You're both right in that none of Ash's Pokemon fainted, but sadly that doesn't mean they all got wins: Turtwig didn't actually beat Quagsire because Quag turned out to know Sludge Bomb and Ice Beam, which forced Ash to switch Turtwig out. Buizel's the one who beat Quagsire.
I’m guessing because it’s actually one of the not-abysmally developed Pokémon in the cast. Honestly it feels like they want us to like Lucario but I feel it’s been pretty forced so far, while Dragonite is naturally likeable, the way they’ve written it.
I won't lie, I like Dragonite more than Gengar anyway.
I think like half of Ash's team were the fall guys in that battle. I mean I guess that what happens when you have infernape take out most Pauls team mostly by himself.
It's cuz I think the ''Fall Guy'' trope is just one of those tropes where the trope itself is,,, naturally flawed (so to speak), so it's difficult to use it well because it's pretty circunstancial, cuz a lot of other things have to allign themselves well to make it have a good result.
With Kukui it worked because Lycanroc already has spotlight, but I would have liked a better showing for Lycanroc as that battle puts him lower in the ranks of Ash’s best
Honestly, the fall guy trope (usually) works in 6v6 format because otherwise the battle might become too formulaic if the writers can’t keep the suspense.
Yeah, the fall guy trope really works best when the fall guys are Pokemon who have been on a winning streak. Such as Charizard being a jobber against both Harrison and Brandon, since in both instances he'd already performed impressive feats previously (knocking out half of Gary's team and being the first non-Legendary Pokemon to defeat a Legendary respectively), meaning it was safe to let him take an L so that the rest of the Pokemon participating in those battles could shine.
Right. Because it starts to get old after a while.
Also, there's another thing here. I mean, the intention of having a Pokémon going down without any wins is clearly to both to handicap Ash, so the victory is not as clean to him, and to make the opponent look more threatening by knocking one of Ash's Pokémon down and out without letting it do anything.
“Oh nooo the Hydreigon took out that Boldore that’s been getting skipped around ever since it evolved, whatever shall we do”
Which is too bad, considering I like Chloe infinitely more than I like Goh.
Yeah. I actually like her, but what are they even doing with her? What's their endgame for her?
