Shirona/Cynthia to appear

[Iteru]

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Shirona will battle Cattleya. We see her Gablias face Cattleya's Gothiruselle.

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[video=youtube_share;5QCiwYUgTuE]http://youtu.be/5QCiwYUgTuE[/video]

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Shirona was the Sinnoh champion, and appeared many times in Diamond and Pearl, playing a part in both the Hikozaru/Shinji storyline and the Galaxy Gang storyline. What role will she have in season 2 of Best Wishes? Will she run a similar tournament to the World Tournament appearing in the BW2 games? Will Satoshi get to challenger her?

 

[Eitarou]

The World Tournament would be glorious.

I'd love to see her gathering Trainers from all over.

 

[Piplup]

She's apparently organizing some tournament that this scan refers to as a "Battle Tournament" so my guess is that it IS obviously based on the games' "World Tournament" but is NOT necessarily the same thing
For example, I really doubt we'll see any of the Kanto Gym Leaders here... it does state though that Elite Four members and Champions are involved so... I don't know... I hope that maybe we'll get to see Lance - the writers randomly brought him back during AG, so why not do this again now when there's more of reason to do so? I really loved Lance so I'd like it... there's also that Dragonite on the scan that could hint to him, but it could also be Cynthia's or just a random Pokémon
Anyway, I'm happy to see Cynthia again... it's also nice to see her in a new outfit (though I find it weird she's getting one while Dawn doesn't, but whatever)
I have to wonder if we'll see Paul again too due to her appearing and how her role on the anime mainly focused on the Ash/Paul rivalry and also due to the whole "bring back older characters" (which BTW so far, anime-wise, only included important characters from DP...)
They have to AT LEAST mention Paul... but it'd be awesome to actually see him again... he should call Trip pathetic and teach him what's a real rival is like

 

[Moe]

My theory is that Cynthia comes and finds Ash (perhaps with Dawn's help) to make the offer of entrance after seeing how strong he was in the Sinnoh league, an explicit or tacit acceptance of how unfair Tobias' appearance was and how without his appearance he would almost certainly have won on the form he showed up to that point.

The problem then is that even Ash at his best has been shown to be far behind the standard of those in the Elite Four - he lost to Agatha and Flint badly despite being recognised in both cases as showing strong skills. So how could Ash, who is currently losing Don Battle tournaments get to a point where he could compete strongly with members of the Elite Four?

Otherwise, just cameos of older Gym leaders he's already defeated, perhaps with an emphasis on the ones that just gave him badges and ones that would have changed since he went through the region, perhaps including whoever ended up as the Veridian City leader in the Anime.

My even crazier theory is that like Gym leaders and members of the Elite four, participants have to come into each battle with specialist types, which would mean that either full sets of six/three of a particular type would be needed for each battle - which would give reason for Ash's Unova captures to be as high as they are, but still have focus on his previous Pokemon. He has (on my potentially bad counting) 6 Grass Types, 6 Water Types, 6 Flying types, 6 if Rock/Ground are combined and 35 Normal types (a team of 6 Tauros, make it happen!). Only 5 fire types though and falls way short in Dragon, Ice, Bug, Poison, Fighting and Electric. Perhaps that would leave open mixed teams after getting through the first round or something.

 

[Masurao]

The problem then is that even Ash at his best has been shown to be far behind the standard of those in the Elite Four - he lost to Agatha and Flint badly despite being recognised in both cases as showing strong skills. So how could Ash, who is currently losing Don Battle tournaments get to a point where he could compete strongly with members of the Elite Four?

Don Battle: Excadrill vs Pikachu. Not exactly fair odds there.
Donamite: Scraggy vs Throh. Yeah, he really stood a chance there. The former is still a "baby".

Really if he brought back all his reserves, doesn't get nerfed/written into a terrible match-ups for plot reasons, I don't really expect him to win...but he'd do better than alot of the other main characters. Or at least last longer.

 

[Piplup]

OHHHHHHHHHHH! That explains it, she's "gathering" trainer for a tournament she's making herself, no Elite Four or Champions involved,

Maybe I wasn't clear in my post... but read it again, I actually say Elite Four members and Champions ARE involved... BUT what I was trying to say is that it's NOT called "World Tournament" but simply a "Battle Tournament" and that it's very likely to be different from game thing, meaning I doubt it's really a crazy big tournament of all past Gym Leaders and so on
I guess it's simply a tournament that either anyone could enter or whoever Cynthia invites, that a few of the participants, very few, and not all of them, happen to be Elite Four members or Champions... or maybe battling these E4/Champions is just the "prize" to the winner of the tournament
So what I'm trying to say is that it's still not really clear what exactly IS this tournament and we should wait for proper information before saying anything is a "fact"

The problem then is that even Ash at his best has been shown to be far behind the standard of those in the Elite Four - he lost to Agatha and Flint badly despite being recognised in both cases as showing strong skills. So how could Ash, who is currently losing Don Battle tournaments get to a point where he could compete strongly with members of the Elite Four?

This is partly why I don't believe it's a tournament full of E4 members and Champions... that's just ridiculous and there's no way Ash will survive more than one battle if even that...
I hope we get more info on that soon...

 

[Peppermint Phoenix]

Hope that she invites Tyson love to see there interactions. Especially since Wallace is Master coordinator at the moment so it would be perfectly reasonable for Tyson to be champion unless they do intend on releasing RS remakes before gen 6 which I doubt seeing as BW was confirmed for THREE years.

 

[Iteru]

I'm really hoping that as the finals of this tournament (assuming that Shirona enters, however unlikely it is) that we see her face Adeku. Maybe even just something to finish off the tournament when its done, or just as an opener. What we saw of Shirona vs Oba before was fun, but seeing a full battle or at least a 3 vs 3 would be good.

 

[Queen Cynthia]

Oh my God! OH MY GOD! OH MYYY GOOOOD!
C Y N T H I A !!!
That has certainly been the greatest news for a long time! The greatest character ever, the Queen, Heaven's most wonderful angel herself is about to return. *faints*

Sure we still need confirmation, but by the looks of things she will be organizing a tournament and I'm sure it's safe to assume that this "Battle Tournament" refers to the World Tournament and involves a lot of strong gym leaders and champions from all over the world. And over all this the glorious invincible Champion Cynthia will preside.that she is able to gather all those elite trainers and organize such a tournament is the ultimate proof that Cynthia is the best of the best, superior to everyone else.

And look what an elegant, royal dress she'll be wearing (small picture at the bottom of the scan) :unworthy:
Would anybody who can speak Japanese mind translating the caption right next to that picture, please?

No matter how bad the BW Anime might be, the upcoming episode(s) with Cynthia will make up for everything and from now on, I'll be waiting for that glorious day when she returns. To use one of Cynthia's quotes: "And how I look forward to that day"

 

[Piplup]

Would anybody who can speak Japanese mind translating the caption right next to that picture, please?

The one near Cynthia's pic actually talks about Meloetta, which is why the red arrow points at Meloetta's pic... the one near the tournament's hall's pic says that this is a "Battle Tournament" and that it involves Champion and Elite Four

 

[Queen Cynthia]

Would anybody who can speak Japanese mind translating the caption right next to that picture, please?

The one near Cynthia's pic actually talks about Meloetta, which is why the red arrow points at Meloetta's pic... the one near the tournament's hall's pic says that this is a "Battle Tournament" and that it involves Champion and Elite Four

Thank you! I mean the second one on the right.
So we can say it's basically confirmed that the "Battle Tournament" in the Anime is more or less the equivalent to the "World Tournament" in the games. Oh happy day!

 

[Bandit Keith]

Predicted Lineup:
Ash
Misty
Brock
Tracey
May
Dawn
Iris
Cilan

Vs.
Gary Oak
Paul
Trip
Zoey
Drew
Burgundy
Georgia
Max/Casey/Jessie(as Jessalina)/James(as his DP era PokéRinger Self)/Meowth/Bianca/Stephan/Morrison/Tyson/Harrison/Ritchie/Harley/Solidad/Trollbias/Barry/Conway/Ursula/Jimmy/OC Watcher/OC Water Specialist/Forrest/Unimportant COTD that comes back/Pre-designated tournament winner#6/N/Akuroma/Cheren/B2W2 Rival/Marina/Vincent/Macey-Macy/Katie/Luke/Masaomi/Reggie/Chili/Cress/Trinity/Quincy T. Quackenpoker(Tracey's Rival?)/Lucas/Ethan(From M13's opening/Movie Character/Brendan/Lyra/Khoury/Kyle(Sinnoh)/Red/Leaf/Hilbert or Hilda/B2W2 Protagonist 1 0r 2/Unrevealed character in Best Wishes 1/Angie/J/Looker/Professors/Tad/Liza/Mewtwo/ETC...

 

[Piplup]

Thank you! I mean the second one on the right.
So we can say it's basically confirmed that the "Battle Tournament" in the Anime is more or less the equivalent to the "World Tournament" in the games. Oh happy day!

It's BASED on the games' "World Tournament", that's pretty obvious... but I doubt they'll be exactly the same things (for example, I doubt ALL past Gym Leaders, if any, will return to the anime... I also doubt ALL the participants are E4/Champions)
We really should wait for proper info to learn exactly what this tournament is... I think we're probably going to be stuck with speculation for a month or so...

 

[Queen Cynthia]

Thank you! I mean the second one on the right.
So we can say it's basically confirmed that the "Battle Tournament" in the Anime is more or less the equivalent to the "World Tournament" in the games. Oh happy day!

It's BASED on the games' "World Tournament", that's pretty obvious... but I doubt they'll be exactly the same things (for example, I doubt ALL past Gym Leaders, if any, will return to the anime... I also doubt ALL the participants are E4/Champions)
We really should wait for proper info to learn exactly what this tournament is... I think we're probably going to be stuck with speculation for a month or so...

Well, I think the preliminary list of already confirmed characters that serebii has posted looks like a good basis for possible matchups.

 

[Signas]

Well, at least the tournament should be exciting.

 

[Musashi]

http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/f658/pokemon-world-tournament-132497/

Let's keep speculation about the possible tournament itself to this thread please.

 

[Hurricane Kishore]

Ash better win this ''Battle Tournament'' of Cynthia !
I don't hear about other trainer need development , Other trainer need to win !
2 Don tournament being wasted for OTHER character So This ''Battle Tournament should belong to Ash !
FYI : Pokemon World Tournament is a Tournament for Champion & Gym Leader. What Cynthia having in a ''Battle Tournament.
So They are totally different so Stop confusing Pokemon World Tournament with Cynthia Battle Tournament.
Cynthia's Battle Tournament is more like Ash's version of ''Wallace Cup''

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

Oh my God! OH MY GOD! OH MYYY GOOOOD!
C Y N T H I A !!!
That has certainly been the greatest news for a long time! The greatest character ever, the Queen, Heaven's most wonderful angel herself is about to return. *faints*

Sure we still need confirmation, but by the looks of things she will be organizing a tournament and I'm sure it's safe to assume that this "Battle Tournament" refers to the World Tournament and involves a lot of strong gym leaders and champions from all over the world. And over all this the glorious invincible Champion Cynthia will preside.that she is able to gather all those elite trainers and organize such a tournament is the ultimate proof that Cynthia is the best of the best, superior to everyone else.

And look what an elegant, royal dress she'll be wearing (small picture at the bottom of the scan) :unworthy:
Would anybody who can speak Japanese mind translating the caption right next to that picture, please?

No matter how bad the BW Anime might be, the upcoming episode(s) with Cynthia will make up for everything and from now on, I'll be waiting for that glorious day when she returns. To use one of Cynthia's quotes: "And how I look forward to that day"

LOL! I was expecting this kind of reaction from one of the biggest fans of Cynthia I know here.

I'm very excited for her return and damn does she look good with her new outfit! I'm really interested in her tournament.

 

[Akuroma]

She reminds me of Scott from Battle Frontier.

 

[Queen Cynthia]

Oh my God! OH MY GOD! OH MYYY GOOOOD!
C Y N T H I A !!!
That has certainly been the greatest news for a long time! The greatest character ever, the Queen, Heaven's most wonderful angel herself is about to return. *faints*

Sure we still need confirmation, but by the looks of things she will be organizing a tournament and I'm sure it's safe to assume that this "Battle Tournament" refers to the World Tournament and involves a lot of strong gym leaders and champions from all over the world. And over all this the glorious invincible Champion Cynthia will preside.that she is able to gather all those elite trainers and organize such a tournament is the ultimate proof that Cynthia is the best of the best, superior to everyone else.

And look what an elegant, royal dress she'll be wearing (small picture at the bottom of the scan) :unworthy:
Would anybody who can speak Japanese mind translating the caption right next to that picture, please?

No matter how bad the BW Anime might be, the upcoming episode(s) with Cynthia will make up for everything and from now on, I'll be waiting for that glorious day when she returns. To use one of Cynthia's quotes: "And how I look forward to that day"

LOL! I was expecting this kind of reaction from one of the biggest fans of Cynthia I know here.

I'm very excited for her return and damn does she look good with her new outfit! I'm really interested in her tournament.

THE biggest fan, of course (no bragging intended)

FYI : Pokemon World Tournament is a Tournament for Champion & Gym Leader. What Cynthia having in a ''Battle Tournament.
So They are totally different so Stop confusing Pokemon World Tournament with Cynthia Battle Tournament.

We're not confusing the tournaments but it's more than obvious that Cynthia's Battle Tournament resembles the World Tournament in the games which is also organized by Cynthia. And let's not forget she speaks of a tournament where all champions from different regions will gather when you meet her in Undella Town. Now just put one and one together