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The Unova league starts already in October/November?

Oh my gosh that fast.
 
Musashi said:
Well they did say three months back in June. :p
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I thought that was 2 years in Real Life Time but I didn't know they meant really 3 month's. o_o

Anyway, is that Ash battling Trip in the first round? Wow.
 
The question is what is going to happen in October. If the Drayden episode aired right after the Team Rocket two-parter, the league would start in late October, but instead everything seems to have been pushed to November. I find it hard to believe that Pokémon Fan neglected to mention some other episodes, even if they are relatively unimportant.
 
What ticks me off is the fact that Ash's rivals are there in the league with Emboar, Samurott and Serperior, all powerful, big badass fully evolved starters. Then we got Ash with his little plushie army of Oshawott, Snivy and (to a certain extent) Pignite.
 
Guess Kotestu figured out that the Isshu League wasn't in Jouto afterall :p

Damn, that three months went by fast.
 
wait, so we're getting another league rival in the eevee guy? is that not a bit much, we just got kotetsu or whatever his name is
 
What I don't like is that it looks like Ash vs Trip is in the first league episode. So either Trip loses in the first round again for the third time, or Ash does for no good reason. The latter won't happen and the former is anticlimactic (after that Trip/Iris glorification tournament), so I'm hoping that Ash/Trip is later down the line.

I have a bad feeling that Virgil is going to move pretty far, and Stephan/Bianca will take the back seat this time, again. It's a given that Kotetsu will move far, of course. Gotta show off those shiny new characters!
 
Holy dag, more rivals, more chance for BS. Samurott dude did not impress me, so my money is on the Eevee dude, as odd as that seems to me. The standard league length would plop us right at the beginning of January for the end, assuming this is in late November. I was not expecting that many eps to be inbetween the major events that needed to happen, unless I want to count Drayden as a third event. So our scenario is finally confirmed. The question remains what will come after the League.
 
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I would prefer Ash taking Trip down in the first full battle round !
I wanna see Ash earning a victory that worth beating Trip 3 time in a row.
Anyway , I will be really pissed if Ash has to lose to Trip in a practice battle again without any reason since Trip got a Junior Cup already.
 
My first thought was that Trip and Serperior were just being hostile

Dosen't seem like Burgundy and Georgia are going to be here ;(
 
The way Pikachu is drawn in that pic with it battling Serperior....the return of Tamagawa, perhaps?

Also, I have never been this unenthused for a league before. The battles in this series are utter rubbish for the most part, and I have no reason to believe these will be different.
 
I'm not going to keep my hopes up for this one, we all know Ash is going to lose the league in the end, so why bother getting hyped for it. I feel like Ash will finnaly win against Trip and his overgrown garden hose that is his Serperior, then he will obviously face Kotetsu and Virgil (with Bianca losing easily in an earlier round to someone else), and Ash will possibly lose to one of them (even with Virgil's lackluster all-Eevee team), and even if he survives both, you know the writers are going to pull a Tobias on us and have an overpowered character who comes out of nowhere, has no buildup to his appearance, and uses legendaries and solely exists to beat Ash, the worst part is that I feel like that character is going to be N.

L-05308 said:
Dosen't seem like Burgundy and Georgia are going to be here ;(
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It's probably because they aren't competing in the league anyways, pity, because I really like Georgia.
 
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Oh, I didn't realize that. I need to learn to pay attention. Then the situation is no different than it was, just not with those two involved. I would be relieved myself. Burgundy has been too much of a failure and her elimination was assured. Now that we have a proper Samurott trainer, her failure is complete, and we don't need her anymore, save for her proper rivalry with Cilan, but that is just as bad for her right now. Georgia was also not a rival of Ash directly, though I will admit, I would've found her more interesting than Eevee dude.
 
Kairyu said:
What ticks me off is the fact that Ash's rivals are there in the league with Emboar, Samurott and Serperior, all powerful, big badass fully evolved starters. Then we got Ash with his little plushie army of Oshawott, Snivy and (to a certain extent) Pignite.
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Isn't that the point? Ash had used unevolved pokemon during his past pokemon league competitions, and he still made it far in all of them even though almost all of his opponents had fully evolved pokemon.

Furthermore, Ash has other pokemon that he will use for the league. Unfezant, Leavanny, and Krookodile are all fully-evolved. Pignite is a powerful pokemon even though it's only in its middle stage. Boldore and Palpitoad are also decent battlers if they aren't losing to certain overpowered GLs. Pikachu is destined to win some battles of its own too.

I doubt using Oshawott, Scraggy, and Snivy will hardly give Ash a disadvantage early on in the league. Scraggy defeated numerous fully evolved pokemon during its run. Oshawott and Snivy are also capable battlers.
 
I don't like that Pikachu got hit by Serperior's Dragon Tail!
Because Ash pignite got his ass kick without landing One attack on Serperior but Ash's Pikachu can beat it without getting hit despite Pikachu's been more experience.
Rebooting Doesn't mean that all Pikachu previous other Journey didn't happen.
Now it seem like all the Challenge Pikachu faced in the previous Journey was meaningless!
I also be pissed if Pikachu win because Serperior got affected by Static!
Unless, If Ash plan to let Serperior hit Pikachu So it get Paralyze by Pikachu's ability!
Seriously , Ash use learn to use Pikachu's ability intentionally !
He only did it during his battle with Norman !
While In Other Battle , Pikachu did it Unintentionally !
 
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