That feels more incidental than actually meaningful. Like compare the likes of that to say Ash helping his Pokémon like Treecko with Bullet Seed, Tailow with Aerial Ace, Rockruff with Rock Throw, Rowlet with Seed Bomb or Litten with Fire Fang. Those kind of things present a move that trainer and Pokémon made possible together. With Ember, it feels like Go is basically getting more credit than he deserves.
Raboot's Ember symbolizes Gou learning the error of his ways and and trying to help Scorbunny accomplish something it was really passionate about. It even triggered it's evolution. I don't see anything incidental about that.
Honestly, he's had enough of these arcs I think it's an established trait that he's prone to downswings when things go badly, and Bea beat him so badly it makes it hard to imagine how he'll ever reach Leon.
Go literally didn’t learn the error of his ways until they went to Hoenn and he reaffirmed his bonds with Raboot as that was the point at which he connected with it. Heck I even recall that it wasn’t viewed as a positive with how it had started an entire mini narrative between Go and Raboot that was only settled with said Hoenn episode.
Gou wouldn't have gone back on his selfish "you don't need to learn Ember" mentality if he didn't see the error of his ways. He tried to make amends by working with Scorbunny to develop ember. Gou did learn his lesson, the problem is that after evolving, Raboot held a grudge against Gou for not being supportive right away. Gou was only able to convince Raboot that he had learned his lesson in episode 22, but the lesson was learned long before that in the evolution episode.
That is not a fair comparison given how Ash is a dedicated Trainer who actively works to raise his Pokemon for battle and had several regions of experience with Pokemon raising and interaction by the time of your first example; Goh literally just started his journey with Pokemon and clearly has a lot of room to develop (hence why I liked this episode given his battling); we have barely begun to see him actually train a Pokemon of his explicitly. I fail to see how he's "getting more credit" despite being the key reason Raboot can use Ember. He literally made one comment about how he worked together with his Pokemon; it is not like we just watched an episode with him bragging to the world on how he, and he alone, perfected Raboot's Ember.
Only thing there was that that selfishness had stemmed from the basis of him not trying to understand his Pokémon’s feelings. While he may not have presented it in the same way, he did basically ignore that there was some kind of an issue between himself and Raboot until that episode addressed it. For Raboot being his partner, he didn’t even try to understand its feelings until push came to shove there.
Except such a thing isn’t something that changed within Ash from the get go. Even when he was first starting out, he always put his Pokémon first and they would respond in kind. Teaching moves wasn’t a concept as early on but that type of bond that drives Ash to do such things was.
Is there some confirmation of that?
I mean Cinderace and Lucario merch is coming soon. Riolu can evolve in ep 39 and Raboot in 37/38. And the opening confirms they will appear.
No.
What do you mean by "localizer"?
