dman_dustin
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I didn't expect it to be that long at least that one post, and I also didn't expect to add the possible gym possibility.Lets be honest, I'm not going to actually read that wall of text
And if you read it, I only said I wanted Ash to have 8 Unova Pokemon not 10 plus Sewaddle plus whatever you thought.
Like it would only be 5 episodes. I meant 5 episodes for a move, evolution, gym battle, then 5 episodes for another Pokemon, then another, and then back to the first one. It's not just going to be 5 episodes, it's just a rotation period of five episodes, it's just a cycle.Yeah, because 5 episodes is really enough for pokemon to get development. Maybe we'd see them taken out of their ball in like half of those episodes, it doesn't mean they'd get any development. We're 20 into BW and half his pokemon don't really have much development as is.
Pokemon Reserve 1= 5 episodes, next, Pokemon Reserve 2 = 5 episodes, next, Pokemon Reserve 3 = 5 episodes, finally back to Pokemon Reserve 1 = 5 episodes, next Pokemon reserve = 5 episodes.
Eventually that adds up, to what... 20 episodes per reserve in a span of 80 episodes. Maybe even more.
Of course that's assuming a Pokemon reserve even shows up in all 5 of those episodes.
And that also only applies with Snivy, once Scraggy has been on long enough than a Pokemon can get lots of screen time after it. So Ash could every once in awhile have two of his reserves on his team for like 5-10 episodes on top of just replacing it with either Pokemon.
Kingler and Muk rot away at Oak's lab like they don't exist. Why would anyone want that to happen again?
That was the writer's fault, and Ash only had 5 on hand most of the time, so why are you blaming the writing then to the writing now.
This obviously will take place in like BW060, or something, I didn't mean right now. And if it takes only 4 episodes to raise Axew into Haxourous like you said in that one thread, why should Scraggy take like 30 episodes?It just hatched, it has a problem working in a team and is very unused to battling. It needs episodes to bond with Ash, battles to get stronger and overcome its limitations, get new moves, etc. One win isn't gonna cut it, neither will simbly evolving it which should be the result of a process. What you're describing, the one win, you're oaked scenario is detrimental to Scraggy and would limit his storyline.
Not really bull crap on that, I'd just hate that in general. I meant something more like Snivy gets its butt beat in a battle and its just frustrated taking it out on Ash's other Pokemon, thus resulting in some humbling moment, later on.Some bull crap stories? You mean, developping on that whole abandoned her training thing that was introduced and needs to be developped.
Did I say Snivy was going to be oaked permanently. No. But Snivy or its evolutions don't really need to appear much during the flying and ice gyms, does she?Oaking it doesn't allow that.
Only if it evolves.even maybe evolve.
That seems redundant with Leaf Storm, I'd only accept Dragon Tail, or Twister, of course I think Snivy might have to evolve for that.Also, Vine Whip could definitely be replaced with Grass Oath.
Of course the ground gym is when I see Oshawott being Futachimaru, would make a lot of sense at that point, otherwise Oshawott may never get to Daikenki.See, there's this thing where I like to see pokémon in battles. If Oshawott evolves, I want to see Futachimaru in battle.
Battle Club, heard of it? And assuming a reserve gets a battle within the hypothetical 5 episodes its on Ash's team that adds up to 4 battles non Unova League. How many battles did Gliscor have? 5 total (including the Sinnoh League). And if people thought Gliscor was treated okay, then surely having 3-5 wins is A-OK by me, much better than Gliscor anyway (with only 2 wins, a tie, and 2 losses).Same for any form of pokémon Ash gets. With rotation, you limit the numbers of times a pokémon can be used in a gym battle or a rival battle, therefore, limiting the amount of screentime each form of Ash's current party gets.
Not really, if you only include gym battles, like I said there's battle club battles (maybe even include strongest trainer there stuff), and rival battles. Snivy already trumps Oshawott and Tepig simply by taking out Shooti's starter Pokemon, and it hasn't even been in a gym battle yet. Again 4-5 wins is fairly decent. (especially if two of those are league wise).Say there's a gym where Snivy would be useful, well there's the 4th and the 5th. Now it might be used in another along the way. Introduce Kurumiru and you then have to, instead of giving Snivy two gyms, give it only one. Therefore, Kurumiru is detrimental to Snivy's screentime. It's logic.
And like I mentioned earlier once Ash has a Leavanny and it gets a win from a gym or hard battle, I don't care if I don't see it until the league, so that drops a Pokemon down from Ash.
Notice how I just barely included a one battle per 5 episodes in the reserves when talking to you. those other 4 episodes could be bonding and just showing up, training.I don't see pokémon, in the anime, as mere battling tools. I see them as characters in their own right, with their own personality (still waiting on Mamepato and Pokabu to get theirs... and Pikachu to find his again...) and developpement.
I don't see how my idea precludes character development, or personality. Since ever since its been with Ash, Oshawott has shown personality in pretty much every episode it's been in except maybe the museum episodes. You don't need a shit load of episodes to show off personality.
Again gyms aren't everything.... with 6 gyms to go, not one of Ash's pokémon evolved and a possibly shorter saga... I'm sorry, but 5 Isshu pokémon is more than enough, maybe a sixth with a different typing then all of the others would be okay, but otherwise, they'll be detrimental to each other.
That's my point. That's exactly my point. Gliscor only had two gyms and got completely obliterated in one. Buizel had wins in the 3rd, 4th and 5th gyms than... did it even win a battle until the Paul match? Oh yeah Mister Mime... Torterra had no wins as a Torterra and we had to wait until the League to see Gible in a real battle. Even with a limited amount of captures, they still weren't able to give everyone proper screentime and developpement to all pokémon, so why pile up captures after captures if it's only gonna lead to pokémon getting no screetime to showcase developpement and personality, making them souless battling machines.
Again that's the writer's fault. And as I said if a Pokemon can't get shit when the writers have many episodes to work with, that's their own damn fault, not the Pokemon themselves.
If they smarten up, and so far they seem to be, since like I said not one Pokemon has really over shined a Pokemon like Chimchar/Infernape and its 2 billion wins. Had the writers spaced it out more, Gliscor and Torterra could've gotten another win (and in the case of Torterra an actual win).
Honestly would anyone think less of Infernape if it only got 1-2 wins in the Sinnoh League?