KrspaceT
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Here me out.
In Sinnoh, one complaint that came up over time is that Chimchar, once Ash got it, slowly turned into the most prominent of his Pokemon. While it wasn't noticeable early on due to Maylene and then Crasher Wake, after that Chimchar won against two Pokemon in the following 4 gyms, personally winning the match for Ash in all but Byron. This also led to Ash's other Pokemon, mostly Buizel and Torterra, get turned into Jobbers for him (Buizel in the fight with Byron, Torterra with Volkner). I'd put Gliscor against Snover and Pikachu vs Driftblim here too, if the loses didn't rub me as badly because Gliscor was never hyped up a a powerhouse at that point and the Driftblim had established team killer reputation by that point and used a neat strategy.
Now, like Chimchar Froakie has a extensive backstory unlike most mons. He's a starter that's arguably the most popular of it's generation, and gets a lot of major fights and battles. However, he doesn't come off as badly as Chimchar did: he lost to Tyrunt and gave a roughly equal performance to Talonflame in the Meowstic fight. The only time I'd argue he was hyped up at the expense of another Pokemon was in the Ramos gym battle, and Hawlucha managed to recover his hype against Helioisk and Spritzee, the latter in a battle with similar type issues to Frogadier's match with Ramo and one that Frogadier would arguably have been just as, if not better suited than Hawlucha had been.
Of course he does have that Ash-Greninja thing, though we're going to have to see how that goes. But then again, I'd like to see Blaze Infernape vs a Mega at some point.....
Am I looking too much into this, or do you think that Froakie is the improved Chimchar storyarc, with 100% less Paul.
In Sinnoh, one complaint that came up over time is that Chimchar, once Ash got it, slowly turned into the most prominent of his Pokemon. While it wasn't noticeable early on due to Maylene and then Crasher Wake, after that Chimchar won against two Pokemon in the following 4 gyms, personally winning the match for Ash in all but Byron. This also led to Ash's other Pokemon, mostly Buizel and Torterra, get turned into Jobbers for him (Buizel in the fight with Byron, Torterra with Volkner). I'd put Gliscor against Snover and Pikachu vs Driftblim here too, if the loses didn't rub me as badly because Gliscor was never hyped up a a powerhouse at that point and the Driftblim had established team killer reputation by that point and used a neat strategy.
Now, like Chimchar Froakie has a extensive backstory unlike most mons. He's a starter that's arguably the most popular of it's generation, and gets a lot of major fights and battles. However, he doesn't come off as badly as Chimchar did: he lost to Tyrunt and gave a roughly equal performance to Talonflame in the Meowstic fight. The only time I'd argue he was hyped up at the expense of another Pokemon was in the Ramos gym battle, and Hawlucha managed to recover his hype against Helioisk and Spritzee, the latter in a battle with similar type issues to Frogadier's match with Ramo and one that Frogadier would arguably have been just as, if not better suited than Hawlucha had been.
Of course he does have that Ash-Greninja thing, though we're going to have to see how that goes. But then again, I'd like to see Blaze Infernape vs a Mega at some point.....
Am I looking too much into this, or do you think that Froakie is the improved Chimchar storyarc, with 100% less Paul.
