I'd... ASSUME so considering such things never happened during the 22 years he was in charge. Pokemon was always about the journey rather than the destination until Yuyama let someone else run the show.
LMAO what? Your bias is showing coz I'm pretty sure he for sure "got things in a silver platter" earlier as well, stuff that were too coincidentally made for him and plot contrived for him. Or are we conveniently forgetting Blaze, Ash-Greninja, all the movies where Ash coincidentally happens to be there or is the chosen one, etc.
Something can have a fitting ending where the MC actually wins something for once and still be more about the journey and not the destination, Dephender. SM's Ash and Pikachu mid-battle monologue when battling Kukui where they look back on all their bonds and memories is the LITERAL definition of looking at the journey. Tomiyasuverse as you like to call it may have actually allowed Ash to win stuff, but it never forgot the core concept of it being about the journey like you're trying to pretend here.
I'm pretty sure your speculations about Yuyama and the whole World Champion thing is just gonna cause so much chaos coz ignorants on this site and Twitter who take every word of your as the gospel and like to give half information are just gonna treat it as fact instead of the mere speculation. If anything, I'm pretty sure Yuyama was pretty fine with Ash becoming the world's strongest considering he has been growing as a trainer constantly at this point.
I kinda have to agree with his philosophy there. Plot Armor can (sometimes) be ignored if the MC is trying to defeat the big bad guy or help someone but Ash's goal is such that it only benefits himself. Winning a league is only going to make him more popular, he's not really doing anybody any favors and as such doesn't need that plot armor.
Ash doesn't win his battles because he's smart or strong but because he's the most privileged guy in the universe.
"Doesn't win because he's smart or strong" lmao why do people who don't even have good faith discussions about the anime discuss about it anymore? His whole character is being dumb in a common sense but actually really smart when it comes to unorthodox battle strategies that give him a win and being able to train his mons better than most because of the bonds he cultivates with them.
Ash's goal only benefits himself? Lmao the whole goal is befriending every Pokemon which by extension always has him helping others...... What even is this take
is people really ignoring the big improvement from OS as an amateur trainer to XY where Ash was E4 level trainer with an entirely new team just so they can say Ash had all in a plate during SM and JN?
They can't even slander SM and JN properly, atleast slander it for the series it actually was and showcased rather than pulling out falsehoods
SM was basically one huge pity region for Ash, really.
I mean...
Only five or six big battles prior the league.
Not many people in the region bother with battling.
Pikachu with exclusive move.
Rowlet that can defeat a ******** Decidueye.
The Amazing Duelist Sunny D-Roc, who was owned by one Krookodile before suddenly owning 3 Pokemon (Sitrus Berry delivery service turned on).
A ********* Mythical Pokemon among his ranks (though sort of weak in the grand scheme of things).
Two first battles at the league were jokes to him.
The BIGGEST fight...was not even in the league bracket.
Endured a brand new spanking Legendary Z-Move the first time it went down on him.
About the only things he seemed to struggle with was all the times his fire cat lost to fire tiger and a few Gladion losses, but other than that? He got it made too much.
I blame the fact he didn't have many battles in the region, so he was forced to take big wins right away here and there.
And here we are with the falsehoods
"Mythical mon in his ranks" - which was a point not to just directly give him a victory
"Rowlet defeated Decidueye" - Rowlet, shown to be training throughout the series along with its gag while getting multiple victories before this and even training before this battle, beat it's fully evolved form, something that has DEFINITELY never before happened
Your comments about Lycanroc and the whole Nanu thing so you don't even watch the episodes lmao just reiterate whatever negative points others say so you can use them in your shitty baits. The whole arc itself explains the Lycanroc's loss then and why he won later
It's like talking to a brick wall
XY gave Ash a hyper OP form specific. That's a platinum platter.
Like they talking about Ash being the chosen one as if it isn't a theme since M2.....
I mean, I was kind of over it, until I read that any concrete reasons to believe in Ash were being actively sabotaged by one man, and the reason Ash finally got to where he should be was not because of a collective realisation that it was time for him to actually be good, but because this obstructing force simply...left.
That... kind of annoys me? I know it might seem strange, but I preferred the idea that the writers, directors, etc collectively decided to pull their finger out and write the character properly. Not that there was one guy insisting that Ash be pre-surgery Charlie Gordon forever, functionally trapping the show in infuriating stasis, with that front only improving once he left.
I spoke in the past about how the show needed to make up for the horrific Unova and Kalos leagues, and it did - but it wasn't through a changing of minds, it was a changing of personnel. I wish it was the former, that's all.
And this is exactly the harm I was talking about
Get a grip my guy, what Dephender posted and whatever he posts isn't always the unspoken truth and gospel
He has his own preferences, biases and likes and intrepretations of the anime as we all do and therefore his own takes at times. It's HIS opinion of whatever he said about Yuyama, not a fact.
Stop dogpiling on Yuyama
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@SerGoldenhandtheJust...remember when I said something about this didn't sit right with me? Well, I figured it out. It's a giant messaging and PR problem. You'd think a series that was primarily built around marketing would have this stuff figured out.
Yep I've been SAYING this ever since the sobble fiasco. The marketing is so bad for this series coz they're too hyper focused on just hyping up things with whatever stills and clips they can even if they are perpetuating a narrative which isn't happening and not the writers intent. They market with an intent to hype bait, not to actual market the content with the writers and directors intent. Anipoke_PR absolutely sucks
REALLY hope they promote the newer series better not just to hype but to actually promote it properly and with elements the writers and directors intend it to be. You can still tease and hype up things without being unbalanced with the writers intent and straight up misleading
It's still so insane seeing the onion duck go from being a rogue samurai who lost to Riolu dealing so much damage to the nearly impervious Gablias belonging to Shirona, even Shinji's whole team could do nothing to that thing and stomped out so many Elite Four members during DP&BW.
Bro back when during the darkest day where everyone was like where's Farfetchd if you told people he'll eventually be bringing THE Cynthia 's Garchomp to its knees, nobody would believe you
