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I think he was saying that they couldn't be sure it had been destroyed.Apparently, Sawyer mentioned the monolith. Was it anything important, or is he just saying it was returned to Hoenn?
I want to know if Serena actually said she will be using Contests as a means to get more experience to one day return to Kalos and become Kalos Queen. It's a real question, I don't understand Japanese.You completely missed the mark so I'll say it once more, Serena is NOT abandoning performing, she's literally getting more life experience for herself from an occupation that's EXTREMELY SIMILAR to her own, she's still a performer, nothing has changed, Kalos Queen is still her end goal, she just wants to take a diffrent path them Aria to get there, that's believable and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't even know where you got the "she wants to perform street shows" idea.
Again, did she actually say she was heading to Hoenn to become a better Performer? It seemed to me she was pretty satisfied with simply making people smile, which I'll admit is a part of her goal, but I think a Performer would be better off making a Showcase crowd smile then moving to a region where the concept of Showcases is strange to virtually everyone.To become a better performer, might as well say Ash isn't passionate about Pokemon training because instead of doing gyms he's going to school for a sags
And I didn't say there was one right path. People sometimes achieve similar results through different methods. I wasn't questioning that. All I said is that there are methods that are more effective than others.Not saying you're wrong there but there's never one "right" path to reach your goals and I assume Serena wanted to choose her own path instead having one laid out for her to follow, I don't even think she rejected Palmero forever, she just wants more life experience.
Finally something we agree on, Serena really could use some battling experience.Contest battles still take in a Pokémon m's charm and how they move and shine into account you know, and battle experience is something Serena could use in general
Yeah, you're completely right.
Tag Battles, which are literally regular battles with a partner, were super easy, right? There was nothing to learn aside from combining battling and helping a friend, which are things Ash and his traveling companions do on a daily basis. And Double Performances, which are literally performances where Coordinators send out two Pokémon at once, were also easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. Even things which are really alike proved difficult for Ash and his friends to learn.
Serena has to learn to show off her Pokémon, which right now she doesn't know how. She is always at the center of her performances. In Showcases, the Pokémon are there to make the Performers look good. And I must add that I never said that Serena will have a hard time turning from Performer to Coordinator, even Ash learned about Contests. I just said that learning about Contest Battles will ~go to waste~ once she returns to Kalos because Showcases have no battles. I also pointed out the differences between Showcase performances and Contest performances, and Serena is going to learn a thing different than the one she is actually aiming to master.
Serena dropped the chance to learn the ins and outs of Showcases with a former Kalos Queen and a competent talent scout who made Aria famous to go learn about Pokémon Contests in Hoenn. What the actual fuck.
Hope this means Serena is going to get some Hoenn Pokemon tooDon't really care that she is entering the contests. The fact that she is heading to Hoenn after the group separate is the highlight of this episode. 4/10 f0r effort.
Why would Ash bring up that he went there? He would've done it a long time ago when they first met Sawyer and his Treecko. We would think that would remind him if his own travels in Hoenn with his Sceptile, but it doesn't. The XY series just doesn't want to talk about Ash's past except for his early childhood for some reason.
I don't remember this happening and in DP, there's one thing that I think is important to remember. Zoey's issues with trainers who compete in contests and battles. She had this black and white mindset, and Ash and Nando bothered her because of this. She eventually learned by the Wallace Cup that learning from both trainers and coordinators battle styles is beneficial.Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, May left Ash because of the fact that normal battling skills of a Trainer aren't necessarily compatible with coordination battles. I.E. May supposedly took in too much of Ash's straightword battle style, and her rivals told her that this held her back in contests. In such, Serena looks like she, like May, could also have a rough time tuning her battling skills to match those of a coordinator - and she may notice a conflict between the Showcase and Battle philosophies that she acquired in her Kalos journey.
I don't remember this happening and in DP, there's one thing that I think is important to remember. Zoey's issues with trainers who compete in contests and battles. She had this black and white mindset, and Ash and Nando bothered her because of this. She eventually learned by the Wallace Cup that learning from both trainers and coordinators battle styles is beneficial.
Yeah, this. Though I don't know if we'll see if Serena uses things she learned from Ash if we ever get to see a special where she competes in a contest.What Zoey admitted to Ash is that Trainers and Coordinators can learn from one another, not that they should have similar battle styles. Throughout the Diamond & Pearl series we saw how Ash and Dawn benefited from taking pages from each other's books, like Dawn implementing that trick of making a Pokémon eat a move compatible with its type and Ash evading attacks with the spinning dodge technique Dawn taught him while he trained for his rematch at the Oreburgh Gym.