Will Ash change his training method or battle style after his huge loss to Paul?

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This battle showed that Paul’s pokemon are far more powerful than Ash’s Sinnoh team. Ash recognized it himself. So now we have a liitle time until his last gym and then short period between Grand Festival and Sinnoh League. I am sure he won’t change his team and call some of his old. So what do you think he will do now?
 
Are we to believe that Ash will become less caring to his Pokémon?

The anime has been as subtle as a siren. It's far more likely that Paul will somehow lose and change his method.
 
I think on no account Ash will change his training. It woulnd't make sense if he did. I don't think he will call his old Pokemon either and he will finish the Sinnoh league with his Sinnoh team(+Pikachu and pokemon which he eventually will catch)just like he did in Hoenn. Of course Paul's Pokemon have much more experience and they seem definitely stronger. But in the past we saw situations when pokemon which was considered much weaker won a battle with stronger opponent (even when it had a disatvantage).
I don't know if Ash is going to win his next battle against Paul. But it seems rather obvious to me that his training and team will remain the same.
 
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it does seem like the team will remain the same but id love if he used his oldies in the league
 
podin said:
But in the past we saw situations when pokemon which was considered much weaker won a battle with stronger opponent (even when it had a disatvantage).
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And most of these battles were really stupid. Like Piplup vs. Prinplup battle, Piplup vs. Glaceon or Buizel vs. Floatzel. I simply can't take these cheap wins seriously. And I definitely don't want to see anything like this in Sinnoh League.

On topic, Ash will not change his training methods, but I am sure he will start to train harder now. But even with that, I still don't see Ash will beat Paul anytime soon. I think in Sinnoh League, writers will either skip battle with Paul (like they did with Gary in Indigo League) or Paul will beat Ash again.
 
Ash won't change his ways, that would be extremely stupid - he's trying to prove Paul wrong and prove his own way is the right way... and he'll cause Paul change eventually, it's inevitable... and their battle in the Sinnoh League seems the best time for that
And even if Ash will use his older Poké in the league, the battle with Paul should (and probably will) be only the Sinnoh team
 
Ash is not going to bring back any old pokemon when he have his Sinnoh team to do the job compare to his Hoenn team,he will most likely use only his Sinnoh team to help him catch more Sinnoh pokemon and he will use them to beat Paul with, it will take time Sinnoh is not going to end very soon anyways and Ash have a lot of time to train his team to be even more stronger then Paul's team put together.
 
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Ash has probably had the exact same training method for years now. He's lost some OVER 9000 times. He wont change at all, I just see Paul changing in the end.
 
emanuellburnell said:
Ash is not going to bring back any old pokemon when he have his Sinnoh team to do the job compare his Hoenn team,he will most likely use only his Sinnoh team to help him catch more Sinnoh pokemon and he will use them to beat Paul with, it will take time Sinnoh is not going to end very soon anyways and Ash have a lot of time to train his team to be even more stronger then Paul's team put together.
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We also know Paul has a really strong team of non-Sinnoh pokémon.
 
Ash will stay with his training method. Period. Granted, he might change the style of the actual pokemon. Namely, instead of using fast pokemon with a lot of attack power, he'll focus on defensive and/or powerups. He has done this for Grotle.
My guess is that Ash will rely on powerups (such as Grotle's Energy Ball swallow) to compensate for his pokemon's lack of power when compared with Paul's.
 
I think he'll stop whining about how Paul doesn't recognise him as a great trainer, call Professor Oak & get some of his tougher battlers out of retirement.

The reason Paul wipes the floor with Ash nearly every time is because Paul has had the same team pretty much since he started, whereas Ash keeps chopping & changing when he goes to a new area.
 
Crimson-Ninetales said:
I think he'll stop whining about how Paul doesn't recognise him as a great trainer, call Professor Oak & get some of his tougher battlers out of retirement.

The reason Paul wipes the floor with Ash nearly every time is because Paul has had the same team pretty much since he started, whereas Ash keeps chopping & changing when he goes to a new area.
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Although I agree with why Paul keeps winning, it seems unlikely Ash will actually do the most obvious remedy.

On the bright side, it'll make Paul's ownage funnier when his veterans lose to Ash's comparative newbs.
 
Daren said:
Although I agree with why Paul keeps winning, it seems unlikely Ash will actually do the most obvious remedy.

On the bright side, it'll make Paul's ownage funnier when his veterans lose to Ash's comparative newbs.
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Which is even more ironic, as one of Ash's Vets (Pikachu) was owned by a comparative noob in the previous encounter (Ursaring).

Well, let's just hope that they do the fighting right when it comes down to it (both on Ash's side and on Paul's side). I mean, if they have Ash's rookie team completely own his Vets, then I have a bad feeling that the fanbase at large would then start treating Paul the exact same way they treated JJM (IE, think that he's basically a pathetic loser who can't even win against a baby). I mean, thanks to the episode where Caterpie (who was both inexperienced and almost incapable of battle at the time due to Ash's foolish decision to pit it against Pidgeotto) completely demolished Koffing, Ekans, AND Meowth without even coming close to breaking a sweat (despite taking down Pidgeotto easily, AND rendering Pikachu incapable of battling), JJM now has a reputation of being the weakest, most pathetic trainers in existance.
 
Weedle Mchairybug said:
Which is even more ironic, as one of Ash's Vets (Pikachu) was owned by a comparative noob in the previous encounter (Ursaring).
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Being Burned and Activating Ursaring's Guts probably helped.

Didn't Ursaring KO three of Ash's Pokemon? Take him out quickly and painlessly, and the odds should even up nicely. Monferno looks like he can do it, and if Pikachu doesn't get another ludicrously bad run of luck he might be able to handle it (finally getting another good win in Sinnoh).

I mean, thanks to the episode where Caterpie (who was both inexperienced and almost incapable of battle at the time due to Ash's foolish decision to pit it against Pidgeotto) completely demolished Koffing, Ekans, AND Meowth without even coming close to breaking a sweat (despite taking down Pidgeotto easily, AND rendering Pikachu incapable of battling), JJM now has a reputation of being the weakest, most pathetic trainers in existance.
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I think their reputation is from their losses in more or less every episode, really.

My favorite example is the one where they beat Flareon, Vaporeon and Jolteon then an Eevee one-shots their entire party.

That makes the things people prefer to complain about (Thunder Armor, May's Squirtle's Ice Beam "flaw") look like brilliant bits of writing on par with Tolkien and Shakespeare.
 
Ash getting a Floatzel and Infernape alone would be a good power boost against Paul.

I'm still hoping it happens.
 
I don't think Monferno will evolve either. Ash has three fire starters, each one with different stage. The same was with grass starters. So it's likely that writers want to stand by this deal. Of course having Infernape Ash would gain some kind of trump card and could overcome Paul's pokemon experience easier.
 
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Every region Ash usually has one fully evolved starter, so Infernape is very likely. Kanto it was Charizard, AG it was Sceptile.

Johto just screwed up altogether, so let's not go there. It probably should have been Totodile back then, but whatever.
 
Scott85 said:
Every region Ash usually has one fully evolved starter, so Infernape is very likely. Kanto it was Charizard, AG it was Sceptile.

Johto just screwed up altogether, so let's not go there. It probably should have been Totodile back then, but whatever.
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Johto was not a screw up it was just handled differently, yeah there were the glitches with the GS ball but whatever really? ~Theres no time like the present so stop going on about how Johto sucks. That was 8 years ago.

It would be interesting to see them do something different with Ash's roster at this coming league. But to be honest a lot of people in these discussions complain that Ash's team have no personality and then demand the oldies back for the league. Kind of a contradiction? If you don't give them a whole series to bloom then you're kind of giving up without a fight - which Ash would never do. There's a lot of Pokemon and not enough screen time, JUST MAKE DO.

Finally to answer this question, Ash would benefit from picking up some new tips from other trainers and getting some more experienced battles occuring regularly, thats a given. I personally think the team he's got is really good, Infernape would kick arse but I've got a feeling Monferno will be around for long enough, if not for good.

Now we're tapping back into the Johto selection, with Dawn most likely to get Cyndaquil, we're gonna see an evolution, for sure.
 
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