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The only things I liked about this episode was the small piece of Trip development and the Piplup parts. That Ash and Dawn battle could have been better if it weren't for Cynthia stopping it. Goodness I wish she'd leave already... *killed by Cynthia fans* As I feared Dawn's appearance was left at less than what I expected from her return. We could have done without Kotetsu all together. He's basically a Morrison copy though I think Morrison was a bit smarter than he was. So yeah... not good episode for me.
Cynthia*Cough* Garchomp*Cough*I know Alder is the champion and all but did it REALLY have to be OHKO?
Except for when it battled Axew and took plenty of hits - just about everyone put that down to her testing Iris' strength, no reason to think that Alder wasn't doing the same with Trip.The Champions are not equal in power.
Cynthia OHKOed four of Paul's Pokemon and Garchomp only took one hit that didn't do a thing. By contrast Bouffalant took several hits that looked pretty painful and only defeated one Pokemon.
There was a long discussion about that battle against Iris and I'm sure you still remember my opinion on that terrible episode.Except for when it battled Axew and took plenty of hits - just about everyone put that down to her testing Iris' strength, no reason to think that Alder wasn't doing the same with Trip.The Champions are not equal in power.
Cynthia OHKOed four of Paul's Pokemon and Garchomp only took one hit that didn't do a thing. By contrast Bouffalant took several hits that looked pretty painful and only defeated one Pokemon.
There are only three possibilities:What I'd like to know is whether Cynthia defeated Tobias or not? It's a shame that that, and indeed everything besides Ash knowing her, was totally ignored in Cynthia's return. The anime brought back Dawn and Cynthia, only to spend most of the time on Iris and Trip.
While I don't know exactly what was said, the fact that Alder talked to Trip about his Pokemon afterwards and seemed to get through to him about whatever he was saying, suggests that he certainly did have some other intention in the battle and proved his point doing so. If Alder was anywhere near as weak as to have to take those hits, the battle skills shown by Caitlin would mean she would be able to easily defeat him to become champion. She hasn't, so he isn't.Besides, I don't think that Alder wanted to test Trip. As opposed to Cynthia's training(!) battle against Iris, this was an official tournament battle and only a very silly person would not take it seriously. So, I'm sure Alder did battle seriously (even I don't think he could be that mad not to consider the match important) but I'm also convinced he just couldn't do any better and that as a consequence, Bouffalant really had to take all those hits By contrast, Cynthia and Garchomp just did it to help Iris train.
TV Tokyo ratings: 6.1% (Sept. 6; BW093)
TV Tokyo ratings: 6.1% (Sept. 6; BW093)
Is that good or bad?
I thought Garchomp took two hits. Sky Attack didn't do a thing but Giga Drain did?The Champions are not equal in power.
Cynthia OHKOed four of Paul's Pokemon and Garchomp only took one hit that didn't do a thing. By contrast Bouffalant took several hits that looked pretty painful and only defeated one Pokemon.
Cynthia*Cough* Garchomp*Cough*I know Alder is the champion and all but did it REALLY have to be OHKO?
Since Cynthia OHKO'ed Paul's entire team it wouldn't make sense to make another champion seem less-powerful, it's the writers way of saying "there is no strongest champion, all of them are equal in power".
This episode proved one thing without a doubt. Adeku is not only the strongest Champion that ever appeared in the Animé, but he's also the wisest. You can tell that he was really insightful by the way he battled Shooti to teach him something through battle and his words of wisdom were vibrant afterwards.
To have Shirona come after that and just spout her usual bs just proved how inferior she was to Adeku.
But we also learned that Torterra was Paul's very first Pokemon and that he had already traveled through several regions, meaning that his Pokemon must have got plenty of training and experience in the meantime. So it's safe to assume that Torterra is way stronger than Serperior because the Unova region is Trip's first journey. If you ask me, the writers just made Seperior appear extremely strong in order to give the Junior Cup a touch of excitement. We all know they often change the power level of Pokemon arbitrarily, case in point: Pikachu.It's more of how it went down which is why I found it a little unreasonable. Okay, they want to make them equal in power. That's reasonable. But Paul's Pokemon weren't shown blowing through a Pokemon competition in the prior three episodes with relative ease like Serperior did. In fact, all of the battles he had prior to Cynthia didn't go as smoothly as Trip and Serperior in the Junior Cup. And aside from Torterra, most of the ones he used were relatively weak and Garchomp is a pseudo-legendary and all. It was also Torterra's debut so we didn't get to see its strength before hand.