If it was the OG I agree cause we can't have Satoshi commanding something that's basically just...a guy that can talk and everything. It'd be like owning a human.
Legendaries have been losing their special status and meaning for years now, they're now just regular mons that are just rare and powerful which is now basically being done with Mythicals starting in SM.
Until main characters get them it won't truly feel that way for me. Melmetal was a good start for sure, but it was never presented as a legendary achievement in the show, it quite literally is just a rare Mon in anime canon. I wanna see a Mon that the show actually acknowledges as legendary get caught.
Well it's not like Leon would catch it on his own. It would be weakened from a combined effort from Ash, Go, and the wolves.
Yeah, I don’t want to seem dismissive, but I just don’t get the directionless take as well. The different classes make it easy to track Ash’s progress and Go has the dex. PM’s objective is pretty straightforward.
I would love to see legendaries being caught.
Well you could blame Shudo-Sensei when he made mewtwo and Lugia and rest of Legendary Pokemon sort big deal until ag had Joy-san own a legendary Pokemon....didn't help most battle frontier brains own few legends of own
There are definitely upsides to the movies legendary grandeur, but I don't think the anime has ever portrayed them the same way. From lacking voices to lower power scales.
You got Nessa confused with Bea lmaoNah Nessa's popularity is carried by Yuri shipping with Sonia and other types of "Fanart" that shall not be mentioned but we all know what I'm talking about
Just asking... Did you play Crown of Tundra?
Well .....Do you ? I mean i haven't yet play it myself .
Given the placement of the episode, I assume that it is just setting up future plot points in relation to events from the darkest day arc. Either Leon gets Eternatus and this sets up Ash to catch/ work with Mewtwo later, or after Ash working with Leon this episode revisits Goh's own goal in some fashion. Maybe both.
Mew being Gou's distant goal does fit with it being like a true myth for players back in the day like you said, but I'd argue that Mewtwo is just as iconic as a capture option due to being the most classic final boss that every Kanto game player HAS captured (or at least battled). If it's a more creature like being in this series I think the "Satoshi battles to stop an enraged artificial Pokemon and becomes its trainer to teach it to not hate humans" scenario basically writes itself.
I was gonna use it as an argument for why Satoshi getting OG Mewtwo technically isn't as crazy anymore but didn't wanna spoil people. But yeah I did and I felt pretty conflicted about The Thing lmao
This is the anime we’re talking about lmao. And it’s been a long while since we had an anime exclusive storyline which very rarely happens. Most notable being Operation Tempest and Team Flare in XYZ. Although those storylines were basically created due to the former taking parts of the unfortunately scrapped TR vs TP plot and recreating what they gathered into that and the latter basically remaking the entire TF plot due to how atrociously bad it was in the games.
I did. Just got done catching Keldeo.
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