Preview JN012: Daimax Battle! Dande, The Greatest of Them All!!

[Konja7]

Lance's Red Gyarados is back! Continuity!

I wouldn't say that's continuity unless it is mentioned that Lance and Ash known each other.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

I wouldn't say that's continuity unless it is mentioned that Lance and Ash known each other.

Umm... I think Lance having that specific Gyarados is continuity.

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

Umm... I think Lance having that specific Gyarados is continuity.

Yeah, it’s continuity, but so bare and irrelevant that it ends up having no story significance. It’s technically one but not what most people are looking for.

 

[Knightwolf09]

I mean it makes sense for him to use Gyrados cause of type advantage

 

[Eeveely]

I mean it makes sense for him to use Gyrados cause of type advantage

Type advantages? Pokéani?
No,just no

 

[Silktree]

Lance isn't going to resort to Dynamaxing. Gee, who would have thought.

 

[Lightning Flame Blast]

Chances of Mega Gyarados, I wonder?

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Yeah, it’s continuity, but so bare and irrelevant that it ends up having no story significance. It’s technically one but not what most people are looking for.

I personally am satisfied with this level of continuity already. It'll just be all the more satisfying if more (like Ash recognizing Lance or even him recalling his earlier experiences with him) is mentioned.

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

I personally am satisfied with this level of continuity already. It'll just be all the more satisfying if more (like Ash recognizing Lance or even him recalling his earlier experiences with him) is mentioned.

Ash recognising someone whom he's spent multiple arcs at this point is the bare minimum.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Ash recognising someone whom he's spent multiple arcs at this point is the bare minimum.

I think it's pretty likely he will recognize him.

 

[BigDocFan]

Lance: You look familiar, its Brock right?
Ash: Close enough, its Ash. I helped against Team Rocket in Johto and Magma and Aqua in Hoenn
Lance: Close enough

 

[Almonds]

WAIT....

KANTO LEAGUE ELITE FOUR MEMBER; WATARU & THE RED GYARADOS: The Trainer representing the Kanto region.
THE UNDEFEATED CHAMPION OF THE GALAR REGION; DANDE & LIZARDON: The super amazing Trainer said to have never lost a battle in the Galar region!

Lance... is appearing as the kanto league elite four member? Is that the right translation? Not champion? I thought he appeared as the champion in the AG Aqua/Magma crisis? Are they resetting him to an elite four?

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

WAIT....



Lance... is appearing as the kanto league elite four member? Is that the right translation? Not champion? I thought he appeared as the champion in the AG Aqua/Magma crisis? Are they resetting him to an elite four?

Actually, he was only referred to as a Champion in the Red Gyarados episodes and The Legend of Thunder!. In the Groudon & Kyogre episodes, he was referred to as a member of the Elite Four, probably due to the then-topicality of FireRed and LeafGreen. And now it's probably because his latest appearance was in the Let's Go games, where he also was an Elite Four member.

 

[Almonds]

Actually, he was only referred to as a Champion in the Red Gyarados episodes and The Legend of Thunder!. In the Groudon & Kyogre episodes, he was referred to as a member of the Elite Four, probably due to the then-topicality of FireRed and LeafGreen. And now it's probably because his latest appearance was in the Let's Go games, where he also was an Elite Four member.

.... I really want to hate on their choice for that. They picked Lance, an elite four member, not even a champion, to help with the Groudon/Kyogre crisis, when Hoenn clearly has two prominent champions, because they just had to pander to kanto?

I really didn't like Leon's description of being undefeated because it sounded too perfect, but now I want to see Lance absolutely destroyed in this episode.

 

[BigDocFan]

Maybe Lance lost a battle as a champion and became an Elite 4

Sounds a bit Farfetch'd

 

[Daren]

I think we have to remember that in gen 1 there wasn't a champion until Blue came in and defeated the Elite Four, which didn't happen in the anime.

My guess? In the anime, the Kanto Champion isn't separate from the Elite Four like in other regions, but the most powerful of them is also the Champion.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

I think we have to remember that in gen 1 there wasn't a champion until Blue came in and defeated the Elite Four, which didn't happen in the anime.

My guess? In the anime, the Kanto Champion isn't separate from the Elite Four like in other regions, but the most powerful of them is also the Champion.

The strange thing just is that he was explicitly referred to as a Champion in the Johto anime, but then the Gen III anime called him an Elite Four member.

 

[Rocket Messiah]

Is any even a champion in Johto or Kanto. Have never been stated , who it is.

Also this man can have a red Gyarados but my James cannot have his little Mime back? Bleugh

Appart from that , that is a big thing , not just the strongest trainer of the region the strongest of the whole world. If this is the challenge Ash is accepting?

Are we at the last saga?

Expecting the battle and the outcome of it.

 

[Rath]

Pretty sure Lance is just using Red Gyarados since they decided to give Ash a Dragonite, so now Gyarados has to be Lance's signature Pokemon in this series.

 

[game3524]

Or he is using Gyarados because it can Dynamax, while Dragonite can’t.