Just would've been cool to give him all the Gen 2 fire Pokémon that's all
“Heat Wave Arena” Set Revealed Featuring Misty, Ethan, Cynthia, and Arven’s Pokemon!
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Technically we got one if you count Sapphire and May as the same individual.
Ho-oh only attaches to ethan's pokemon...
ie. itself. Nothing prevents you from moving that energy elsewhere with another effect afterward.
And then Armarouge moves it off the Ho-Oh.
Good thing Ho-oh itself is an Ethan's Pokémon
Only if the artists release them, which isn't something they always do. It's usually someone else who cleans up the card.
love misty, hate Cynthia. She is one of the worst Pokemon Characters to me in every aspect.
at least may got to cameo in the silver tempest trainer gallery blaziken cards - brendan is truly still nowhere to be found…
Again, I'd love if you gave context for this remark, similar to how you gave context for thinking N is annoying. It's an interesting perspective, but without an explanation, nobody is going to be able to see it from your point of view.
Speaking of explanations and points of view, out of Misty, Cynthia and N, Misty is probably the one I'd least like to have as a friend or co-worker. I still have vivid memories of her livid head taking up half the screen as she shouted Ash down in the anime, and she seems pretty hostile in Gold and Silver, immediately calling you a pest when you accidentally interrupt her date. I also have a hard time forgetting her
- Flogging her travel companions with a hand fan outside Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town
- Ordering opponent's Pokémon to attack her own Psyduck to trigger its OP psychic abilities
- Forcing Ash and Brock to carry her purchases like servants during the Princess Festival
- Exploiting Pikachu's protective feelings for Togepi by sending that Pokémon out into battle against Pikachu during the best-of-3 showdown to determine who would keep Totodile
- Shoving Ash and Brock out of the way to get a better look at the hatching Togepi, thus causing it to imprint on her (Really, Ash shouldn't have to buy her a new bike after she stole Togepi's heart)
Misty has generally been portrayed as short-tempered and, in the anime, exploitive and abusive, not someone I would happily spend time around in any setting.
Misty is insufferable in the anime for how she treats Psyduck alone. The show can try to reinforce that she really loves Psyduck underneath it all but when she's ready to punch, kick or smash a bicycle on its head just to trigger a headache, she's a pretty awful person.
4Kids's dub in particular also gains a lot of the friends "playfully" insulting each other as time went on (both between the members of Ash's friend group and between Jessie, James and Meowth), and Misty is particularly bad with this toward Ash, despite 4Kids simultaneously trying to push Pokeshipping as a thing from Misty's side. But even on the Japanese side you can see that Kasumi is impatient, insulting and abusive to her friends.
One of the funniest moments of the show is when Nurse Joy presents her a fixed Bike and Ash is like "That's great Misty, now you can leave me alone forever" and she's devastated that this boy that she's followed around for 5 real-world years doesn't want her around anymore.
4Kids's dub in particular also gains a lot of the friends "playfully" insulting each other as time went on (both between the members of Ash's friend group and between Jessie, James and Meowth), and Misty is particularly bad with this toward Ash, despite 4Kids simultaneously trying to push Pokeshipping as a thing from Misty's side. But even on the Japanese side you can see that Kasumi is impatient, insulting and abusive to her friends.
One of the funniest moments of the show is when Nurse Joy presents her a fixed Bike and Ash is like "That's great Misty, now you can leave me alone forever" and she's devastated that this boy that she's followed around for 5 real-world years doesn't want her around anymore.
Psyduck can't protect you from decking out though.
Musty is the best anime protagonist throughout all seasons. Best design, best personality, best pokemon (be it staryu and Psyduck alone) and at least she brings something to the table instead of those empty-shelled goodie-two-shoes after her. In the games, she is nothing special for being the second gym leader and all. In the manga, she is extra cool tho.
Cynthia is the most insufferable champion out off all regions. She is annoying in the games, she has a stupid design (a ballsack in her hair), the ugliest pokemon ever (garchomp) and was generally not memorable as an opponent. Whoever struggled against her is really bad at pokemon. Not helping that Sinnoh is generally the worst region to begin with.
What did I miss that makes you say it can't protect you from decking out the same way Pidgeot V did? You bench it, have it return to top of deck, if it's your last card you can chain it every turn just like you could chain Pidgeot V, right ?
Because you have to discard a card from your deck. If you are down to 0 cards it does nothing.
Good point about there being a difference between the quality of a person's character traits and the quality of how a person's character traits are written. Cynthia hasn't been expanded upon nearly as much as Misty. Still wouldn't call Misty's friendship with Ash healthy, though that's probably as much due to Ash's immaturity as Misty's flaws.
As someone who fell in love with the atmosphere of Diamond (Music, graphics and all), Sinnoh is heavily nostalgic and its skewed type representation and slow-as-molasses HP animations don't tend to bother me. Not that I'm a massive Cynthia fan as a result (I don't tend to think as much about the human characters as about the Pokémon), but I just want to point out that Sinnoh being a horrible region depends on which metrics you're using (Atmosphere-wise, for example, Kanto would be the worst region due to the lack of culture, much of its soundtrack becoming recurring music tropes in later games (Meaning the score brings very little to the table if you've already played the other games), and generally being more bare-bones and repetitive in landscape features even in Let's Go Eevee) (EDIT: I've heard the Sevii isles have pretty great atmosphere and that Scarlet & Violet's world just feels empty with how easily you can avoid all trainer battles and thus all dialogue, so maybe Paldea is a worse region atmospherically? I'd definitely say Sevii-less Kanto is the worst atmospherically of anything I've played, which is most stuff before gen 9 except gen 5 (I rented out White from the library and played the post-game to transfer Pokémon from Diamond to Bank, and the atmosphere seemed pretty good from what I saw).
The ornaments in Cynthia's hair are probably meant to resemble Lucario's dreadlocks. As for the remarks on Garchomp, welllllllll... it's the sixteenth most popular Pokémon according to favorite (And eleventh according to six favorites) according to this survey, , so most people probably don't feel the same way about Cynthia's ace.
As for Misty's Psyduck, yeah, it's an iconic Pokémon. One thing that I appreciate about the anime is how fleshed out most of the protagonist's Pokémon are as characters (With Misty's Staryu and Starmie being sad exceptions. I get that it's hard to characterize a faceless gemstone with arms, but why on earth didn't Misty call out her only fully evolved Pokémon in every major fight instead of leaving it imprisoned in its Pokéball for most of the show?). Psyduck's oblivious nature was endlessly entertaining, it's psychic powers made it seem unbeatable to my childhood mind, and it was funny to see how Psyduck and Togepi seemed to play on two different sides of Misty's character (Yeah, if I'm being honest, Ash was probably the least capable of the three to raise a baby Pokémon). It hasn't escaped me that Psyduck has been prominently featured in a lot of spinoff media, from Pokémon Concierge to random stuff like that random baking show and the Chinese video featuring all the video games that China... never... actually... got? Yeah, suffice to say that Psyduck is super iconic at this point (Now that I think about it, I'm not sure how much characterization Brock's Pokémon got. I guess we just got to see most of them more frequently than Starmie).
Thanks for sharing. Now I have a much easier time understanding your feelings on the characters in question. Hopefully I've done a good job explaining my feelings on Misty and on Sinnoh.
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