I'd prefer Greninja to take down something else, Cynthia has always been associated more closely with Infernape than Greninja. Having him appear out of the blue to beat an opponent that was already even teased to fight Infernape in DP's ending would be very underwhelming for the monke. I'd prefer if he beat Alain's Charizard, or Diantha's Gardevoir, mainly when there's more stuff to explore with Greninja.
It'd be awesome if they had Infernape defeat Cynthia's Garchomp, Greninja defeat Alain's Charizard or Diantha's Gardevoir and Charizard defeat Lance's Dragonite.
I know, but this is Journey we are talking about
Greninja defeating Alain’s Charizard sounds too good to be true because the anime gives jack **** about narratives since DP
That isn’t really true considering that there have been narratives that the anime has followed through on.
I mean in XY with Serena’s story.
Malva would destroy Alain's team if it's not 1v1... Unless it's another Iris situation...
That may change with Raihan since he specializes in Double Battles in his Gym match
Doubt it, Alain's Charizard alone could probably take most of her team out. It already defeated her ace, which is always quite a few steps above the rest of the trainer's team. It's not like every single one of Malva's pokemon would be at Houndoom's level, there's a reason it was her ace after all.
I doubt Malva's non-aces are as soft as Alain's...
It hasn't been explained yet I but I think the main speculation is that once you're rank 9 you then have to battle one of the masters 8 to take their spot.
Maybe, but nothing really says that Alain's team was soft or weak. Compared to his Charizard? Sure. But they weren't weak per se. Ash's Pikachu is a beast, so the fact that he took down Tyranitar and Metagross speaks better of Pikachu than bad about those two, for instance.
That's my biggest doubt about the system too. I don't think you can just defeat an Ultra Class trainer to get into the Master Class, like it's been so far for the other classes. But I'm not sure how it'll work.
That would just feel weird, not facing number eight of the Master Class.
I think beating anyone from master 8 makes you take their spot, as Simple as that.
Hmm.
No idea how it works to go from Hyper to Master Class
