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One thing that’s always stood out to me about the anime is the overall lack of a proper confrontation with the leaders of the various evil teams from the games. Usually this is because the anime has a history of not adapting the games’ villainous plots well (or in the case of Team Rocket, at all), but even in the handful of cases that it has adapted them properly, villain bosses tend to not use more than one or two Pokemon, which I personally find rather strange, as villain bosses in the games usually have teams that are almost full. In fact, the only villain boss to have received a full team in the anime was Lusamine, who ironically was made not a villain, so one could argue that there still isn’t a single villain boss in the anime with a proper team.
So that got me thinking, what if villainous leaders had been allowed to have full teams in the anime to fight against Ash and Company? What Pokemon might have they used? Well, here’s what I would personally give each criminal boss:
Giovanni
Oh, I should also point out that I don’t imagine that any of the Pokemon Giovanni uses when acting as Team Rocket’s leader are Pokemon that he used for Gym Challengers, so yeah, his Rhyperior would not be that same wimpy Rhydon who got wrecked by Ash’s Pidgeotto of all things XD, ‘cause that would just be embarrassing.
Maxie/Archie
Cyrus
Ghetsis
Sidenote, to this day I still find it massively insulting that the Hydreigon species’ biggest anime role in the BW saga came in the form of being used by the single dumbest trainer to have ever been introduced and not as one of the coolest game villains’ ace mon that completely wrecks everything. Hydreigon deserved better, just sayan…
Lysandre
Oh, and Pikachu fights Pyroar while Ash-Greninja fights Mega Gyarados alongside Alain’s Megazard X.
Guzma
Chairman Rose
So that about wraps it up for my choices! What about the rest of you? Do you also find it weird that Evil Team Leaders seem to get the short end of the stick when it comes to their Pokemon, and would you also like for them to have full teams more often? If so, what teams of Pokemon would you have given each Villain Leader and why?
So that got me thinking, what if villainous leaders had been allowed to have full teams in the anime to fight against Ash and Company? What Pokemon might have they used? Well, here’s what I would personally give each criminal boss:
Giovanni
- Persian
- Honchkrow
- Tyranitar
- Nidoqueen
- Nidoking
- Rhyperior
Oh, I should also point out that I don’t imagine that any of the Pokemon Giovanni uses when acting as Team Rocket’s leader are Pokemon that he used for Gym Challengers, so yeah, his Rhyperior would not be that same wimpy Rhydon who got wrecked by Ash’s Pidgeotto of all things XD, ‘cause that would just be embarrassing.
Maxie/Archie
- Zangoose/Seviper
- Crobat/Tentacruel
- Weezing/Muk
- Cacturne/Crawdaunt
- Houndoom/Walrein
- Camerupt/Sharpedo
Cyrus
- Magnezone
- Porygon-Z or Bronzong
- Starmie
- Dusknoir
- Drapion
- Weavile
Ghetsis
- Cofagrigus
- Scolipede
- Bisharp
- Seismitoad
- Eelektross
- Hydreigon
Lysandre
- Pyroar
- Haxorus
- Toxicroak
- Mandibuzz
- Shiny Aegislash
- Shiny Mega Gyarados
Oh, and Pikachu fights Pyroar while Ash-Greninja fights Mega Gyarados alongside Alain’s Megazard X.
Guzma
- Pinsir
- Ariados
- Armaldo
- Scizor
- Masquerain
- Golisopod
Chairman Rose
- Klinklang
- Escavalier
- Perrserker
- Empoleon
- Ferrothorn
- Copperajah
So that about wraps it up for my choices! What about the rest of you? Do you also find it weird that Evil Team Leaders seem to get the short end of the stick when it comes to their Pokemon, and would you also like for them to have full teams more often? If so, what teams of Pokemon would you have given each Villain Leader and why?