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Feb 9, 2020 2:00 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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We finally got to see Leon the Galar champion and his Charizard

The battle between Lance and Leon was good too. I'm happy they show that mysterious pokemon which you may already know by now in the beginning, next week episode looks promising too.
Ri22rkFeb 9, 2020 9:54 AM
Feb 9, 2020 4:36 AM
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In Lance's introduction of this episode, the MC clearly said "G-Men". So the writers even managed to put that detail into his introduction in this episode.
And Lance even mentioned Galar's Dragon Gym uniform after the match. Nice!
Feb 9, 2020 11:56 AM
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It was a good battle between Lance and Leon. Again, I don’t really have much to say about this episode, except they did a good job showing us that Leon is a strong mf.
Feb 9, 2020 2:03 PM
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THIS BATTLE WAS AWESOME! This my favorite episode of this series so far. the Eternatus cameo at start was amazing! and the game quotes by champions and the game soundtrack. They even referenced the Dragon gym's uniform looking like Lance's. One of the best 1vs1 pokemon battles ever. Looks like the next episode will be great too.
Feb 9, 2020 2:49 PM
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Ohhhh a pretty good battle for the world champion title and the moment with the team rocket was funny
Feb 9, 2020 2:50 PM
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I absolutely loved this episode from start to finish!
- Ash knowing that something is coming, showing us how amazing his perception is
- A freaking Eternatus being shown right off the bat
- Lance and Leon giving us a really great battle with game-like strategies
- Dynamax Red Gyarados as a throwback to Johto series
- Subtle mention of the Dragon gym
- Leon showing us he is the greatest with his Gigantamax Charizard
- Team Rocket getting their own Rotom Phone, quite cool
- Gigantamax Drednaw also really nice ending
- The music from games!
I cannot even describe how blessed I feel watching this anime.

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Feb 9, 2020 5:12 PM
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gotta say that battle was amazing and then next ep satoshi is gonna battle next really something to look forward to
"one step at a time"
Feb 9, 2020 10:19 PM
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That battle was epic!

But I wonder if Ash has something to do with all this, will he ever mention that he won a regional league? xD Next episode already has Ash vs Leon! Now that's an interesting match up :O
THANKS SENPIEX
Feb 10, 2020 12:39 AM
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This episode was so amazing. Nothing more to say. Looking forward to next episode. Ash is going to get his Dynamax band and dynamax Pikachu. Some "Feka Fekachu" moments are coming!
Feb 10, 2020 6:47 AM

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Pokemon stop dick-riding Charizard challenge FAILED!

Anyway despite my annoyance at Gyarados losing, I gotta admit the fight was pretty great.

Can Cynthia beat the fuck out Leon please. I wanna see Garchomp curbstomp that overrated not-a-dragon Pokemon to the ground.

Dynamax Pikachu next episode!
Feb 10, 2020 12:10 PM

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I can't believe Satoshi and Gou could have died in a plane crash because of Mugendaina. lol And I just knew Dande was going to win this match since he is the new hot, really hot, thing, but a part of me was rooting, in vain, for Wataru. Well, it's okay, Dande is also really cool, and it was a really intense, long and cool battle too. I wasn't expecting the episode to end in a cliffhanger like that though, can't wait for the next one!
Feb 10, 2020 1:00 PM

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I LOVE the direction this series is taking! No forces cameo's but they're there when needed. I can see Ash working his way to the world championships to fight Dande. ( I HOPE SO)
Feb 10, 2020 2:06 PM

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I'm glad that they did justice to Leon's male tits.
Also wow, the battle was a lot better than expected, with actually a table of types and moves being used with logic, and OF COURSE the music in the background similar to the games, it was a good episode.
Feb 10, 2020 3:38 PM

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Shoryuuken said:
I LOVE the direction this series is taking! No forces cameo's but they're there when needed. I can see Ash working his way to the world championships to fight Dande. ( I HOPE SO)
he's already alola champion though, of course he will beat him eventually since they have been doing Ash justice lately. You should check out sun and moon anime, it's one of my favorite and I think it's better than almost every pokemon series.
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Feb 10, 2020 4:50 PM

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So Leon finally makes his appearance. I hope he is as good as the games!
I hope Ash works his way up into fighting Leon
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Feb 11, 2020 12:23 AM
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Ash's first reaction to the World Championship SHOULD have been "hang on, I'm a regional champion, why wasn't I invited?"

They actually used game mechanics and music in that battle! That makes me happy

I'm curious as to who the other six in the tournmanet were? How does one qualify to be a member of the Masters Eight? Will Ash become one later?

Also, who are the G-Men and why am I only just hearing about them now?

Ash and Leon are going to fight in the next episode?! And he gets a Dynamax Band?! Are we going to see Giant Chonky Pikachu? Will Ash finally confess to everyone about winning the Alola League? SO MANY QUESTIONS!

ALSO I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT ETERNATUS!! WHAT THE CRAP?!
Feb 11, 2020 1:06 AM

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ALSO I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT ETERNATUS!! WHAT THE CRAP?!

Completely natural since it literally didn't exist until the last hour of the main story.

I really loved seeing it cameo here in the sky. Hope the anime treats it better than the games did.
Feb 11, 2020 3:41 AM
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Probably the best episode of this season so far. And now hopefully a full new story in galar will begin. Can't wait for more battles like this one. And that eternatus scene scene was nice.
Feb 11, 2020 4:55 AM
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ShyGuyDY said:
Also, who are the G-Men and why am I only just hearing about them now?

That's a detective organization from OS (Original Series - Kanto, Orange, Johto). The organization was first mentioned in episode 235 of OS. It was also mentioned in the 97th episode of AG (Advanced Generation).
Feb 12, 2020 4:43 PM

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what the actual fuck , using gigantic pokemons in battle lol

bellsprout was a good choice based on the enemy types, but it surely can't do anything agains't the big guy :v
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Feb 14, 2020 12:16 PM

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Welcome to my TED talk. Leon's Charizard just tanked a Dragon Dance boosted Aqua Tail from a Gyrados. I would like to make the argument that this is complete bullshit. The only situation this could be possible is if Gyrados has an ATK reducing nature and 0 ATK IVs and Charizard has a DEF boosting nature with maxed 31 EF IVs. If even one of these conditions fails, Charizard gets OHKOed, and you're telling me Leon's just shrugged it off? Bruh.



It may not be obvious, but I'm messing around. The anime very clearly falls a different sense of logic than the games. I didn't actually care who won this, especially considering how obvious it was that Leon was going to win. Everything after the Aqua Tail was good stuff.
Feb 15, 2020 5:46 PM

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Episodes like this makes me wish that there was more of an overarching storyline in Pokemon. I mean, there's so much potential with all the competitions and trainer out there.

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Feb 16, 2020 8:54 AM

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Leon vs Lance fight was okay. As usual type advantage doesn't matter much in the pokemon anime. Thou that shiny Gyarados looked cool.
Feb 17, 2020 4:10 AM

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ExodiaX said:
Shoryuuken said:
I LOVE the direction this series is taking! No forces cameo's but they're there when needed. I can see Ash working his way to the world championships to fight Dande. ( I HOPE SO)
he's already alola champion though, of course he will beat him eventually since they have been doing Ash justice lately. You should check out sun and moon anime, it's one of my favorite and I think it's better than almost every pokemon series.

I saw it, hence why I think he'll represent himself as the alola champion :)
Jun 18, 2020 5:54 AM
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guys.. Lance's red Gyarados absolutely did not evolve from a gold Magicarp! a normal Magicarp was forcefully evolved by Team Rocket which led to an incomplete evolution and then Lance caught it.
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Nov 10, 2020 12:31 PM

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Kinda weird that they gave Ash the "someone needs to not know this so the audience can learn" idiot ball back in this episode. Before now, it felt like Go was supposed to exist as the newcomer so Ash could show his knowledge as a veteran.

The animation wasn't anything to write some about either.... Or maybe my standards are stupidly high after Twilight Wings. Just kinda a meh episode overall IMHO.
Oct 4, 2021 5:45 PM

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OMG episode.

finally a proper fight being animated in the whole pokemon series, that was amazing and done well as a pokemon championship should be, hope to see more of those.

secondly, didn't saw that cliffhanger end coming even one bit.
Jan 24, 2022 6:04 AM

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so now we get godzilla fights in pokemon as well. thank you japan
I always wanted a world cup style tournament in pokemon apart from the regional ones so that we could see all the different pokemon from different regions in one place and it's cool to finally have one. but why is the final battle just a single pokemon battle? would be great if it was a full sis on six battle
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Dec 16, 2022 7:42 AM

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Where is Cynthia :(

Satoshi is weird when you think that he already knows Peter pretty well
Oct 18, 8:51 AM
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Nice to see Lance and the mention to Driftveil's PWT.
Leon is cool but, after so many years of continuity, rivals and champions, it's hard to take the fact that he's the most powerful trainer at face value.
Fun fact: The judge in the Latin dub calls him Lionel, which I am pretty sure is his Japanese name. I've heard that he takes his name after Lionel Messi since the Galar region is based on England and the stadiums and gym uniforms are references to real world football (most popular sport in England).

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