Preview HZ020: Kabu-san's Battle Training

[Kurolegacy]

About time in Liko's case, if you ask me.

 

[Dr. Gro 3001]

I just hope that we get more a balance between the two. I would like to see Liko be a little more involved with battling and catching, and it would be nice to see Roy get some wins.

 

[Die-Hard Dragon Devotee]

I just hope that we get more a balance between the two. I would like to see Liko be a little more involved with battling and catching, and it would be nice to see Roy get some wins.

Well hopefully, she'll be making her first catch next week.

 

[PhantomFox]

About time in Liko's case, if you ask me.

I agree, I like her pokémon/team so far. Some of the best looking gen 9 mons.

 

[Dr. Gro 3001]

I agree, I like her pokémon/team so far. Some of the best looking gen 9 mons.

Did she get something else? I though she only had Sprigatitio.

 

[Die-Hard Dragon Devotee]

Did she get something else? I though she only had Sprigatitio.

She didn't. She still only has Sprigatitio. While it's looking more and more likely she'll be catching Hatenna in the episode after this one, nothing's concrete yet, and Sprigatitio remains her one and only Pokemon. (And no, Terapagos doesn't count.)

 

[nickdt]

Maybe they reference the PWC and why Kabu didn't take part (Since honesly, he should have).

 

[vivian20]

I think they will both lose to kabu. It makes sense that fuecoco will be defeated first , because it knows stomping tantrum, so its a bigger threat. Many people here want liko/roy winning, but i think its nice to let the gym leaders win in this series, since defeating them isnt the main goal of the protagonists, and most of the gym leaders werent portrayed as very strong trainers in Ash´s anime.

 

[BigDocFan]

I'll be honest, I'm hoping with the exception of Murdock, the other members of the Rising Volt Tacklers will be absent or only show up at the end, this episode should focus on Roy and Liko's training

 

[Kurolegacy]

I think they will both lose to kabu. It makes sense that fuecoco will be defeated first , because it knows stomping tantrum, so its a bigger threat. Many people here want liko/roy winning, but i think its nice to let the gym leaders win in this series, since defeating them isnt the main goal of the protagonists, and most of the gym leaders werent portrayed as very strong trainers in Ash´s anime.

What do you mean they weren’t portrayed as strong in Ash’s anime? Bea obliterated Ash in their first encounter and tied in their second and numerous gym leaders have required a rematch for Ash to win. Hell, even in normal matches, it typically came down to 1 Pokémon each. The e tire point of gym leaders is to be a stop gap to test a trainer’s strength. They’re far fro weak just because Ash was strong enough to beat them.

 

[Hidden Mew]

I think they will both lose to kabu. It makes sense that fuecoco will be defeated first , because it knows stomping tantrum, so its a bigger threat. Many people here want liko/roy winning, but i think its nice to let the gym leaders win in this series, since defeating them isnt the main goal of the protagonists, and most of the gym leaders werent portrayed as very strong trainers in Ash´s anime.

I don't really see how Gym Leaders weren't portrayed as strong trainers in the past. The only challenge Ash really had in the PWC was against Bea and he took three matches to actually defeat her. Raihan is a Gym Leader who was close to getting to the Master Class and within the games, it is stated that he'd be strong enough to become the Champion in another region. Not to mention in most other series, most Gym Battles typically ended with both Ash and the Gym Leader being down to their last Pokemon. It was really rare for Ash to sweep a Gym Leader without having any of his Pokemon knocked out. Gym Leaders were always shown as being strong trainers, so I don't think losing to Ash changed that.

I don't know if I could see Liko or Roy defeating Kabu myself, but I think Roy would make a bit more sense, if only because Sprigatito would be at a huge disadvantage type wise.

 

[Karakuri18]

I don't know if I could see Liko or Roy defeating Kabu myself, but I think Roy would make a bit more sense, if only because Sprigatito would be at a huge disadvantage type wise.

I don't see any of them being able to beat Kabu either (at least with current experience).
However, I don't fully agree that a Roy win would make more sense as Fuecoco doesn't have any type advantage over Centiskorch.

 

[Hidden Mew]

I don't see any of them being able to beat Kabu either (at least with current experience).
However, I don't fully agree that a Roy win wouldn't make any more sense as Fuecoco doesn't have any type advantage over Centiskorch.

Fuecoco doesn't have a type advantage, but it would potentially have an easier time lasting against any Fire or Bug type attacks from Centiskorch more so than Sprigatito would. Neither Liko or Roy have a lot of battling experience at this point, so either of them defeating Kabu might be tricky to pull off believably, but Fuecoco defeating another Fire type could work better than Sprigatito doing so.

 

[Dr. Gro 3001]

Fuecoco doesn't have a type advantage, but it would potentially have an easier time lasting against any Fire or Bug type attacks from Centiskorch more so than Sprigatito would. Neither Liko or Roy have a lot of battling experience at this point, so either of them defeating Kabu might be tricky to pull off believably, but Fuecoco defeating another Fire type could work better than Sprigatito doing so.

So, I took a look at what Sprigatito can learn that would be super effective against Centiskorch and the only move that I found was Acrobatics. While I wouldn't have a problem with Sprigatito learning a new move and potentially beating Centiskorch, I would just like to see a decent battle that doesn't just amount to spamming Leafage.

 

[skynerel]

I don’t think Liko or Roy will defeat Kabu because they are newbies. As for fuecoco, it might have type resistance, but it is also slower and has shown to have trouble moving around efficiently so I think Sprigatito might have better chances of lasting longer because it can dodge using quick attack, which is way faster.