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Pocket Monsters (2019) Speculation Thread

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Pokegirl Fan~

Liko>>>>>Ash
Yeah i wouldn’t put too much faith in those number if i were you.

I was keeping track of that poll after ragnarok (iirc) posted about it, and there were a bunch of unnatural vote increase near the end of the voting time. The one that stands out the most were dawn and misty. Serena was ahead by around 300-400 votes and it seemed to have stabilized at around that gap, but dawn had a bunch of sudden big dump of votes in a very short time and close the gap. Misty was even more noticeable, where her votes was pretty much at around 500 for most of the poll runtime, but suddenly shot to 800 on the last day.

If you see the comment section on the poll, you’ll see some people taking notice of it. You’ll also see every positive comment about serena having been downvoted to hell. Ironically, she’s one of the few tht didn’t have any last minute unnatural vote increase.
so does this mean that lady Lillie is at least 3rd or maybe even second if those votes are illegitimate? XD
 

Dragonsoldier77

Bittersweet Satisfaction
so does this mean that lady Lillie is at least 3rd or maybe even second if those votes are illegitimate? XD
Probably not?

The gap between characters changed but the ranking itself didn’t change, aside from maybe iris was above lana before? Lilie was also around the 500 range but bellow misty for most of the poll.

Serena and dawn were just already too far from everyone else.
 

janejane6178

Kaleido Star FOREVER in my heart <3
No one probably cares but it looks like Serena just Won a popularity poll ranking all of the Pokémon Heroines that was held in Japan
(I know this Probably doesn't mean anything but I hope to see Serena again sooner rather than later)

10th - Bonnie
9th - Mallow
8th - Iris
7th - Lana
6th - Chloe
5th - May
4th - Lillie
3rd - Misty
2nd - Dawn
1st - Serena

I'm Surprised and Happy to see Chloe is at 6th place despite her lack of screentime compared to all the other Main Pokegirls.
GO Serena . Perfect
 

Zoruagible

Lover of underrated characters
Maybe, but I doubt it, that's why the developers deliberately gave Ash a Pokemon Sword concert tour.
Here are the reasons:
1. Zacian - in the forest he chose him as the sword hero from Galar, in the fourth episode of Sword & Shield Arc, Ash has just picked up the sword.
2. Bea - they chose this person instead of Allister as if Ash chose the Pokemon Sword tour.
3. Pokedex about Dracovish in Pokemon Sword: Powerful legs and jaws made it the apex predator of its time. Its own overhunting of its prey was what drove it to extinction. (However, It wasn't Ash's pokedex talking about it, but Cara Liss mentioned it).
4. Pokedex about Sirfetch'd in Pokemon Sword: Only Farfetch’d that have survived many battles can attain this evolution. (Pokedex sounded the same in the episode where he fought Gallade).

Perhaps Allister will show up, but I doubt there will be a fight. It will probably be the same as in Unova, Ash was supposed to go to the dragon village but Iris did not recommend him, instead he chose the leader of the poison type gym, despite this he met Drayden anyway, but without the pokemon fight.
The difference between that and this is that Ash actually can battle them all. Well he could have done that in Unova too since they let him battle Gym Leader Cheren, but not Drayden and Marlon for whatever reason

Melony and Gordie can both easily happen. Melony could want to retire but Gordie doesn't want to be an Ice type specialist like her so she stubbornly holds onto the title(much like the drama in the games). Enter Ash and he helps the two get along by battling them both in the saga's obligatory two vs two match(Liza/Tate, Tucker, Olympia, Olivia, etc), Melony grows to appreciate her son's love for Rock types and allows him to succeed her as Gym Leader.

As for Allister, they never said where Bea's from. I think part of the reason she's roaming apart from their obvious love for her is so that Allister can be written as the Gym Leader

I think we'll see all of the gym leaders, it's Klara/Avery and maybe Rose's family that I'm more hesitant on as they can easily be replaced rolewise. Heck I still say that Bea's gonna be his rival during that eventual arc, he has quite a few Fighting types on his team so they might get focus there. Be nice if Scraggy gets to tag along too since Lucario, Sirfetch, Infernape, and Pikachu still allows for one slot on top of Kubfu, he could be buddies with Kubfu and maybe become Scrafty


Cinderace, Grookey, and Inteleon...
Gengar's sure been appearing on a lot of stuff recently, I hope this means that he'll get focus soon or y'know just appear more. He's well overdue for it
 

Ace-Barn

#Tokio&Nickit
Cinderace - fully evolved
Drizzile - soon to be an Inteleon, maybe even in its next episode
Grookey - development teased in the Project Mew PV

Who will be Goh's next shoulder mon:

Kubfu
Toxel
Piplup

And for Ash Gmax Gengar and Mega Lucario speculators, do you think Ash will capture a new pokemon before or after achieving either of those forms?

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*Bonus: Alola Ninetales, Lillie or Goh?
 
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Ignition

We are so back Zygardebros
Cinderace - fully evolved
Drizzile - soon to be an Inteleon, maybe even in its next episode
Grookey - development teased in the Project Mew PV

Who will be Goh's next shoulder mon:

Kubfu
Toxel
Piplup

And for Ash Gmax Gengar and Mega Lucario speculators, do you think Ash will capture a new pokemon before or after achieving either of those forms?

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I think a Toxel who maintains its agggresive attitude even after evolution is something I’d be interesting in seeing to contrast Go’s more kind side. As for Ash’s potential GMax/Mega, I think he’ll get at least one before another capture
 
Just because Goh’s goal is to catch every Pokémon doesn’t mean that Ash can’t still get a lot of captures. Heck the fact that Ash has already gotten 5 captures and some of those were past gen non proves that just because Ash is traveling with Goh doesn’t mean that Ash can’t still get captures.

There are 800+ Pokémon to choose from their plenty of Pokémon for Ash to get even with Goh getting a lot of captures.

The thing that needs to be understood here is that Goh has no impact at all on what Ash will catch and how many Pokémon he gets.

So for instance if they plan on having Ash have a total of 10 captures for this series then Ash would get 10 captures in this series regardless of who he travels with.

So no, the argument that Ash can’t get a lot of captures just because he is traveling with someone whose goal is to capture every Pokémon doesn’t work.
At this point we really don’t know what Ash will get and how many more captures he will get. I mean heck if you go back to before Ash got Dragonite there were some people that thought for sure that he would only get gen 8 Pokémon, and yet then he turned around and got a Pokémon that had absolutely nothing to do with gen 8.
Ash catch non-Galar pokemon because he is not restricted to Galar. Using your own logic:

The thing that needs to be understood here is that from which regions/generations the pokemon he catch in the series a has no impact at all on how many Pokémon he gets.

So for instance if they plan on having Ash have a total of 5-7 captures for this series then Ash would get 5-7 captures in this series regardless of from which regions/generations the pokemons he catch.

So no, the argument that Ash will get a lot of captures just because he catch non-Galar pokemons doesn't work.

Nb: that above is not my logic.

Having a new capture oriented protagonist and more than 1 region to travel obviously influence the writer's decision about how many pokemons Ash will catch (that is why I said 5-7 not just 5 like XY or SM) or whether it will be represented with his captures from previous series.
 
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Ace-Barn

#Tokio&Nickit
I think a Toxel who maintains its agggresive attitude even after evolution is something I’d be interesting in seeing to contrast Go’s more kind side. As for Ash’s potential GMax/Mega, I think he’ll get at least one before another capture
I think Amped would bring an interesting new dynamic to his core team, unlike Low Key who might be too similar to Drizzile/ Inteleon.
 

Leonhart

Imagineer
Pretty neck and neck with Dawn:

Serena 1425
Dawn 1397
Misty 814
Lilly 601
May 385
Koharu 302
Lana 203
Iris 171
Mallow 96
Bonnie 37
I realize that polls like this aren't really meaningful, but I still get a kick out of seeing popularity polls for the human characters of the series. I'm surprised that Serena and Hikari have maintained their popularity even after all these years, although I'm surprised that Koharu outranked Iris and Suiren on this poll considering that Koharu hasn't exactly done much so far. But I admit that I feel a sense of schadenfreude seeing Eureka with so few votes.
 

i2i

Big Bad Wolf
The Nido's will likely evolve together, and Magicarp is definitely going to evolve, as will Misdreavus, Mantyke and Cubone. Goh just needs to evolve Scatterbug - Vivillion and he will be the 'Bug king of Kalos' as well.

I figured Misdreavus pretty much guaranteed to evolve just because of bdsp.
 
No one probably cares but it looks like Serena just Won a popularity poll ranking all of the Pokémon Heroines that was held in Japan
(I know this Probably doesn't mean anything but I hope to see Serena again sooner rather than later)

10th - Bonnie
9th - Mallow
8th - Iris
7th - Lana
6th - Chloe
5th - May
4th - Lillie
3rd - Misty
2nd - Dawn
1st - Serena

I'm Surprised and Happy to see Chloe is at 6th place despite her lack of screentime compared to all the other Main Pokegirls.
This confirms that Serena should return.
 

Morax

King of heroes
I realize that polls like this aren't really meaningful, but I still get a kick out of seeing popularity polls for the human characters of the series. I'm surprised that Serena and Hikari have maintained their popularity even after all these years, although I'm surprised that Koharu outranked Iris and Suiren on this poll considering that Koharu hasn't exactly done much so far. But I admit that I feel a sense of schadenfreude seeing Eureka with so few votes.
Koharu is popular because HanaKana.
Leon is popular because Jotaro.
VAs are an important factor when it comes to popularity.
 
I realize that polls like this aren't really meaningful, but I still get a kick out of seeing popularity polls for the human characters of the series. I'm surprised that Serena and Hikari have maintained their popularity even after all these years, although I'm surprised that Koharu outranked Iris and Suiren on this poll considering that Koharu hasn't exactly done much so far. But I admit that I feel a sense of schadenfreude seeing Eureka with so few votes.
Dawn had a lot of help, several popular accounts (Dawn stans) i n instagram posted this poll in their stories
 
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