Ash REALLY lucked out with his starter compared to the others. Geodude is bulky but slow with multiple weaknesses, Abra requires a lot of sleep and patience before it can evolve into a capable fighter, and Gastly is a trickster and highly unorthodox for a brand new trainer. Machop is a strong and deceptively intelligent fighting type, one that will match Ash’s confidence very well
@@ElectroPikachu LOZ reference!!! Prof Oak (Samuel) gave Ash Pikachu because he went to the FUTURE via Celebi where he learned a lot from Ash, and brought that KNOWLEDGE back with him to the PAST. Pikachu is a Bootstrap Paradox!!!
This was an interesting spin on the "what if Ash didn't start with Pikachu " genre of what ifs. I had a feeling Ash would get Machop, and I'm glad to see how you've characterized him. Spunky and proud. I was not expecting Ash's first capture to be a freaking Gyrados. That is quite the bold choice for a rookie Ash. We'll have to see how this decision pans out. I'm curious to see how else Ash's team will change.
Ash catching Gyrados was a surprise but a welcome one, nice to see the alternate paths popping up so soon. makes it really enticing to see what comes next and what you plan to do going forward
This is such a great start for this new series. I can't believe Ash has machop and gyarados this early hope ash still catches some other new pokemon and get some old pokemon like charmander and bulbasaur but anyways a perfect start 30/10
People expect Gastly, and when writing this, Gastly was who I got suggested. However, for story I decided to give Gastly to Gary. We'll see what that means in the future
Also it really wouldn’t make sense for ash to get gastly to me because he’ll end up getting one in the anime and machop is the most like ash in starter wise. Also gastly is a direct counter to the other starters making rival battles mostly uninteresting and easy, while machop makes ash have to climb to overcome like it is in the anime.
@@aaronkvdrumgold5338 I personaly feel that gastly's playful nature work well with ash along with the fact I could see gastly pulling praks on him and his companions, I also feel that with gary being more smarts based he should have had abra.
I once did a pokemon role play with a friend and we came up with a few regional variants. One of those variants was a take on a more peaceful version of Gyarados. The idea was cause of the lack of predators that could take down a fully evolved Gyarados plus the temperate plankton filled waters lead to this species adapting to become peaceful filter feeders taking advantage of the dense plankton swarms.
Wow what a story. It did not take the wroute I was expecting. I kinda thought Gary would immediately want Machop, since it is strong, and has such big evolutions. Then Ash would wind up choosing the Gastly, since it's really silly and fun. But I am really interested in how seeing them both with a starter pokemon, that maybe has a bit more of the others personality, will play out. I also was admittedly not expecting Ash to catch a gyarados. It's such a high level and scary pokemon. Glad to see that he cannot immediately use it to its full advantage, and has to struggle a bit first. This is a really cool miX up of Ash's original formula for catching and training pokemon. I cannot wait to see more. Please let Team Rockett show up eventually
I actually like how all four were trade evolutions and as I was thinking about it, I realized I’m surprised that Ash didn’t pick gastly Because you would think a comedian Pokémon would kind of match ashes attitude
This is really great! First video of yours I've seen and I really hope you keep going with this series. My only request is that you cut in a few more images during the longer narrative sections
Ngl i don't want ash to have traveling companions lmao except for Brock cause he's the goat. I like the fact you are not just rehashing canon with replacing pikachu and minor changes props to that.
Since you're giving the 4 Pallet Town Trainers the 4 Gen 1 Trade Evolutions does that mean Ash & Leaf (Sada) will be Training the Third/Final Stages of Alakazam & Machamp Respectfully?
@@ElectroPikachu I don't think it really matters if she's a battler or not. But once they Evolve to the next Stage (Machoke & Kadabra) I'm thinking an arc where Ash & Seda Trade Partners and have the others Final Stage for awhile before ULTIMATELY Trading back. As they'll need to Trade to get the Final Evolution of their Starters.
I really love the story. I am really surprised you took guyrados? ( sorry if I make a mistake I speak normally French 😅) but it is awesome 😎! And i am looking forward for Ash full team!
big fan of the series so far, giving ash a machop, as soon as machop threw the first rock into the river i was like "he's gonna piss off a gyarados" and lo and behold, but then he caught the gyarados and im like "ohohoho yes!" and since he never met team rocket they aren't following him around, misty probably went home after finishing with her fishing, and i really like Sada (is that how her name is spelled) being the new female companion, i assume Brock is going to join ash and sada just like he joined ash and misty in canon. i can't wait to see more!
I normally wouldn't do OCs, but when planning this out, my attention was drawn to the fact that we really don't know any of the other Pallet Town Trainers. One of my friends suggested I could just use the Let's Go Protagonists as filler, which I did in one case, but for Seda, I felt like something could be done with a concept for an anime version of Leaf/Green
@@ElectroPikachu was trying to make a joke on the scene of Machop going too hard and making the pokemon run away. I took that as the anime/real world version of them fainting from the games as in the games you can't catch fainted pokemon where as the anime that wasn't really clear. In this Machop is so strong the beaten pokemon flee. False Swipe being a move that always leaves one hit point, so no matter how strong Machop gets its a move that can be used when they trying to catch more pokemon to add to the party. Plus as a mon that doesn't know how to hold back having a move that he can use that will allow him to hold back would be fitting and he can drop it once he learns to control his power better in the future.
In canon yes, but this is a what if. So we could just say Ash has a member of the Machop line during Pokemon 4Ever, and that was the Paradox in this case
@@ElectroPikachu True but you accused Oak of acting dumb when in actuality he low key manipulated Ash into choosing Pikachu heck I wonder how far would he have gone to secure the timeline if he woke up not just on time but early?
@@ElectroPikachu True I guess he acted on blind faith and heck are we 100% sure that the Pikachu that Oak gave him was the same Pikachu that he saw as a 10 year old because the episode Pokémon Emergency! was pretty chaotic Pikachu could be in the Viridian Pokémon Center working as an emergency battery and we would never know scary thought
@@ElectroPikachu ;-; if its endless summer how the heck does ash get any ice type pokémon or even freaking grass type bc according to logic the summer would boost the power of his fire type starters moves
Wait a minute if Professor Oak was prepared then what happened to the 3 starter pokemon because shouldn't the 3 trainers that got their before Ash have gotten then leaving Ash to pick which one of the 4 Pokemon the prof.Oak had left I mean why pick a pokemon they can catch in the wild when the starters pokemon of each region are not that easy to come by
As stated, the point is that because there are four total trainers, rather than giving away the normal three starters, he prepared the four Pokemon that he handed out (each of which make a sort of type square as far as weaknesses and resistances). The four selected also aren't that easy to come by either, apart from Geodude and to an extent Gastly. In this case, the three starters would simply be with the breeders who bred them to give to Professor Oak (as the anime canonized this is how that works), and they'll be held until the next batch of trainers comes up
The regional starters at least in Kanto (&Johto) Are easy to catch. There are 5 wild members of squirtle squad before Ash gets to them but Squirtle is presented as the rarest honestly, there is a location where the venasaur line gather from across the region to evolve together lots of which are wild, there is a valley full of charizard who do nothing but fight eachother and date lol meaning lots of charmander eggs, Even Pikachu can just be found in the forest or in Pokemon centers presumably. The point isn't to give a rare Pokemon its to give a trainer something to act as a strong cornerstone of the team while also sharing a harmony of fairness with the contemporaries they start with. Line in Scarlet & Violet they try to make it clear the bonds good and bad friendly, rivalry, or both are important just as much as the bonds to your team
@@jojojohnson9647 The Bulbasaur area you're talking about is where they go to evolve, they're not always there as it's a seasonal thing. Charmander, and all five Squirtle were abandoned by their original trainers and the Squirtle Squad wouldn't want to work with humans so easily. The Charicific Valley is specifically for training, not dating. Pikachu isn't meant to be a starter in the Kanto Region. Ash only got it because he showed up late, and Professor Oak's actual starters were already selected. They're also not just supposed to be catching wild Pokemon and giving them to trainers either. It's confirmed in Hoenn that the starters come from special breeding facilities where they're prepared for the Professors. Rivalry and fairness doesn't involve Pikachu, as it wasn't a planned starter anyway (unless you're thinking of movie 4Ever stuff, which people say is why Ash got Pikachu), due to the fact Pikachu was actually a wild Pokemon, and wasn't raised to be trained by a trainer, let alone a new one
Must admit whilst I had a funny feeling Ash would pick Machop Im surprised Gary picked Ghastly given he did have an Alakazam and Golem in the anime and anime rarely follows the games Moves learning pace so it's unlikely Abra only knows Teleport But then again Ghastly does make sense given its Immunity to fighting as suppose to Abras resistance to it
Actually, the main Abra we saw in the original series was the exact same way. Sabrina's Abra only utilized Teleport until she made it evolve into Kadabra
@ElectroPikachu yea I saw that after I commented 😅 seems kinda evil though doesn't it? Professor Oak giving a pokemon who only knows teleport their trainer would have to catch a low level pokemon that doesn't need to be weakened first putting them at an even bigger disadvantage
@ElectroPikachu learning experience: Here's a pokemon that knows 0 damaging Moves good luck against the rock gym when your only available encounters are normal, flying and Bug types unless you can find a Mankey 😂
@ElectroPikachu I mean don't get me wrong i'm not saying that the story is bad. It's just for me it feels so off you no On top of that All the special things that happened because he got pikachu. I think he grew so much more than he would have if he had gotten any other starter It's strange as that sounds.
Would've made this way too easy for him. Also, I get Gengar is a very popular Pokemon for Ash to have, but if you really want to see him use one, watch my Journeys Rewrite
Yeah no. Ash loudly says he wants Machop and the other trainers shout him down. As he was the last to arrive and made them wait of course he should get to pick last. Gary takes his choice to be a dickl.
He was the first one to actually decide what he wanted. He might've been the last to get there, but no one else was going to make a decision. Also, why take Ash's choice, when Gary can let Ash take it, and then pick the Pokemon that would beat it in battle?
@@ElectroPikachu Ash’s first capture as a newbie trainer is a Gyarados and you don’t think that’s too much? Even if Gyarados isn’t fully listening to Ash the fact is that’s a very powerful Pokémon to be caught this early on in his journey
@@nazeersadek6705 I don't think it's too much when it doesn't know any good moves. I mean Gyarados has only been shown to know Tackle and Bite currently. That's not really too helpful. Also Gyarados is strong, but easy to get early in the games as well. If it's fair in the games, I'd say it's fair for this too, so long as there's a good story behind it
Yeah you start fighting trainers at level 20 just before the 2nd badge, and all kinds of media from anime to games show that there can be a range of powerful - weaker pokemon in an area, so running into say a level 14 with your level 5 mon is a real possibility, litterally always a bigger fish, Onix in this case being it...or the worm/snake I guess / suppose
I assume a lot of people would. However, one thing I thought I could try and do was give the other Pallet Trainers some actual focus, considering we only know half of the grouping in the original. I figured giving an anime version of Leaf/Green would be an interesting character. Plus without things going like they did in the original, it made sense to me that Misty wouldn't show up like in canon. I will say she's not completely written out of the series, but we'll save that for the future
@@dylanzlol7293 Well, it's sort of an OC. We don't have a version of her in the anime, and deciding how she would progress would have to be original, as I have no backing for it. I took as much inspiration as I could. Even the name Seda is an optional name for Leaf, derived from the word "Seed"
@@ElectroPikachu honestly, leaf seems very friendly tbh, so her version in this what if seems pretty accurate to how one would interpret her personality
prepared? what did he do with Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Pikachu? I guess this is my fault for not recognizing this is one of those shitty fan fictions 😒
Did you not pay attention? Pikachu in canon didn't listen to Ash at the start, and Professor Oak didn't really intend to give it to anyone. In this, he decided to prepare 4 Pokemon specifically to give to trainers, so that way he didn't run short and give away the three main ones and have nothing but an unprepared Pikachu for the final person. So he didn't prepare a Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle this time. They would end up being given to the next group of trainers, but are most likely with the breeders who raise them before they're given to Professors
