He did call his Kalos Pokémon his best 'team', after all.Īnd I'm glad to see someone else say that the battles were second to the story. And I personally always reasoned that it makes sense for Ash to keep Greninja last against Sawyer and Alain given that if Greninja goes down Ash does as well, which would make him lose by technical forfeit.

That said, I never felt the Mega Evolutions were such a big problem, since the battles before the Megas came into play still showcased plenty of strategy and clever moments, Pikachu in particular shining a lot against Aegislash and Alain's pseudo-legendaries. If we want to be specific, we did have a drop in viewership, even before the timeslot change. Honestly? I just want SM to be over and done with at this stage. The musical dissonance feels misplaced, especially since you know, there's a pretty good theme to use from the games, you know? Not to mention the music choice - schoolchildren singing just doesn't fit this battle at all. In theory, this should have been a good episode to conclude Guzma's time in the League, but like most of the theory behind Pokemon battling and type matchups, it all goes out the window when the Pokemon anime is involved, and to say that this episode is a few Trials short of a full League qualification is possibly an understatement.īetween the choppy battle animation, the interruptions from the peanut gallery and commentator, the backloading of Guzma's backstory and complex about losing into this single episode instead of a more natural development across multiple episodes (like putting it in the previous episode instead of masaladas and honey boogies onto berries) and the overall battle being more about Guzma and Ash being a mostly reactive actor in this whole affair, one loses any possible investment one might have had in what is arguable the second of three climaxes in this entire league.

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