All For The Love of Meloetta (746)

[pokemonsquared]

Cynthia's always been a good judge of character. Knowing Iris travels with Ash would show to her easily that Iris is nothing like Paul at all. Also with Cynthia having a fully evolved dragon type in Garchomp, she sees in Axew what might've been her Gible when she first captured (if that was the case, same feelings go for Garchomp.) It wasn't going to be an official battle, but Axew would've got a lot of confidence in it, which ended with Axew learning giga impact.

Her garchomp has max IVs, it was most likely bred using a complex eugenics program that discarded hundreds of imperfect Gibles. Or Cynthia somehow got Dialga to give her the seed times for the RNG for a perfect gible.

[the1stpkmnfan]

I'm just gonna go on a limb and say Cynthia's Garchomp's stats are all maxed out; it's completely buff.

Also, it's only a guess, but... I hope they're letting these new few episodes to pass, up to Dawn's departure, that they'll make a new opening; to hype up the league. It only seems appropriate, and I don't think we'll enjoy having Rival Destinies being the tittle under the league arc.

[CyberCubed]

AHHHHHH! I've really missed that voice! "Look Piplup! I wonder if that's the plane they're on". I fanboyed! I have missed this character so much over the last 2 years. So glad she's back for a few weeks.

Didn't you watch the Japanese episodes though? You already know how they play out so the initial surprise effect is gone. For example when the Japanese version aired we weren't quite sure how her cameo would play out.

It's a shame they didn't dub her special though.

[KingMinun]

Didn't you watch the Japanese episodes though? You already know how they play out so the initial surprise effect is gone. For example when the Japanese version aired we weren't quite sure how her cameo would play out.

It's a shame they didn't dub her special though.

Yes I watched the Jap ones, but I don't speak Japanese, so I can't understand it and watching something in your own language is always better if you can understand it, plus I love Dawn's voice in the Dub, its comforting to me so to hear it again was great.

[CyberCubed]

Yes I watched the Jap ones, but I don't speak Japanese, so I can't understand it and watching something in your own language is always better if you can understand it, plus I love Dawn's voice in the Dub, its comforting to me so to hear it again was great.

It's also good her dub voice didn't change, not like that would happen anyway since there's no dub switch this time around between gens.

[Dwail8023]

It's also good her dub voice didn't change, not like that would happen anyway since there's no dub switch this time around between gens.

True, Bauer is definitely one of TPCi's standouts IMHO.

[pokemonsquared]

True, Bauer is definitely one of TPCi's standouts IMHO.

So that's dawn's VA? huh never would have thought of it.

[Dwail8023]

So that's dawn's VA? huh never would have thought of it.

Yeah, judging from Emily's Officer Jenny, I still can't believe that's her. XD.

Yup, but then again I do know my stuff on the whole VA switch fiasco and who plays what now (and you guys know how biased I am on that topic, not ashamed to admit it lol).

[DawnBoy]

Cynthia having an ice cream dilemma was hilarious. Also seeing Iris acting shy around Cynthia seemed weird.
Yay! Dawn appears at the end, I missed her voice.

[HoennDreamer]

I honestly had the biggest fangasm when i saw piplup, but i had an even bigger fangasm when i heard his dub voice!!! OMG!! it's sooo adorable!!

Loved the episode as a whole, although i found it a bit cheap how axew knocked garchomp down :/

[Dwail8023]

I honestly had the biggest fangasm when i saw piplup, but i had an even bigger fangasm when i heard his dub voice!!! OMG!! it's sooo adorable!!

Loved the episode as a whole, although i found it a bit cheap how axew knocked garchomp down :/

I never got the "Oh Piplup's voice is so bad it suxs!" That voice never bothered me one bit in TPCi's dub...guess that's just me. It's always been the humans that want me to get a revolver loaded and pull the trigger (with a few exceptions). JK.

Cynthia having an ice cream dilemma was hilarious. Also seeing Iris acting shy around Cynthia seemed weird.
Yay! Dawn appears at the end, I missed her voice.

Gotta say, Bauer is one of TPCi's best: she actually fits what the character looks and should sound like IMHO, and I'll actually be looking forward to her return (when May returned, I wanted to cry, on the opposite end). One of the few castings I like (and no, it's not because I heard her first, I hate Iris English dub voice).

[R?IDDl3R]

AHHHHHH! I've really missed that voice! "Look Piplup! I wonder if that's the plane they're on". I fanboyed! I have missed this character so much over the last 2 years. So glad she's back for a few weeks.

i know!!! me to! when i heard that voice again i had flashbacks of old good episodes!

[SlimeStack]

Really good episode, I enjoyed it a lot. So from what I can tell we're currently heading to the anime version of B2W2's Driftveil Tournament, since it seems to be PWT but with Ash facing friends and rivals rather than gym leaders. Then I guess TPCi's season 15 will conclude with Team Rocket's Meloetta mission. (Then with season 16 we should finally get acknowledgement that we're in BW Series 2. :P) Can't wait!

[wingzx]

I honestly had the biggest fangasm when i saw piplup, but i had an even bigger fangasm when i heard his dub voice!!! OMG!! it's sooo adorable!!

Loved the episode as a whole, although i found it a bit cheap how axew knocked garchomp down :/

hey your back

ya it took paul forever to even harm garchomp put it just took 1 giga impact from axew to knock it down...

[BurningSociety12345543210]

ya it took paul forever to even harm garchomp put it just took 1 giga impact from axew to knock it down...

That's the crappy writing of Axew for ya.

[Battra]

Very nice episode to start season 2 of B & W, very nice to see Cynthia & Dawn return for the guest appearance. Loved the match between Cynthia & Iris, nice to see Axew learn a new move even if it was barely effective on Garchomp.

[wobbanut]

After a whole season and a half with no familiar characters from before Unova besides Ash, Pikachu, and Team Rocket, I was glad to finally see familiar older characters brought back to the show (now bring back Paul, please!!!). I liked seeing Cynthia and Dawn again for this arc, it was a treat. And I loved Oshawott and his crush on Meloetta, it was cute, especially once Piplup gets involved after this episode.

9/10

[Zoruagible]

This episode was wonderful. I love that a main character got to battle Cynthia but I wish Ash got to face her instead of Iris. I was delighted to see Dawn at the end, her voice sounds different.