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Which trainer has the deepest bag of tricks(strategies),highest battle iq,best planner,smartest decision maker on the battlefield?
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Ash is clearly the best in the entire show in terms of thinking outside the box but as far as efficiency and in game strategies go I don't think those are his strong suits.Paul, Cynthia and Sawyer in some order based on nothing but their character / battles..
Ash if we want to highlight gimicks and new moves out of the box.
It might be Paul so I voted for your fav character
It depends, cause he got skills and tricks partly was training for. And he reacts to whatever comes to him and that counts abit.Ash is clearly the best in the entire show in terms of thinking outside the box but as far as efficiency and in game strategies go I don't think those are his strong suits.
Alain’s Charizard is a Gary StuConway, Diantha, Bea and Katie have too few battles to be analyzed properly. As for the others my ranking would be:
- Sawyer: He studied his enemies very carefully and was able to plan on advance. While he lacks some experience, he started off pretty good.
- Paul: He uses a lot of strategy can is able to turn his enemies on their heads. However, he also uses a lot of brute force, specially when he loses his temper.
- Cynthia: She's like Ash in that she pours a lot of heart in her battles, but she's also very versatile and has many tricks under her sleeve.
- Ash: On theory he is a bad battler, as he priorizes his Pokemon's feelings over everything, barely changes his teams per saga, almost never uses status moves or secondary effects and is taken down to his last Pokemon fairly often. However, he manages to compensate that with quick thinking that knows how to combine moves or use the Pokemon's shape.
- Gladion: He mostly relies on brute force. The only strategies I remember from him are using the Fire Memory to resist moves and using Counter.
- Alain: Brute force all the way, and mostly uses only one Pokemon...
Is that the biggest reason why you have Sawyer over all the other trainers?Conway, Diantha, Bea and Katie have too few battles to be analyzed properly. As for the others my ranking would be:
- Sawyer: He studied his enemies very carefully and was able to plan on advance. While he lacks some experience, he started off pretty good.
Waits for examples*Why does nobody mention Tierno... with his uncoventional battle style. He is deffo up there imo.
My Final Thoughts (Most Skilled Battler)
S Tier
Cynthia
Paul
A Tier
Diantha
Conway
Katie
Ash
B Tier
Sawyer
C Tier
Alain
Gladion
Bea
So that's the end all be all for being the most skilled?Considering Ash beat both Paul and Cynthia... he is more skilled than both of them.
Power plays a part in winning battles too.
Yeah he beat Paul by the skin of his teeth and he was down to his last pokemon when he battled Cynthia.But I don't think he was in control of those matches,it was the other way around.The Cynthia battle was like a combination of the two full battles Ash had with Paul,it had strategies,lasted for 3 episodes and kind of a one sided beatdown.Wasn't that exactly what Ash used against Paul and Cynthia though... else he wasn't able to beat them.