made these two memes during school hours and forgot to post them (there wasn’t a teacher lol)
(On a side note is there any ref sheet of Valtryek/valkyrie? Because its so difficult to draw her with only the in anime photos 😭) (same question for all the bey avatars btw! They have too much going on lol)
Haven’t done art lately, but i have finally done Valt’s current team. So i’ll just like yap about it , like, how he got em and that stuff, for now i have only S1 and S2 wrote.
Season 1
Valt before was known as an amateur, yet enthusiastic pokemon trainer. He often losed in Pokemon battles yet never gave up.
He trained often with Rantaro, and his partner Roktavor (a Charcadet). He saw his best friend on TV; Shu Kurenai and his partner Spryzen (a Gabite), encouraged; he trained so hard, preparing himself for the upcoming local tournament he’d sign up for.
Pokémon;
Valtryek ( PONYTA - ✨ )
Valt’s first official pokemon, he received his Ponyta when he was 10 years old. Lucky he , his Ponyta is rare, and decided to put him a name: Valtryek. He has done multiple beginner battles with Valtryek, and so enthusiastic to enter the nationals. Both are very united.
EEVEE –> JOLTEON
This eevee has been on Valt’s family before he was even 10 years old, but it only became Valt’s offical pokemon when it encouraged Valt to catch it, just after the local tournament ended. Valt then gave his Eevee a thunderstone in hopes for it to evolve, which it accepted and evolved into Jolteon enthusiasticly.
BUDEW –> ROSELIA
Valt got his Roselia when it was still a little Budew, his mom gave it to him when she found it in a store alone. He cared for it very much, making sure it was fed and happy, it evolved into Roselia near the semifinals of the local tournament. Roselia has been quite more calmly than the other pokemon of Valt, but it is strong too.
LUXIO
He found this Luxio on his way home hurt, so he took it home with him! Even if he got scratches, the Luxio was feeling better and luckily became part of his small team! Luxio became protective over Valt overtime.
Season 2
Valtryek (RAPIDASH - ✨)
Valtryek had evolved right after losing to Silas’s Spiritomb; Satomb, filled with encouragemnt, and determination to beat it the next time. Also thanks to Raul’s training, Valtryek is as strong as ever.
JOLTEON
Jolteon has been a loyal pokemon to Valt, aswell as naughty, but it has been always by Valt’s side. And it will, forever and ever. Valt swore be together at Jolteon’s side too.
ROSERADE
Valt’s Roselia had evolved when BC Sol was in their worst moment, using the Sun stone that was on Kris’s office (with permission of her), to become stronger, to keep the team united, alongside Valt.
LUXRAY
Luxio evolved into Luxray when having a battle inside The Snake Pit, encouraged to be come stronger and to protect his trainer. Even though they lost at the Snake Pit, it didnt lose hope to become stronger and help Valt with his goal.
ELECTRIKE –> MANECTRIC
Valt found it when it was still a Electrike, in Spain, he decided to take it with him to grow his team and be able to enter any other tournament. In the Europe league, it evolved into Manectric and soon after Valt got a Manectricite.
RUFFLET –> BRAVIARY
Valt rescued it from The Snake Pit, healed it and reserved it for a time, it grew love for Valt and soon after became part of his team, being officially his sixth member. Rufflet wasn't good on battles, but it was always enthusiastic to learn how to fight like Valt’s other pokemon, evolving into Braviary as a last hope of fight against the Raging Bulls.
And now, why did i chose those pokemon? Mostly because i believe Valt would be like Ash Ketchum, catching any pokemon to become friends with along his journey, and i think he’d also have a different team almost every season but with the same main.
Now, i chose Rapidash as his main pokemon because Valkyrie/Valtryek is, well, inspired on the Valkyries of norse mythology, tho they are often related to avians, i chose Rapidash because they also show Valkyries ride horses or pegasus to fight. And in the series, Valkyrie/Valtryek is known for being very fast , Rapidash is also a fast Pokemon. And also decided to make it shiny to resemble more Valkyrie/Valtryek’s avatar in the beyblade series.
So thats it, thank you for reading and have a good day or night.
Been revisiting the stuff that I used to watch many years back and I forgot how much I liked Valkyrie + her relationship with Valt. Absolute girlboss. You go queen, go claim your throne above with your son. Go form psychic bonds with him. You do you. Silly spirit swinging her sword on her silly horse. 🫶
Looking only at the quad drive episodes that have been released on YouTube, we can see one thing that differentiates Rashad from any other character. His advice for getting stronger was, quite literally, to throw away your partner. Bladers like Valt, Aiger, Dante, Bel, Shu, Phi, Xavier, Delta, and pretty much all other high ranked bladers agree: the key to power is your bond with your bey. Rashad, however, doesn’t seem to care about this. He picked Valtryek as a partner because it’s the strongest, not for any bond he feels with it, despite Valt’s warnings that a bond is an important part of blading. A key thing to note is that he didn’t just tell Bacharach to evolve or upgrade his bey, as would be the conventional wisdom. He says to “toss it away.” He seems to view beys not as partners, but as tools. A piece of equipment for a sport and not one of the main players.
Part 2: Free vs Bel
An interesting comparison between Free and Bel is that Free wins and treats it as a loss, while Bel loses and treats it as a win. After his victory against Bel, free doesn’t seem like a blader who just won. It was a close enough battle that, despite objectively doing well, Free seems to view it as a failure(mood). Bel, on the other hand, is consistently looking at losses through the lens of a victory. “We may have lost, but it’s only because the other team was stronger than us. If we get stronger, we’ll win, so we basically already won”. This… is a really good way of looking at things. Good job Bel.