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Sceptile and Infernape had twice the amount of training as Raboot did and it still took like 170+ eps to fully evolve
I get what you mean but Ash still having a Grovyle by the time Hoenn league arrived wasn't the wisest decision of all either.
I wouldn't call that good writing, either. It shouldn't take nearly 4 years for a Pokemon to fully evolve.
Ash's Sceptile and Infernape's evolutions were horribly paced. Treecko evolved after Ash's fourth Badge, but took deep into the Battle Frontier to evolve again. And I'm pretty sure that there wouldn't be as much hype for it if it hadn't come back to defeat Darkrai. And Infernape's evolutions were even more badly paced. It debuted early on into the series, Ash caught it after his second Sinnoh Badge, then it goes without evolving until Ash has seven Badges, and then it suddenly evolves twice before his eighth Badge. Granted, that gap was the biggest gap we've ever had in between Badges, but the point still stands.I wasn't talking about the league, I am talking about the Battle Frontier. There was no real reason to hold back at all when it came to Grovyle's evolution. If things had worked out how they were supposed to originally than Diamond and Pearl would have been released in 2005, so Grovyle/Sceptile would have been Oaked anyway after the league. And as I said earlier, the Frontier Brains were a step above gym leaders so it wasn't like Ash taking Charizard to Johto and them having to buff up characters like Falkner to not make it seem like a joke.
One more reason to bring Melmetal back, give it some screen time
My thought exactly. I would love to see that happen.