Yes, they do deserve to come back in the isshu league.
The Hoenn pokemon should stay the f away this time.
Honestly, three leagues in a row? Why would you wanna see that?? They already got the biggest league to their own, some frontier battles after that,
and they infiltrated the Sinnoh League while others needed the battles more. And NOW you wanna see them do the same crap again??!
Seriously, why is Sceptile such a big deal anyway? It cheap shotted Darkrai, big deal! The only reason Darkrai went down is because it didn't see Sceptile waking up again.. Otherwise it would've been same old same old defending with Ice Beam and Sceptile would've been knocked out.
If Ash is really going on to catch more pokemon then he did since Kanto, then the league better be to the Isshu pokemon alone. If there's another Paul situation, it would be horrible.. The worst thing for me was Torterra getting no love at all in the league. Why did it have to be Sceptile when Torterra could've knocked out Darkrai just as well, both would've been influenced by the plot eitherway.
I don't care that I'm seemingly hating on Sceptile, but who in their right mind wouldn't? Torterra went head to head with the strongest of opponents and did well, but now that it hasn't got a win in the league it's suddenly 'no powerhouse material'... IT BROUGHT A FREAKING FRONTIER LEADER'S RHYPERIOR TO ITS KNEES AS A GROTLE!
The only one I want to see being brought back to Isshu if there are going to be reserves are, Hoenn could return for some Frontier type battles. That's something I rather wanted to have them do then infiltrate the league that they didn't need, while these did:
Totodile: You know why.
Gible: You know why.
Quilava: Needs it moreso then Bayleef. It's league win felt empty.
Muk: Increase it's two move moveset please..
Kingler: to prove that it's still alive
Torterra: to prove that it is stronger then/equal to Sceptile.
There you have it. This would've been my team vs. Takuto. Maybe switch Gible out for Pikachu, since it had to be in there.
Muk vs. Darkrai: Muk poisons Darkrai and is switched out.
Kingler vs. Darkrai: Kingler gets a Crab Hammer, which busts through Dark Void, but is defeated after a Hyper Beam/Ice Beam collision due to the recharge turn. The poison effects Darkrai
Quilava vs. Darkrai: Gets a Eruption and Flamewheel combo to hit Darkrai. Similar to Countershield but way more powerful. Is knocked out by Dream Eater. Darkrai is getting slow due to the poisoning.
Torterra vs. Darkrai: Energy Ball power up. Gets put asleep, wakes up. Torterra uses Rock Climb and Leaf Storm at the same time to counter Ice Beam and charge into Darkrai knocking it from the mountain and driving it into the ground KO'ing it..
Torterra vs. Latios: Torterra takes Giga Impact head on and survives. It uses Leaf Storm but it does no damage due to the stat drop and Light Screen. After which Latios uses Luster Purge which takes a lot out of Torterra and the next Giga Impact knocks it out.
Muk vs. Latios: Latios is recharging from the Giga Impact so Ash decides to use Body Slam, paralyzing the speedfreak. It is however knocked out by a single Luster Purge/Sludge Bomb collision.
Totodile vs. Latios: Totodile uses Dragon Dance and uses Ice Fang on Latios while evading its attacks and sends it crashing into the wall due to Ice Fang hurting so much. It then uses Hydro Pump at the incoming Luster Purge and they end up cancelling each other out. Latios then comes in for a Giga Impact, which is countered by Totodile's Superpower. When the smoke clears Totodile is knocked out, but Latios is panting heavily.
Pikachu vs. Latios: Same fight as it was.
Perfect redemption for Muk, Torterra and Totodile.
- Muk doesn't knock anything out, but proves its worth in the battle against both due to it afflicting them with a severe crippling status.
- Kingler does good, but doesn't need the win, but falls after an impressive collision, kinda like Heracross.
- Quilava gets to use all its moves and gets a more well rounded battle.
- Torterra gets the league win it deserved, and is finally used the way it should be.
- Totodile gets a new movepool and major credit for sticking up against Latios, and knocking it into a wall and making it pant heavily without comedic relief being in effect.
- Pikachu got the final say in Sinnoh.
Seriously, any of these pokemon could've been easily switched in for Torkoal or Swellow, since they did nothing anyway...
This should've been the battle against Takuto in my opinion, and then Sceptile and its overused brethren from AG can all have had a single battle in perhaps an Isshu Battle Frontier type of ordeal. Letting all Sinnoh pokemon have a win in the Sinnoh League along with redemptioning the needy, and have Isshu have the league to themselves in Isshu.
Indigo: Kanto pokemon + Kanto-extra's
Johto: Johto pokemon + Kanto pokemon
Hoenn: Hoenn pokemon
Battle Frontier: Hoenn pokemon + reserves
Sinnoh: Sinnoh pokemon + the needy reserves
Isshu: Isshu pokemon
Isshu Frontier: Isshu pokemon and Hoenn (and likes like Tauros/Bulbasaur/Gible, who didn't have all that much screentime in general).