I would say Ash was sort of like that in Sinnoh which I think has been his best showing yet. Unova REALLY messed up his character though I feel XY may be improving is character once more.
Yeah, despite Charizard being my favorite he just needed one. Give him Mega Charizard Y's design, Mega Charizard X's typing, as for its Ability and stats... I say give it Tough Claws but still have its Special Attack higher than its physical Attack. I'd post exact stats but I feel that would be going a bit too far. Basically keep it as a mixed attacker with Touch Claws boosting its Attack to about the same level as its Special Attack.
And as for them "adding" in MCX last second, no, it was always planned. Either because of Charizard's popularity or they just made two designs they really liked (possibly both) is way Charizard got 2 Megas.
With its major Special Attack increase I think what they were going with MMY is that all the focus was on the head. The body looks underdeveloped with only the fingers and toes standing out. Its head is where all the design is. I'm not so sure what the "halo/handle" thing is but the bigger head leads one to think a bigger brain. It could be the "head tail" holds muscles, veins, maybe even some extra organs to function the brain. Notice how small MMY's neck is and how normal Mewtwo and MMX need extra neck tubes, probably for this reason. I wouldn't be surprised if MMY needs to use its psychic powers to move its body, though the fingers and toes probably can move with normal muscle reflex (which is why they're colored differently, they're more developed).I just don't like the thing on Mewtwo Y's head. It makes it look like it wanted to be Suicune for a day.
Oh yeah, that says "The heck is this?!" if you can't read my messy computer handwriting.
The XY rivals weren't that good, its like they saw how successful two rivals were in BW and decided to add more. Trevor and Tierno don't do ANYTHING, and Shauna is a bit too extroverted (but she does join you and the opposite gender rival when facing Team Flare & Lysandre which I do give her props for. Yeah I know they said Trevor and Tierno were on the route before helping the Pokemon but that effort sort of went for naught as the Ultimate Weapon's only shot was fueled by whatever remaining energy from the Legendary it drained). The opposite gender rival also fell a bit flat, they constantly talk about how you and them are equal when that's clearly not the case. They think their on the same level when honestly they're a step behind and it sort of hurts their character as it kind of stops them from developing. I think on Victory Road they realize they're lagging behind but its sort of too late by then and the next time you see them is post game where they can Mega Evolve so we didn't get to see any development. Now there was plenty of potential for development in the characters (infact we did see some in Shauna, one of the scenes I remember with her is when she's thinking back on our adventure and how we're all different since we started, she's the only character who introspects like that), but since there was too many they really couldn't for that long without another logically coming in and interrupting (especially for Tierno and Trevor who were often traveling together).
Honestly I felt more for Emma than I did for any of the rivals.
I wouldn't say it doesn't deserve to exist but more that we need some other Mega Evos like it to justify it. I get why they did what they did but until we get others like it (I'd say leaders of trios like Lugia, Ho-Oh, Regigigas, Arceus, Cabolion(?)) it's a huge, bright green sore thumb.
1. Lysandre is an extremist humanitarian. He wants the world to be a beautiful place but it can't be with people suffering. So he created company to develop technology to help out his fellow man. But no matter how much he gave he realized there will always be someone somewhere suffering. He then got into paranoid thinking that since there are limited resourced but the population keeps growing in the future things would turn to a dystopia where the few selfish would keep the worlds resources for themselves letting the majority suffer.
Basically he thinks people are selfish jerks who don't share and would ruin the beautiful world he wants.
2. Probably just found it. The Legendary is asleep, its not going anywhere.
3. The stone pillars on Route 10 are the remains of the Pokemon who were chained to stone slabs and life force was drained to power the weapon. Don't know how he made it to do what he wanted though.
4. I think the Ultimate Weapon just has the ability to do both, it just needs power to do it, at least when at full power.
Ash did see Ho-Oh again at the end of the Battle Frontier arc. Also it didn't inspire Ash to become the trainer, but it probably gave him some encouragement to keep going after his disastrous few days as a trainer so he could see more Pokemon like it. However its not forgotten but more discussion about it doesn't come up so often.
Nowadays they do have the 4 move limit (it was even mentioned in a episode of BW where they knew 3 of an opponent's moves and wondered what the 4th was). I think they justify it with it being a competition and there are rules to follow (also I guess helps a trainer focus their strategies).
However Drake's Dragonite is allowed to slide simply because its a final boss and made for an awesome battle as it looked like it had a counter for everything.
Yeah, I went through Y with Delphox, Blaziken, and Charizard. Yup, my main 3 were all part Fire-type yet didn't have a single problem (helped I had MCY and it knew Solar Beam). I did have the traded Farfetch'd (mainly for Fly, Cut, and False Swipe), but it didn't come out to battle for long when it did.
I think it mainly just needs to start focusing a bit more on story. The main point of the adventure is almost second nature now, there needs to be lore and an involving story to make the world and even the game mechanics more interesting and maybe even have a point.
Now onto more recent posts:
And you don't have to read them if you don't want to. It's why I clearly label what page I'm responding too.
Necrobumping? Necrobumping is me bumping an old thread topic from several months ago. I'm just giving some quick responses to a few discussions on one thread I want to give my opinion on that are at most a month old. And as I said, I put all these comments in spoiler/hide tabs so if you don't want to read them you don't have to.
Maybe Mega Girafarig will look like that, the black tail becomes a full head.I think I prefer Girafarig's original design though, it looks even cuter like that.
New Unpopular Opinion:
Kind of getting tired of all the Pokemon Shuffle events, its starting to feel like they're replacing main game events and already we didn't get a lot of those outside of Japan.
