Yea that’s basically it which truth to be told is something I want a Galar ep to be based on, basically taking that specific part from Dreepy’s bio and make it the plot of an episode in one of the usual Galar two parters we get.
I think their point is that as fellow a dragon and ghost type, Dragonite and Gengar could probably have a potential interest in helping Dreepy/Dorameshiya get stronger. Speaking of Gengar, there was some talk about how there wasn't really much the writers could do with Gengar outside of battles. But I feel like that scene of it eating a berry alongside the other pokemon at the lab shows the writers could have included it in previous scenes without any issues.
Well they still keep it out of sight for whatever reason which I won’t even bother questioning anymore, and there is technically a point regarding about not being to find anything to do with Gengar which tbh, they really don’t. Unless for “serious” battles. Gengar’s fully evolved and is automatically battle ready so there’s really a short list of what they could do with it unlike Riolu and Farfetch’d currently which they do have resources since they’re Ash’s only unevolved mons on the rotating roster at the moment.
All dex entries are flavour text but they've used them as basis for the actual plots of the Pokemon many times this series so it's a reasonable prediction to something they might do if they choose to make Dreepy important.
It is flavor text but at the same time, this series has actually been consistently using those flavor texts for real plots of eps like they did with Dragonite with the island inhabited by only Dragonite and the rest of its line and soon Flygon with its “Desert Spirit” bio. So it’s not out of the question that they could use Dreepy’s “can grow stronger and evolve if it has friends to help it train” part of its bio as a plot of a future episode whenever the writers decide to have the duo head back to Galar.
So far this saga is faithful to the dex entries, so I see no reason for the writers to rule out Dreepy receiving help from Dragonite and Core-Gengar.
I mean I guess that’s in terms of personal preference. Because I prefer when Ash’s Pokémon fully evolved or not actually do more outside of battles. Being fully evolved doesn’t equal they don’t need character development. I wouldn’t say resources would be wasted on developing Dragonite and Gengar outside of battles. Even though Dragonite isn’t regularly battling, I think it has the strongest development of Ash’s current squad. It’s very friendly like it’s species, gets really excited at things, is willing to help others, believes Pokémon should resolve their own issues, gets serious when it battles and shows that it doesn’t mess around. Riolu has shown up the most of the four and the only thing it has is that it wants to get stronger. I’m not even confident that once Riolu evolves, that the focus will shift to Farfetch’d.
Ubermuk said:
I mean a friend could also mean a trainer. Friends can mean so many things in different contexts
Friends have a ton of context. Doesn’t mean just one option.
So Gou's gonna battle Kiawe? Nice!
Nah It's out. Or at least some of it. Got it from twitter. I think there'll be a battle against Kiawe from here.
Idk, I think we should just wait for someone to translate cause the second page is partially covered up.
Idk, I'm trying to see if anything else has been posted on twitter but that's all that's been posted.
I mean it doesn't seem like a far off assumption?
Well I mean I'd like to see it since it's likely Go will get swept lmao.