Um, I think it's actually going to be three weeks we have to wait, since the Lance vs Diantha episode is airing July 8th.
I meant to ask you this before, but are you sure Lance's Gyarados will be Mega Evolving? Is that confirmed anywhere?
Iris winning against Lance would have her immediately defeated against Leon in the next round. Iris history with Cynthia is exactly why the writers paired them up. Iris is more impressed with women champions than Lance.
It's not been shown Mega Evolving in the trailers. One trailer also shows that Lance will be using Dynamax, not Mega Evolution.
So, I went back to the first trailer we got and was going to use that as my reference...but upon looking at it again, that isn't Mega Gyarados - it's just his Gyarados looking quite lethargic and chunky. I think I subconsciously associated with its Mega form since Mega Gyarados is hefty and it made me think of how Lysandre's was animated.
So, my mistake.
I feel like they purposely held back Iris and Ash's matches because they're former main characters, and since Cynthia is in Iris' bracket, she had to be held back too because that's the only way Ash would get to battle her if she wins.
That's what I thought, I saw him using Dynamax in the trailer. We know Lance has a Dynamax band and that he's Dynamaxed Gyarados before. Wonder if he'll Dynamax Dragonite or Hydreigon instead, though?
Well it's inevitable, she looks to be putting up a good fight before going down. If she was in the other bracket then Leon would just destroy her in the second round anyway.
In 3 weeks, not a week
We don't know which of his Pokémon is going to Dynamax yet.
Well, if Lance win the first round, he still could use his Gyarados against Leon.
He's already going to use it here, so it's entirely possible that, if Gyarados is the Pokemon Lance will Dynamax, then he'll do it earlier in the match before Diantha brings out Mega Gardevoir.
