Pokémon Best Wishes Series 2 Episode N [FIRST POST]

[fer92]

I'll pu the possibilites of possibilities. This is the possibility that I see some characters of Episode N appearing in the anime between now and the last minute of Best Wishes. I only put the possibility of Brock's cameo to not burn the forums:

Here we go!

Rivals:
Trip 2%, Bianca 75%, Stepahn 0,4%, Cameron 5%, Virgil 35%, Burgundy 80%, Georgia 90%.

Gym Leaders/Elite Four:
100% because of Cheren. Apart from that:
Gym Leaders: Including relatives of main characters, 85%, apart from that, 30%.
Elite Four: All members + Alder: 50%. Alder re-appearing. 75% One member of Elite 4 appearing: 70%. I see all members at the same time. Ash fighting them for storyline purposes 3% (Dreams ==/== episodes)

Battles:
Ash vs N. 93%. Ash vs Colress. 55%. Ash vs Ghetsis 35%. Reshiram vs Zekrom 80%.
Possibilities of a full battle: 60%. And a 3vs3+: 95%.

Possibilities of tournaments (at least): 1 tourney 50%, 2 tourney 2%, 3 tourney: there's not time.
Appareances of in-game signature pokemon of characters.
Appareances of unconfirmed villains: Giovanni 94%, Zager 55%, Pierce 15%, Shadow Triad 40% (because Dark Trinity),Sages 50%.
N's Zorua: 99,9%, N's Zoroark 98%, Colress' Magneton and/or Magnezone (merch of the latter in the Kids set) 85%, Ghetsis' Hydreigon, 55%.

Possibility of Gen VI pokemon appearing:
In the anime: 76% Before July 25%, After July 74%.
In the movie: 99,9%. In the short, 95%.

Possibilities of changes in Ash's team:
New additions: Ash 70% (not counting prov. Zekrom), Cilan 45%, Iris 5%.
Evolved pokemon: Dewott 0,1%, Samurott 0,01%, Emboar 20%, Servine 20%, Serperior 2%, Scrafty 60%, Gigalith 40%, Seismitoad 50%, Pansage 10%, Axew 95% (last one of Iris' run 60%, 2nd last 30%, 3rd last 5%, in the rest 0%).
Possibilities of Ash's other reserves to appear IN UNOVA. 50%.

Method of Charizard joining Ash's party: On-screen: 90%. Out those: Liza 60%, Oak 35%, Dawn 2%, Clair/Lance 2%, Other 0,99%, Flying alone 0,01%. Off-screen 10%.

Possibilities of Brock appearing 33%.

Possibilities of characters staying/re-joining the main cast: Ash 99%, Iris 4%, Cilan 34%, Team Rocket 80%, Re-joining characters 4%, New character 99%.


The end.

[Thriller]

They're of course going to mention the whole disobedience thing. It would fit perfectly in to the kinds of things N stands for. And it's about time the viewers get a proper explanation as to why it happened. It eventually became obvious it wasn't because Ash "wasn't experienced enough".

[PAndrews]

They're of course going to mention the whole disobedience thing. It would fit perfectly in to the kinds of things N stands for. And it's about time the viewers get a proper explanation as to why it happened. It eventually became obvious it wasn't because Ash "wasn't experienced enough".

But it was explained and clearly shown already

Charmeleon viewed Ash as too weak and inexperienced to obey. And to add insult to injury his first job as a newly evolved Charmeleon was to take a dive against a Paras. At that point Charmeleon had basically lost all his respect for Ash and viewed him as weak.
He then evolved again and gained even more power and severely outranked every other Kanto team member, so its quite logical his views of being "above" Ash and the rest were strengthened. Notice how from that point he only fought opponents he deemed worthy and basically did a "screw you Ash" to every other opponent and made it clear he didn't respect Ash by blasting him constantly. This wasn't helped by Ash always crying "please listen to me" and just letting Charizard burn him with no consequences.

He still clearly cared for Ash, otherwise he wouldn't have saved him from Aerodactyl (he still caught him and saved him from falling to death), he just no longer respected him as his "superior" and as such rebelled against him and ignored his orders.

[Demon Kitsune Yoko Kurama]

And it wouldn't be the first time the anime doesn't follow logic. We got:

Charizard lose vs Dusclops
Gible win vs Dusknoir

Dragonite lose vs Druddigon
Eevee win vs Druddigon

And there are more things like that, so... it isn't impossible that they lower Reshiram's power to make it beatable.

Actually, it is logical that those Pokemon won or lost. Just because they're evolved doesn't mean that they're automatically going to lose.

[Shneak]

So how many moves will Charizard know this time around? 6 minimum?

[Thriller]

But it was explained and clearly shown already

Charmeleon viewed Ash as too weak and inexperienced to obey. And to add insult to injury his first job as a newly evolved Charmeleon was to take a dive against a Paras. At that point Charmeleon had basically lost all his respect for Ash and viewed him as weak.
He then evolved again and gained even more power and severely outranked every other Kanto team member, so its quite logical his views of being "above" Ash and the rest were strengthened. Notice how from that point he only fought opponents he deemed worthy and basically did a "screw you Ash" to every other opponent and made it clear he didn't respect Ash by blasting him constantly. This wasn't helped by Ash always crying "please listen to me" and just letting Charizard burn him with no consequences.

He still clearly cared for Ash, otherwise he wouldn't have saved him from Aerodactyl (he still caught him and saved him from falling to death), he just no longer respected him as his "superior" and as such rebelled against him and ignored his orders.

Incorrect.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wi...haracteristics

But I agree, Ash handled it horribly. He proved how incompetent of a Trainer he was (not evolving Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Pidgeotto as well as not regularly having a 6th Pokemon with him helped too). I had to give Professor Oak a round of applause after he chastised Ash after he spent the afternoon locked up in his room after losing to Ritchie.

He was an idiot back then who had no idea what he was doing. That's why I felt Bulbasaur & Squirtle didn't evolve. They knew if he was having this much trouble with Charmeleon/Charizard, why bother evolving?

inb4 the mention of Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden.

[Joltik-Kid]

Actually, it is logical that those Pokemon won or lost. Just because they're evolved doesn't mean that they're automatically going to lose.

Don't you mean win if your talking about the evolved Pokemon?

[Demon Kitsune Yoko Kurama]

Don't you mean win if your talking about the evolved Pokemon?

Haha Yea, I messed up during typing.

[dman_dustin]

Incorrect.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wi...haracteristics

But I agree, Ash handled it horribly. He proved how incompetent of a Trainer he was (not evolving Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Pidgeotto as well as not regularly having a 6th Pokemon with him helped too). I had to give Professor Oak a round of applause after he chastised Ash after he spent the afternoon locked up in his room after losing to Ritchie.

He was an idiot back then who had no idea what he was doing. That's why I felt Bulbasaur & Squirtle didn't evolve. They knew if he was having this much trouble with Charmeleon/Charizard, why bother evolving?

inb4 the mention of Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden.

Meh, Bulbapedia has their views on what happened and so does PAndrews, no one is right or wrong.

It's open to interpretation.

[Haunter227]

Incorrect.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wi...haracteristics

But I agree, Ash handled it horribly. He proved how incompetent of a Trainer he was (not evolving Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Pidgeotto as well as not regularly having a 6th Pokemon with him helped too). I had to give Professor Oak a round of applause after he chastised Ash after he spent the afternoon locked up in his room after losing to Ritchie.

He was an idiot back then who had no idea what he was doing. That's why I felt Bulbasaur & Squirtle didn't evolve. They knew if he was having this much trouble with Charmeleon/Charizard, why bother evolving?

inb4 the mention of Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden.

Oh my god are you being serious?

The Anime doesn't follow the game mechanics, Pokemon don't always evolve. Not because they're not experienced, but because the time hasn't come, or they don't want to evolve.

You can say inb4 Bulbasaurs Mysterious Garden all you want but fact of the matter is it didn't want to evolve in that episode.

The anime takes Ash's character as a realistic approach. If Pokemon was real not every trainer would evolve their Pokemon, and we've been shown COUNTLESS times that evolving doesn't mean anything when it comes to becoming strong.

And you're saying Ash lost the League cause he didn't evolve his Pokemon? A freaking Eevee just won the League for Virgil and a Meowth won the League for Tyson too. Ash COULD have won even if he didn't evolve his Pokemon.

Stop being ridiculous, plenty of Ash's unevolved Pokemon have defeated endless amounts of fully evolved Pokemon before.

[Thriller]

If I was Ash, I would have said "Good for you!" and would've ripped open that bulb myself.

And it was still obvious Bulba & Squirt knew the problems Ash had with Charizard.

[Haunter227]

If I was Ash, I would have said "Good for you!" and would've ripped open that bulb myself.

Well in that case, i'm glad Pokemon isn't real.

And it was still obvious Bulba & Squirt knew the problems Ash had with Charizard.

What has this actually got to do with anything? Just because they saw what Charizard was like meant they didn't want to evolve? Wonder what was running through Pidgeotto's mind when it evolved into Pidgeot then.

[d4rk_tailed]

A freaking Eevee just won the League for Virgil and a Meowth won the League for Tyson too.

You have to be fair though, those are 1 Pokemon in 6, and in the show they were accompanied on their respective teams by fully evolved Eeveelutions and Metagross/Sceptile/Shiftry etc.

Im entirely in your camp about evolution, but the writers are so contradictory about evolution when they script the battles that actually matter that discussing Virgil or Tyson is redundant.

[Haunter227]

You have to be fair though, those are 1 Pokemon in 6, and in the show they were accompanied on their respective teams by fully evolved Eeveelutions and Metagross/Sceptile/Shiftry etc.

Yeah but Thriller is saying that Ash didn't win the Indigo League because he didn't evolve Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Pidgeotto.

Im entirely in your camp about evolution, but the writers are so contradictory about evolution when they script the battles that actually matter that discussing Virgil or Tyson is redundant.

And thus, since Thriller is talking about a League that Ash didn't win because of unevolved Pokemon, I presented two leagues in which unevolved Pokemon did win the League for said trainers.

[d4rk_tailed]

Yeah but Thriller is saying that Ash didn't win the Indigo League because he didn't evolve Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Pidgeotto.

Wasnt he talking about general incompetence as a trainer rather than focusing on those as the reason Ash didnt win the league?

And thus, since Thriller is talking about a League that Ash didn't win because of unevolved Pokemon, I presented two leagues in which unevolved Pokemon did win the League for said trainers.

Sure, they struck the last blows, but from the stuff we saw on screen and inferred from off camera, it seemed like the other Pokemon on those teams did a great deal more than Meowth and Eevee.

[Ciccone]

Yeah but Thriller is saying that Ash didn't win the Indigo League because he didn't evolve Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Pidgeotto.

Then I completely disagree with him. I don't think having a team of evolved Pokemon is the only way of winning a League; I think it all comes down to training. Ash did no real training in Kanto, which is why he didn't do too well at the League; in fact, if I remember correctly he was constantly reminded of that fact by Misty as the League drew closer. And as I pointed out before, Charizard lost Ash the Indigo League because it didn't want to listen to commands, so that basically proves that evolved Pokemon aren't the solution to all the problems that Ash has encountered, and that they can actually hinder his progress.

I'm just really put out by comments about how Ash's Pokemon are useless and weak unless they evolve. That may hold some ground in the games, but it's not necessarily true in the anime.

[Thriller]

What has this actually got to do with anything? Just because they saw what Charizard was like meant they didn't want to evolve? Wonder what was running through Pidgeotto's mind when it evolved into Pidgeot then.

He thought "I know Ash is stupid enough to not keep me around now that I'm this big, strong bird, might as well not revolt!"

And I didn't say Ash didn't win because he didn't evolve Bulba & Squirt. Everybody knows the actual reason Ash lost was because, instead of training like Professor Oak said to, he went on a vacation to Seafoam, went on some expedition to Pokemopolis, travelled to Hollywood, helped produce a movie.

This is the thing here, he did NOTHING to help Charizard's problem. All he'd do is make a stupid face and say "It still won't obey meeeeeeeeeee."

[shac]

He thought "I know Ash is stupid enough to not keep me around now that I'm this big, strong bird, might as well not revolt!"

And I didn't say Ash didn't win because he didn't evolve Bulba & Squirt. Everybody knows the actual reason Ash lost was because, instead of training like Professor Oak said to, he went on a vacation to Seafoam, went on some expedition to Pokemopolis, travelled to Hollywood, helped produce a movie.

This is the thing here, he did NOTHING to help Charizard's problem. All he'd do is make a stupid face and say "It still won't obey meeeeeeeeeee."

Ha Ha Ha....that was genius.

[Graham Aker]

Stop being ridiculous, plenty of Ash's unevolved Pokemon have defeated endless amounts of fully evolved Pokemon before.

Well, Pokemon DO get stronger when they evolve though. Why do you think E4 members have use nothing but fully evolved Pokemon when they battle? A team of unevolved Pokemon can only get Ash so far realistically.

[shac]

Well, Pokemon DO get stronger when they evolve though. Why do you think E4 members have use nothing but fully evolved Pokemon when they battle? A team of unevolved Pokemon can only get Ash so far realistically.

In the games, sure. I am not 100% sure how it works in the anime. It does seem like they are moving towards the game theory with each saga though.

May be we have got it wrong. May be it's not that Ash has an unevolved team, and so he is losing. May be it is Ash is losing because he has an unevolved team. Did that make sense?