Which Pokemon had the best debut episode...?

[RTLfan]

And which had bad debut episodes?

 

[Bland Mango]

Jigglypuff had the best debut, remember thinking how cute it was, and the song was really sweet, and then team rocket had their really cool song as well!!!

 

[Alola]

I think Bunnelby and Snivy had really good ones. In both, they either defeated Pikachu or put up an equal fight, looking very badass while doing it too.

 

[PiccoloX]

Tracey's elderly Scyther, episode title "Tracey Gets Bugged". I dunno, just seeing an aged Pokemon was something different. All the other Pokemon have been either young or in their prime, but the scenes featuring Tracey's Scyther went out of the way to remind the viewers that it's a skilled fighter, but old, stubborn and could become winded easily.

 

[Mr. Bell]

Mega Charizard X in pokemon origin, it was really cool how Lizardon Mega Evolved during the battle with Mewtwo.
Plus I really liked Aerodactly episode from the original series, where he almost ate ash.

 

[RTLfan]

Bump

 

[Audino1008]

Mega Charizard X in pokemon origin, it was really cool how Lizardon Mega Evolved during the battle with Mewtwo.
Plus I really liked Aerodactly episode from the original series, where he almost ate ash.

Of course, Origins really has nothing going for it other than being cool.

 

[ii kanji]

Habunake came out pretty strong, giving Musashi a haircut and then getting immediately beaten to a pulp

 

[PikachuSmasher]

Probably the Ash Greninja form debut. After Greninja evolved in a Ninja village fighting Ninja like Pokemon with Ash, I liked how they transitioned into revealing the new form

 

[Superior Serperior]

I always thought Buizel’s debut made it look super cool and strong, which made it sadder how often it jobbed in the second half of Sinnoh

 

[Jewel the Quaxly]

The first episode of the anime debuting Pikachu along with multiple other characters still stands as one of the strongest episodes in the anime for me. The characterization in the episode is just on-point, the type of world presented is well established, and the story of the episodes itself is a pure classic. Some may argue that Ash has risked his life for pokemon many times after, so this episode doesn't seem that special in comparison, but I still can't think of a single pokemon debut that presented that trope the way the first episode did. It was incredibly impactful in a lot of ways, and I don't think people understand why it's such an iconic scene that remains in people's hearts to this day. The fact that a life or death situation was the catalyst for Ash and Pikachu's friendship as well as being the climax of the episode itself was only one thing. The entire episode was leading up to this story, and even established what the world was like. This ordinary ten year old kid with big dreams is going to face a world of dangers and pokemon, which makes his whole speech toward the Spearow a metaphor for the series itself. And he was going to face it WITH Pikachu, which is shown when Pikachu decides to save Ash. Their relationships is mutual here: Ash is ready to give his life for Pikachu, but he needs Pikachu to protect that life that he has been figuratively gifted. It helps that the two still aren't completely best friends after the episode and still have problems throughout the series that don't get fully ironed out until around OI, proving that this episode really was nothing more than a catalyst that ALLOWED Ash and Pikachu to form a friendship-not that it was the reason why they are friends in the first place.

My thoughts sound really disorganized here, but I swear I could write an entire literary essay about that one single scene and why it is beyond perfection.

 

[PaperSplash]

If we're counting fillers, then Gastly and Rotom's debuts were pretty memorable, off the top of my head. A lot of Ghost-types' debuts were good, actually.