ash&charizardfan
Humans are tools
Well there are few more i would like to add gardenia and clair are also well written gym leaders, sinnoh and kalos had the best written gym leaders of all.
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Most Well-Written Gym Leaders of the Anime?
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UltimateNinja
Praying for the holy relics
The only gym leader I can think off that are decently written are Maylene, Korrina and to a lesser extent Clemont. Also Volkner, Wattson, Prycen and Roark to have at least some conflict going on at some point.
Xuxuba
Well-Known Member
Excluding companions, i think Korrina, cuz she actually had development and an entire arc dedicated to her.
Sabrina's backstory was also well written in my opinion. Just wish her battle against Ash hadn't been so anticlimatic, but it was to be expected, since it was the OS.
Sabrina's backstory was also well written in my opinion. Just wish her battle against Ash hadn't been so anticlimatic, but it was to be expected, since it was the OS.
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Barry Hernandez
Well-Known Member
Korrina, a great battler and has a Lucario.
It's ironic Maylene and Korrina only got as much showcasing as they did because both have a Lucario in the games, and whenever a character has Lucario they promote the character down our throats. Even more ironic is they're both the third Gym leader of their respective regions and fighting type Gym leaders too.
AuraChannelerChris
Easygoing Luxray.
Maylene was done right.
Korrina was annoying and tried to shoehorn the Mega Evolution aspect while forgetting about her mon's nature. (Getting lost in a cave and her ace not using aura to locate her was stupid.)
Korrina was annoying and tried to shoehorn the Mega Evolution aspect while forgetting about her mon's nature. (Getting lost in a cave and her ace not using aura to locate her was stupid.)
Pokegirl Fan~
Liko>>>>>Ash
Meh, that's not saying much honestly.
The battles were all a highlight. The first episode had a great Pikachu Vs. Lucario fight, where Lucario used it's bone like a golf club. Second ep had a fantastic Blaziken Vs. Lucario fight in the cave. Then Mega Lucario going crazy in the middle ep was good. Lastly the Gym battle was pretty great. The last two eps were kinda boring when Korrina was trying to get Lucario under control, but those two eps didn't have any battles in them anyway besides TR stuff.
AuraChannelerChris
Easygoing Luxray.
They meant Clair; the Gym Leader of Blackthorn City.
Whom this anime isn't sure how to portray her. Instead of being an arrogant sore loser in the games, she's portrayed as either a wise woman or a genki girl who loves Dragons and is basically an older, matured Iris.
Dragalge
"Orange" Magical Girl
Not to mention how weird it was for her to struggle with Mega Evolution and then a random Nurse Joy who had issues with her Audino managed to use ME in one episode just fine, making that five episode arc feel kinda...off. I found myself to care more for Maylene too!
Plus, the Korrina gym battle is the worst one in Kalos due to just being a bunch of exchange of attacks without any strategy whatsoever (even when the dancing failed!) along with Mienfoo and Machoke being jobbers. I know people crap on Grant's battle for Fletchling jobbing but at least Ash used some strategy with Froakie and Pikachu.
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Korrina's Gym battle was great. I don't know where people got the idea it had no strategy. Even the weakest XY Gyms are still better than all the previous Gyms of the series bar the better DP ones.
Besides that, I don't see what other pokemon Mega evolving easily has anything to do with Korrina's Lucario. All Pokemon are different, same reason Ash's Charizard and Dawn's Mamoswine disobeyed them at first, that doesn't mean every persons Charizard or Mamoswine in the anime universe disobey them. Every pokemon is unique and has their own struggles, and it was great to see an arc over it.
Besides that, I don't see what other pokemon Mega evolving easily has anything to do with Korrina's Lucario. All Pokemon are different, same reason Ash's Charizard and Dawn's Mamoswine disobeyed them at first, that doesn't mean every persons Charizard or Mamoswine in the anime universe disobey them. Every pokemon is unique and has their own struggles, and it was great to see an arc over it.
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AuraChannelerChris
Easygoing Luxray.
Korrina and her jackal are best buds, yet they suffered hurdles to master Mega Evolution; a mechanic that the anime likes to emphasize as a close bond thing. Apparently theirs was just not strong enough, despite the fact she's supposed to be a professional trainer (really, I feel like we should have known for how long she's been a Gym Leader to be a mess about her family's tradition).
The Nurse Joy and her Audino pretty much disliked each other, yet their rocky friendship was no problems for them to use Mega Evolution their very first time.
Personality issues are well and good, but having a tight bond utterly screwed through evolution versus a screwed bond being magically fixed through evolution (at least while still in ME mode) is just weird.