Finally Ash's team is complete, it's funny that people thought it would be like the togepi incident, from the description, it looks like a good episode, especially Zuruggu and Kibago having a battle ending in a draw.
It's funny that people thought the egg was going to hatch in anything else aside from a Zuruggu, but that's beside the point is it? It surely was debatable at the time.. And if I recall, I made a point of saying in my last post about the subject that it could go to either Ash or Iris: 'Whoever saves it'. And how right I was about that situation by the way.. So the best way you could've worded that sentence was 'it's funny that people thought it
COULD be like the Togepi incident'
Good that they finally showed Professor Seger. About freakin' time.
Is he a game character? Like what? I didn't even know the guy existed and he probably even doesn't if you look at the game canon..
Was he speculated to be this big character in previous episodes? They're going to stall play the Team Rocket plot for a while.. I think they're heading towards Hiun City next and they won't fly all the way to the desert yet.
What Buizel tried to do for 3/4s of Diamond and Pearl, Zuru managed to top Grovyle/Sceptile in TWENTY MINUTES.
Buizel = Fighter
Treecko/Grovyle/Sceptile = Loner
Zuruggu = Tough kid..
I never saw much of a comparison between Buizel and Sceptile, besides the fact that they both use projectile attacks from their mouths, and use attacks with their arms and tails..
Zuruggu is kind of a mix between both, and at this point is leaning more to being a kind of Treecko. The 'tree headbutting' was very reminiscent of how Treecko was pushing itself to perfect its Pound. They both tried to do it by themselves, which is a pretty large similarity.
I think that zurrugu is shiny.
His yellow parts are little beat dark.
I think that Iris will catch sandile and will trade it for zuru.
atleast ash will keep a dark type.
Shiny Zuruggu's bellies are pink/magenta.. This kid's obviously has a red tummy.. It's a regular Zuruggu, otherwise they would've made specific note of it and 'Ash's Zuruggu'-event pokemon would've also been shiny.
Meguroko has shown to want the attention of Ash. To think that it would want to go with Iris at this point is a bit weird.
What may make it plausible is that Iris had a pretty big role in 'saving' Zuruggu in this episode. Iris was the one that cured Zuruggu's poison and she got jack for that.. Ash couldn't do a damn thing, so I'm not very pleased with the complete progression of how it bonded with Ash.
That being said, I did like the episode, just the fact that Iris saved Zuruggu while Ash couldn't is just a plain smack in the face in my opinion to the sentiment and request that Ash got when he got the damn egg.
'Please take good care of the pokemon in this egg'
Next thing you know he's relying on other people's skills to do so.. I'm sorry, but Ash doesn't really deserve Zuruggu now does he? And don't give me that crap akin to 'well he defended it the second time'. If it weren't for Iris saving it the first time, and Ash maybe keeping an eye on his newborn, then there wouldn't have been a second time.
So all of you people who said that 'Ash should get it, because he got the egg as a gift' should look at themselves with this in mind. He didn't only get it as a gift, he got it with a request, and he failed to fulfill that request the moment it hatched.
How is Ash worthy of keeping it?
I like that Zuruggu is one the team, it's a fun character, just the way this episode was written means that it will always have a flaw.