Zoruagible
Lover of underrated characters
I loved that Trip defeated Burgundy so quickly. My favorite quote from this episode was when Dawn said "There sure are a lot of pains here"
I didn't like that the Pokemon World Tournament was watered-down here compared to how it worked in the games.
Well my best guess is that this tourney was different from the PWT from the games cuz it would've been hard to bring back alot of old gym leaders and champions into the anime.
Colress and Hugh should've shown up at least to mimic the games. :s
Well Colress was being saved for the Team Plasma arc in Episode N, tho I do wonder why Hugh wasn't shown in this tourney cuz it would've made sense. I guess the writing staff simply wanted to show recurring characters like Trip and Georgia instead.
but the BW writers seemed to have a phobia of showing B2/W2 characters. :/
Trip's progression in this tournament feels extremely artificial given that the last time we saw him in the series, he got his *** kicked by Bianca in Donamite's first round, and since they never bothered to delve much into how Trip actually TRAINS his Pokemon, it feels incredibly contrived that he went from going on a glamorous losing streak to being totally untouchable.
No it did not. A Serperior so fast it can basically teleport does not make ANY sense. Not to mention a Serperior whose moves OHKO an opponent despite type advantage. Ridiculous.He might've flopped in the last tournament, but we've always known that he was strong. So his strength here made sense.
It was terrible. The writers can't seem to decide whether Trip should be mediocre or overpowered. It kind of sucks, since a win for Ash in one of these tournaments would have been nice.