Just thinking about that epic battle brings me to Maximum Hardness...Nothing beats the sheer intensity of Metapod Vs Metapod.
Just thinking about that epic battle brings me to Maximum Hardness...
...but yeah, Ash vs. Paul in the Sinnoh League is still the best battle the anime has had to date, because there was a far more significant and sustained build-up to it, and it was as much about Ash's Pokemon as it was about Ash himself...something which gave it an edge over Ash finally beating Gary, I think. The Sinnoh seasons remain the best the anime has ever done in terms of character development, and it makes the battles stand out.
Bold: prove it.Ash vs Gary has been plan for a very long time, the OS build this plot up really well despite Gary bearly appearing at all throughout the Kanto and Johto regions. Ash vs Gary in the Johto League was the highlight of the entire anime.
>''No build up''Ash vs Paul was a okay match up but it was one noted, we didn't have a build up battle in both regions, because Sinnoh was a one note region without any call back to what Ash did in the last region. Ash vs Paul isn't the greatest match of the entire anime, the greatest match of the anime goes to Ash vs Gary because Gary was the original rival, Paul was a one note rival and didn't have any personality, they just throw him in their to reset Ash all over again because he just started out in a new region.
Bold: prove it.
Also, the fact Gary decided to quit being a Pokemon trainer made that fight lose credibility. Ash-Gary rivalry is poorly developed and handled unlike Ash-Paul rivalry.
>''No build up''
>Ash and Paul rivalry had the most amount of battes out of all rivalries
>Chimchar used as plot device to develop their rivalry and character development
What the fu** are you saying?
>''Paul didn't have any personality''
>Paul got one of the greatest character development in the series.
Paul is grumpy, cold, callous, cantankerous, intelligent, rude, mean, and rather arrogant and he has no personality? He became more nice towards his Pokemon and Ash himself towards the end of the SInnoh saga. Stop lying to make your OS characters look better.
Also, Don't project your favorite characters' lack of personality onto others. If there is a character who had a poor personality was Gary who was a cliche and uninteresting rival.
Ash getting reset has nothing to do with DP. That's a BW thing so that's irrelevant to this discussion.
You both need to calm down.This a thread that boils down to personal preference in the end and it's stupid to get into a flame war over it.
Oh yeah, sorry for that.You both need to calm down.This a thread that boils down to personal preference in the end and it's stupid to get into a flame war over it.