Gible had like 1 battle before the league, which he lost.

I don't think Torkoal is even the weakest in his team. When you remember his performance against Registeel, he's lowkey just under Swellow and Sceptile.

Glalie is arguably the weakest, since he only had League Tier feats

Can we talk about absolutely unoriginal they were with openings and endings.

I swear to God, by the end of 2022, I simply couldn't stand 1.2.3. tracks. And don't make me start about the endings. What a pile of crap that was

You can't imagine the joy I felt, when Horizons made an actual ED in arc 3

definitely The Last Jedi

This is where I realized that Lucas selling Lucasfilms to Disney was a mistake

He really does love defense

For how much I like Infernape's story, he was the worst case of hogging the spotlight in all anime

All three main DP movies are direct sequels to one another, so it's obviously canon

BW Ash is unironically not that far behind. He's still comfortably E4 lvl. It's just his depiction left a lot to desire

There was also a time when Grottle almost defeated Palmer, the head of Sinnoh Battle Frontier, and in movie 12, Palmer was shown to be strong enough to have an equal fight with Cynthia

Sinnoh Ash is by far the most overlooked in terms of power

If you want more proof

Ash defeats Volkner, who was Flint's rival and who he sees him as very strong during their battle, when he comments it

Not only Volkner one shotted Torterra, that several episodes earlier put a fight against st Bertha's ace, he defeated Pikachu in less hits, than Flint does

..., assuming they're the basis of what Zygarde should and.... yeah. That puts Six Heroes at least on the same tier as M8 aces, but probably stronger

We know that Amethio is a good trainer, and whenever or not Gibeon was an S tier trainer or not, Zygarde did approved him enough to listen to its commands, which is a big deal, when it's a Legendary

Plus, taking away trainer's influence still puts White Zygarde to the lvl of Squishy and Z2,..

... back in Laqua when they were infected for the first time by a weaker versio Laquium they caused an Island Lvl cataclysm

With infected Lapras being so strong, that Zygarde 50% can't even overpower him in brute strength, despite being a Box Art Legendary, GF had to at least be this strong as well

As for not being able to destroy docks in HZ111, it was mostly due to inconsistencies, since...

In OS it was been straight up said, that Ash met Pikachu a year ago, before it was conveniently forgotten about, so Horizons pre-timeskip era being 1 year long seems fair

People really underestimating Sawyer

Since Mega Sceptile was Ash-Greninja's equal, it basically making him at least close to power to Cynthia's base Garchomp

The problem is, it's Alain he's up against and he's built different....until JN

Meowscarada on this shot

"Palkia', you son of a bitch" is canon

the whole pre timeskip era takes place in 1 year

Plus, if that would make it easier to swallow, it took them 2 years to reach this lvl. Ash did in 1, lol

HZ characters' growth is what should be a standard for character development in pokemon, even if it might be taken to the extreme

In every other pokemon media, protagonists are reaching Champion tier strength relatively fast

Ash was an exclusion, not a rule

Not really.

He still giant a douche. The flashback just gave a context, not justification

Froakie's situation wasn't really leaning to him being portrayed as right

I thought it was obvious that anime portrayed him as a dick at least in hus backstory. At least, it's never been portrayed that it was trainer's fault that he got send away constantly

Well, we're reaching the end, so it was bound to happen, especially now that characters only stay there for 1 generation

Makes sense

They aren't focusing on 6, just on 3 and with the fact that they must grow to save the world, rather than just for shits and giggles, like most of trainers, their growth feels more or less organic

Regardless, Daddy-nite is GOATED

... Art Legendaries are at least as strong, but more likely way stronger than Champion's aces and Lance is genuinely among the weakest Champions, unfortunately

So, not only 4 main HZ characters are genuinely as strong as M8 members, but Ult lowkey starts reaching Leon and Ash in power

..., after Rayquaza, which means it's by far the most challenging one, plus it boosted itself during the fight with Ancient Power. Ult's Dragonite defeated them by itself, while others had a back or had legendary against their opponents and he did that in 2 moves

We know, that Box Art...

The latest episode showed that Six Heroes, that are infected by Laquium are as strong as 50% Zygarde (assuming it's equal to an average one, although there's a reason to assume, that it's stronger due to it being a trained pokemon). Gouging Fire was by far the strongest member of Six Heroes...

Orla has a ln average chest size

Did anon ever saw a woman irl?