The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship - Team Rocket and Mimikyu
I see a lot of #PokeaniCasuals who are showing interest in Alola & a good number of them have talked about Team Rocket getting Mimikyu, so for anyone who doesn’t actually watch the anime but enjoys knowing wtf is going on in it, here’s a fun little post where I gush about just how fucking good this is.
(obviously there’s no subs yet, but here’s what I know)
Mimikyu is not at all the woobie the internet interpreted it as, which I am grateful for, for a ghost/fairy
It’s out for pikachu’s damn blood, snobby as fuck in what pokeball it allows itself to be caught in, and sounds like a hissing, sputtering hellspawn.
It’s entire motive for allying with Team Rocket initially is that it has an excuse to beat the everloving shit out of pikachu.
And it DOES. Mimikyu might be TR’s strongest Pokemon yet (besides Wobbuffet, but Jessie doesn’t actually understand the physical/special split, so she doesn’t battle with him)
“I like that they got a mimikyu, but it’s self esteem is going to be so bad with pikachu always tearing it down…”
NO! Mimikyu is so powerful & excels so hard at kicking the shit out of Ash’s pikachu that blastoffs no longer exist. Team Rocket cannot get flung into the sky because Ash cannot land a hit on them.
So now instead of blasting off, Bewear shows up and carries them all away.
Meowth could hear all the awful shit mimikyu was saying and was immediately terrified, Jessie was like “scary??? I think it’s cute!” and spent the whole episode relentlessly pursuing it with a wild look in her eyes.
Mimikyu is too good for normal pokeballs and kept swatting Jessie’s away.
Jessie stole James’ fucking 10 dollar luxury ball from his pokeball collection and only then did mimikyu agree that was befitting for it.
IN CONCLUSION: Jessie & Mimikyu are going to be an amazing team of the saltiest, pettiest, most high-maintenance queens in the entire fucking world, and I am so, SO happy.