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Guess both Miette and Nini really want to get married soon 😅.

It's been a common compliant that Serena's Showcase Performers in Kalos aren't exactly best to say the least. Not that I mind of course, I think they're alright. They could've been better but they're alright.

But I digress, I've found some one-off Pokemon Showcasers that could've potentially made for some great characters while coming up with some headcanons for a few of them. Here are some of their names I've found:

1. No canon name given, but let's call her Alice. She looks like an Alice.
2. Elma
3. Alouette
4. Blanche
5. Shulin - A ninja from Sanpei's village who got into Pokemon Performances and is known for being a bit of a prankster and loves sneaking up on people. She and Bonnie get along. Her performances involve heavy athleticism and quick agility with her Pokemon's moves thanks to her ninja training.
6. Sara Lee
7. Concetta
8. Queenko
9. Lily - A smart and studious Performer who's an expert of coming up with moves that mix and match to gain the maximum effectiveness for styleness and can be quite blunt in her assessments, with her one not being one to mince words. She doesn't have a lot of friends, mostly cause she doesn't know how to approach people. Bonnie tried to court her for brother and she's genuinely intrigued by his inventions...even if they blow up. She actually gains a crush on him.
10. Kayleigh
11. Kazalie
12. Clarice
13. Amelia - Someone who could've possibly been Serena's main rival in Kalos, the "Ursula" to Serena's "Dawn". Coming from a wealthy family in Fleurrh City, who help sponsor the Pokémon Showcases. A snobbish yet talented upperclass citizen who would look down on Serena when she learns that she's from Vanville Town. The perfect foil for Serena.

So what do you guys think?

It's been a common compliant that Serena's Showcase Performers in Kalos aren't exactly best to say the least. Not that I mind of course, I think they're alright. They could've been better but they're alright.

But I digress, I've found some one-off Pokemon Showcasers that could've potentially made for some great characters while coming up with some headcanons for a few of them. Here are some of their names I've found:

1. No canon name given, but let's call her Alice. She looks like an Alice.
2. Elma
3. Alouette
4. Blanche
5. Shulin - A ninja from Sanpei's village who got into Pokemon Performances and is known for being a bit of a prankster and loves sneaking up on people. She and Bonnie get along. Her performances involve heavy athleticism and quick agility with her Pokemon's moves thanks to her ninja training.
6. Sara Lee
7. Concetta
8. Queenko
9. Lily - A smart and studious Performer who's an expert of coming up with moves that mix and match to gain the maximum effectiveness for styleness and can be quite blunt in her assessments, with her one not being one to mince words. She doesn't have a lot of friends, mostly cause she doesn't know how to approach people. Bonnie tried to court her for brother and she's genuinely intrigued by his inventions...even if they blow up. She actually gains a crush on him.
10. Kayleigh
11. Kazalie
12. Clarice
13. Amelia - Someone who could've possibly been Serena's main rival in Kalos, the "Ursula" to Serena's "Dawn". Coming from a wealthy family in Fleurrh City, who help sponsor the Pokémon Showcases. A snobbish yet talented upperclass citizen who would look down on Serena when she learns that she's from Vanville Town. The perfect foil for Serena.

So what do you guys think?

For me, it was two:

Trunks vs Silver

&

Simon the Digger vs Kyle Rayner

I was both at the edge of my seat and yelled "F**K YEAH" when Silver and Simon won and ecstatic about it.

What about you?

It's revealed that the upcoming novelization of the movie of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender will reveal what Suki has been up.

Me personally, I have Emma be a beginner Pokemon Trainer who's unsure about her goal in life till she met Ash and soon grew to admire his spirit & determination, and soon makes it her goal to become a Pokemon Trainer to try and take on the Kalos League, becoming a rival to Ash.

Her main partner Espurr, whom she nicknames Mimi, like in the games, and gains more Pokemon like a Vivillon with a different pattern for its wings, Whimsicott, Granbull, Volcarona, and Draglage.

Eventually, she and Ash meet and battle each other again in the quarter-finals were Ash beats her before he faces Sawyer. Yeah, in my version I plan on Ash facing Astrid immediately in the first round so that Emma can take her place in the quarter-finals. Not like she did anything of importance anyway.

She helps out in the Team Flare Arc were she runs into Looker, who in this version arrives in Lumoise and the two help bring as many citizens away from the corrupted Zygarde vines as possible. In the aftermath, Looker takes Emma under his wing and soon makes it her goal to become strong enough to protect people and Pokemon by learning to become a detective. In a way, she be a foil to Alain, only here she finds a more better and healthy relationship with a mentor in Looker.

So what do you guys think?

I never played Genshin Impact so I don't know Aether's character at all, but I get the feeling that he was being out-of-character with how hostile he was being to Aang's goofiness and basically came across as an asshole who would brutally murder a child out of sheer pettiness. Yeah, I know it is a Death Battle for a reason, but it doesn't sound like something Aether would do at all.

So how would he have actually responded to Aang's personality exactly as well as to various moments in the fight, such as the way Aang bends the elements? Aang riding on him in his animal form? Aang's curious questions & child-like silliness? And finally upon seeing the Avatar State?

Imagine how Ash would react if he saw them.

In a previous post, I asked if Yuri Lowenthal would've been a good choice to voice-act a teenage or young adult Ash and I'm glad to see it's been well-received.

So now I ask, who do you think would voice-act a teenage or young adult Serena? And why do you think your preferred voice-actor would be a good fit?

Like there have been several real-life sports players, all of whom are legendary athletes and teams in their own right, who endured decades of heartbreaks, close calls, and devastating losses before finally breaking through to win the ultimate championship.

We have people like famous superstar goal-scorer Alex Ovechkin, who for the first 13 years of his career dominated the regular season but repeatedly failed in the Stanley Cup playoffs, earning a reputation that he could never win the big one, until years later were he finally won his first Stanley Cup in 2018 of the Washington Capitals.

Then there's the famous Boston Red Sox. Known historically and infamously as the "Curse of the Bambino", the Red Sox have suffered through 86 years of agonizing near-misses, blown leads, and World Series losses after trading Babe Ruth in 1920, till they finally broke their winning streak in 2004 by coming back from a 3-0 deficit against their arch-rivals, the New York Yankees, before sweeping the World Series.

Famous tennis player, Andy Murray, reached four Grand Slam finals early in his career and lost every single one of them, facing immense pressure as Britain's top player trying to win in a dominant era of tennis. He finally captured his first Grand Slam title at the 2012 US Open, followed shortly by winning Olympic gold and Wimbledon.

Then there are players like Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Wayne Gretzky, all of whom had huge losing streaks, yet ultimately broke them in the coming years.

Compared to all these players, Ash's losing streak can be seen as less embarrassing and if anything more impressive to say the least. Unlike many real-life sports figures who hit a mental wall or fluctuate wildly in performance, Ash showed an almost unbroken upward progression across his regional campaigns:

• Kanto: Top 16 (Rookie mistakes, disobedient Charizard)
• Johto: Top 8 (Strategic growth, defeated his main rival Gary)
• Hoenn: Top 8 (Solidified consistency against elite veterans)
• Sinnoh: Top 4 (Peak tactics; only lost because his opponent brought literal Legendary gods)
• Unova: Top 8 (The only real "regression" or slump of his career)
• Kalos: Runner-Up (Made the Finals, lost by a razor-thin margin)
• Alola: Champion (The breakthrough)

A streak of 6 consecutive regional losses before winning his first major title in Alola is incredibly brief compared to the historical chokes and decade-long droughts of real sports giants. Compared to real-life athletes, sports analysts wouldn't call Ash a loser. They would look at a competitor who went from the Top 16 to a World Championship in just 7 major tournament attempts and call him one of the most efficient, fast-learning prodigies in sports history.

What do you guys think?

Any chance of it being unbanned this year? It's been over one month now.

Cause if that's true then it would've made perfect sense to include the "Ghost Marowak" storyline, were a Cubone lost its mother while she was protecting her child from Team Rocket Grunts but lost her life in the process. Thus, leaving the poor young Cubone as an orphan.

Ash, Misty, and Brock running into the little Cubone would lead to Ash help and beating those Team Rocket Grunts and having them arrested, and the three helping Cubone to find closure with the ghost of the Mother Marowak. Then as they were about to leave, Ash offers Cubone a place on his team so he doesn't be alone and Cubone joins Ash after becoming quite attached to the young trainer since then. From there, Cubone eventually evolves into a Marowak and becomes a reliable fighter on Ash's team. Not an ace like Pikachu or Charizard, but a reliable one like Buizel, Pignite, and Hawlucha.

I know it follows a lot of darker themes, but if I recall correctly the Pokemon anime was a lot more lenient when it came to such themes involving death or at the very least near death experiences like Charmander almost dying in the rain. Hell, we literally have an imagine spot of Ash drowning to death.

What do you guys think?

Cause let's be real, that entire intense battle between Ash and Paul was definitely worthy of being Finals' material and it be nice way for the whole league to end.

Tobias' entire existence literally serves nothing more than as a plot device invented by the writers at the last minute just to prevent Ash from winning a League. Like there was absolutely NO build-up to him at all till halfway through the Sinnoh League.

Appeared out of nowhere? Check? Somehow can control and tame Legendary Pokemon? Check. Literally no background information on him whatsoever? Again, check. He serves no purpose other than to prevent Ash from winning the Sinnoh League.

So what if the final match of the Sinnoh League was the Ash and Paul battle, it even had the entire set-up of a final battle and climax of a tournament so it a fitting way to end the Sinnoh League as well as further showcase Infernape's strength as the Pokemon that Paul released and deemed as useless and worthless is the one that ultimately won Ash the battle as well as the entire Sinnoh League.

What do you guys think?

1) Hitmonlee: It would've nice and interesting to see Ash take on the Dojo challenge in Kanto were he beats the Karate Master in charge and gets a Hitmonlee that would serve as a nice Fighting-Type in Ash's team and one that serves as a foil to Ash's Primeape.

2) Bastiodon: I know Ash eventually got Dracovish, but this seems like a nice way for Ash to get his first fossil Pokemon during an excavation site where he gets a Shieldon whereas Paul gets a Craniados that he evolves into a Rampardos.

3) Hippowdon: I really wished Ash caught that Hippopotas. Would've been a nice way for Ash to get an awesome as well as a strong and sturdy Ground-Type Pokemon that wasn't a jobber like his Torterra became.

4) Dusclops: Would've been nice for Ash to have another Ghost-Type Pokemon that would've given him a more versatile and unpredictable advantage. I see him catching this one in Sinnoh.

5) Espeon: This is something a lot of people of wanted; Ash getting an Eeveelution and an Espeon at that. Not only to contrast with Gary having an Umbreon but also for Ash to get a Psychic-Type Pokemon.

6) Gogoat: Ash should've gotten a Grass-Type Pokemon to balance out his Kalos team when he already has three Flying-Type Pokemon. Plus, Ash having Gogoat would be a nice way for Ash to have another Pokemon like Alexa such as Noivern.

7) Dragapult: Another Pokemon that many fans believed suited Ash with it's speed and raw power and would've been a nice addition to Ash's Journeys team. Plus, a Dragon and Ghost-Type would've been an awesome addition to Ash's ever-growing team.

These are my picks. What do you guys think?

Like it took him a long while to finally win a Pokemon League and yet it took him a few months at worst to train five new Pokemon he caught to reach the level of Champions and beat the Pokémon World Monarch, Leon.

The fact these Pokemon have way less experience than most of Ash's more battle hardened Pokemon like Charizard and Greninja yet still won major battles in Ash's entire career as a Pokemon battler really speaks volumes of how much he trained them.

Is this more than enough to proof that he's beaten the loser allegations and an improvement from how he usually did things?

In JN, Ash's Pokemon were given some cool neat nicknames. These include as translated:

Pikachu: Pallet Town's Yellow Flash

Lucario: The Aura Nova

Gengar: The Ghostly Black Devil

Dragonite: The Meteor Incarnate

Sirfetch'd: The Indomitable Onion Knight

Dracovish: The Ancient Overlord

Similarly, what nicknames do you all think would fit Ash's other Pokemon? Here's what I got so far.

Infernape: The Blazing Inferno

Krookodile: The Shade Wearing Digger

Sceptile: The Forest Blade Swinger

Greninja: The Water Blitzing Shinobi

And so forth.

What all titles would you come you up with?

Like let's be honest, it's no secret that Conway and Astrid are based off of Super Nerd and Ace Pokemon Trainer classes, respectively.

So with that in mind, what all rivals would you make and insert into the anime from the Trainer classes?