THANK YOU, this happens so often and bugs me every time. It’s not even just Pikachu, he often does it with pokemon that have no issue with their pokeballs, like that time he jumped into a volcano to protect Talonflame instead of doing a quick recall.
The funny thing is, the one time he did attempt it way back when Metapod was being carried away by Beedrill, he failed miserably. Dude probably gets wartime flashbacks to that every time his Pokémon is in trouble and is like “I can do better than a pokeball. Ash leap go!”
I dunno. Sure Cinderace has been consistently around but I can’t really say it’s done anything particularly impressive since the end of the Darkest Day arc. With Go it doesn’t really get to do much and the rare times it actually gets action, it’s usually against things that outclass it like Mewtwo, Moltress or Articuno. Really the most it gets to do is walk around being friendly but as far as fully evolved starters go, it hasn’t had any really memorable moments.Okay but the way this post absolutely spills and I completely agree!
https://twitter.com/rajawtheflatass/status/1516109011111882756?t=HNe4XdDy5lcKT3KICJX2Ew&s=19
The way we could've had more of:
Cinderace
Inteleon
Scizor
Raichu
Yamper
But They way they all got shafted for FUXKING GROOKEY!!!????
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Cinderace has honestly not been around as much as they used to be ever since Goh was given Grookey. Cinderace is still around but nowhere near as much in the first half of Journeys. And that's just kind of a side effect of being owned by a character that doesn't battle or have a reason to battle much.
Yeah but by comparison at least you can say positive things about Cinderace
It's honestly kinda sad that cinderace, grookey , and Inteleon are goh pokemon with the most screentime. Yet they barely interact with each other now
Pokemon not interacting is really a problem Journeys has in general that's not limited to Cinderace, Grookey, and Inteleon.
You could make a stretch that this comes from the Kanga mom keeping him stuffed in her pouch, but then that would probably just make him claustrophobic altogether.
And you wanna know what's the saddest part?
I still think it really feels wrong for Ash to not have a starter. Part of why I think it was a bad idea to give all three to Goh is that he's not a character who's placed in a position where he regularly uses them in interesting ways that showcase their abilities enough. I agree with you that they should have been distributed. Ash with Sobble, Goh with Scorbunny, and Chloe with Grookey makes the most sense. I really hope that if Ash stays for Scarlet and Violet's series, he does get a starter this time.
The Sobble line got fucking robbed of being properly showcased in both the Anime and the Manga and it annoys me tbh
And they even had the nerve to troll/mislead us with Messon in that Special Preview.
That would require Chloe to not disappear for ten episodes after appearing
Optimistically, giving her a starter would encourage this since they would want to market the starters a decent bit. Realistically it might not because the starters outside of occasionally Scorbunny and Grookey being used as a plot device haven't done much outside of evolution episodes, but while her starter was in its first stage being a shoulder warmer it might
His refusal to evolve happened after he went from Pichu to Pikachu. When battled Lt. Surge's Raichu and lost badly, everyone started doubting him until Nurse Joy approached and offered them a Thunder Stone. He slapped the stone away when Ash was about to use it and started, which Meowth translated as Pikachu wanting to prove he can be strong without needing to evolve, which he did as he beat Raichu in their second battle. And since then he's always hated the thought of evolving, a trait the anime staff'll likely never get rid of.
