Galarian Star Tournament in the Anime?

[dawn dusk]

You might have seen Lucario-Cinderace merch altogether. Do you feel Ash and Goh will work together for Galarian Star Tournament and whether Pokémon Anime will feature this tourney?
And also in One, Two, Three Version 2 we have seen Leon and Raihan appearing together. Is this a hint for the begining for a great 2 on 2 battle tournament?
If not what might be the solution for the merchandise riddle?

 

[Fan of Jarrus]

The anime could have that. I like Leon to have frequent appearances.

 

[Yami-no-Game]

I don't know if a tournament is the best idea since Goh wouldn't do well and Ash would get more of the wins anyway. If Ash is going to be the focal point then he might as well just continue doing the PWT stuff without extra tournaments added in.

 

[Beatsy Ray]

The GST is basically just the Galarian League in a tag-battle format, I can't imagine Gou would ever get a chance to participate. That said, I would like to see a tag battle with Ash and Gou, maybe bring back the Hearthome Tag Battle Tournament. Obviously Ash would take the lead, but this would be a good learning experience for Gou. I'm all for Gou getting more into battling, mostly because I want to see more of his Pokemon in action. Heck, I also want to see more double battles in general.

 

[Johtohfiller]

I had to look it up (I haven't been following the games closely) but I'm all for it. It'd make Go question his "I have no intention of helping Satoshi reach his dream" nonsense, and tag battles are something the anime doesn't do often enough.

 

[game3524]

Yeah, I could see them doing this.

 

[Schemer99]

Man, there could be soo many possibilities with this:
-Ash and Goh vs Melody and Gordie
-Ash and Goh vs Raihan
-Tate and Liza comeback?

Either way, I think we'll see some kind of "Galar League" before the Master Class tournament proper.

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

I say no.

 

[Silktree]

The opening implies that Lucario and Cinderace will battle Eternatus, and it's hardly uncommon for Pokemon to be advertised together just because they complement each other pretty well. This tournament would clash too much with the PWC, but maybe.

 

[ii kanji]

Tate and Liza comeback?

Yes! All we need is Fujisaku writing this episode and we might even get the return of Thunder Armour!

 

[Rocket Messiah]

We need a four episode tournament like in DP or BW.

Those were good episodes.

 

[Daren]

Yes! All we need is Fujisaku writing this episode and we might even get the return of Thunder Armour!

Trying to recreate lightning in a bottle seldom works out. There have been numerous attempts to make spiritual successors to classic games or films and they're basically never as good as the classic.

Thunder Armour was the single greatest scene in the history of fiction; it will never be recreated or equaled, and we all need to make peace with that.

Edit:
So tired I forgot to reply to the main topic.

The Star Tournament could be interesting and could be a way to show the Galar Gym Leaders off. I'd also be surprised if we never get an Ash+Gou tag battle.

 

[RustyTrubbish]

If it means a lot of Galar gym leaders showing up to battle then sure okay I'm on board. But if it's going to just be a bunch of anime exclusive characters and maybe just 1 ingame character, then no don't bother.

 

[KenzeyEevee]

The tournament is the pwc

 

[GrookeyFan77]

Pls yes I want this now

 

[JinksChow]

The anime can barely handle depicting the Pokemon World Tournament even partially, I think the Galarian Star Tournament would probably only be possible in the anime as a single episode clip show with maybe 3 minutes tops of actually choreographed fight scenes.

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

Knowing how this series can barely handle the PWC, I doubt it. This series is in dire need of arcs though, like tournament arcs.

 

[Greninjaman]

Knowing how this series can barely handle the PWC, I doubt it. This series is in dire need of arcs though, like tournament arcs.

How is the show handling the PWC?

 

[Emmy]

How is the show handling the PWC?

Badly.

 

[Greninjaman]

Badly.

To the point it might as well not be there?