The Gengar Dynamax arc was much better than the one off ep of Lucario getting a Megastone. If anything the Gengar arc along with its bond with Allister was doing a power up arc right.
... I’m sorry, who the fuck thought this would be a good idea?
Naw, if the Galar arc has proved anything to me, it's that the writers are willing to speed blitz plotlines. I doubt Gengar loses here. If he does, this episode is going on my top 10 worst episodes.
Type effectiveness can be loose in the anime if it needs to. And hey, it could be that this is where Gengar finally uses Dazzling Gleam.
At this point, it would have been better to get a mir battle with Allister in the PWC than a lane 1 v 1 this late in the game. Least then we could see more of his team and Gengar would actually have a type advantage.
And what makes it even better is that it’s involving an actual important character that’s really popular and people have been waiting for the introduction of only for them to zoom right by that and probably never see her again considering that it seems that in Journeys, once you’ve had a decisive battle with Ash, your role in the series is done despite this not being a tournament with a knock out format.
Just to reuse the same Bea plot line? The worst part is that I wouldn't put it past the writers's laziness to do that again.
I don't see this happening, Marnie debuted waaaaay too late for a rivalry situation to be interesting.
And Saito didn't deserve to be given the Rival treatment in the first place.
Maybe something special for the 100th episode? (I won't hold my breath.)
He could have a recurring rival each arc. I also suspect Ash will lose to Raihan the first time they battle so he can appear a few more times too. I don't see how it's a rehash for Ash to lose to more people, it's a lot more interesting than him beating everyone all in a row.
