I love the idea but I kind of wish you would have taken more of a inspiration route from the video games over the anime because the whole school idea was stupid when it came to the Sun and Moon region because actually traveling around and dealing with team skull made way more sense then what the anime gave us
I never liked the idea of Ash benching the pokemon that literally got him the right to even be in the masters 8 tournament just to give attention to a team of aces that already got the spotlight in their own gens to begin with but that for some reason some fanboys think it's a good idea to bring back to the current show. It isn't a good idea, like, at all. A full team of aces sounds good on paper for some people, but it just doesn't work. None of them can G-Max except Pikachu but Ash needs Pikachu for the Z-Move. Aside from raw strength none of them have special traits that make them difficult to deal with like Sirfetch'd's sword and shield or Gengar being a ghost. The team you're suggesting has no real synergy. For the most part is just fast heavy hitter after fast heavy hitter whereas Leon's team is massively strong, has several different strategies and counters. Infernape and Lucario basically fight the same way, as do Sceptile and Greninja. Charizard is barely different just because of his flight. But more importantly, the point of aces is that they're aces. They are supposed to be the big final clash. If a team is full of them, then they lose their magic. The aces aren't supposed to lose, and when they do it's supposed to be a massive event or loss, but if all of them lose until the last one, they don't feel like aces anymore. Narratively, it cheapens beyond belief everything that makes these pokemon special to put them all on the same team. Not only that but if he would've used reserves you need to consider: How do you do that though? How do you unbiasedly rotate reserves without: 1)Reducing the amount of spotlight each mon has, which is already very little in Journeys due to Goh and Koharu's B Plots 2)Reducing the amount of training everyone gets, leading to even more complaints about JN's power levels. 3)Having to pick only 2-5 reserves at a time, especially during the Masters 8 Tournament, leading to fans of those not chosen being angry that their mon, their "ace" or whoever didn't get the spotlight vs Steven, or Cynthia, or Leon, or whoever. 4)Having the reserves be jobbers or lose at times to establish a threat. Are the Sceptile fans going to be happy when it becomes the one that loses to Dream Eater Spiritomb 1v1? Or are the Infernape fans going to be happy when it becomes the one that jobs to Bea's Grapploct or Hawlucha? Are the Greninja fans going to be happy when Leon's Mr Rime casually sends it to the grave with Freeze Dry early into the battle? Or are the Charizard fans going to be happy when Dragapult beats it in the middle of the Leon battle? Which two are going to get their shit kicked in by Leon's monster Rillaboom? God, imagine the uproar. Ever wondered why Ash only started rotating reserves in his Aim to be a pokemon master special send-off episodes, where there are no more high stakes battle he has to train like crazy for? Because there'd be no such situations. Even then, in Aim to be a pokemon masters, due to the sheer amount of reserves Ash has, not everyone gets to shine there. Krookodile? Gone. Snivy? Vanished. Scraggy? Disappeared. Torkoal? Never met him. 5) Having it look like Ash is playing favorites. In universe, what does it say to the fans about the other reserves when Ash picks and chooses whoever goes against, say, Leon? Or Steven? Or Cynthia? Or Iris? "Why does X mon specially get chosen and picked out of Oak's lab mons for the chance to fight against Champions, but my favorite reserves from his past teams get left out?" "Is my Ash playing favorites? My favorite pokemon only got to fight Volkner but this other mon gets to fight Raihan, a Masters Eight?" It worked in Sinnoh because ultimately, even the likes of Tobias were nameless trainers at the end of everything. At best they were a League winner with zero personality and development, at worst they were literally nameless trainers. But now Ash would be picking and choosing who gets the chance to shine on the world stage, and who gets robbed of that chance against famous characters in-universe like the Unova Champion, Hoenn Champion, Sinnoh Champion and Galar Champion. Again, JN solves this issue by having Ash pick and choose no one. He assembles a team in JN itself and doesn't choose between his reserves. That way, he's not playing favorites. And despite your opinion about them. I personally think they defeated some pretty strong opponents in order to reach the masters 8. He fought against elite four members, Bea and the rest of the Galar gym leaders are canonically considered to be elite four level trainers as well and overall there were some pretty interesting trainers taking part in the tournament despite the occasional random trainer.
Personally I didn’t have anything interesting I would care to have happen in the Viridian Forest. Thank you so much and I will be I have all of the parts for Kanto finished ready to be voiced and uploaded, I hope you continue to stay and watch more of my adventures.
