#xy058

[wild-battlebond]

tbh the best part of the coumarine gym battle to me was the way the gym leader battled. i felt like jumpluff + weepinbell’s legs of the battle were both really fun and were really specific to the skillsets of grass-types (both having chlorophyll, the usage of powder moves, & jumpluff’s cotton guard). so i liked this one.

[djsockpuppet]

This week will be interesting since there are two XY gym battles airing this week. Gonna be weird seeing Hawlucha go HAM on Thursday then see him get utterly destroyed on Saturday.

[noodlerama]

So that Gym Battle....

 I guess I should actually give me thoughts about it instead of random comments.

Really solid and enjoyable match, some aspects of it I even liked better then Korrina, so you can put around the second Gym battle so far in the anime. Right off the bat I liked how MOST (like 85%) of the battle was devoted to the actual Gym Battle, you had some nice set up but it didnt take up almost half the episode like Grant's did, and no TR at all is a HUUUUUGE plus. Every Pokemon (except Jumpluff, rip) got time to shine really well and as usual the battles themselves were well animated.

Also I don't know if this was intentional or not but I like how Ramos took advantage of Ash's habits of trying to brute force his way through the match, something that worked with Korrina but not what Ramos (which is good, I like when Gym leaders are established to have unique battle styles other then the standard stuff) and so Ash had to change his perspective and take Ramos's advice to overcome him, that was good. Im glad Froagider finally got to star in a Gym because hoenstly it was a long time comming (should've happened with Grant but I digress) and he performed wonderfully a real badass imo.....I wish I could same for Hawlucha but he had to be the fall guy ;_:, oh I hope this isnt a sign of bad things to come since he deserves more wins.

As for other stuff, I liked how Serena is having nightmares about her upcomming performance. Is this a sign of things to come? A major loss perhaps? I really hope it is.

My only real gripe was that im kinda bothered that Ash didnt mention that he'd finally have his match with Clemont, like at all. Instead hyping up Serena's stuff, I don't know why since you probably could've done both just fine, just a small acknowledgement woudl've been good.

[arceus-ex-machina]

JFC WEEPINBELL IS FUCKING VICIOUS HE POISONED THE BIRDS, SWUNG FROM A VINE AND FUCKING THREW THEM TO THE GROUND LIKE WHAT NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A POISONOUS GRASS BELL WITH DEEP-SEATED ANGER ISSUES

[rohanite]

HOW?!?!?

[rohanite]

Another thing is that the voice acting in this episode got SUPER intense to my very personal delight. Pretty sure Satoshi's voice nearly broke for each Mon HINOYAKOMAAAA LUCHABURUUUU and the final IKEEEEEEEEEEE Unfortunately only one of those had a happy ending GOODBYE

[rohanite]

Ok first of all, teach me the secrets to your Weepinbell training methods Ramos cause godDAMN. That thing killed both birds and still put up a good fight against Frogadier.  Bby Bird straight up BEASTING through Jumpluff with repeated Flame Charges, that last one even had a special visual boost HNNNG Imma need Luchabro to star against Clemont or something because he got fucking DESTROYED HELLO??? Looked super intense though, thank you based Iwane. But I ain't even mad because it was about time Frogadier laid that starter status to the table and carried the team YO his parts were AMAZING. Once again Ash was taught some soft of a lesson in a Gym episode and it came super clutch at the end. Ramos lost because he helped the challenger but that's just part of being a Gym Leader. All round great Gym Battle episode!

[rohanite]

I swear this face will become a meme or something