armorshipping fanboy
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do ye tink tat serena wll be a transfer studet
This would depend mainly on how it's written. If written well, the writers could make this work and further build upon that with Serena's possible appearances in Alola.I had some speculation if Serena came to Alola because she actually did rather poorly in Hoenn and didn't get into the finals (perhaps due to her battle incompetence). Maybe she wasn't expecting Ash there and tries to hide her failure, though when he finds out he is sympathetic and tries to help out.
This would be an interesting deconstruction of the usual return appearances, rather than appearing showing all they'd learned onscreen, Serena is broken and is having teething troubles working past her flaws and without Ash, needing to start over. I admit this would go against her development and intent to work independently, but it would quite a twist and allow her more opportunity to develop onscreen and bond with Ash in the process (Ash could definitely work as a battle tutor).
It could especially be interesting if Ash himself isn't doing brilliantly at school and tries to still play himself off as the ace he was in Kalos at first.
So basically, she's also being reset just like her man.I had some speculation if Serena came to Alola because she actually did rather poorly in Hoenn and didn't even get into the Grand Festival (perhaps due to her battle incompetence). Maybe she wasn't expecting Ash there and tries to hide her failure, though when he finds out he is sympathetic and tries to help out.
This would be an interesting deconstruction of the usual return appearances, rather than appearing showing all they'd learned onscreen, Serena is broken and is having teething troubles working past her flaws and without Ash, needing to start over. I admit this would go against her development and intent to work independently, but it would quite a twist and allow her more opportunity to develop onscreen and bond with Ash in the process (Ash could definitely work as a battle tutor).
It could especially be interesting if Ash himself isn't doing brilliantly at school and tries to still play himself off as the ace he was in Kalos at first.
So basically, she's also being reset just like her man.
To be honest, I don't think it's a good idea. Not only it would reset Serena's character to her pre-haircut self, it would also mean that it could also reset her feelings back to a shallow crush. Thus, nullifying everything she learned throughout her journey with Ash. It would be better if she retains the character development she has in XY if she does return to S/M to develop her battling skills with Ash. Plus, those Z-moves would come in handy in contests like in ORAS whenever you fill up the excitement meter or whatever it is called that makes your Pokemon to perform a special move.
Serena isn't that bad of a battler. Just look at her battles with Jimmy and Ash, she was able to hold on to her own but I do think that she would struggle whenever she faces a much tougher opponent.
I want to clear some stuff up...
I wasn't " rubbing " anything to anyone in Pokeshipping thread, we were making good convo and it was fine until another person came and insulted the thread...that was it.
So there wasn't much to apologize about, but I agree with pokesrni ^
It's still a concern that she has NEVER won a battle without some sort of interruption or the opponent submitting it as enough (besides a TR curb stomp, and even those were all a group effort). I'd like this to be an actual factor in her development that comes back to haunt her, rather than just badly done plot armour they try to ignore. No other twerp was THAT overprotected by the plot. They were forced to improve to some significant level, even against Team Rocket.
I do admit it would preferable if she didn't entirely need Ash to improve in that area, but unless they give her one hell of a special, I don't know if they can pull all that off during Hoenn with so little focus, at least not without nearly all of it being offscreen, which isn't as fulfilling.
What I mean is that I don't just want her to turn out to be great at battling after all and cleaning house in the contests like she was the showcases. I want her to suffer a little moment of struggling at least, especially since showcases play out differently in style. Something like Dawn where poor choices and inexperience led to her suffering a small losing streak but did eventually manage to climb the ladder through mustering improvement. I want her to work and suffer for something this time, something that was blatantly missing in her XY arc.
Well I see some rather insane debates going on. All I can say is, first off, if at all someone is going to other threads and posting stuff, then kindly refrain from doing so. AmourShipping has won, why rub it in on others? If there are people who don't want to believe it, just let them be. How does it affect you? But I kinda see where the rationale behind these actions come from. There was no shortage of OtherShipping baiters who were present here, baiting AmourShippers when things didn't seem good. But revenge isn't worth. The biggest revenge you have gotten against them is from the writers themselves. The very fact that the kiss happened, and AmourShipping is implied-canon/canon (whatever you'd like to believe) is the biggest thing. Anything you say against them yourself holds just about as much credibility as the stuff they say.
Do showcases feature battling? It never sat right with me that the contests were decided by battles. Even if the rules were slightly different, it always seemed more about power than style. I don't feel that battling should be important for people who aren't trying to become masters or compete in leagues.
Do showcases feature battling? It never sat right with me that the contests were decided by battles. Even if the rules were slightly different, it always seemed more about power than style. I don't feel that battling should be important for people who aren't trying to become masters or compete in leagues.
From what I've been hearing, there was a leak from the 2017 Pokemon Calendar which showed some details of the upcoming S/M anime.
Apparently, Serena comes back after season 1 and she seems to represent one of the four Hawaiian gods: Tapu Lele.
Why she comes back? apparently she got trolled by the writers and they threw in a random reason for it.
They also mentioned something about Gary Oak returning but that doesn't belong here.
This is still a grain of salt but hey, it was a pretty interesting theory for me to talk to you guys about.
From what I've been hearing, there was a leak from the 2017 Pokemon Calendar which showed some details of the upcoming S/M anime.
Apparently, Serena comes back after season 1 and she seems to represent one of the four Hawaiian gods: Tapu Lele.
Why she comes back? apparently she got trolled by the writers and they threw in a random reason for it.
They also mentioned something about Gary Oak returning but that doesn't belong here.
This is still a grain of salt but hey, it was a pretty interesting theory for me to talk to you guys about.