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He's certainly on the ball.
The GS Ball, as it were.

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I always wondered, is Lapras really derp tier?

I mean being even with Drake's Gengar isn't Torkoal-bad.

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Ash's Pokemon sheet hasn't been updated with Gliscor. :(

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there's a dot on your ranking sheet

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Tag, for Gliscor.

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mnkboy907 posted...
Ash's Pokemon sheet hasn't been updated with Gliscor. :(

This and also Chimchar is still in Pretty Cool Guy tier despite doing nothing impressive so far.

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Yeah, needs moar Gliscor.

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Sorry about forgetting Gliscor, guys.



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Aw, how could anyone hate a face like that? I think he is a pretty cool guy.

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There is still a random dot to the right of the ">I seriously hope" rank. I demand it fixed.

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Anagram posted...
Sorry about forgetting Gliscor, guys.



Seriously he hasn't done anything yet! I would point this out to you even if he was an Arcanine.

And for real guys, play Legend of Legaia. >_>

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Up Close and Personable!
"I didn't know a Dewgong's horn is so hard!"
Score: 3.5/10

Teehee

SHONEN ACTION ADVENTURE SERIES ABOUT A YOUNG BOY ON THE CUSP OF MANHOOD TRAVELING THE WORLD DOING HIS SCHOOLWORK I will admit that this is a unique concept for a show.

Everyone is given the job of going to a lake and doing a report on one water pokemon there, but they’re warned not to leave the lake because it’s too dangerous. You too, Ash. I know you’ve literally saved the world on live TV multiple times, and you were able to jump around on and dodge falling pieces of a ceiling in an underwater temple with ease and efficiency, but it’s too dangerous to go into the completely normal forest.

The heroes (including Conway and Anjy) consider using regular water pokemon, but they soon see a bright white light in the distance that hypnotizes pokemon. Conway mentions that there's a legend here that when a strange blue light flashes, pokemon around this lake vanish, so everyone decides to investigate. They soon find a cave with the light coming from the back, and Conway says that the legend also mentions a green cave. Christ, man, if you know more about this stupid legend then say it.

The heroes find a lake in the back of the cave, and the "strange blue light" (that is very, very green) begins to shine in the water. Ash yells to the pokemon to not look, so Pikachu turns around while Piplup looks. Haha, okay, GenesisSaga, yeah. The light turns out to be a Lumineon, which is flashing lights on its tailfins. Conway notes that a Lumineon shouldn't be in this cave, but after some investigation (Brock finds seaweed, Ash finds an underwater tunnel), the heroes determine that the cave lake is connected to the ocean, and Lumineon comes here to eat the seaweed. Because seaweed grows most easily when it has no dirt or anything to grow out of, but cave rock.

The heroes' presentation goes over very well with the adults, but since they left the lake area, they only get 60% instead of 100%, and Rowan reveals that he already knew about Lumineon, which rather makes this less of a legend and more of a… not a legend. Conway is also docked 40%, but it’s not really clear what his presentation was about since he’s not on the heroes’ team.

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^And I literally never even saw that episode. Trust me, Fathead does far more offensive things than that. Like he will disobey Dawn DELIBERATELY.

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Yeah, Piplup's not very smart. I still don't loathe it as much as you do, though. It'll have to get worse than this for that.

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Piplup is one of the best D/P Pokemon!

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Pokalicious posted...
Piplup is one of the best D/P Pokemon!

Dawn's Piplup is the worst MC's pokémon to ever appear on the show. I honestly cannot think of one with a fatter head.

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we'd complain less if it became an Empoleon

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Piplup is quite amazing.

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Ghoul Daze!
"Was that a blood-curdling scream?"
Score: 7/10

It’s important that you understand that quote is said in the same tone as “Who left the milk out overnight?”

It's day five of the academy. The opening doesn't mention that the academy is one week long, so if this was like your first episode, you'd probably think the heroes are boring middle school students and it’s the Friday of the first week of class.

Today's activity is to interact with ghost pokemon. Hey, Ash, are you going to mention the time some ghost pokemon turned you into a ghost and you had a magical adventure? How about the time you used a ghost to pacify an evil psychic lady? The ghost dragon you once fought alongside to defeat a crazy bishonen with an airship? The time you defeated a ghost-type gym leader? The talking Ghastly who liked to pretend to be a human woman? The time you found a community of psychic pokemon rocking out too loudly near a cave with some ghost pokemon living in it? ... No? You sure? Okay.

Everyone must split up into pairs and retrieve a medal in the ruins on top of a summit (leaving the lake is dangerous, by the way, but unsupervised ruins at the top of a mountain? Totally cool). Ash of course pairs up with Anjy, but Brock teams up with a random kid, leaving Dawn with this guy.


Jessie teams up with Dude, and Conway teams up with a girl who is definitely not a creepy ghost.

In fairness, she mind controls him before he can ask too many questions, but he still mistakes her for a member of Blue Team despite never having seen her before and the teams only having ten people each.

After some unimportant ghost-related adventures, Dawn’s partner runs off. She sees Conway with no partner (because the ghost girl is invisible to her even though she is clearly visible to other humans all the time) who tries to lead Conway off of a cliff. Fortunately, a Dusknoir rescues him and snaps him out of it, but he faints. The ghost girl disappears. Dawn assumes the Dusknoir hurt Conway, but it runs away when she accuses it. Because the pokedex mentions that Dusknoir are rumored to take humans to the Spirit World, they assume it might have stolen away Conway’s partner because they’re idiots and still haven’t caught on to Conway’s partner being a ghost.

Meanwhile, Ash and Anjy find a Misdreavus who drives them away and gets them lost. Ghost Girl appears to them and says she knows the way, and since she looks so trustworthy (just check that screen shot), they follow her. Keep in mind that she frequently moves in slow-motion and isn’t mind controlling them.

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Meanwhile meanwhile, Rowan listens to Conway and Dawn about the Dusknoir. He says there aren't any Dusknoir dwelling here, but there was an accident the other day where a construction worker accidentally found a cave that might lead to the Spirit World. Really. ****ing really. You find a cave and you think “Op! This might lead to the Spirit World!” I mean… I have to imagine that that would be an easy thing to test. Go into the cave and see if you’re in the Spirit World. I mean-- ****, man, just ****. Rowan thinks Dusknoir may be trying to find a human to bring back to the spirit world, so they all go to the summit. By the way, even though Ash and Anjy have an hours-long head start, Rowan gets to the summit like two minutes after they do.

Ash, Anjy, and Completely Trustworthy Ghost Girl find the medals at the summit ruins. There's actually a funny moment where Ash does that "I got a new badge" pose with the medal and Anjy asks to try it with him. Ghost Girl leads them to the cave to the spirit world that apparently no one bothered to rope off despite headstrong teenagers being sent here, when Dusknoir appears and warns them to go away. It tries to fight Ghost Girl, but Pikachu and Shinx, assuming it’s evil, knock it out.

The cave starts to glow and a purple portal to Hell opens up (I’m not kidding, they say “Spirit World” but it is clearly Hell) and finally Ash and Anjy think this might be a bad idea when the portal begins sucking anything loose into it. Anjy is almost sucked into the portal, but Ash grabs her hand and holds onto a piece of the ruin.
"Anjy! Just don't let go of my hand!"
"’Kay, I won't."
This dialogue exists.

Ash begins to lose his grip and Anjy tells him to let her go and save himself.
"No way! I'll never give up, even if that means forever!"
Which is indeed exactly what it means. Good job, Ash.

Rowan and the others arrive, but Rowan tells everyone to do nothing. They comply, so Rowan might as well have not come at all. Fortunately, Dusknoir recovers and saves Ash and Anjy, and, with no one stopping it, easily banishes Ghost Girl into the portal, where she collapses into a monsterous black blob (not a pokemon) and disappears into Hell. The cave collapses for some reason, and its task complete, Dusknoir leaves. It takes a scientist to explain to Conway that the Ghost Girl was in fact a ghost and not a human.

The best part of this scene is where Rowan is like “Well we still don’t technically know that’s the Spirit World for sure” even though they just saw a monster escape from Hell, impersonate a little girl, try to murder Conway, and try to drag Anjy into a portal.

This is actually a decent episode. They tried for a horror angle, which is sadly ruined by being a kid show and not being able to say “die” or “Hell” or anything, but it’s still a solid episode. I enjoyed it.

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I wonder how this one compares to the Litwick episode.

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htaeD posted...
but again
ghost pokemon = almost always interesting episodes

It's true. I wonder why.

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Wow. Ghost girl wasn't a ghost Pokémon? That's a rarity for this show.

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TsunamiXXVIII posted...
Wow. Ghost girl wasn't a ghost Pokémon? That's a rarity for this show.

It's implied she's not even a real ghost, actually. Just some kind of eldritch monster.

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One Team, Two Team, Red Team, Blue Team!
"It's good to be pumped up, but keep up the hot air, and you'll pass out."
Score: 5/10

... Is that a valid, decent pun in Pokemon?!

The final event of the academy is a triatholon. It consists of three parts: riding a pokemon that’s assigned to you randomly on land, riding a randomly-assigned water pokemon over a lake, and a simple run over land by yourself, and you’re not allowed to attack other runners. Also Anjy has gone tsundere for Ash because he saved her life.

The race begins, and the main characters get whatever, it doesn’t actually matter because Ash and Anjy get so far ahead of everyone else that most of the runners are just out of race. One random dude gets a freaking Garchomp. I mean... seriously? This academy has access to a Garchomp?

For the water portion, Anjy gets a Lapras, Ash a Mantine, and who really cares about the others. I especially like how Anjy and Ash get a huge lead, and Dawn, determined to catch up, claims that "six can play at that game," as if admitting that only the named characters actually have a chance of winning. Jessie gets a Magikarp. Wow, Academy. How did you even teach that Magikarp surf?

For the final foot race, Ash and Anjy still have a huge lead, but Conway and Jessie catch up. Conway puts on his rape face and freaks out Jessie, who has Seviper attack him (literally so creepy that hot girls attack you), which causes Anjy to fall into a bottomless pit. Why is there a bottomless pit next to the path for this racohwhatever. Conway and Jessie continue on, leaving Ash to save Anjy by grabbing her at the last second (harkening back to the time he grabbed her before, you know, one episodes ago).

They continue running, and barely manage to beat the exhausted Conway and Jessie, who had shown no signs of being tired earlier.

Gryffindor House wins, and everyone pretends that Blue Team and Green Team did well too. The reward for winning is-- nothing!

CONGRATURATION. Ash and Anjy agree to meet up in more episode before she ceases to be a recurring character. But seriously, the best part of this episode is at the end, where this line is spoken.
“You know the most amazing thing that happened to me? It was that you saved my life two times!”

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That triathalon sure show's one's knowledge of and skill with pokemon.

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Gryffindor Wins! What a surprise! And if I remember correctly, that episode taught me that Garchomp can fly.

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cody11533 posted...
Gryffindor Wins! What a surprise! And if I remember correctly, that episode taught me that Garchomp can fly.

Yeah. It does fly here, but has no significance otherwise.

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I want to know what Ash and Anjy had that not even a Garchomp could outrun them.

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mnkboy907 posted...
I want to know what Ash and Anjy had that not even a Garchomp could outrun them.

A Spoink and an Ariados, respectively.

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obviously that Garchomp was never bred for speed EVS or given a Jolly nature

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A Spoink and an Ariados, respectively.

...oh.

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Ariados I understand, but Spoink? It doesn't even have legs. No way it can bounce along faster than Garchomp can run!

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Spoink is bar none the fastest Pokemon of all.

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GenesisSaga posted...
Ariados I understand, but Spoink? It doesn't even have legs. No way it can bounce along faster than Garchomp can run!

Clearly you do not understand the amazingness that is Spoink.


A Lean Mean Team Rocket Machine!
"When ambition was the order of the day! And that order came without fries!"
Score: 7.5/10

Dawn and Piplup are training for the upcoming contest when the latter collapses suddenly and everyone decides to find a pokemon center. Nurse Joy tells them that Piplup is simply exhausted and needs to rest for a while, and Dawn declares that this is her fault for pushing it so hard. Nurse Joy is like “Don’t be hard on yourself,” but she doesn’t actually tell Dawn she’s wrong. At night, Dawn looks over Piplup in its bed. Ash calls Professor Oak, who tells him that Gliscor is powerful, but it needs agility because it can't defend its back if something gets behind it. Wow, how... out of nowhere this conversation came. I mean… seriously? Oak also tells Dawn to exchange her information with other trainers in the pokemon center, so she runs off to a random girl with a Glaceon and they start talking about how to most effectively preen a coat. Jesus Christ what.

Later, the heroes help out in the pokemon center instead of eating because Brock wants to impress Nurse Joy. He then has a creepy daydream where he falls in love with Nurse Joy, and apparently, her first name is "Nurse" because even when they're alone on the beach in his fantasy, he consistently calls her "Nurse Joy."

Meanwhile, Team Rocket has put on some weight from the Pokemon Summer Academy and are having a hard time getting back into the groove of walking up hills and chasing the heroes and stuff (even though they ate exactly the same stuff as the heroes and the heroes aren’t fat and lazy, just stupid and douchey). They quickly realize that they’re fat, lazy, and worst of all, no longer evil, even voluntarily helping out old people. They declare that they must go back to the basics and engage in a vigorous workout session.

In less than one day, Team Rocket has apparently lost about thirty pounds each, and they declare that they're back and better than ever, and they even bought some masks that must have set them back a cool forty dollars. They drive to the pokemon center (in like an actual car) and break into it. James breaks into the pokeball vault (?!) and he and Jessie take what's there while Mewoth and the pokemon find all of the other unattended pokeballs. Unfortunately, Carnivine drops a pokeball and it makes a noise as it hits the floor, leading Piplup to hear it and shows up. It wakes everyone up, and everyone realizes that the pokeballs are gone. Everyone (and by everyone I mean the heroes and Nurse Joy) follows Piplup to Team Rocket.

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They find Team Rocket, who busts out the original motto. Aw yeaaaaaa.
"Prepare for trouble, and a blast from the past."
"And make it double, aren't the oldies a gast?"
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite all peoples within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"And James."
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight, fight, fight, and fight!"
"Meowth, that's right!"

Amusingly, only Dawn doesn't recognize the original motto, which actually makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, Team Rocket follows up with Yanmega and Carnivine instead of Arbok and Weezing, but ah well. Team Rocket is in rare form in this episode and successfully holds off the heroes long enough to activate a giant robot (of course).

Then, awesomely, completely inappropriate giant robot-esque theme music starts playing in the background as Team Rocket attacks the heroes with rocket punches and stuff. They easily counter Piplup’s attacks, but Pikachu nevertheless gets the pokeballs back and thunderbolts the robot because, since they were getting back to basics, Meowth didn't shockproof the robot since the very first Team Rocket robot, in episode 2, wasn't shockproof either. Team Rocket blasts off agaaaain and the episode ends.

I really want to love this episode, but I just don’t. Don’t misunderstand, it’s a fine episode, but I feel like it could have been so much more. The scenes focusing on the heroes are boring and about Dawn and Piplup, of all things, whereas the scenes focusing on Team Rocket are active and fun. The episode goes for a more classic Team Rocket, and it succeeds, but it’s just not quite what it needed to be.

Still, it’s a good episode.

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I remember the episode and I agree that it was pretty uninteresting until Team Rocket stole the show.

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