Pokémon Sword and Shield anime speculation thread

[Grass Type Gardenia]

It is a pattern that has persisted throughout the entirety of the anime. May, Dawn, and Serena do play a major role if the player plays as the male PC (and they did become companions) while Hilda and Selene did not (and they didn't). The OS doesn't count because back in those days there was no female PC.

I thought you said you don't believe in patterns?

 

[RileyXY1]

I thought you said you don't believe in patterns?

It's just something I observed when I look at who became a companion and how impactful the female PC is on the game's storyline if the player plays as the male PC.

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

It's just something I observed when I look at who became a companion and how impactful the female PC is on the game's storyline if the player plays as the male PC.

I don't think that way. I don't believe in patterns. Also, there's no guarantee that the anime will be another BW.

That's a strange way to look at it. She is still the playable female character and represents the current generation like the previous female leads. Of course she still promotes the games. Dawn barely had any presence in D/P despite being an assistant, or at least I don't recall seeing the other playable character appear as a NPC outside of the early stages of the game, so I don't think that being a rival or NPC within the game is that big of a factor. It's just another pattern fans have picked up on and firmly believe it to be true as a result. They may go with a different female lead, but the idea that the playable female trainer doesn't promote anything because she supposedly doesn't have impact on the game is just strange and confusing to me.

Patterns might break, we could get Gloria because so far we haven't seen any Female Trainer the right age for Ash apart from Bea. Milo is more muscle than older and has the type of personality to join Ash on his journey. It's like I said in my past post a few posts back. If we want to know who's Ash's companions are, then we'd probably seen them by now. Mallow and the Trial Captains were revealed in early August 2016, and the Sun and Moon poster was shown in September. Clemont was one of the earliest Gym Leaders shown for X and Y and he was revealed for the XY poster. Even Iris was shown in a leaked Concept Art.

They might surprise us with a Gym Leader we haven't seen yet. I'm only showing you of what could be, not what should be. We don't know as of yet, we might end up having Gloria regardless to what you think.

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

If they go with the gym companions again, I'd rather Bea so at least Ash would battle Allister.

He did battle most of his previous gym leader companions though.

In the Sword and Shield's anime, I can already imagine there being both a male and female reporter talking about the events of each Gym Battle, similar to those found with football since this will be shown live.

If you mean soccer, that's not a thing, as far as I know.

It is a pattern that has persisted throughout the entirety of the anime. May, Dawn, and Serena do play a major role if the player plays as the male PC (and they did become companions) while Hilda and Selene did not (and they didn't). The OS doesn't count because back in those days there was no female PC.

But why would that be the case? Haruka, Hikari and Serena are not in the show to showcase as rivals, they're added to represent the PCs.

 

[Hidden Mew]

But why would that be the case? Haruka, Hikari and Serena are not in the show to showcase as rivals, they're added to represent the PCs.

Exactly. I'm pretty sure that Dawn wasn't even a rival in the games if you play as Lucas. I don't recall seeing her more than just Professor Rowan's assistant at least. Even the argument that Gloria can't be a rival due to the number of other rivals already established is a bit questionable considering that there were also three other rivals in X/Y alongside her. Aside from May, I'm not sure how memorable these characters were as NPCs. May and Serena had more appearances during the storyline, but I don't know how much impact they actually had on the events. Dawn certainly didn't have any impact on the overall storyline as a NPC and she had the most focus out of all of the female leads in the anime thus far.

I'm not saying that it's a guarantee for Gloria to be in the cast. They could still go in a different direction. I just think using a fan created pattern to claim it won't happen doesn't make much sense, especially when the anime can and has broken patterns multiple times already.

 

[Sakuraa]

He did battle most of his previous gym leader companions though.

I mean an official battle for a gym badge, not just a battle for fun or a competition.

 

[RileyXY1]

I mean an official battle for a gym badge, not just a battle for fun or a competition.

He did have that with Brock, Misty, Cilan, and Clemont. Milo, Nessa, Bea, or Allister being companions isn't going to stop Ash from challenging them for a badge.

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

I mean an official battle for a gym badge, not just a battle for fun or a competition.

He did have that with Brock, Misty, Cilan, and Clemont. Milo, Nessa, Bea, or Allister being companions isn't going to stop Ash from challenging them for a badge.

Nope, you're quite right. However it wouldn't be Bea that he would challenge if she is proven to be his companion, but Allister since like Iris and Drayden, they both share the same Gym location.

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

I mean an official battle for a gym badge, not just a battle for fun or a competition.

I mean the same thing. Only GL companion he didn't have a gym battle is Iris.

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

I mean the same thing. Only GL companion he didn't have a gym battle is Iris.

I've said something similar in a post before yours.

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

I've said something similar in a post before yours.

I don't think so.

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

I don't think so.

Ash challenged Drayden instead of Iris for the Legend Badge. Drayden is Black exclusive whilst Iris is White. The two both share the same Gym. Similar to Bea and Allister, but unlike the former who are Dragon Types, Bea and Allister specialises on two different types. So if Bea journeys with Ash, then Ash would challenge Allister for his badge.

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

Ash challenged Drayden instead of Iris for the Legend Badge. Drayden is Black exclusive whilst Iris is White. The two both share the same Gym. Similar to Bea and Allister, but unlike the former who are Dragon Types, Bea and Allister specialises on two different types. So if Bea journeys with Ash, then Ash would challenge Allister for his badge.

This is not similar to what I said, at all. You completely missed the point I make.

Ash challenged Drayden instead of Iris for the Legend Badge.

This is also not true. Ash never challenged Drayden for a gym battle.

 

[Daenerys]

How does Pokémon become aloha dorm and galar form

Like how they changed from their ordinary form into new

It's based on environment I think. Certain Pokemon in regions like Alola and Galar changed over long periods of time and adapted to their environment by undergoing physical changes. It's not like you could just bring say a normal Zigzagoon to Galar and expect it to become a Galarian Zigzagoon. That's why the idea that someone brought up before about the possibility of Galarian Primeape being introduced and that somehow being an excuse to bring Ash's old Primeape back so it could 'change' into its Galarian variant form made me cackle.

 

[Sakuraa]

He did have that with Brock, Misty, Cilan, and Clemont. Milo, Nessa, Bea, or Allister being companions isn't going to stop Ash from challenging them for a badge.

I mean the same thing. Only GL companion he didn't have a gym battle is Iris.

If in the hypothetical scenario that Ash were to travel with Allister, what reason would he have to battle him when they could just use Bea instead since they're the leader of the same gym? Is it possible, yes of course. But to me it seems unlikely to have Ash travel with Allister AND have him be the gym leader Ash battles when they could just have Bea as the leader instead.

The situations with the past leaders don't really fit here since none of them (except Iris, who wasn't even a gym leader in the anime) were version exclusives. Ash had no choice but to battle them.

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

If in the hypothetical scenario that Ash were to travel with Allister, what reason would he have to battle him when they could just use Bea instead since they're the leader of the same gym? Is it possible, yes of course. But to me it seems unlikely to have Ash travel with Allister AND have him be the gym leader Ash battles when they could just have Bea as the leader instead.

The situations with the past leaders don't really fit here since none of them (except Iris, who wasn't even a gym leader in the anime) were version exclusives. Ash had no choice but to battle them.

Bea, Allister, or whatever exclusive Gym Leader we'll get will probably be shown in the anime as part of some episode plot.

 

[Rockapheller]

You know 'Dex Cut', so the Pokemon he can take with him is limited.

Obviously the anime-universe won't have limitations.

 

[nickdt]

Obviously the anime-universe won't have limitations.

They did it with gen 5 as well.

 

[MegaGreninga]

It's based on environment I think. Certain Pokemon in regions like Alola and Galar changed over long periods of time and adapted to their environment by undergoing physical changes. It's not like you could just bring say a normal Zigzagoon to Galar and expect it to become a Galarian Zigzagoon. That's why the idea that someone brought up before about the possibility of Galarian Primeape being introduced and that somehow being an excuse to bring Ash's old Primeape back so it could 'change' into its Galarian variant form made me cackle.

So let’s say

You brought a quagsmire the water/ground Pokémon from johto into galar region they will slowly become poison/ground or water/poison???

Their were many Pokémon from other regions in alolha why didn’t they evolved into new form

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

If in the hypothetical scenario that Ash were to travel with Allister, what reason would he have to battle him when they could just use Bea instead since they're the leader of the same gym?

What do you think will happen to Bea if they use Allister as the gym leader? It's a problem anime need to solve, whether they made him a companion or not. For example, Allister could leave his gym to Bea (as he's too shy and doesn't really wants to be in the spotlight), so that way we would got both as gym leaders.