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Nando, if I recall, I've only seen him in one episode: "Dawn of a new Era". How exactly is it that he is becoming a rival within BOTH the Grand Festival and Sinnoh League, if we only saw him once, or twice? And now he's in the current Japanese opening The Greatest-Everyday, twice! He's with all of Dawn's rivals, Zoey, Kenny, Ursala and Jessie, then he's at the end with Paul, Barry and Conway. How is it that he's suddenly going from who I thought would have been a "Character of the Day" to a rival by the end of Sinnoh if we rarely ever saw the guy?
 
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There is a Character Discussion Thread Section with a thread for Nando, although I'll just answer here.

Nando did appear at Eterna City and later in a cameo appearance in DP106 revealing he won 4 ribbons. That is true that we have not seen him and he's been here since DP004 which is about 160+ episodes and he has not gotten a lot of appearances. At least we can practically confirm that Nando will be in the Sinnoh League and Sinnoh Grand Festival.
 
It pretty simple really. Nando is meant to defeat dawn. Remember Robert in Hoenn He was in May's first contest and won. He never appeared again until the grand festival and he won it nonetheless. Nando is Sinnoh's Robert. Only that Nando has appeared 3 times. His debut ep, Eterna ep, Hearthome contest. Also a cameo in one ep to show he was still alive
 
TicoPokemonMaster said:
It pretty simple really. Nando is meant to defeat dawn. Remember Robert in Hoenn He was in May's first contest and won. He never appeared again until the grand festival and he won it nonetheless. Nando is Sinnoh's Robert. Only that Nando has appeared 3 times. His debut ep, Eterna ep, Hearthome contest. Also a cameo in one ep to show he was still alive
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I disagree. Having Nando defeat Dawn or Ash proves that there is a lack of originality and growth in the writers as far as Grand Festivals go.

Kenny winning the GF, honestly, would be more believable.

I'd rather have him win, any day over Nando.

I'd rather have Ritchie come from wherever, say he was a coordinator or trainer, and win over Nando.

Just my two cents.
 
J-boogie200 said:
I disagree. Having Nando defeat Dawn or Ash proves that there is a lack of originality and growth in the writers as far as Grand Festivals go.

Kenny winning the GF, honestly, would be more believable.

I'd rather have him win, any day over Nando.

I'd rather have Ritchie come from wherever, say he was a coordinator or trainer, and win over Nando.

Just my two cents.
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Not really. Look at the past. I know that things change but to understand the future you most understand the past. All of the rivals that defeat Ash come out of nowhere at the end of the saga. Ritchie, Harrison, Tyson are examples. May had Robert, who appeared once, and Solidad(who also came out of nowhere). The writer's gave Nando a few eps to show that he was somewhat important. So if he wins I think that it would be ok, other than insert one off rival who defeats main character here.
 
TicoPokemonMaster said:
Not really. Look at the past. I know that things change but to understand the future you most understand the past. All of the rivals that defeat Ash come out of nowhere at the end of the saga. Ritchie, Harrison, Tyson are examples. May had Robert, who appeared once, and Solidad(who also came out of nowhere). The writer's gave Nando a few eps to show that he was somewhat important. So if he wins I think that it would be ok, other than insert one off rival who defeats main character here.
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I just never liked how Nando was put on a pedestal. However, life goes on, and I do like him, but I don't love him enough to give him an ok pass to defeat Dawn because she deserves it way more than he does, IMO.
 
Yes, Nando was handled quite poorly. But for good reason I assume. I think the writers are planning to have Nando win either the GF or the League. So they want to keep his strength a secret until we actually see him battle at the GF/League. They don't want us to know his team, because he definitely could be a major powerhouse. Who knows, we'll have to wait til the GF and the League to find out.
 
Nando is one of those characters that you thought was going to appear a lot and he never did.

Its funny if you go back and watch early DP and how they seemed to set him up like he was a major character
 
I think that they wanted that people will forget Nando for a while because they want him to be like Robert/Soledad, that appeared almost only in the festivals.
If Nando was appearing during all this saga, it was strange because Dawn has already 3 rivals that appeared during the saga so they want that someone mysterious will appear in the GF/League.
 
Just because Robert appeared only one episode and went on to win the Grand Festival, doesnt mean the same will happen here. I mean, there's not even a pattern to back it up. It has only happened once!

Nando MIGHT win the Grand Festival but no way in hell he's going past the quarter finals in the League.
 
A new thread about Nando! Oh boy can't get enough of Nando! Being serious though, I never liked Nando much. I wanted to, I tried to, but I can't. It's mainly because I don't like these super rivals that show up and steal the main characters time to shine, the only one I liked was Harrison because he was cool. Tyson, Solidad, Robert, and whoever else are just so last minute, and it really hurts this region because the rivals are showing up more frequently...well at least Paul, Barry, and sometimes Zoey. I'm sure Nando won't win the league but he pretty much has the GF won already. Shame since Zoey has shown to be the best on screen Coordinator this region. Even Jessie has impressed me more then Nando. I wish Nando just showed up and revealed more about himself. Him being all secret turn's me off to his character even more.
 
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