ShadowForce720
Well-Known Member
I think Galarian Zigzagoon is the most likely candidate to choose from as of right now. It could be used a speedy battler and also to act as the snarky Pokémon Ash tends to get in every region. He won’t be getting Perserker because regular Meowth is so heavily associated with TRio that Ash capturing any for of Meowth just feels weird. He is always fighting against one that him having a different one just doesn’t feel right. Corsola and Cursola seem too depressing for a usually cheerful person like Ash and Farfetch’d and Sirfetch’d would be interesting to see Ash using but there is the disadvantage of them heavily relying on a leek to battle. If the leek is lost or stolen, the Pokémon will be virtually helpless and have to use other attacks that probably won’t do as much damage because the Pokémon is so used to fighting with a weapon. Sirfetch’d’s list of damaging moves it can learn almost involves its leek in one way or another. The only damaging move it could possibly use without its weapon are Peck and Brave Bird which will have no STAB and the later causing self-inflicted damage, First Impression which would only work a second time if Ash recalls it and sends it back out later during a battle and has it use the move immediately upon release, Final Gambit which would KO itself, Steel Wing which again gets no STAB, and Body Slam. That’s it. Final Gambit doesn’t even get STAB. So Farfetch’d and Sirfetch’d are out.
While I don’t think that Ash will get Galarian Farfetch’d and Sirfetch’d I don’t think just because it heavily relies on it’s leek that it somehow would prevent Ash from using one as he had a Pokémon with a similar problem before.
Because let’s not forget the fact that he had an Oshawott and just like Galarian Farfetch’d it relied heavily on it’s item to the point where even if it was able to perform some moves without it’s item it would still be as just as much of a problem for it as it would be for a Galarian Farfetch’d to lose it’s leek.
In fact there was a whole episode where Oshawott lost it’s item and it tried fighting without it and it just didn’t work as it wasn’t really able to battle without it’s item.