>>28494477Honestly?
I wholeheartedly agree. Even if it may be overrated, I truly think that Ash's Infernape vs. Paul's Electivire is the best fight in the entire series, and the DP series as a whole is pretty great. Infernape vs. Electivire holds so much emotional weight for me. Here you have this Infernape, formerly abused and beaten down as a Chimchar at the hands of Paul, then taken in by Ash and raised with love and care, facing off against his former trainer. Ash finally beats his rival, Infernape stands up against its former trainer and proves that Ash's method of training is what makes him victorious, and even then it was a very close fight. Paul may be ruthless, but he's still a skilled enough trainer to get that far and bring the battle down to the wire. While Ash's competency may be debatable in other series, here he was at his finest. He developed unique and unorthodox strategies (one of which Paul even adopted too), and he even fully evolved a bunch of his Pokemon. The fact that it took an edgelord with Legendaries (two of which were defeated thanks to Ash's Pokemon, also he turned his hat around after so long which was cool) to finally stop Ash. Honestly, Ash was at his peak here.
I can't get over how great the DP series was. BW a shit and XY was... well, it looked nice, and it seemed so promising. I thought it'd be the second coming of DP. But... no.
no.
