The thing that annoys me most

[spike6958]

Im getting so annoyed with people compairing the pokemon in the anime to the pokemon in the games, with stupid questions like howcome pikachu can beat the stongest Kanto pokemon but gets his ass kicked against weaker Sinnoh pokemon.

The truth is that each region is diffrent and uses diffrent pokemon and battle styles and Ash and Pikachu are allways having to relearn how to battle in each region(hence the need for Ash to leave his old teams with Oak).Where as in the games the in-game battles are so easy that we dont need to worry about any of this.

Also i see Gym leader battles brought up in this type of debate, in the games the Gyms are given Lv's by what Lv the game thinks YOU should be when you reach it, where as with the anime the gym leaders have had hundreds of battles before there ones with ash and would be much more powerful and another reason is to make the battles more exciting and last longer.

Anyway this is the end of my small rant feel free to talk about it and state your oppinons

 

[Gary the Magic Fairy]

I disagree with your argument about having different battle styles & different pokemon. I'll start with the pokemon; Why would pokemon being from a different region change anything? Each gym leader within the same region also uses different pokemon. They aren't superpowered or anything compared to any other average pokemon.

Different battle style? They're just regular battles, it's not like they're any different. Lets see, during Hoenn, Ash battled the gym leaders in 0-gravity. In Kanto, Ash battled against Team Rocket underwater. He battled on the top of a volcano, as well as inside of it. Just being in a new region shouldn't be that big of a challenge at all.

 

[xxspeedy101]

first off ash doesn't have to learn any "new battle styles" the only time he did that was with double battles and it took a whole 1 episode for him to get used to it, and it doesn't even really matter if ash did have to learn a new battle style by now his picachu must be at least!!!! lvl 80ish and should be able to beat anyone with ease even in a new region!

 

[J-Rad]

the thing is nintendo is trying to tell n00bs that levels don't matter, and that is a true statement, in the competative worlds everything boosts your lvl to 100 so its even ground, and no one battles in-game anymore, but competative battle is a lot more difficult than in-game, u take one step into competative battleing and you'll relize that ur charizard that knows Blast Burn, Hyper beam, fly, and dig isn't gonna pwn as much as u thought, anyhow this thread has a huge potentail to break out into a flamewar, so it probably get locked..

 

[Unown_]

Explanation is simple. In the anime every time Ash goes to another region, the writers give all of Ash Pokemon a "reset". If this would not happen, Ash could beat everyone and in the new region making the anime extremely boring.

Or to explain it with a game analogy: each time Ash goes to a new region, it's like starting a new game.
Ash has completed the Battle Frontier -> done playing Pokemon Emerald.
Ash goes to Shinou region -> starts playing Pokemon Diamond/Pearl.

And we all know that when you start playing a new game, you don't start off with a lv 100 Pikachu ;)

As for the anime comparison with the game. At some point I'm glad that the anime does not follow game logics so close: I mean, bringing a Goldeen to the desert and use Surf-attack???