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Phanphy

I've always thought it was brought back because Ash rarely used it back in Johto and it was still technically a baby that needed some training and experience. The times Ash did use it in Johto Phanpy showed it was strong but didn't have the endurance to stay in long battles.
 
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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I would think it evolved because the writers felt he needed the fire power (no pun intended). Quilava went aginst Nando's Armaldo and I don't know about others but a Cyndaquil beating a Pokémon thats super effective to him (rock) despite having no training in years (unless Oak personally trains Ash Pokémon but that's another story) would of been weird and plot deviced to me. He may not of been there to promote HGSS technically but Johto remakes being a setting in Gen 4 def played a part in his evolution. Not to mention Dawn already had a Cyndaquil of her own at the time
 
They'd decided to bring old Pokemon back for the Battle Frontier, and they knew that bringing a now more mature Phanpy back for a while could set it up for a strong showing against the Frontier Brains, specifically Lucy. And there were actually a couple of other appearances by Donphan shortly before Phanpy returned, including being used by Tyson and being featured prominently in a filler episode near the end of Hoenn. Maybe the writers just really liked Donphan at the time. Can you blame them? Donphan's cool.
 
I think mainly it was because phanpy was a very late capture in johto (I think it was caught in master quest) and didn't have good screentime, so in order to compensate it they included phanpy in BF, besides OS and AG were very consistent series and complemented each other well.
 
I feel that Satoshi's Gomazou came back to his team in the Battle Frontier saga as a way of giving it some redemption, which was completely fine from a moral standpoint, but it came at the cost of Satoshi leaving Cotoise and Onigohri behind at Okido-hakase's lab.
 
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