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April 16th: PM2019 062 - Woebegone Jimereon
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We are so back Zygardebros
Quite the opposite: I expect nothing from this anime so I’m never disappointed
game3524
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I don’t think Sobble evolves here. But PM speeding through evolutions has been a thing from the start. A good thing IMO, I used to hate how long they would drag evolutions out, especially when most of the time it wasn’t necessary. Grovyle in AG was the worst when it came to this.
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BobbbidyBob
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How dare they talk like that about Messon in dat horrendous magazine?! Hmph!
Joltik-Kid
Careful? Where's the fun in that?
So it takes Ash 6 generations for his own Water starter to evolve yet Goh and his only goal of capturing Pokemon somehow gets his Water starter to evolve?
I'm sensing a bias here lol
I'm sensing a bias here lol
PsychoLogical
Black and White, Yin and Yang, Light and Dark.
tbf the other water starters before Greninja were only popular in their base form which tends to dictate evolutions in the anime lulz.
Ragnarok4
2024
Imagine if Goh catches a greninja
Kawaii Emolga
The cutest EVER!!!!
Emo lizard time!
I just hope it isn't the exact same thing as Raboot
I just hope it isn't the exact same thing as Raboot
Joltik-Kid
Careful? Where's the fun in that?
F'ing Brock got Mudkip to evolve and we all know Mudkip is far more marketable than Marshtomp and Swampert lol... plus they just had to have Ash tell Totodile he'd one day be a Feraligatr
The internet with crash...
Ragnarok4
2024
Anyway, he's likely to get a sinnoh starter
Joltik-Kid
Careful? Where's the fun in that?
I'm waiting for it to be the same bait and switch we got when it heavily hinted that Ash was gonna get Sobble. Than again they flat out told us Scorbunny was gonna evolve, more or less
Mythical-Moonlight
I just ran, I ran all Night and Day ~
Can you guys imagine if they didn't decide to spoil this in advance?
Imagine the reactions if they waited until the Episode aired! XD
Imagine the reactions if they waited until the Episode aired! XD
Spider-Phoenix
#ChespinGang
I really wonder if Mudkip was really popular as Mudkip back in the day... I mean, they deemed it unworthy enough to simply dump it on Brock rather than have it be on either Ash's or May's team.
The popularity might have been a later thing, after Swampert proved to be more efficient in the competitive from back then (or maybe Gen 4 where online battles were more of a thing)
Mew29240
Well-Known Member
Goh-Greninja incoming, mark my words!
Joltik-Kid
Careful? Where's the fun in that?
I'm clearly speaking from a bias standpoint here... but when Gen 3 revealed the starters in the long since discontinued Nintendo Power magazine, I was instantly determined to use Mudkip as my starter Pokemon.
But in terms of true popularity, I think the only confirmed Gen 3 starter was Blaziken. And that's because it got immediate exposure thanks to Harrison in the Johto League.
PsychoLogical
Black and White, Yin and Yang, Light and Dark.
Did you really take whatever Takeshi Shudo wrote seriously? lulz.
Joltik-Kid
Careful? Where's the fun in that?
Not really, but Ash did eventually complete his promise to Cyndaquil about evolving it heh
Mythical-Moonlight
I just ran, I ran all Night and Day ~
Back in the day, Marketing wasn't as big of a thing for the Anime as it is now.
Hence why there was a lot of early installment weirdness in the first 3 Gens.
The Starters marketability didn't seem like it was taken into account until Gen 4 where Piplup's Popularity BLEW UP! Hence why in subsequent Gens the Writer's have been trying hard to find the next Piplup through Oshawott, Chespin and then Rowlet with all 3 of themq essentially being clones of Piplup.
(With Oshawott and Chespin, although vastly more popular than their Evolutions, never quite stuck the landing.
Seems like they got what they were looking for with Rowlet tho because none of the Galar Starters seem very "Piplup-like")
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nuzamaki90
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I think in this case it might be justified as judging from the preview, the episode doesn’t look like it’ll end with Sobble’s evolution. In fact I expect Sobble to evolve in the first few minutes before the opening and the rest of the episode be about it and Go’s relationship
divinepokemonXZ
ALL HAIL THE GORILLA-FROG!
The writers apparently thought my boy Swampert was too ugly for Brock's team. I mean, Piplup and Oshawott's evolved forms aren't exactly what I'd call handsome, but still ...
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