>>54845060>>54845060Finished my retrospective watch of all the Leagues Losses/Victories- with the exception of Battle Frontier. Didn't quite make it, but it is still November 11 somewhere.
One Year on does the Ash v Leon 4-parter still hold up?
I'm going to start by addressing the NND ratings, I can see why the episodes got those ratings. Once it became clear that this was going to be Ash's biggest challenge, and even his penultimate season, it was always going to be held to a different standard. And unfortunately there was enough bullshit going around that I feel the win needs an asterisk on it.
-Dracovish hidden power-up, which you can't ignore as they spent two minutes with multiple characters drawing your attention to it. Not entirely sure why he needs a power up, and I'm a Vish fan. Dracovish was easily the most overpowered Mon of that Generation.
-Somehow cancelling Psychic field by hitting it with a Bug Move
-Rabbit like Beckham using a Fire GMax instead of Max Quake
Though upon watching it again, it seems there's an obvious explanation for why Rabbit like Beckham got one shot.
1. They wanted to showcase G-Max Fireball, which hadn't been used in the show yet.
2. Compare Ace v Chu to the time allotted to Zard v Chu, they wanted to kill the bunny off as soon as possible to get to the obligatory Ace v Ace fight, with two of the most iconic Pokemon duking it out. It was something they realised, and prioritised, and the quality of animation shows.
Which is not to say there were not some clean wins to be had. Like Dragonite taking out Dragapult which Dra--no it's a fucking Seismic Toss with flashy meteorites.
