Nowadays? Its treated like a side character who's only slightly appears more than the rest of Goh's Lab Pokémon, and the closest thing it has to an episode focusing on itself since it became a Cinderace is a Gag Filler Episode that's shared with Lucario.
Cinderace has had more screentime and appearances than any pokemon that isn't Pikachu.
Sobble barely got much development to munch on before being forced to evolve into a Drizzile
I don't know what you are talking about, Sobble had massive development from how it acted in the episodes after being caught up to its temperament when it evolved.
Both of it's Evolutions were rushed, and I'll never forgive the writer's for shoving Drizzile in a cave for nearly 20 episodes
The only silver lining is that (if the upcoming previews are an indicator) the Writer's might have more plans for Inteleon down the line.
Still won't change the fact that they denied it any onscreen development in it's previous stage
The writers clearly plan on showcasing Inteleon more. Also there was development over the 2 episodes we had with Drizzile, and the period it disappeared is no more than what any of Ash's pokemon sans Pikachu have gone through.
And it also has a bit of a habit of causing problems for the Protagonists and getting off scott free without facing consequences.
And of course we can't forget how it took the writer's 60 FREAKING EPISODES to debut the dang thing and still haven't done much of anything with it.
Like I said, maybe it's still too early to judge Grookey. For now we'll have to wait and see.
Isn't a lack of consequences fairly common for gag pokemon, Eevee is probably complicit in at least half of Grookeys mischief.
Grookey not debuting for 59 episodes is only unusual given that it is a starter, however it now is the most frequently appearing pokemon that isn't Pikachu. As for what what is has and hasn't done, that seems to be examining it through the stereotypical pokemon expectation, not battling and not using a move.
Sobble took 34 episodes to evolve (26 to express interest in doing so), and Grookey will be going on 27 episodes by the time the current batch is done. I would probably agree that Grookey is developing slower than the other 2 given that Scorbunny had evolved and gone through its first personality change, while Sobble had overcome most of its insecurity by the same time following their debuts.
The writers may have decided to avoid giving Grookey battles as a base stage pokemon and to focus on its mischievous nature until it evolves and has a personality shift. Just Like Sobbles early battles led to it subbing out because of crying, and Grookeys almost battle against Tropius had it lose focus.
If Grookey does evolve when it finally does actually battle, then we will have still gotten plenty of Grookey focus leading up to the event. The only issue with it evolving on its first battle are the people who want the anime to replicate the games combat xp, or just have an issue with Goh. Dragonair evolved in its first episode
OUTSIDE of battle. But Ash's pokemon tend to get a free pass.
YO Cinderace fans!
I've been meaning to ask this.
Considering a lot of you guys are upset by Cinderace no longer being by Goh's side all the time...
Do you think that letting Goh have all 3 of the Starters was a mistake?
(Remember that Ash and Chloe exist and tbh I feel like a lot problems with the Galar Starters would be reduced if they all had a different trainer each)
No I don't think it was a mistake, Ideally I would have wanted all 3 of Goh's starters to be walking pokemon and fully evolved, but I understand that there are animation limitations to take into account.
Given Ash's pokemon hardly appear, and Koharu isn't usually around, I don't see either of those really changing anything.
This topic should really be
'Which of Ash or Goh's main pokemon got done the dirtiest?', because really allot of the issues put forth can be attributed to both groups.
