The think the chart of all Ash's Pokémon's win rates can support this idea; most of the Pokémon with a higher win rate than Infernape (Krookodile, Snorlax, Glalie) were also used sparingly--Snorlax has a decent 14 battles, but the other two combined had half as many battles as Infernape. Infernape had both a huge win rate and lots of battles.
I feel weird talking about the same thing I've said before, but the same topics seem to come up frequently here. Although I find this chart really interesting (props to whomever took all that time) it really shouldn't be used as the main piece of evidence when trying to determine which Pokemon was stronger/a better battler. There are so many other issues present, such as quality of opponent, cumulative improvement over time, quality of strategy, how the Pokemon was doing at that time (the anime doesn't really touch on this too often - of course in the games its irrelevant - but every once in a while a Pokemon will just struggle because of an ailment or other issue particular to that day - something I think would be cool for them to touch on even more because it makes it more realistic), an opponent's particular strategy, battlefield issues, matchup issues, how serious the battle was, if the battle was even really completed, the list goes on and on [ EDIT: I wanted to add beating a Pokemon that was already weakened by someone else and vice versa]. I think the chart is still useful and cool to see, and I think it can be used to help justify a conclusion, but simple w/l% doesn't come close to telling the whole story. Quick example, Charizard curb stomping Casey's Pokemon (that literally counted as 3 wins for Charizard; pidgey, rattata, and Chikorita, which can be seen on the google doc list) isn't really a big accomplishment, Grovyle losing to Elite 4 Drake's Altaria wasn't really a bad loss.
Funny thing is; I remember a lot of people were surprised by Sinnoh having his lowest winrate but I wasn't; when it was new I was actually annoyed how much he was losing, since it felt like the Battle Frontier hadn't meant anything for his development as a trainer.
I completely agree with this. My opinion is that the DP team (including Gible as well) is Ash's strongest and most balanced + well-rounded team in the entire anime. The low win rate is due to the tougher battles they faced, even through which they got a decent amount of development and progression.
Honestly, it looks far more like XY with how detailed the environments are drawn. The only part of SM are the smoother/softer ways the characters are drawn.
I guess so.
True.
I hope they tone down on the meme faces to once every 10 episodes or so. They lost their value after 10-20 episodes into SM for me and just became exhaustive. Compare that to the meme faces in DP, BW and XY, those were funny because how uncommon they were and their sudden appearance was hilarious. Here's a good example from XY.
Yea, one YouTuber in his reviews of the episodes kept a count of the meme faces. By episode 128, it was up to 2941. That is averaging at almost 23 times an episode. If that isn’t excessive use of a joke to ad nauseam, I don’t know what is.I hope they tone down on the meme faces to once every 10 episodes or so. They lost their value after 10-20 episodes into SM for me and just became exhaustive. Compare that to the meme faces in DP, BW and XY, those were funny because how uncommon they were and their sudden appearance was hilarious. Here's a good example from XY.
I hope they tone down on the meme faces to once every 10 episodes or so. They lost their value after 10-20 episodes into SM for me and just became exhaustive. Compare that to the meme faces in DP, BW and XY, those were funny because how uncommon they were and their sudden appearance was hilarious. Here's a good example from XY.
Cameron was far more forgetful and worse than Ash. He required lengthy explanations to understand even the most basic of things.
