Meanwhile, Palpitoad be like.. >.>
I mean Ash could rock up to the Sunyshore gym with a squad of Torterra, Gliscor, Donphan, Krookodile, Palpitoad and Gible and whoop Volkner's team any day of the weak.
So you take a post discussing the episodic format of this animé in an episode-thread and turn it into an opportunity to rant about Dexit-whiners? Don't get me wrong, those people don't have a place in this fandom, but how the heck is that relevant to an episode about Ash vs. Volkner. Considering your tone in this post, I'm not surprised your other post got reported. This one might as well since its really irrelevant and detracts from the actual subject of the thread.
Also, people were always talking about SINNOH-remakes. Everybody knows DP were trash compared to Platinum.
Yes, bring back Torterra. Can't agree more.
Magnezone wasn't on Volkner's DP-team because it wasn't in the Sinnoh Dex - most CrossGen-evolutions weren't until Platinum added them in. That's why you can only have Infernape or Rapidash as your Fire-types in DP runs, as Magmortar wasn't in the dex. I know, most counterintuitive choice they ever made - which was thankfully rectified in Platinum. However, I still don't know why Byron didn't have either Magnezone (he has Magneton) OR Probopass - or why Candice still had Sneasel and Piloswine as opposed to Weavile and Mamoswine in Platinum. Those are the sixth and seventh gymleaders and those evolutions aren't even tied to a specific level-cap. >.>
That monkey's an understated threat. Technician-boosted ShockWaves, BatonPassing Agility and NastyPlots to an Octillery with Water and Ice-coverage...
DP-Luxray had a horrid moveset (heck, Pt-Luxray had the elemental Fangs and Crunch). Imagine what a Gen8 Luxray can do with a Agility BP'd to it? Wild Charge, Play Rough, Crunch/Throat Chop, Ice Fang, Superpower.. Enough strong options to go around. All it needs is one Agility from Ambipom to fix that lousy 70 speed.