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Pocket Monsters (2019) Speculation Thread

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DuquÊ?

Too lazy to pick a pic
Pls I have a question. What Pokemon would you give Ash if you were asked to write Pokemon Journeys? You can state the reasons for the Pokemon you've chosen for Ash if you want wish to
I came to appreciate his current squad (bar dracovish). Dragonite and gengar for Kanto, lucario for Sinnoh and Sirfetch'd for Galar are nice, but, if was up to me add more:

Johto: Tyranitar
Kalos: F-meowstic
Galar: rolycoly, hatterene

I think he have more than enough from Unova and I'm resigned to not see him with more Houenn or Alola mons, except for his current ones.

Quite honestly, I'm sure that whatever he gets in the future will be Galar only.
So basically raid battles really are just for goh?
Until now, bar the lugia one, yes.

The final battles takes the cake for me purely because of how disrespectful it was of the rivalry, just thrown out and never really giving us the final showdown that it deserved. Despite the somewhat awful start if a rivalry happens at the start you can't help but get invested and for the final payout to be... that. It's quite disappointing.
I did find their last battle very karmic, though. I'm alone here, but it was probably the best send off, where Trip's previous arrogance bite him hard. I mean, do you want best punishment to a rival than be kicked from the league in their very first battle?
 

TomRC121991

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Pls I have a question. What Pokemon would you give Ash if you were asked to write Pokemon Journeys? You can state the reasons for the Pokemon you've chosen for Ash if you want wish to
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  • Shiny Flygon
  • Salamence
  • Shiny Absol
  • Magnemite
  • Honedge
  • Dunsparce
  • Steelix
  • Regice
  • Zorua
  • Aggron
  • Moltres
  • Rhyhorn
  • Solrock/Lunatone
  • Latias
  • Tyranitar
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Mythical-Moonlight

I just ran, I ran all Night and Day ~
Not counting TW, Movies and still shots

Scorbunny line
Grookey/Rillaboom
Sobble/Inteleon
Rookidee/Corviknight
Copperajah
Sirfetch'd
Dracovish
Arctozolt
Nickit
Wooloo
Coalossal
Skwovet line
Orbeetle
Centiskorch
Morpeko
Chewtle line
Yamper
Silicobra
Grapploct
Impidimp
Dragapult
Duraludon

I am counting Cufant, despite it being a Flashback.

And with the upcoming Project Mew, we are most likely gonna see both Urshifu forms.

So funnily enough, we already have seen a vast amount of Galar mons.

And then i even forgot Zacian, Zamazenta and Eternatus.
You also forgot about Drizzile xD
 

ImBeVillain

No more six members
Pls I have a question. What Pokemon would you give Ash if you were asked to write Pokemon Journeys? You can state the reasons for the Pokemon you've chosen for Ash if you want wish to
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Just because Ash doesn't have more than 2 Pokemon from Galar.
So i wish this pokemon will going to Ash (Cofagrigus join to Goh's collections).

2x dragon pokemon
2x fighting Pokemon
2x ghosts pokemon

I'd love to see that Ash's team lineup.
 

Samurott

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Pls I have a question. What Pokemon would you give Ash if you were asked to write Pokemon Journeys? You can state the reasons for the Pokemon you've chosen for Ash if you want wish to
Instead of me writing the series, I'll answer the question predicting what they'll do based on what's happened so far. My ideas for writing the series would be pointless to type out.

For new captures, Toxtricity, Latias, Tyranitar. Toxtricity (Amped Form) just so he has at least three regular Galar Pokemon (like they did in SM and introducing Naganadel and Melmetal later) (also I think the reason why his Gengar got an alternative shading so it won't look too similar to Toxtricity), Latias so they could give Ash a legendary to use in the PWC that's not overpowered and to make up for backlash to Goh getting Suicune, Tyranitar so that he can reunite with his old buddy at Mt. Silver.

For old Pokemon evolving, I think they're going to fully evolve Ash's starters that can be chosen in Pokemon Legends Arceus in case they decide to give Typhlosion, Samurott, and Decidueye alternate forms with new typings. In fact, I'll make the bold and unlikely prediction that Oshawott will evolve in the first episode of Project Mew, JN068. It could secretly follow Ash and Goh (as a reference to BW) while they go look for Infernape and appear as they're fighting Moltres and evolve. For Rowlet, they could end the Project Mew arc with Ash and Goh meeting up with Lillie and Gladion concluding the Mohn storyline in some sort of conflict where Kukui shows up to help out while bringing Ash's Alola team with him. Rowlet could lose its Everstone mid-battle and master Seed Bomb without using it and evolve right then and there. Since we see Lillie and Gladion on a train, it could be implied that they're in Galar, especially with Magearna pointing at some mountains, which could be implied that it was pointing to the Crown Tundra. This is probably why they gave Goh all the Galar starters, there's too many starters to promote for Ash to have all of them.

As for Infernape, they could go the Mega Evolution route if BDSP wants to introduce new Megas. If so, Ash could become a Mega Evolution trainer with Lucario, Gengar, possibly Infernape, and even possibly Latias if they want to do so.
 

DuskAstral

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For old Pokemon evolving, I think they're going to fully evolve Ash's starters that can be chosen in Pokemon Legends
I cannot imagine the promotion of Legends in anime, since the action is to take place in the very distant past. However, if it were only for primers, I don't see that evolution is only about Satoshi's Pokémon. I see it more like this:
- Typhlosion will appear alongside Dawn
- Satoshi's Rowlet will change his mind and choose to evolve and eventually will reach its final form
- as for Oshawott, I see it will be completely different, which will belong to Koharu or Gou
As for Infernape, they could go the Mega Evolution route if BDSP wants to introduce new Megas. If so, Ash could become a Mega Evolution trainer with Lucario, Gengar, possibly Infernape, and even possibly Latias if they want to do so.
The creators rather resigned from Mega Evolution (it no longer appears in Sword & Shield). However, if they still decide to give one to our hero (which I doubt) it will be unfair to the others if he has more than one (so I would rather only bet on Mega Lucario)
 

ShadowForce720

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I cannot imagine the promotion of Legends in anime, since the action is to take place in the very distant past. However, if it were only for primers, I don't see that evolution is only about Satoshi's Pokémon. I see it more like this:
- Typhlosion will appear alongside Dawn
- Satoshi's Rowlet will change his mind and choose to evolve and eventually will reach its final form
- as for Oshawott, I see it will be completely different, which will belong to Koharu or Gou

The creators rather resigned from Mega Evolution (it no longer appears in Sword & Shield). However, if they still decide to give one to our hero (which I doubt) it will be unfair to the others if he has more than one (so I would rather only bet on Mega Lucario)
They had no problem with Ash being the only character in SM to have more then 3 z-crystals and be the only character with more then one pokemon specific/signature z-crystals on top of him having a Ultra Beast, a mythical Pokémon and a rare form of Lycanroc.

So no, it’s not unfair for Ash to have more then one Mega Evolution.
 

Dynamic_Fusion

HIKARI HYPE
Na. The character will be fine. They'll just be part of the episode for 5 minutes.
And man when they meet with them, if Goh ends up doing something to similar to Ash like jumping off of Prism Tower or making Serena fall for him (who would fall for Goh anyway?), I'll rage quit watching this Anime in general. They'll use the episode to overglorify Goh and his character, that is all these writers are interested in now. Especially we saw in the Alola Episode, how for completely no reason the Alola Companions started clapping for Goh and his crappy goal.
 

Zoruagible

Lover of underrated characters
Todd Snap's return looks a bit likely lol
How hilarious it'd be if Todd freaking Snap beat the XY gang in returning to the show lol
In terms of character appearances I just thought there are still Elite Four members who have not made their anime debut. The PWC would be a great opportunity for that:
  • Johto: Will, Karen
  • Hoenn: Sidney, Phoebe, Glacia
  • Unova: Shauntal, Marshal, Grimsley
  • Kalos: Drasna
Ash never met Siebold so actually you could include him as well. There are also gym leaders Ash never battled:
  • Kanto: Janine could be the new gym leader of Fuchsia City's gym while her father Koga has become a member of the Elite Four. She hasn't had her debut either.
  • Hoenn: Wallace is a top coordinator and former champion of Hoenn. I don't know how the writers would handle him in case of a return.
  • Unova: Marlon battled Cameron instead because Ash already had 8 gym badges. A battle against Marlon would be a nice way to give Dracovish more experience. I don't know what Drayden's position is right now. We're going to see Iris battling Ash in the next episode. Is she the new gym leader of Opelucid City's gym?
I think a reappearance of Sabrina with Mega Alakazam and Erika with her newly evolved Tangrowth would be nice too. Ash could battle them again but this time by winning it fair and square. He's already stationed in Kanto anyway.
Man forget Sabrina and Erika, I'd much rather see Ash rematch Agatha or see him battle Bruno/Lorelei
And preferably only one another Kanto trainer other than the likely Gary, Lance and Lt. Surge, I'm sick of Kanto!
Also they could just as easily give Mega Alakazam to Will
And while I would like Koga to be upgraded as he's basically the only Poison E4 member in existence, Lance seemingly being an Elite Four member makes that a bit difficult(But if Gary is champion, totally worth it!). I don't really see that happening unfortunately

Ash still has yet to fight somebody from Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh that wasn't a COTD. I hope they give him somebody from those soon, maybe he could even fight a Sinnoh E4 member this time as they can't pull that 'lol win the league and we'll fight!' card. DP is tied with BF as my favorite saga but that consistent factor always ticked me off, especially as the one went and fought Dawn. :rolleyes:

Johto... since there's too many Dragon specialists already(Lance, Raihan, Iris) I don't really want to see Claire, unless we actually get to see her and Lance interact with one another. So Will or Karen would do, Will would be preferable due to Ash not likely fighting a Psychic specialist from Galar.

Hoenn. Brandon rematch with the new Regis! Regigigas would be a nice bonus too but I primarily wanna see Brandon complete the set and bring us another epic battle!
Despite what I said about Claire, Drake is honestly the only E4 member I'm actually interested in. Ash did battle him and lost so much like Agatha and Palmer I've been itching for a rematch for years!

Sinnoh. Palmer is my prime choice as I've always been a huge advocator for the Sinnoh BF happening! I'd find Ash battling any of the E4 just as acceptable though. I'd say Paul is basically confirmed given Infernape's back so not gonna bother with that

Unova. Iris was a main character so her winding up Ash's only Unova opponent feels like cheating. I'd love it if Grimsley finally made his debut(Love the guy but still don't understand why he got into the SM games but N didn't) And outside of PWC, bring back Cilan and let him and Ash rematch the Subway bros! Hugh would be nice too.... but that is the one thing I've said that actually feels like a fool's dream, I doubt we'll ever see Hugh :/
 
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