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Apr 12, 2020 5:56 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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It finally happened. Ash team has the potential to be his strongest one ever...
Apr 12, 2020 8:00 AM
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That music that played when Ash stood up for Riolu! Tears were falling down!
Apr 12, 2020 1:52 PM
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Ash is truly on his path to everlasting greatness! The animation, the music, the theme of destiny. This team is so broken so far. We haven't seen them much in combat yet, but they're strong as hell at the general consensus.




This series deserves atleast an 8!! So well paced and written.
ShoryuukenApr 12, 2020 1:57 PM
Apr 12, 2020 3:05 PM
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Definitely the best episode of this season so far!
Apr 12, 2020 5:32 PM
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Wow this is slowly becoming Ash's best team ever lol

I like Riolu's personality. Stubborn but very competitive, fits perfectly to Ash' style. It'll be much better once it evolves but that's a matter of bonding over time :P
THANKS SENPIEX
Apr 12, 2020 5:48 PM
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Ash is gonna end up with a Lucario on his team!! i agree with everybody, this is gonna be Ash’s best team ever..even more than Gen1 and XY combined! no excuse to not beat Leo come series end

also i like that Pikachu remembers Professor Elm and Ash kinda referencing Togepi
Apr 12, 2020 7:01 PM
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satoshi is getting some amazing pokemon this season and with a Riolu on his team (to be a lucario later on ) is awesome

as for next ep..... oh boy ...
"one step at a time"
Apr 12, 2020 7:31 PM
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It's so weird that Ash has been denied these OP Pokemon for so many years and now they decide to give him all of them in one season. This Riolu should have been his two generations ago xD. And now that everything is possible, please, an Eevve. It's time for an Eeve.

Also, why are they suddenly dumb about eggs? Why do the eggs now have generic designs?
Apr 12, 2020 8:01 PM
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One of fandom's biggest dreams has come true, Ash finally get a Riolu, also is great to see that the aura theme came up again after a long time...
Apr 12, 2020 10:15 PM

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who the heck is writing these stories. all I'm seeing is just random series of events and no plot development. like the other series (s&m , xy ect had better writers then this series) *no not art quality, its fine, i like it dont get me wrong* it's the story. i want the guy who was directing the other series back. unless its him im alright.

the set up for ash to obtain riolu was so bad. ok egg does some random mystic waves and ash senses the presence of egg and claims "i was meant for this egg" and joy says keep egg k bye. its yours now. now ash gets riolu aka lucario in the future. this is a setup for him to get op strong mons because it's already late in the game. what's next? random setup for him to catch Primal groudon? also why riolu act like that. is it because its a setup for how op its gana be later?

i just wana say this isnt the pokemon series i grew up with. its some messy writing.
i just want a good plot development is all im saying. - _-

i did like the part ... the part.. hmm
i did enjoy that small pokemom trainer battle. thats all i can think of lol.
also the part where riolu used a egg move on ash. vacuum wave i guess.
Apr 12, 2020 11:19 PM

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For a moment there before only being teased about Ash getting an egg and the site posting the possible mons in it, I thought it'd be the starter pokemon Soble, but among those choices I had hopes that it would be Riolu, and bloody hell they actually did it! they gave this boi a Riolu! his team is OP af now lol, Gengar, Riolu(Lucario) and Dragonite, this gonna blast.
Tho I still hope he gets his Charizard back, he used to get him whenever he's gonna fight a big battle like the time he fought an Articuno once.
Apr 12, 2020 11:33 PM
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10/10. This episode gave me chill...

And i like how ash not flexing how he had hatched 2/3 egg before.
Apr 13, 2020 4:54 AM

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It's kind of disappointing that Satoshi used Pikachu for two battles in a row. I mean, what's the point of having cool pokémon like Kairyu and Barrierd on his team if he isn't going to use them? At least he used Gengar a while ago, but still. Well, let's say that he is saving them for challenges that Pikachu can't overcome alone. Now, more importantly, I'm still excited that he caught a Riolu! I didn't expect the egg to hatch in the same episode it appeared, but that Riolu has been delaying his arrival for quite some time so it really feels that he has been waiting for Satoshi all along. Or at least for someone who has an aura like his when battling. I think that I also love his personality. xD Can't wait to see more of him, but the next episode is going to be about Gou and Rabbifoot and I guess that it can be nice too. I mean, I like Gou and I liked his tamatama pun. lol
Apr 13, 2020 2:35 PM

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that Riolu hatched at lvl 30 lol
Apr 14, 2020 3:10 AM

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Damn it's been ages since I wanted to see Ash get a Lucario. I'm glad he finally got a Rioulu and hoping to see it evolve soon.
Apr 14, 2020 3:58 PM
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xSeanFTWx said:
who the heck is writing these stories. all I'm seeing is just random series of events and no plot development. like the other series (s&m , xy ect had better writers then this series) *no not art quality, its fine, i like it dont get me wrong* it's the story. i want the guy who was directing the other series back. unless its him im alright.

the set up for ash to obtain riolu was so bad. ok egg does some random mystic waves and ash senses the presence of egg and claims "i was meant for this egg" and joy says keep egg k bye. its yours now. now ash gets riolu aka lucario in the future. this is a setup for him to get op strong mons because it's already late in the game. what's next? random setup for him to catch Primal groudon? also why riolu act like that. is it because its a setup for how op its gana be later?

i just wana say this isnt the pokemon series i grew up with. its some messy writing.
i just want a good plot development is all im saying. - _-

i did like the part ... the part.. hmm
i did enjoy that small pokemom trainer battle. thats all i can think of lol.
also the part where riolu used a egg move on ash. vacuum wave i guess.


It's not "random mystic waves", it's Aura. It's been well stablished in the series ever since gen 4 that Ash has a special aura, both in the Diamond and Pearl anime and the movie with Sir Aaron and Lucario. That has finally been brought up again, there's nothing random to any of what happened during this episode.

I love the team that he's putting together, and I love this Riolu's personality! I do hope he starts using Dragonite, Gengar and Riolu more and not just Pikachu though.
Apr 30, 2020 5:40 PM
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I didn't really like this episode. It was really disjointed and nonsensical, that and I've never been a fan of Riolu. It was just really random and seemed more like a fan service episode than anything that actually mattered. Yes, Ash caught a Riolu, but it didn't even make sense. Why would Nurse Joy just hand over this egg that she's been monitoring for who knows how long to some kid she doesn't even know? Also, the fact that the word 'aura' wasn't mentioned once in the entire episode was strange. I understand that it's well established in other series that Riolu uses aura but imagine watching that as a new Pokémon fan. The episode just wouldn't make any sense. The ending felt rushed too. Ash healed Riolu, asked it if it wanted to come with him and caught him in about fifteen seconds and then the episode just ended. He's not even in the next one. It makes it easy to just forget about him. Ash's whole encounter with it didn't feel impactful like the others, the aura conveniently calling out to him, and only him (the protagonist) felt forced, like a lazy way of shoehorning a fan service Pokémon into Ash's team. I liked the part when Riolu got beat up in a forest but that was it. I thought it was kind of boring. (But hey, that's just me)
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Jun 1, 2020 1:10 AM

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I wish they would have used another Pokemon other than the Lucario line again. This evolution line is so overexposed already from the movies to Sinnoh even to Kalos and now we get another one of this aura bullshit.

I didn't like this episode at all. It just felt flat overall.
Jun 25, 2020 10:03 PM
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That was a great episode, so it was a riolu huh.
Its a natural born fighter too, Dragonite Gengar and soon to be Lucario... i feel like this line up is setting up something big for Ash?
Maybe Ash will win the cup this season
Dec 7, 2020 6:07 PM
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What is going on with Ash team..
Dec 30, 2020 11:58 PM

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ZdloraH said:
That was a great episode, so it was a riolu huh.
Its a natural born fighter too, Dragonite Gengar and soon to be Lucario... i feel like this line up is setting up something big for Ash?
Maybe Ash will win the cup this season


I mean he's being set up to battle Leon in an official PWC match, which is his goal this series. But aside from that whether he wins or loses, I think people really overestimate Ash's team especially his Gengar who's lost just as often as he's won.
Mar 5, 2021 9:52 AM
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This episode was great, I really how the serie is changing with this season and the path she took.
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love almost about everything here, the fact they made another rank battle, using ash's aura, getting riolu which is setting up for lucario, and the characteristic of riolu looking gor the aura he felt in the egg, just loved everything.

little disappointed that ash doesn't use genagr, i get that dragonite might be too OP to use though.

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Ash is gonna end up with a Lucario on his team!! i agree with everybody, this is gonna be Ash’s best team ever..even more than Gen1 and XY combined! no excuse to not beat Leo come series end

also i like that Pikachu remembers Professor Elm and Ash kinda referencing Togepi
the team of ash in the kanto region was good?? except for charizard all his other pokemon were unevolved, and the evolved good pokemon he had released, and after releasing primeap he had only 5 pokemon till the league.
if you want ash's good teams are in DP and XY, and you can also be argue with his DP team quality.

and why you remember only togepi? there's larvitar that came out of it's egg in johto, phenpi, another egg he got in unove (can't remember it's name now) and more of other trainers who got eggs in the long series.
Aug 27, 2022 9:49 AM
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RIOLU ?
IS THIS SERIES LIKE AN HOMAGE FOR THE FANS NOW ?
ASH BE GETTING ALL THE COOL POKEMON WE ALWAYS WISHED HE'D HAVE
(Yes I'm thinking of wink wink nudge nudge Sinnoh..ehehe..Lucario..ehehe The GOD AWESOME MOVIE EHEHEHE)
Jan 21, 2024 3:26 AM

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Riolu, getto da zé! 👊

Jan 12, 3:41 PM

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Damn Ash actually catching his own Lucario (Rioilu for now)
With the specific Pokemon Ash is catching it definitely feels like a love letter to the fans.
Jan 20, 5:17 AM
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Ash and Pikachu emanating literal aura got Riolu impressed. Guess its charateristic is that it "likes to fight", as the games would put it. Not even Goku would go as far as to take on every single living being after just being born.

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