Let's not forget - Ash's Charizard 1v3'd Gary in the Johto League. Pikachu still has a chance.
(let's ignore the fact that Ash's Charizard doing that was also BS omegalul)
haha yep, that battle was only a bit longer than an episode and everything was getting 2 shot to get to Charizard vs. Blastoise.
To summarize these last few posts: people are okay with literally anything Journeys does as long as Ash achieves victory in the end. Poorly developed team? Nerfing Champions and their Pokemon? Ash being given several advantages in order to win? It's totally fine, apparently, because it goes in Ash's favor.
Suit yourselves, but I'm personally not going to swallow whatever bullsh*t the writers serve on the platter. You're free to do so however.
Trust me I am still disappointed by JN and I feel that it had absolutely insane potential when it first was announced, and seen a lot of the potential gone to waste. Does Ash vs. Leon magically fix these issues and the overall questionable quality of the rest of the M8? Of course not. But we still get a great final battle!
-good animation, strategies, and pacing on par or even surpassing Ash vs. Paul and Ash vs. Kukui (Mr. Rime battles weren't great though)
-"Jobbing" and Lycanroc effect (Ace in previous battle "jobbing") was better handled because Lucario did get a K.O. and Sirfetch'd removed Psychic Terrain and weakened Rillaboom significantly. Huge step up from Cynthia battle where you can argue the "jobbers" did nothing
-A greater focus on Pikachu next week. If Ash isn't bringing reserves, having Pikachu do major work by potentially defeating 2 mons is the next best thing
-Next week we are getting XY&Z level animation like Ash vs. Sawyer and Ash vs. Alain, so an amazing bonus to compliment all the writing and other elements being improved drastically from previous M8 battles
I understand that this battle could have been even better if it did stuff like portray Ash beating champions in a more realistic manner, not paint Leon as some sort of Alain/Tobias type trainer, build up connection with Ash and Leon more, heck add reserves, so on and so forth. For a lot of people, these flaws are very problematic but it's hard to ignore the amazing elements of the battle we did get. It's obvious the writers and animators were saving their budget for this battle and so far, taken the best elements from previous Full Battles. You are obviously free to dislike the battle if you so choose, but please don't ruin other people's enjoyment of the battle.
That’s not impossible. In the Finals 3, we saw pikachu charging thunderbolt but didn’t fire it and started running with electricity surrounding its body similar to volt tackle to dodge the Max Rockfall.
also volt tackle like movement was used when Ash used 10MV against Tapu Koko, just before releasing the rainbow bolt thing Pikachu jumped in the air while being enveloped in electricity like a Volt Tackle.
