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I think they actually did a lot considering how little they got done in general during the Unova saga.
Too bad she never caught a Druddigon instead of that stupid Emolga. Hopefully they let her Axew evolve into Fraxure by the time she leaves at the end of Best Wishes.
I think Axew could possibly evolve at the end of the series during Iris' reappearence in XY, since there's precedent for both. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't evolve though. I do question why the writers would have Axew want to evolve when it was made a cute walking mascot Pokémon from day 1. Maybe it was just part of the writers' penchant for doing things differently?
Maybe suddenly shifting from obvious inexperienced rookie Iris to gifted trainer Iris impacted whatever they were originally going with Axew as well.
I don't know, if they're trying to show Dragon's are harder to raise or w/e. But Iris clearly seems like a better trainer when using her other Pokemon that are not Dragons. Axew has gotten destroyed in 2/3's of it's real battles (and was in the one it ended up winning as well), and it's still not trained as much as it could have. Dragonite hasn't won a battle yet under Iris' control, and was losing to Charizard. She lost terribly with the Fraxure she used in school against the other student's Altaria, after her whole Excadrill win streak story. It's odd because we saw Cameron using a Hydreigon like a pro, while destroying nearly half of Ash's team. Him using it without any kind of indication he had problems with it, makes me question the true difficulty of achieving Dragon Master status.
Maybe suddenly shifting from obvious inexperienced rookie Iris to gifted trainer Iris impacted whatever they were originally going with Axew as well.
I don't know, if they're trying to show Dragon's are harder to raise or w/e. But Iris clearly seems like a better trainer when using her other Pokemon that are not Dragons. Axew has gotten destroyed in 2/3's of it's real battles (and was in the one it ended up winning as well), and it's still not trained as much as it could have. Dragonite hasn't won a battle yet under Iris' control, and was losing to Charizard. She lost terribly with the Fraxure she used in school against the other student's Altaria, after her whole Excadrill win streak story. It's odd because we saw Cameron using a Hydreigon like a pro, while destroying nearly half of Ash's team. Him using it without any kind of indication he had problems with it, makes me question the true difficulty of achieving Dragon Master status.
That's true, but Iris is generally portrayed to be fairly strong and good with dragons. When it comes to dragons, her psuedo-aura powers just serve to show how well she connects with them for example. Axew is pretty weak but it learned a couple of powerful moves because it's 'strong'. Dragonite did lose to Ash and Drayden, but the former was to re-ignite Ash and Trip's rivalry and the latter was because I suppose beating Drayden is supposed to be a monumental task. (since there are two other 8th gym leaders around, it's not like anybody is particularly hard-pressed to beat Drayden anyway.) Dragonite did beat Georgia and Dawn while being disobedient, and while Iris was disappointed with how it beat Georgia, I don't believe anybody other than Georgia actually thinks any less of Iris because of it. Plus, there's Iris being set up to be a gym leader, which being part of her occupation post-BW, is also supposed to show her skill as a trainer. And while Cameron is a huge idiot, I think the implication is that he's good-natured and very strong (just look at how he beat Ash 6-4!) which could possibly explain his skill with Hydreigon.
Ambipom666 said:While Iris isn't that a great of a trainer in my opinion, as far as the show is concerned she's nothing less than really skilled. Same with Cameron: He's ditzy but he's very strong! Same with Ash: He's practically objectively become a worse trainer than in DP, but the show doesn't dwell on it one bit.
I agree with all of what you said. I'm just saying that since Iris beat Georgia in the Junior Cup which seems to be the end of the line for Georgia, Iris is right and Georgia is wrong as far as the show is concerned :/
Masurao said:I don't think the show is above making characters seem weak. The recent battle Axew had made it look pathetic, and it didn't really make Iris seem like a Gym Leader worthy given it's lack of much training. If she's going to be a dragon-type gym leader she needs more than just Dragonite to rely on. It's just things like being a good "Dragon Master" get a bit muddled when you Iris and Cameron using their respective Dragons in nearly the exact same way. Namely, just trying to over-power their opponent with an onslaught of high-powered moves.