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Phanphy

Maybe they wanted to freshen up Ash's team a bit for the Battle Frontier? Who knows?
 
Well, it was not utilized at all in Johto IIRC, and they probably wanted to give Ash a Pokemon that could evolve for that season. Imo Pidgeot or Squirtle would've been better, but the BF arc has always feeled like an addition to Hoenn as opposed to a revisit to Kanto, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Well, he rotated his Pokemon a bit, and they decided to evolve it. There was nothing really special since they gave some of his old team some time to shine.
 
I kinda expected Scraggy to return to Ash's team to evolve, similarly to Phanpy/ Donphan, but so far that hasn't happened.
 
They might have felt that Phanpy should've evolved by now. I feel similar reasoning was why we got Cyndaquil-Quilava
 
Cyndaquil coming back to evolve so many years after it was "Oak'd" was just as weird and pointless.
 
MattySadler said:
Cyndaquil coming back to evolve so many years after it was "Oak'd" was just as weird and pointless.
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Except it wasn't. Cyndaquil promoted hg/ss.

They brought back one of Ashs johto pokemon at a time johto remakes were a thing.

Phanphy was completely different, it didn't promote anything
 
To evolve into God tier level Pokemon.
 
I can only guess that perhaps the writing staff remembered that Phanpy was in need of more development since he did very little during Johto, so they gave him a chance in AG. If it had been me, I'd have brought Totodile back instead of Phanpy tho. :3
 
They realized that Phanpy wasn't well developed and brought him back so he could get more and evolve so he'd be of more use to Ash in the future.
Really, it was nice seeing them evolving an older Pokemon. First Donphan, then Quilava..... I hope this gen they evolve Totodile, Gible, or one of the Unova Pokemon. It's nice seeing changes to Ash's Pokemon long after you expected it to stop. I don't think many people were expecting Cyndaquil to evolve.
 
Maybe someone went "You know what we've never given Ash? A really good ground type."
And then someone else said "So what? Should we work on him getting a Sandslash, Marowak or Nidoking?"
And then the first person answered "We could, or we could just take this Phanpy we gave him and let it evolve."
And then the second person said "Good idea. Let's do it!"

Or maybe the conversation went like this:
"You know what sucked?"
"No, what?"
"Ash's Johto team. Apart from Heracross and Bayleef, they were all crap."
"Huh, you're right. It almost feels like we should redeem them somehow."
"Good idea. Let's start with that Phanpy that hatched from an egg and then did nothing."

Or maybe both those conversations happened and bringing Phanpy back was a way to kill two birds with one stone.

It should be noted as well that after Phanpy returned and evolved into Donphan, strong ground types did become a key component of Ash's teams (Gliscor in Sinnoh and Palpitoad and Krookodile in Unova) until he got to Kalos (which introduced exactly one non-legendary ground type - Diggersby.)
 
J D Sheppard said:
Except it wasn't. Cyndaquil promoted hg/ss.

They brought back one of Ashs johto pokemon at a time johto remakes were a thing.

Phanphy was completely different, it didn't promote anything
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Great a Cyndaquil evolving and then disappearing again sure promoted those games for me.
 
Alloutℯ said:
Compared to Phanpy, yep. At least Phanpy got battle time throughout the Frontier saga as a Donphan unlike Quilava, which was only used in one or two battles, then dumped.
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The difference was simply that Quilava was meant to be HG/SS promo, while Donphan was an odd case since it promoted nothing at the time during BF.
 
Ash's Quilava wasn't the HG/SS promotion. That was Lyra and her sad sack boyfriend's job. Along with Dawn's Cyndaquil.
 
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