Pocket Monsters (2019) Speculation Thread

[Mr.Munchlax]

It seems like Bea is training for a rematch against Chuck. This makes no sense lol, Bea beat Korrina but lost to chuck? Weird. Anyway dephender is probably translating them rn so we should have confirmation soon

Chuck: 5th gym leader in his region.
Korrina: 3rd gym leader in her region.

Honestly, makes sense. Unless you want to go the 'games =/= animé'-route, in which case, yeah fine. Or if you wanna go: "The Johto Gymleaders were pushovers", in which case I want to point out that Kalos wasn't exactly hard to beat either and only Viola, Olympia and Wulfric seemed capable in the animé.

Plus the Johto games kind of implied that Chuck was the one who trained Bruno & the Karate Master, so even if Chuck isn’t that strong himself he’s a well-respected teacher in the Pokémon World

Also, I want to mention that Ramos was also a really tough opponent in the anime

 

[Almighty Zard]

Chuck: 5th gym leader in his region.
Korrina: 3rd gym leader in her region.

there's also the fact that Chuck was the first fighting type gym leader in the franchise, and is respected by people in the anime

 

[ibelinssj]

Viola

In the anime, Viola lost to Grant.

 

[DuquÊ?]

Chuck: 5th gym leader in his region.
Korrina: 3rd gym leader in her region.

Honestly, makes sense. Unless you want to go the 'games =/= animé'-route, in which case, yeah fine. Or if you wanna go: "The Johto Gymleaders were pushovers", in which case I want to point out that Kalos wasn't exactly hard to beat either and only Viola, Olympia and Wulfric seemed capable in the animé.

Korrina consistently destroyed Ash & pikachu in Kalos until their last fight in the gym. Also, if we're going for competence, animewise, I'd say the Kalos GL are something slightly below the Sinnoh GL, without gimmicks. THAT guys were tough. Okay, maybe not Maylene, she's pathetic.

Omg if that's the key to beating Grapploct! Riolu just needs to grow a literal pair! On the other side, maybe Ash remembers his battle with Chuck and Riolu will learn Vine Whip instead.

More like copycat. If riolu can mirror octo's attacks, maybe it works. Or maybe something as bullet punch/metor mash.

And what about Orre???

Stop. Don't remember me they had chances to put Shadow Lugia in the anime and they did nothing. Even Solana was adapted as a Kanto pokemon ranger.

 

[ibelinssj]

Korrina consistently destroyed Ash & pikachu in Kalos until their last fight in the gym. Also, if we're going for competence, animewise, I'd say the Kalos GL are something slightly below the Sinnoh GL, without gimmicks. THAT guys were tough. Okay, maybe not Maylene, she's pathetic.

How many times Ash and Korrina fight before their gym match?
Maybe Kalos Ash is just stronger than Sinnoh Ash.

 

[divinepokemonXZ]

you know there's the whole "Chinese Zodiac" correlation right?

Yeah, but Typlosion looks more like a badger, and its pre-evolutions definitely don't look like rats or mice, even Cyndaquill is stretching it a bit.

It's only an inspiration that influences the designs of the fire starters and obviously was something they really only started coming up with after gen 2. I mean, Charizard is a very stereotypical European dragon while the Chinese "dragon" is an entirely unrelated animal that had more of an association with rain and rivers than fire.

Also, Blaziken is probably based on Garuda but at least its pre-evolutions seem to fit the zodiac theme, unlike Typlosion and Charizard which really only looks like a dragon when fully evolved.

 

[Mr.Munchlax]

...
All this years... and I just realize now that Incineroar is based on tiger... lol

Less of a tiger and more based on the Japanese wrestler Tiger Mask

 

[Ignition]

Incineroar is a combination of a literal tiger amd Tiger Mask. They both influence the design equally but if anything the mannerisms of a tiger influenced both

Most Pokemon take an amalgamation of inspirations and creative liberties

 

[Zariful]

You know people don’t just have their strength capped at certain points. Chuck could’ve easily gotten stronger since.

 

[DuquÊ?]

How many times Ash and Korrina fight before their gym match?
Maybe Kalos Ash is just stronger than Sinnoh Ash.

Three. Korrina easily outclass him in the first fight. Second was M-Lucario's test drive, it went nuts and had to be stopped to not kill pikachu. And third one was a training match, which Korrina also won. Ash defeated her two times, one at the gym and one in Journeys.

You know people don’t just have their strength capped at certain points. Chuck could’ve easily gotten stronger since.

True, but you never know. We can't measure how good Jasmine got in Sinnoh because she went against an E4 of all things and, honestly, I don't think Clair got particularly stronger, even if she have a dragonite and a drudiggon by her last appearance.

Also, I think all this discussion should be in the characters topic.

To not go full off topic, I think the fossil episode summary made clear that aerodactyl is most probably being Go's. Thank God.

 

[Red and Blue]

Since Bea is going after other Fighting specialists, I wonder if she’ll go after Mustard

Probably. Though I imagine he would totally outclass her if he was a former Champion like in the games. Maybe her and Ash could train in his Dojo together

 

[ash&charizardfan]

I would prefer:

• Fire Blitz - Fire Stab
• Fire Blast - Ranged Move
• Darkest Lariat - Dark Stab
• Drain Punch - Coverage + HP stealing to complement Fire Blitz HP sacrifice

Its a good moveset, though i would like it to learn blast burn if not flare blitz and it should have either drain punch or revenge.

 

[ash&charizardfan]

Ugh, guess the alola episode is for only one episode.

Well there is always a next time when he can go there, also i want ah to beat bea in galar region, well she defeated ash in kanto ash's home region so i want ash to return the favour in her home region.

I’d personally love to see more of Unova, but I think most anime fans would rather it fade into obscurity and never be spoken of again -_-

And that's ridiculous considering how good unnova in BW games was, just because BW series screwed it in anime doesn't mean it is a bad region. I frankly want more unnova based episodes lets not forget ash spend least amount of episodes in unnova.

 

[xinfernapex]

I think if Incineroar does learn anything new, it will just be Darkest Lariat for Fire Fang. Fire Blast was kinda the new move that Stoutland taught it so replacing Fire Fang probably wouldn’t be that big a deal, especially since Ash taught it Flame Charge.

 

[DuquÊ?]

I like most of the other scenarios for how Gou might be influenced by Satoshi's old friends, but I personally doubt that Koharu will be given that same opportunity since she rarely hangs out with Satoshi and Gou, so she might not even meet most of those characters.

It would be interesting let her hang out with Ash a little. People at least know she acts like Go's brakes, but, since Ash is a little harder to deal...

 

[ash&charizardfan]

How many times Ash and Korrina fight before their gym match?
Maybe Kalos Ash is just stronger than Sinnoh Ash.

Well he is supposed to be successor of sinnoh version, tho for me i always put BW ash ahead of kalos ash and sinnoh ash.

 

[dman_dustin]

I’d personally love to see more of Unova, but I think most anime fans would rather it fade into obscurity and never be spoken of again -_-

Look, I don't like Iris but I'm not against her coming back.

And even he who must not be named should come back to be super curbstomped by Ash in the PWC

 

[janejane6178]

Look, I don't like Iris but I'm not against her coming back.

And even he who must not be named should come back to be super curbstomped by Ash in the PWC

Voldemort?

 

[dman_dustin]

Voldemort?

No, lol, I just don't like mentioning my least favorite character, let's just say he was Ash's rival

 

[RileyXY1]

No, lol, I just don't like mentioning my least favorite character, let's just say he was Ash's rival

Alain, is it?