was Togekiss and Piplup because they collided head on with the attack and Gallade was just caught in the shockwave while Glemeow was safely on the ground. I wish it was in English so I could have understood what exactly was going on at the time such as how the trainers acted when giving out commands. You can tell when they are overconfident and make mistakes because they think they have an upper hand.
Though if one watches Dawn’s mom throughout the match you could tell she had her doubts about Dawn winning. Like the first combo of Aura Sphere/Bubblebeam, Ash and Brock were impressed that she was using such a unique attack. However, Johanna was a bit concerned because she knew that Zoey was going to easily use it to her own advantage. This makes sense because she is a Top Coordinator along with the fact that she has a Glemeow as well. Then when Ash/Brock thinks Dawn’s about to gain a lead over Zoey you can see a look of concern on her face. Similar to Piccolo in DBZ, when Tien or someone thinks Goku (or whoever is fighting the villain) is going to win, you see Piccolo with a cold look on his face and his outcomes are usually correct. This holds true since he is an experience warrior, like Johanna is an experienced coordinator. Now, if you don’t like DB no harm intended it is just a very good example.
My final thoughts are that Dawn won with a fraction of a point against May, but lost to Zoey but only a couple of points. It really was a shame in the GF because Dawn and her rivals seemed to be near even with not one of the coordinators in a league of their own. Between all of them, it seemed that Nando and Ursula had the best and most unique appeals (Lopbunny as the dancer and Krientune as the musical conductor/the “eeveeloutions” in the appeals round along with the Sand Tomb/Scary Face combo during the match with Dawn. If I had to choose Zoey’s best appeal it would be the combo of the psychic wings on Leafeon. I hope the Sinnoh League match of Paul and Ash is not a downer considering the plot buildup and the epic let down to the fans by the way the GF was rushed.
