People just view Charizard as some kind of enemy
He's also a powerhouse of Ash's team and just like some other Pokemon he needs screentime too. Why do I see that the popular ones get all the hate. If people say Muk needs a battle then same thing can be said for Charizard too.
Same can't be said for Charizard.. and he officially doesn't need screentime. The powerful ones don't get hate, the undershowcased get more love. Look at what Muk has behind his name, and then look what Charizard has behind it's name, you'll see the difference immediatly:
Muk: Bellsprout
Charizard: Weepinbell, Magmar, Charmander, Alakazam/Marowak, Electabuzz, Pidgeot, Dragonair, Scizor, Golem, Blastoise, Articuno.
And these are just the official matches that it has won.. Now tell me that you don't think that Muk needs a battle more then Charizard?
The same goes with Sceptile. Bayleef only had gym battles that it lost (Falkner) and had three gym battles that it won: Bugsy's Spinarak, and Chucks Poliwrath and Machoke. Then it had one battle in the league against Harrison's Houndoom, and that was it. Four wins in Johto and nothing else. While Sceptile had tons and tons of wins in Hoenn and the Battle Frontier.
People are applying the same logic to Corphish as well. It had enough in Hoenn, when compared to Totodile and Kingler who lack the amount of wins.
People don't want Ash to resort to the same pokemon each single time he has a hard match in front of him, them same pokemon being the strongest of the region put together. Ash using a team consisting of Charizard, Pikachu, Snorlax, Infernape, Sceptile and whatever sixth, would be boring and annoying as we know what they do.
- Charizard uses Seismic Toss, and has a new move.
- Pikachu uses Volt Tackle and Iron Tail and it's incredispeed.
- Snorlax gets grumpy and punches the crap out of everything no matter how many hits it takes.
- Infernape is going to go Blaze 95% of the time.
- Sceptile is going to hit something with Leaf Blade and people will stare in awe.
That's the reason why people wanted to see Muk, Totodile, Bayleef, Quilava and Noctowl so bad. They can actually still surprise us. Just look at how people liked Torkoal after Registeel, eventhough it lost. Just look at how people like Noctowl now since it came back and did great against Conway. And just look how disappointed people are to see something we've seen times before when pokemon like Quilava got an upgrade of gigantic proportions and doesn't get to show it.
I will rage if one of those overused a*sholes gets a spot over Totodile- the reserve in most need of redemption...
Backing you up a hundred percent buddy!
I think Sceptile is stronger than Infernape... So i prefer to use Sceptile over infernape.
Have you watched DP188? Do you think that Sceptile can stand up to Blaze Flare Blitz and Flamethrowers? I sure don't.. Sorry, but Sceptile's great asset was it's speed and physical style. Infernape has that, and more to bring to the table.
Bullet Seed < Flamethrower: Why am I comparing this?
Leaf Blade < Flare Blitz: This is a tough one, but due to Flare Blitz being super effective against Leaf Blade.
Solar Beam = Flamethrower with Blaze, Flare Blitz with Blaze will go straight through for a knock out.
Pound < Mach Punch: Pound could not knock a Aggron in the wall, I'm sure of it.
Aside from that, Infernape and Sceptile are about equals in speed and agility.
I'm not saying you're stupid as an individual, but it would be stupid if ash took raticate to fight. All his other kanto pokemon would be like: That guy was a part of ur team for half an episode, and we were w8ing 4 years just to fight alongside ur team!!!
Btw, I think the backwards cap is cool too, but ppl are getting too excited about it. When was the last time he reached semis? And when was the last time he fought a legendary in a League match, aside from battle frontier which doesn't really count??? NEVER
Huh? He was mostly talking about bringing Primeape.. Which Ash considered using against Erika, and thus was a part of his team enough. Primeape is actually the best counter, besides Heracross, but it's getting knocked out early so who knows..
Why doesn't the Battle Frontier count? Do tell.. Not a real league? No, perhaps not, but it's a real friggin match alright, with a real friggin plack to win alright.
I like the idea of Tauros battling and evolving. It is rumored to have a Fifth Gen evolution (Minotauros?), and that would fill Ash's slot of who to take to Isshu along with Pikachu.
Having said that, Heracross and Torkoal are also rumored to have an evolution.
Ow god I can just see it now! Three evolutions in one battle and suddenly Ash has half a Gen 5 team!
Lol, but all those rumours were proven false. No Atlacross, or Minotauros, or that Torcano rumor from back when Ash was going to Snowpoint City
