@@enigmatic2878 what do you mean. Misty, Dawn and iris were in so much more episodes. Aside from may and max, serena was only there for one episode. Disgusting
@@soar865 the reason it's because the 'director' from sm until now in horizzzzzons have some inferiority complex over XY for its popularity and great quality that's why he tried everything to mess with XY biggest elements like Greninjash and Serenash and even with all his efforts he failed.
Yeah, most of the people who complain the league was rushed don't get that he stomped the lower rounds. The only justification for showing another battle would be to give poor Goodra and Noivern onscreen wins.
@@lucashigdon4488 That animation was also very taxing on the animators and their budget, so none of it was "wasted" on league fights where even kids could know the outcome. Trust me, I wish it wasn't so.
Worst culprit of this was that guy's Snivy, i dont even remember the guy's name but that was so stupid. Like in what world does the world's strongest lvl150 Pikachu lost to a lvl5 Snivy
@@RandomVids0987 It was probably because Alain's Charizard fought many mega evolutions and Primal Groudon, if Ash's Greninja had more experience, he would've probably won
@@EarlHenryIV9000True, at least he has been defeated by a character we got to know, unlike Tobias who exists just to make sure he lost the Sinnoh league
@@craigpeoples9883yeah fuck Tobias like I disliked that Ash lost Kalos but at least Alain has been built up as consistently stronger than Ash and is known to have fought a champion, primal Groudon, and beaten an E4 member. Where as Tobias pulled up for one reason. Stop Ash and that was literally it.
This is the most pokemon thing ever. A grown man commentating over a pokemon league but having the time of his life doing so. Also ur pretty funny, earned a sub
@@xtucs we get them they just be TOO SHORT. All the "non-anime Canon" anime shorts and series we get are always A1. That pokemon SWAT team coming after giovanni??? Cinema
And right after the league they hit us with a badass villain attack. It took all the gym leaders, two champions, Alain and Ash just to have a shot at winning
@@joshuafrazier3904 plus the professor and a superhero. I think what made it crazy was Lysander. He actually registered that Ash would be a threat and worked to get him out of the way. He thought he had Alain and with the legendary he was sure he'd win so didn't bother messing with the champions
In the anime, greninja was using cut; in the the games (sun and moon) its actually aerial ace. Makes more sense on why greninja was doing quite well against grass type sceptile
@@jo-ri-oh8950 I’m pretty sure the default move set for in game ash greninja is water shuriken double team aerial ace and night slash. U can get cut from the move remember at mount lanakila but it doesn’t have it by default
When mega evolving Charizard to Charizard X he gains dragon type and looses the weakness to water and greninja having higher base stats, specials and regular attack stats than sceptile it just got out damage
Mega Charizard X is part dragon so it actually takes neutral damage from water not super effective, so those water shurikens didn’t hit as hard as u might think, but yeah still weird lol
XYZ was literally peak, years later I still haven’t grown past believing Ash should’ve won and Ash & Serena should have canonically gotten together, even if not shown and just told. This show was so close to perfect it’s seriously a shame. Wish there was a way the Pokémon company could correct these wrongs, but they clearly don’t see ZYZ as a standout, but instead just as one of Ash’s “adventures”. XYZ was a dang ANIME.
20 year anniversary of Pokémon with a viable competitive team for the most part. I thought Ash winning this shit was destiny but hey at least he won 10 years later 😭 XYZ will always be the best anime with the storytelling, art style, and fluid animation. Man this shit was so peak
My favourite sequence was Ash and greninja downloading sceptile's full frenzy plant attack pattern. The way they gradually had to put less and less effort into dodging, till at the end Ash broke out that smirk... yeah that's when you know the ingredients were all lined up and they were ready to COOK
@@jadenndanga-gx3hj I can sorta reconcile it. The Masters 8, in my eyes, are separated into three tiers Alain, Diantha, Lance, and Iris are in the Tier 3 Steven (maybe), Cynthia, and 1 gimmick Ash are in the Tier 2 Leon and 3 gimmicks Ash are in Tier 1 Characters in Tier 2 are a little bit stronger than the characters in Tier 3 but are still definitively stronger And characters in Tier 1 are just untouchable. I feel like this powerscaling stays relatively consistent throughout the arc
@@AHatFloatingInTime Alain did get slightly weaker cause the mega band was tweaked by lyzandre and he gave it up at the end of xyz. He was definitely stronger than back then though. And ash beating Leon made no sense considering pikachu wasnt that OP in the previous battles but suddenly hes on par with leon's ace.
The animation and battle choreography for Pokemon XYZ is just something else bro, they went all out for the Battle Bond vs Mega Evolution fights too. One thing I hated tho was how the English dub didn't use Ash-Greninja's battle theme, that shit's fire
The scene where Greninja makes all those clones is straight out of Naruto, I seen that exact scene a thousand times but with Naruto making shadow clones lmao
@@Leangreen69 Bro for real though, they’re always putting in bs things like that like when he fought Brock at the beginning and electrocuted Onix, a ground rock typing, all because of water from the sprinklers smh
The X and Y anime was peak. Although I still would rather have the Kalos league be Ash’s first Pokémon league win instead of Alola. At least they didn’t have Ash lose to a random character that the writers created at the last minute just so Ash can lose to them.
One of the best. I still prefer Sinnoh League. Less rushed, more rivals, old Pokemon are back, epic showdown against best rival. The infamous Tobias made it worse just like the Brokenzard did. Two Legendary is ridiculous, yes, but at least he easily stomped everyone but Ash with them, actually respecting the power of a Legendary.
This is actually the start of Pikachu's GOAT run. I think he takes at least 2 souls or their ace, sometimes both every League match from Kalos League, Alola League and the Masters 8. Most Valuable Pikachu
Not only did the anime have good graphics and animation, the fights were pure adrenaline for me. Really sucks that Ash lost but I’m guessing the experience that Alain had
Sinnoh league was for sure better but Kalos league is top 2 with Sinnoh I just think they had ash winning in the sinnoh league but probably thought it was to early for to win one so I think that's why they introduced Tobias.
In Sinnoh league Ash was force to be reckoning , that's why writers had to bring a new character with legendary and mythical Pokemons . 😅😅 Then they thought that Ash would still win that's why they gave him the worst Pokemon to fight against him.
@@RealBeastBoy007 Ash was winning the sinnoh league for sure and the finale EP of dp should've been him if was champion against Cynthia. But since they didn't want him to win they had to introduce Tobias
DP i believe is overall the best season of pokemon,it has everything a very good story,the best rivial of the series,one of the best leagues if not the best in the series,easily the best rival fight of the series,the second best villian team after team flare and an ash who doesnt just rely on one mon for the majority of the series and uses very good strategies in his battles.Plus as an added bonus we even had pokemon contest which i believe is the best one out of all the ones.We even had returning pokemon from previous serieses Ofc it wasnt perfect espicially the pacing was quite all over the place and we had tobias amd the seies had a good amount of fillers too but overall the goods of this series greatly outdo the bads so yeah
Factually wrong Sinnoh had a huge amount of old pokemon Ash caught come back in the spotlight which the later writers were too lazy to give them any love, had him beat his rival fair and square not relying on some plot armor power of friendship bull crap, and if you were going to lose a league may as well be from THE most broken trainer in the anime.
@@jiero3253 Yeah he was built up and then they made him a complete joke in his fight with Ash. Not one of his pokemon lived up to the expectation of a dude who beat an elite 4 member (Grant it she was more of an assistant to the assistant to the regional manager of the Team Flare but still). And Ash only used his garbage from Kalos. Like Goodra peaked at like the 4th damn gym and Noivern was given no love since this devolved into the Plot Armor Greninja series instead of being about pokemon.
My guy, prefer whatever you prefer, but wasn't Infernape's Blaze as strong as it was partly *because* of how Ash treated it. That's textbook power of friendship. Hell Blaze Infernape was Ash-Greninja before Ash-Greninja. Also we are just gonna forget about the fell off champion Torterra and how the only memorable returns were Heracross, Sceptile (who got it's memorable moment from the most BS trainer in the series) and Quilava who's only battle was partially cut. This isn't me saying the Kalos League is perfect. Goodra and Noivern mostly disappointed, the League super rushed to the end which was stupid and the amount of double knockouts were a bit much but saying that the Sinnoh League is miles better is something I don't agree with.
8 year old me was fuming when I saw greninja fall and untransform LIKE GRENINJA TOOK SO LITTLE DAMAGE AND CHARIZARD WAS GETTING COOKED AND GRENINJA LITERALLY INVENTED A NEW MOVE AND CHARIZARD TANKED IT
You could say that the league was rushed and didn't feel like a real league But honestly, apart from the big three, would we really have cared about anyone else? Like, no league members are going to join this conference, and I can't think of many notable people from Kalos Sure, you could make original characters just to have them lose in the conference, but that would feel like padding to get to the three we really care about You could call it rushed or you could call it efficient lol
This person gets it. It wasn't a "real league" in length because Kalos is the only region with the final evil team battle serving as the climax instead.
What i liked about this League was that it Felt less like a power spam and More like an Brawl. The pokemon were legit throwing hands with one another and it was Dope
I do thin that the XYZ saga was one of the best but honestly, the league could have been better and no its not because Ash lost. Its mostly because of how rushed it is. Like we see Ash starting his first match in one episode and in the next he has already beaten Astrid and moved on to the semi finals. I know they focused more on the main two matches, but it could have been better. i feel like the sinnoh, Alola and johto league is better in my opinion. The parts we saw were amazing but i feel like if it showed a few more matches and had given ash's other pokemon more shine, it would no doubt have been the best league. Oh well at least the team flare arc makes up for the leagues short comings
The final battle episode should still be considered as false advertising. I couldn't watch the episode. Saw the next week episode title, thought my boy was going to win it all, but man what a letdown, especially given that the fight looks so beautiful. The Leon fight is great, but man did XYZ deliver with the visuals. "He's literally Lebron" That made my day.
Nah Sinnoh and Alola better tbh since both took their time especially Alola. While Kalos was amazing the league was just Alain, Sawyer, and Ash. Although sinnoh just HAD to introduced Mr.Action replay guy just to take him out. the fact that the writers had to give a random dude a mythical and a legendary only to be never seen again but mentioned in journeys just to beat ash out at his peak at the time was pretty impressive but still stupid since it couldve just ended with Paul. Alain may have gotten actual screentime before the league but he could’ve been Ash’s main Kalos rival from the start plus the fact that Pikachu fought his Charizard before it went mega and Greninja still couldn’t take it out after all that pummeling is just dumb but the league was great nonetheless. Also great vid 👍
I was so disappointed with the finals, actually made me watch pokemon again after many years since I thought ash had a chance to become a champion, but hey pokemon needs to make more money thus needs 1 more series so they made the boi loose.
