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A Pyramiding Rage (596)

mysticalglacia

Alola Shill
when fiction peaks!

Amazing episode. It both establishes and payoffs so many things and does all of them so well….

Brandon coming to Snowpoint to research the temple bc of his Regi’s made sense, & it was good to see him again. Paul learning that Ash beat him and being shocked was so great, it added even more to his frustration 100%.

Paul was the star here obviously. Seeing him lose his composure little by little all throughout until he’s essentially shouting his feelings out in frustration and anger was crazy. Even Ash was shocked like wow. We’ve never seen him show such palpable emotion before this; it really was the facade crumbling as we get to learn the whole deal on why Paul is the way he is and why he wants to defeat Brandon so badly. Seeing him fight tooth and nail so desperately juxtaposed with the flashback where he looks considerably more happy and relaxed was even crazier; the differences in his voice acting in both just added to it. Props to his VA, he ate this performance up.

The flashback spoke volumes about how both Paul and Reggie interpreted Brandon’s words. Reggie retired from battling bc he found his own unique strength was somewhere else, but Paul took it as him quitting out of a want to not improve and try to be better. It makes sense that Paul would interpret those words and put them into practice to become as strong as he can in his own specific way, which is why he’s so steadfast about his training methods. Man. The writing is just continuously excellent.

A small but welcome detail was Paul being a rookie but starting in Kanto bc he went to visit Reggie for his match against Brandon, that was neat.

Paul accepting his loss and Brandon’s words to him at the end was the right kickstart to his development. Brandon questioning what his Pokémon and goal mean to him and mentioning fighting a more peaceful version of him in the future makes me really wish we got to see a round two post-DP; just a genuinely great narrative plot point that would give even more closure to his character than he already has.

But for now…..this episode has the hypest ending ever. Reggie proposing the iconic Lake Acuity 6v6, the cliffhanger about the temple, the music playing. Like damn they were going off in 2009
 

SerGoldenhandtheJust

Deluded Dreamer
when fiction peaks!

Amazing episode. It both establishes and payoffs so many things and does all of them so well….

Brandon coming to Snowpoint to research the temple bc of his Regi’s made sense, & it was good to see him again. Paul learning that Ash beat him and being shocked was so great, it added even more to his frustration 100%.

Paul was the star here obviously. Seeing him lose his composure little by little all throughout until he’s essentially shouting his feelings out in frustration and anger was crazy. Even Ash was shocked like wow. We’ve never seen him show such palpable emotion before this; it really was the facade crumbling as we get to learn the whole deal on why Paul is the way he is and why he wants to defeat Brandon so badly. Seeing him fight tooth and nail so desperately juxtaposed with the flashback where he looks considerably more happy and relaxed was even crazier; the differences in his voice acting in both just added to it. Props to his VA, he ate this performance up.

The flashback spoke volumes about how both Paul and Reggie interpreted Brandon’s words. Reggie retired from battling bc he found his own unique strength was somewhere else, but Paul took it as him quitting out of a want to not improve and try to be better. It makes sense that Paul would interpret those words and put them into practice to become as strong as he can in his own specific way, which is why he’s so steadfast about his training methods. Man. The writing is just continuously excellent.

A small but welcome detail was Paul being a rookie but starting in Kanto bc he went to visit Reggie for his match against Brandon, that was neat.

Paul accepting his loss and Brandon’s words to him at the end was the right kickstart to his development. Brandon questioning what his Pokémon and goal mean to him and mentioning fighting a more peaceful version of him in the future makes me really wish we got to see a round two post-DP; just a genuinely great narrative plot point that would give even more closure to his character than he already has.

But for now…..this episode has the hypest ending ever. Reggie proposing the iconic Lake Acuity 6v6, the cliffhanger about the temple, the music playing. Like damn they were going off in 2009
This HAS to be one of the, if not THE best written episode of the saga
Seriously, its a masterpiece in all accounts
 

TheNewGuy

Well-Known Member
Paul's Nidoking landed Earth Power,Thunderbolt and Double Kick demonstrating it's power which Brandon was impressed by.

Where was Gastrodon,Ninjask and Froslass's display of power at the Sinnoh League?

The first two forced switches and Ninjask lost to Ash's ace. Froslass utterly dominated Pikachu for most of their contest including freezing it. None of Paul's Pokemon looked terrible, though I suppose you could say Froslass looked the worst of the three.

It's strange you didn't include Aggron on that list too, as he lost first and quite quickly.
 

PokemonBattleFanatic-

Well-Known Member
The first two forced switches and Ninjask lost to Ash's ace. Froslass utterly dominated Pikachu for most of their contest including freezing it. None of Paul's Pokemon looked terrible, though I suppose you could say Froslass looked the worst of the three.

It's strange you didn't include Aggron on that list too, as he lost first and quite quickly.
Froslass doesn't last as long as it did without Snow Cloak which allowed her to disappear and then reappear.Freezing Pikachu was the only impressive thing it did,it only took a few attacks to take it down.But you have idiots going around claiming it's stronger than Paul's Ursaring,Torterra and Magmortar solely because it made an appearance at the Sinnoh League vs Ash and nothing more.

I think Aggron is at least stronger than Froslass and the other 2,it forced Ash to switch out Pikachu and clashed with Infernape's Flare Blitz ending in a draw.Paul's bulkier pokemon have always been his stronger pokemon as opposed to his smaller ones.It's too bad though it only took a few attacks for it to go down even when considering the fact that Paul purposely let Ash defeat it.
 

TheNewGuy

Well-Known Member
.But you have idiots going around claiming it's stronger than Paul's Ursaring,Torterra and Magmortar solely because it made an appearance at the Sinnoh League vs Ash and nothing more.

You seem really zealous about this given your post in the other thread about the Acuity battle. How many people are saying this? Which specific users?
 

PokemonBattleFanatic-

Well-Known Member
You seem really zealous about this given your post in the other thread about the Acuity battle. How many people are saying this? Which specific users?
It was just a few people,one person recently decided to bring this up but it doesn't matter who they are because I'm convinced they didn't do their research or watch enough of DP.

Your opinion on Paul and his pokemon can't hold more weight if you half-assed it and hardly watched episodes focusing on him compared to someone who did repeatedly along with additional research of the character from other resources and platforms.
 
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TheWanderingMist

Paladin of the Snow Queen
This episode would have been good...if not for two things. 1: Brandon would've also had a similar result against almost anyone else, so the loss hardly even matters, whereas a similar loss against a more regular Trainer would have actually had meaning. 2: Negating the loss immediately with the Lake Acuity Battle, instead of having the Lake Acuity battle be a doubling down on how wrong its training methods were. Nope, let's just ignore how problematic everything about its personality and actions is and heap praise upon praise on it instead with zero justification.
 

PokemonBattleFanatic-

Well-Known Member
Torkoal dodged Registeel's attacks 2 times,landed 5 hits,used Iron Defense in response to Zap Cannon,it did not get paralyzed.Registeel KO'ed Torkoal with 2 attacks.
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Hariyama landed 1 hit on Regirock,it took 2 attacks to KO Hariyama.

Electabuzz landed 1 hit on Regirock,Electabuzz used Protect in response to Regirock' Stone Edge but it broke through causing it damage,Electabuzz was KO'ed with 2 hits.

Nidoking landed 3 hits on Registeel but was KO'ed by Registeel in 2 attacks.

Lairon used Iron Defense but was frozen completely by Regice's Ice Beam,it was KO'ed by Regice's Zap Cannon.

Ursaring was paraylzed by Regice's Zap Cannon,it took 2 attacks to KO Ursaring.

Magmar landed 1 attack on Registeel,it took 2 attacks to KO Magmar.

As you can see Ash's Torkoal and Paul's pokemon all were defeated by Brandon's Regis in 2 attacks but the difference here is Torkoal dodged twice while none of Paul's pokemon dodged Regis' attacks.So that means if Paul's pokemon did dodge they would've lasted longer than Torkoal did,plus another thing to consider here is that those 3 Regis more than likely got stronger since they were last shown in late AG.
 
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