>>18564387You really wanna know when it goes to shit?
Every episode after the Litwick one and before the Nimbasa arc is either pointless filler (bad ones at that) or a history episode about Iris. You'll eventually make it to the Club Battle arc which is Bullshit: The Tournament. After that you'll get to the episodes where Meowth joins the cast and I advise you to skip each of them. The Nimbasa arc only has one good section and that's the first two episodes which are dedicated to the Subway Masters. After that, it's "Watch Ash do stupid shit: The Experience". It gets so bad that he uses an inexperienced Oshawott to a OP Darmanitan and forgets that Emolga is part flying to which he gets his Palpitoad OHKO'd and he actually thought Palpitoad was gonna sweep Elesa. He proceeds to run in and out if the gym to exchange Pokemon.
After that it's fillers again, but there is an enjoyable episode where Cilan and Chili bond. There is also an episode where Iris bonds with a Deino only for the writers to troll the audience by having its trainer come at the last sec, and he's actually the same trainer Morrison fought in the Hoenn League.
After those episodes there's a two parter about the Kamis but it's not worth watching because almost the entire hour is filled with stock footage and Iris glorification. There'll be an enjoyable battle against Clay only to be completely ruined by almost all of the next episodes being pointless filler. Ash gets Krokorok in one of them and both him and Cilan face off against Skyla only to get completely buttblasted until DEM evolution. Even Pikachu gets its ass kicked, by a Swanna of all things.
Next comes the Clubsplosion which is a OHKO Fest until the later rounds.Episodes after that are pretty shitty "development" episodes consisting of Tepig evolving, Ash meeting and battling Hachiku, and a bunch of shitty episodes about Cilan and Iris.
After that, Season 2 starts, and if you really care about your life, don't fucking watch Season 2
