Top 10 Pokemon Anime Arcs 

Title : Top 10 Zac : Number Twenty.

Hearthome Tag Battle is #1 “Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well”

The Wallace Cup arc and the Summer Camp arc were both my favorites too. Side note about the Wallace Cup: There was so much evolution in the DP series that May’s Pokémon did more offscreen evolution than they did on screen evolution in the Advanced series.

Satoshi-Gekkouga training arc was done very well

My favorite arc was Mount Coronet arc. It accurately described both diamond and pearl, with a pinch of platinum. Plus, the visuals were also great for that time. That's the reason why Team Galactic is still the best team in the anime!

I find it funny when ever there is a long(ish) lucario battle it always is done really good

This guy is so underrated

Ah yes, the Lake Acuity arc. The moment we saw Paul's Ursaring become the godamn Hulk. BRUH, that's not Guts. Dat bear is on steroids

Please make a video of stronger gym leaders of each region in separate video

Me before starting the video: There's no way summer camp of Sinnoh isn't in the top 10 Me 2 minutes later: Wait.... IT'S TWENTY?!

Hey lumiuos trainer sac do a video about best top 20 moments where ash's Pokemon is learning new moves please I love when Pokemon learning new moves or do top 20 moments where trainers Pokemon is learning new moves

Hey the Team Flare arc is the best Ash has lost in the Koalos League but Pokemon anime redins it self by making this awesome arc

Top 10 pokemon anime arcs, at number 20 we have... Like plot twist alert

Wow I Have Not Seen Zac In I Really Long While

You should’ve had bye bye butterfree because it was the first Pokemon ash releases and it shows that Pokemon can’t be with you forever

loved the Tag Battle arc!

This video was reallt entertaining

one of the biggest drawbacks of pokemon journeys is that basically has no arcs!!

I remember back in high school, the Hearthome Tag Battle was the last big event/marathon that Cartoon Network did for the Pokemon anime. Look, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that. However, that was the last time in my memory of the English dub being treated like a true EVENT. *When I say 'marathon' I'm referring to more than a couple of new episodes airing on the same day back to back to back!

Lumiose Trainer Zac: Said Doing 10 Arcs Reality: Does 20 Arcs.

Last time I was this early Ash still had a Greninja

When greninja leaves his bond ash just gets sleep paralysis but during the day

One thing that i really like of the Hearthome Tag Battle arc is that is a normal cliché that in a story when two rivals are forced to be a team, they both ended respecting each other, but that didn't happen with Ash and Paul. That felt so real and natural.

The trial battle between pikachu and mimikyu was basically the Pokemon version of an epic star wars lightsaber battle

“Chimchar shaped ash and Paul’s rivalry” wile also Ruining tirtwig’s screen time and character

Zac: 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 Everyone: 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗵! Serena stands: 𝗛𝗲𝗬𝘆𝗬😡

“Stupid ass Trip”😂😂😂8:05

In the Meloetta arc, Ash does battle Giovanni, but it only lasts for about 7 seconds. I really hope they have an actual battle one day.

"ah yes, the unova tournament arcs." which one? there were like 7 different tournament arcs

Good choices of underappreciated Arcs, Zac 👏👏

I was honestly expecting him to put the Ash-Greninja training arc at number one but hey I ain’t complaining

CLAIM YOUR"early ticket"HERE

7:35 - Guess they had trouble animating Charizard as there was a new animation team at that time.

I actually really like palpitoad. It got screwed by starter favoritism. The times palpitoad did appear it was actually really cool, but everyone hates it for not having enough screentime. No one hates gengar or dragonite for that. I don't either. It's dumb

“Arcs”

“But he did beat cilan HELLO?” Lol

11:55 That Satoshi Gekkouga voice cracked me out damn 😂😂

I’m so early I don’t know what to say

I’m happy to see the tournament arcs from BW on this list, they were definitely some of the highlights of that series.

I was litterally waiting for the Haerthome Tag Battle Arc to appear! It's also one of my favorties considering the amount of fuel it tossed into Ash and Paul's rivalry.

Letss gooo!! 🔥

I love how sinnoh just took so many spots lol. The diamond and pearl anime was the peak of Pokémon

Number 1 does put a smile to my face ..... That arc mad underrated .... I even suggested you review it in one vid but this will suffice

11:22 I thought Zac was gonna say Satoshi Gekkouga

Fun Fact: I was rewatching the Lake Acuity arc for fun and then I remember when Ash sent Gliscor back out against Paul only for it to get deleted and I started laughing because it was both disappointing and hilarious. Forgive me I love Gliscor I swear

YO! The Hearthome Tag battle is literally MASTER-CLASS level writing! I love it so much. Great list bro! (Might have to make my own version....)

I actually was not expecting this kind of video. I loved it. The Wallace Cup was so good. That is one of the best arcs; one of my all time favorites. :D

I love your video

*Pokemon Journeys needs more arcs!* For example the suicune catch, that woudl've been completely different if that was like a few episode arc, hunting down the evil team, bonding with suicune etc. Same goes for the Mewtwo episode, if that was a bit longer, it wouldn't felt random or rushed.

Almost 10 arcs are of Sinnoh no surprise it is the best Pokemon generation

The Meloetta Arc was definitely my favorite part of the B/W seasons of the Anime. Having Dawn and Cynthia return was pretty cool, and we even saw that Dawn's Cyndaquil evolved into Quilava (even though it was only used in one battle). Piplup and Oshawatt's little rivalry was pretty funny. Heck, Ash even encountered Giovanni for the 1st time which was pretty cool. I also feel like this Arc was what made Meloetta my favorite Mythical Pokemon. It's just so cute. The only thing I didn't like about this Arc was the Junior Cup Tournament. It had it's good moments sure, like Krokorok evolving into Krookodile, Cynthia and Caitlin's exhibition match, and honestly, I found it pretty satisfying to see Trip get totally wrecked by Alder. Not quite as satisfying as when Brandon did the same with Paul, but still satisfying none the less.

YES!!! :D

All of you finish the video before you comment early gang Edit: Are you done with da video? Another edit: You better be done with da video it's been 4 hours since I commented dis

Hii..... Zac... I just want to point out a fact that everyone has not noticed.. By Ash Greninja.... Is not the first to activate battle bond... In XYZ ep6 it is clearly shown that the village hero too had ash Greninja.... If u liked this fact pls... Reply Urs Truly

Bruh this video just goes to show how many great arcs sinnoh has

I remember when the Ash Greninja training arc was still airing. In every episode that came out, people speculated and talked about the battles all the time. It was pure hype

Zac can you please review the whole Team Galactic arc? I strongly believe that it is just as good as the Team Flare arc

Until u realize that there r so many arcs of unova more than any other regions in this video

a top 10 that's actually a top 20 "FALSE ADVERTISING"

Me: *seeing this video, Lumiose said about 20 arcs* Also me: *Ben react "Excuse me" from episode 27*

I can't be the only one who always go back to the Heathome tag battle right?

I have a soft part for all kalos arcs beacause kalos was what made pokemon for me as if my brother didnt find this so i would forget pokemon but i am gald my bro found it i will always have a soft part for greninja

Not gonna lie, the team rocket arks in black and white we’re really good and enjoyable and one of the few things I like about the black and white series.

Been a while since Zac's done videos apart from the Journeys reviews! Looks like you took the word "arc" a bit too mathematically at the beginning eh?😅😂

The Akala Island Arc arguably made getting through the slog of filler episodes at the beginning of season 1 of Sun and Moon totally worth it. Lillie being able to touch Stoutland, Lana getting not only a Z ring but also Waterium Z, Kiawe befriending Marowak (which honestly became one of my favorite pokemon that Ashs classmates has), Ash getting through Olivia's Curry trial shows that he can be intuitive even when not in battle (though its rare), Ashs battle with Olivia, and finally Rockruff evolving into Ashs best and most precious pokemon of all time Dusk Lycanroc.

I think Alain was just made to beat ash in the league. But they introduced him a little earlier so the fandom won’t hate on them for introducing a rival so last minute

this video was a great vid but why isn't there Necrozma and nebby arc????|

Honestly though, Showcases were genuinely awful, I always skip them on rewatches

Pokemon Black and White is the first worst anime series that I ever watched🤢. Because at first I was fine with first season when Ash manage to catch more Pokemon in the Unova region than any region that he visited on his journey👍. However so far in the seasons he manage to get a few of his pokemon to evolve fully like Unfezant, Leavanny and Krookodile, but the others haven't had a chance to evolve way up to their fully evolved form especially Ash's Unova starter pokemon. Although Ash's pignite did evolve once but the other two haven't in fact in the third and final Pokemon Black and White series none of Ash's Unova Pokrmon (Pignite, Snivy, Oshawott, Scraggy, Boldore and Palitoad) didn't get this chance to evolve which one of the biggest disappoint of any Pokemon anime season history😠😡. And you know who's to blame for all this?, the Japanese writers because they keep avoiding any plans to get some of Ash's Unevolved Unova Pokemon in the third season, I mean if they are planning for Ash's Snivy and Oshawott to evolved in the future Pokemon Black and White episodes they would have done that by now. There's also issued that's never been resolved before Pokemon Black and White Series has come to the end like: 1.The first series of Pokemon Best wishes/ Black and White is all mess up because originally Team Rocket Jessia and James were in Black uniform and now they've gone back to to White uniform half way throught the episodes doesn't make sense. The same goes for the two parts episodes postones of Team Rocket VS Team Plasma that never aired since then or explain what has happen to the ancient rock they Team Rocket stole. So yeah this whole first series of Pokemon Black and White has gone down the drain. 2. If Iris's goal is to be a Dragon Master then should her Axew evolved half way in the series since it dream to evolved into Haxorus one day. 3. We never learn why Cilan was afraid of Purrlion in the first place, despite the fact that he final explain to Ash and Iris, but the background noise and screen where cut short so we never knew since then which is a disappointed. 4. The Unova League Vertress Conference is of the most very disappointment league of all the other Pokemon anime seasons, because this feels very shot and I was expecting Ash to battle Trip in the quarter final instead will full six battle so I could the rest of Trip's team from the previous episodes. Also another reason why it suck because Ash's Pignit, Snivy, Oshawoot, Scraggy, Boldore and Palitoad didn't have time to evolve to their fully evolve form during his journey through Unova because of the Japanese writers. If they have planned to make some episodes were the rest of Ash's pokemon evolve then in the Unova League Ash would finally have three of his Unova starter Pokemon fully evolved and he could have battle his rival virgil in the semi final and reach the top 4 like he did in the Sinnoh league👍But that never really happen sadly because the Japanese writer never made it happen and that's why Pokemon Black and White has became the worst pokemon anime series of all😞😠😡🤢👎

The Arcs in my opinion are pretty well handled.

Xy stans: Not Showcases not SERENA! Me: ha serena sucks Also xy stans: *dislikes the video***

My girl, Maylene and her Lucario! 💖

6:44 Chad sighting confirmed. 🗿💎 Also, Ula'ula Island was great. Sun & Moon did some good stuff with Team Rocket. Nice video - it was cool seeing some less-well-remembered arcs get the attention they deserve.👏

i'm so early i don't know what to say

New Lumiose Trainer Zed video 🔥 Favourite arcs mentioned: - Korrina - SS Anne - Tag Battle - Oreburgh - Lake Acuity - Wallace Cup - Dewford - Fennell Valley - Ula’ Ula - KOGA training

The Korrina arc was so awesome! She really gave the Kalos group a peppy and positive outlook on life, not that they weren’t positive, it’s just she had a different personality then them

And tepig went from knowing just ember to learning flamethrower

Love your Pokemon review videos. Really helps me understand the storyline better 😊

Dear Zac, I'm not really understand: Do you like episodes, where James said goodbye Cacnea and Jessie - Dustox?

Well Pokemon XY series is good and a lot better than Pokemon Black and White series because there's no skipped episodes especially the important battle against Team Flare. Also Ash became more mature and his appearence is more like a teenager rather a 10 year old, and while it's true that his battle strategy have improved but he's still clueless when it comes to girls who have feelings for him like Serena and Miette. However there are a few thing that I wished Pokemon XY series could have improved liked: 1. I do wished that Serena had caught a few Pokemon during her journey with Ash, Clemont and Bonnie before she caught Pancham and decided on her goal to be a Pokemon performance. 2. The same goes for Clemont but I do wished that both his Bunnelby and Chespin because they could be a full powerhouse next to Luxray. 3. I do wished that Ash catch another Pokemon during Pokemon XYZ series since he released Goodra and Noivern has recently joined Ash's team and evolved before he had earn his eight badge and compete in the league. 4. In Pokemon XYZ episode in Master Class Choices! I would liked to see more Amelia because I though that she could be a huge rival for Serena as she too wanted to be the Kalos Queen and she Serena again in the Master Class along with Shauna, Nini and Miette. Plus the Master Class episodes are short instead of having four episodes like the Grand Festival from Pokemon Advanced and Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. 5.I am really impress that Ash made it far to the runner up at the Kalos League Lumiose Conference, but still I really wishes that he used some of his old Pokemon to Swap like he did in the Johto league. Because using the same team over and over to the next round someone would seen his battle strategies and might used hit against him and that would be bad. Beside that some of his old Pokemon back at Professer Oak's Lab were absent during both the Pokemon Black and White series and Pokemon XY series too and never been seen again. I still think they should return to Ash's team so that they have time to be trained and evolved before the Kalos League Lumiose Conference that would be very interesting but sadly that never happen. 6. I wished that Serena's Braxien had finally evolved into Delphox in the battle against Ash and Pikachu because it's my favourite Fire starter Pokemon final evolved form in Kalos. Plus with Pokemon XYZ series coming to the end and that Serena is now starting to take her Pokemon performance skills to the next level by heading to Hoenn to compete in the Pokemon contest that Braxien should have evolved into Delphox, just like May's Combusken evolved into Blaziken in the final two episode of Pokemon Battle Frontiers. 7. I still wished that Ash hasn't released his Greninja in the final two episodes as it's popular and favourite to everyone who watced the Pokemon series. To be honest that's the worst episodes and I hate when Ash released his Pokemon because it means that we won't see them again.

lumiose trainer zac: puts the nimbassa city subway arc on the list. me:really good pick and also I'm currently in the middle of the arc I have already watched the final 2 episodes along time ago but I also skipped the previouse 4 episodes which I have went back and watched recently I'm currently on the episode where the dream thief and his beehyem kidnap meowth and all of ash iris and cilans pokemon after granting cilans wish to stay in a hotel. but lumiose trainer zac saying 2 of these 4 episodes are mediocre is a bad sign.

I can imagine every time ash's greninja transforms in kalos and faints,ash just has a stroke mid battle

You should do a review of the Top 10 Gym Battles, Ash ever had in the anime.😉

“Of course you had to be number 15” -Paul

I am going to be first today Ptcl : hold my internet

DP may had a lot of episodes but you can't deny that it has some of the best ones too!!! No wonder so many arcs in this list were from DP

Ula Ula island was the best in all island because there ash's pokemon learns new moves like Rowlet learning razorleaf Locanrock learnrning counter and stonedge Pikachu learning electro web

Seriously, the people in charge of the tag battle arc need raises and promotions. They know how to make a damn good Pokemon arc.

If I mastered the Bond Phenomenon, I’d have a sword or a disk-like shield instead of a Water Shuriken at my Greninja’s back.

I say the Hearthome Tag Battle is were DP went from a good anime to a great anime.

You watch the anime in Japanese? I don't get that. Why would you watch a show in a language you don't even understand??

This was a really refreshing video!! Most of the time a pokemon saga gets reduced to only the league, but honestly, it is so much fun to look back at these "minor" arcs! They really flesh out the characters

Comparing this to My Hero Academia, MHA arcs were very obvious to me (as I see that animé as nothing but arcs and hardly any filler if any). While with Pokémon, what you consider a Pokémon arc (according to this video at least), I didn't even think about most of those as arcs tbh, just as episodes, or dare I say in some cases, straight-up filler. This isn't to say that the Pokémon animé is bad, far from it, just that I didn't think about its arcs that way.

Hearthome on Number 1, it so deserves that spot!!!!

Never get rid of that Ash Greninja intro. I love it!

top 10 pokemon anime seasons

Proud to be the 7th viewer.💕

I think you'd might want to change the title because you actually listed 20 arcs, not 10.

okay I only watched journeys, sun and moon, xy.. I think the team flare arc is the best one out of them three, aether foundation arc and necromza arc were pretty great as well but team flare arc is just so good, while journeys.. mehhh

Man that 'satoshi gekougga' Is very satisfying .😂