That was a reference to the PWT in the games, something the anime originally passed over
Makes sense for being held in different regions, to accomodate more league winners!In the Episode 12, Lance is called the winner of the Drifveil (Hodomoe) City World Tournament.
Drifveil City is in Unnova region.
So, are the Pokemon World Tournaments held in different regions?
From my understanding Lance won the last WT and it took place in Driftveil, this one took place in Galar and Leon won it, the World Cup is not held in the same place every time.
So basically, well no but actually yes.It didn't pass over it, it just represented it with the "Pokemon World Tournament Junior Cup", which was basically the same thing as the Battle Frontier Glass Noisemaker Cup we just had a couple episodes ago - a random tournament they just slapped the name of something entirely unrelated from the games on.
...come to think of it, that's basically what the anime does with the Pokemon Leagues from the games, too.
No, the Pokemon World Tournament and the Pokemon World Championships are two different things, they just have annoyingly similar names. The Pokemon World Tournament is an actual thing in the games (B2W2), while the Pokemon World Championships seems to be named after the real world tournament of the same name.
No, the Pokemon World Tournament and the Pokemon World Championships are two different things, they just have annoyingly similar names. The Pokemon World Tournament is an actual thing in the games (B2W2), while the Pokemon World Championships seems to be named after the real world tournament of the same name.
So. I guess this will be a thing?
The latest episode kept it quite vague, but the gym challenge certainly wasn't mentioned from what I can tell. We need more info. I'm confused on why Ash kept the Dynamax band if he's not going use Dynamax so frequently, I guess when he faces Leon in the future?
So...
Master Ball : Top 8
Ultra Ball: Top 9-99
Great Ball: Top 100-999
Pokeball: Top 1000+
So this appears to have aspects of the battle tower tiers just without the beginner trainer level. I haven't done it myself yet, but I read on IGN it took them 12 wins without losing to get to Rank 6. So how many wins does it take to get to Master Ball tier? That might give us an idea about how many battles Ash has to win.
However the anime is giving us a ranking system of 1-1000+
So for the Pokeball Tier: If this was a regular league tournament just with a 1000+ participants that'd be like 10 rounds right? So Ash battles 10 trainers and gets up to Great Ball tier?