You should've mentioned Misty in the title to get people more interested. I really don't like the whole super training thing so I really don't care about it being showed in the anime. I don't even like Don George to be frank so I don't want him back; he seemed to be a Unova exclusive character anyway. Him and the Battle Clubs shouldn't be brought back into the story. I just want Ash to train his Pokemon often on-screen in XY. Actual development that we can see is better than off-screen development in my humble opinion.
What didn't you like about Don George? Just a general dislike/not like? What are the cons that the Battle Clubs brought with them in BW? Ash still trained outside of the Battle Clubs, it's just that the entire series as a whole did not focus on battling that it was understated.
I never made this into an offscreen/onscreen debate, if the fundation for a new move is taught within the Battle Club/Super-training facility, and the rest is done on the road, then what's the harm? It shows progress and development and allows for multiple pokemon at once to get a start at a new move. It's one of the things I liked. Flame Charge and Aqua Jet got learned in the same episode, but the two pokemon were shown as not being as proficient with those moves immediately.
Say, Frogadier and Fletchinder get a Super Training episode. Frogadier learns the basics for Water Shuriken and Fletchinder learns the basis for Brave Bird. I'm suspecting that Fletchinder would need more time because of the high skill involved, while Frogadier would be affluent with its new move. Which leads to development for Fletchinder and may lead into the evolution later on.
So how does Super Training in the animé, hinder on-screen training, and cause a lack of development?
This is a genuine question, I respect your opinion.
Changed the title to something actually acceptable.
Sorry, I took some artistic liberty, oh well.. Zero inspiration.. So not fabulousistic..
I do think this is an interesting, and worthy topic to discuss, especially considering the apparently battle-heavy preposition this series seems to have:
- Ash fights in the gyms.
- We have a gym leader that's going to need to work to apparently get back into his gym leader spot, at least it's speculated that he got kicked out due to some reason.
- Serena: Her game counterpart is interested in mega evolutions = battles.