Fun fact: when i was a kid i played Pokemon Red and also used Pikachu to use thundershock ("it doesn't effect Geodude") me: Wtf?!? That's classic Pokemon for ya😂😂😂
Still questioning the chart to this day. Why does punching hurt dark type Pokémon so much? Why doesn’t steel type do double damage against dragons despite legends of knights/samurai cutting them down??? why are normal types immune to ghost type moves?
@@CombatSportsNerdfor the normal type is because in theory normal people aren't able to touch spirits since they don't have a physical bodies and this also work for the contrary
badges randomly handed out and each has a effect on them. like one give a effect for your pokemon that's level 20 and over to obey you. sense that badge was just handed rather actually owned it. I guessing the effect didn't work. plus Ash is basically speed running the gym fights. so his pokemon are not leveling as big. buuuut the anime is for little kids. so it basically just doesn't make sense on why his pokemon that are over 20 at some point obeys ash and Charizard doesn't.
Doesn't know Agility anymore though. Probably for the best since in the anime it's either just Quick Attack without the "Attack" part or a second version of the secret fifth move Dodge which isn't useful unless the Pokemon is naturally slow like Metagross.
@@madnessarcade7447 Glazing 😭 you get a badge from beating somebody not helping them out. Telling me youngster joey w/ his lv 2 ratatta should get a badge cause his ratatta is helping the ecosystem?
@@tristysstuff6664alright Ash has his moments but y’all gotta stop this nonsense. He’s had some *insanely* high battle IQ moments, so this notion of him being a clueless idiot needs to come to a grinding halt. Sure, for plot reasons, he has been given a few Ws, but like the person above me said it means jack shit when he doesn’t get those gifts where it matters. He gets hoed WAY more than he gets saved.
You know, that always bothered me as a kid when the Gym leaders Pokémon just instantly evolves the moment it gets sent out. Like! WHAT?!?! Like if I lived in the Pokemon universe, I guess snapping my fingers would work to get it to evolve.
I love how Brock is like ‘I’m not snitching on a fellow gym leader’ while Sabrina has no hesitation in just straight up nearly flattening two of hers and turning them into dolls. You’d think there would be league repercussions for that. Also Sabrina is complete nonsense in how Ash ‘won’, but how the fuck did anyone else who got to the finals get a Marsh badge if this is what they were getting slapped with. Seriously. EDIT: You can stop replying to me about how there’s more than 8 gyms, my point is more that if basically nobody is coming to the League finals with one how are they not looking into that.
you guys seem to think there are these people who have control over their universe....theres a reason why children are the gym leaders....theres maybe 1/100th of the adults theres supposed to be. Without adults, no kid would listen to them....There doesn't seem to be a real organization that keeps track of who is a gym leader and if they follow the rules...
There are multiple gyms in the anime Look at black and white for example We have confirmation that over there There are at least 10 gyms and probably more
Pikachu vs Raichu and Charizard vs Magmar were always the two best gym battles out of the original series for me easily. Viridian City is where plot really had to intervene unfortunately, cause if Sabrina's Psychic Pokémon were tough then there was no way that Ash would have stood any chance against Giovanni while he still had Mewtwo with him. Even in the movie the most effective thing Ash could even do in the end to stop something as powerful as Mewtwo was sacrificing himself and turning to stone. Though we can't ever forget how ballsy of a moment it was to watch Ash actually run up to punch Mewtwo himself to defend everyone, even if it was crazy to even try.
@@RampioreRegis Fun Fact: she's voiced by Lisa Ortiz, as in Serenity from Yu Gi Oh, and Lina Inverse from Slayers. Compete 180 in personality from Sabrina.
This is literally the best video I've seen talking about Ash's Kanto gym battles! The Sabrina part was spot on and the Viridian gym part where you talked about Team Rocket trio taking over for Giovanni had me dying, straight up rolling on the floor laughing 🤣🤣🤣 Love your videos man!
As a kid, Fire Blast looked scary as hell in the anime because I didn't know what kanji was, so I thought it was shaped like a person on fire. I thought "This move is actually gonna KILL Pikachu if it hits!!!"
@@janzeze6912 I went to fact check this, because I was always told by RUclips videos as a kid (before I started learning Japanese) that it was supposed to resemble the kanji for fire, but you’re right! It’s based off of a Japanese festival where they light a big bonfire in the shape of the 大 kanji. It definitely resembles that kanji more, but I assumed it was just stylized. My mistake, thanks for the correction.
I had the Blaine gym battle on VHS as a kid and would rewatch it to death, the tape is all scratched up from the rewinding but that’s expected. My absolute favorite gym battle of the first season.
I had the sabrina gym as a kid. It the one where brock and misty got turned into dolls and haunter saves the day with the help of the old man. The “you must be her photographer” on her father line was one of my favorite. That was my favorite episode as a kid, didn’t have any other episodes unfortunately.
the blaine battle was one of those iconic episodes i just never saw as a kid. and i think i saw every other gym battle episode. i feel like they didn't play that one on tv as much. i don't think i saw that ep until i watched all of indigo league on like netflix or something. i also never understood why he looked so different from his video game counterpart. ironically his disguise looks more like Blaine than Blaine does
I have to say that while I loved indigo league, and as a huge fan of pokemon, it DID get really annoying at points when the amount of free gym badges ash was getting absurd. Like at parts you almost forgot that ash’s main goal is to collect all of them because how they’re structured is just like another filler episode. VERY satisfied with xy and galar, those series did it much better
no one can stand filler episodes in xy and galar. On the other hand, the "filler" episodes from season 1 marked the childhood of many. The xy and galar battles are very exciting, but the episodes as a whole are only truly great for me in seasons 1 and 2.
The only youtuber doing mons content with some real sauce. you gotta rate his league performances like the playoffs or his other gym challenges you a natural at this bro
Really shows how Pikachu has changed over the years. Dude didn't want to fight a friend in episode 7. Fast forward to Sun and Moon and Journeys and bro is ready to throw hands with her Mega Gyarados and is actively surprised when Ash didn't pick him to fight Politoed. And honestly I don't mind Erika giving him the badge cause what kind of workers do you hire that get so butthurt about someone dissing their profession they won't let you fight the gym? I get it, he was rude but it's a 10 year old boy with a scuffed opinion not even about you but your perfume. So what, if I say modeling's for losers I can't fight Elesa or Nessa? Ban him from the store, not the gym.
Don't forget. It has been explicitly stated prior to that episode that gym leaders have to except all challengers. And there is absolutely no way Erika doesn't know that her staff are turning away challengers or even assaulting them with big ass stamps. Someone aught to report them. I know I'm thinking to deep into this but For Real tho that episode pisses me off even to this day
Plus when you think about it was Ash being rude because he didn't just go in there and start trash talking about perfume he went in their to get his Pikachu and Misty like always opens her big mouth and ask Ash his opinion and Ash gave it to her but then Erica overheard them and asked Ash the same thing I mean seriously you guys asked him he was only in their to get his Pikachu he literally care nothing for the perfume their at all
@@dantemustdie00 yeah and that is technically abuse of power because then that would mean only people that like perfume could battle her and let's not forget that theirs a chance that someone maybe allergic to perfume as well the only reason that Erica didn't suffer any form of repercussion is because Ash didn't know Brock was to young to know about them and Misty is a entitled brat Plus Ash school standards must have suck because when he was at the Alola school he did pretty well
Pikachu was a baby there So may be he thought that if he’d fight Misty they won’t be friends anymore But later he understood , that was only friendly battle
I get making the protagonist struggle to promote character growth, but for fucks sake, the way they wrote Ash was diabolical. They made him so damn inept. But for real keep up the good work bro! You're in my top two for Pokemon RUclipsrs.
I can understand since this is the beginning of his journey it makes more sense for him to be trash here than compared to Unova when at that point he already has 4 regions of experience plus winning the Battle Frontier and Orange Island League
Weirdly enough... You'd think the impact from that seismic toss might have oh I don't know... rekindled the volcano... again. Like seriously I get it's the fire gym but messing with a volcano at all is just beeeeeeeegggggggggggging for death.
It was heartbreaking for a lot of children in the 1990s when Charizard was the reason why Ash lost the Pokémon league. But the animators/Director of the Pokémon series could’ve made a storyline for the orange island where Ash realizes that even though he’s a heroic person, he didn’t really deserve to win the Pokémon league because of how many times he was rewarded badges, instead of winning with rematches. And then Charizard also respects the grind that Ash is doing, and then this leads them to bond. I think that would’ve been a better storyline about Ash realizing that, even though he is heroic, he hast to do things the right way instead of being gifted badges
Still somehow got Top 16 and lost in a pretty unfair way. He got kidnapped prior to the fight and two of his Pokemon were exhausted in breaking him free and getting him to the tournament on time. It also didn't help that he had to resort to Charizard who didn't listen to him.
You forgot the biggest bullshit in that fight, which Iirc literally never happened again - iirc his Bulbasaur got put to sleep and the ref... just called it a knock out.@@coolyeh1017
16:50 Btw they're not racist, that's literally Kabuki, the classic japanese theathre, is literally where the ''Yooooooooooooooo'' thing comes from, and Jiraiya's look inspiration etc They're literally meant to be loud and scandalous compared to the more calm and relaxed traditional theatre.
@@Prodigial6 What they're talking about is the episode in Pokemon Journeys where Ash went back to the Vermillion gym and fought Visquez, a student and temporary replacement for Lt. Surge while he was away. In the battle Ash repeats the "put your tail in the ground" technique but Raichu pushes through it with a persistent Volt Tackle.
either you don't speak english or you are 5? he taught future...what? his students? he taught his future students how to counter? That isn't what you said....
Pikachu performance is really a Rollercoaster. He can go from besting legendaries to losing to inexperience starters to beating mons with Mega Evolution it was crazy
I don't know. Aside from the Mickey ass garbage that was Elesa and Pikachu losing to Panpour, all of the gym battles were legit and pretty decent. I don't even mind Roxie that much cause if there's one squad that can almost choke a 6v3, it's the Unova squad.
Learning why gary was in the pokemon movie fighting against mewtwo now is amazing i know i could have watched the series and learned it but i saw so many episodes out of order i just didn't feel like watching them but that is amazing
@@DrakeKnight99 If we're talking games, the same applies to Norman for refusing to fight you before you have 4 badges. Let him beat you up if you're too low leveled, but at least follow the damn rules and accept all challengers🤷♂️
@azentra7560 tbf that's technically against the rules but that wasn't him being a jerk he just wanted the player to have a chance against him before they battled
hey, to be fair, it's like one of the three most common pokemon up to that point, and not everyone had a professor oak to just hand you a decent pokemon at the start. guy was doing his best with what he got.
@AmatMiguel maybe he wasn't able to catch a rattata. Or maybe that rattata that we saw that was all charred up was also his. Or maybe big brain play: since everything was getting one-shotted regardless of type advantage anyway, he ignored types completely and just hoped for sand attack hax. Who knows? But one thing we do know is, type matchups are almost never relevant in the anime; we've got literal ground types getting hit with electricity
Being a kids show is no excuse. Look at Avatar the Last Airbender, it's an absolute masterpiece with amazing morals and gut wrenching moments. @TheGodJames
this video was nothing but FACTS! Your commentary is sooo A1 bro! you had me cracking tf up 😂can legit say youre in my top 3 fav youtubers keep it up brodie, you gonna blow up! we movinnnn
how is pikachus electricity starting a fire by hitting sprinklers a fact? It's not even true...so your statement logically isn't true...Pikachu didn't hit the sprinklers, he hit the lights. The lights caught on fire and set the sprinklers off....thats 3 things he got wrong on one fact....you guys don't know anything do you?
Dude this commentary is me watching Pokemon with my kids. Fantastic job. I grew up with the show and the games since day one and now the 4 oldest are huge into it, and when i turn it on some of these battles legit are just questionable to hilarious
I love this channel. My favorite channel I’ve discovered recently. And the best Pokémon series channel. This dude is hilarious and extremely creative. And he’s active with how much he posts? I’ve literally already seen people copying his content on other smaller channels lmao. GOAT.
@@xpdev0 What kind of fraudulent activity was going on in those seasons. The only times I can think of are his battle against Whitney being kind of scuffed and him (unknowingly) cheating against Wattson. The rest were fair and square.
@@castform7actually Ash never cheated against the Wattson because even if Pikachu got a power up from absorbing the electricity from the mechanic it broke in self-defense its no different if Pikachu had the Lightning Rod ability and in the pokedex entire their tails are always getting struck by lightning anyways plus powering up electric Pokemon with electricity isn't illegal infact it's in their very nature to take in electricity So all in all Ash did nothing wrong at most that he did wrong if you can even called him out on it is not have his Pikachu practice taking in more electricity from lightning storms or other forms of electricity to get use to the power
These OG episodes with gym battles were wacky but in a creative way that we don't see much anymore. Gotta love how much personality the silly Ghosts have, the Pika-Rai rivalry and how creepy Sabrina's backstory is, not to mention the sprinklers and Blaine
Saw Ash get tons of free badges. Brought a Game Boy Color, with Pokémon Red....was level pissed when that shit didn't happen to me while playing the game, steups. Also, your Lt. Surge's comment about Pikachu had me rolling on the ground, man!! Full support for your channel, keep it up bro!
NAAH BUT BRO, pikachu lost to his persian but idk if it matters much cuz they battled for like 10 secs in the black n white anime but ash getting washed up there no amount of plot armour bullshit saving him there, even if he wins he gonna get his ass handed to himby mewtwo like bro is not winning
@@painvillegaming4119 We don't have to imagine since Ash had to deal with Mewtwo. And a more unhinged Mewtwo that wasn't under anyone's control at that.
The fact that Ash NEVER fights Giovanni ever in the anime at any point despite the anime hyping him up so much is quite possibly the franchise’s biggest crime
gotta commend Ash though, he's the best lightning rod ever. Bro gets electrocuted generally at least once an episode in season 1 and he doesn't even FLINCH 😂😂
Not gonna lie, I forgot how dark the Sabrina gym fights were 😅😅😂😂 also WHY ARE ALL POKEMON DADS ALLERGIC TO BEING WITH THEIR FAMILIES SERIOUSLY DUDE 😭😭🤣🤣
Well, you forgot James’s dad. But… that family has an ENTIRELY different set of problems. Plus they didn’t really seem to have THAT much of a problem that he went into organized crime, so never mind I guess…
Ash had no freebies in the League in Indigo Mandi was cocky only to get swept by an untrained Krabby/ Kingler we don’t know much about number 2 and Ash earned his victory against Petey and the. He managed to beat Jennett because of Muk if it wasn’t for her bellsproyt he would of won 3-1 with Bulbasaur
Sad that A.J. was never brought up again in the anime. That southern boy was making a water resistant sandshrew and never even made an appearance at the Indigo League.
I never understood why Mewtwo didn't invite Sabrina to his island during the events of the movie. As far as Kanto is concerned, she's gotta be the most powerful trainer in the whole region. She's over powered as hell.
That would have been dope to see Mewtwo annihilate her Pokemon!!! Prior to Mewtwo Sabrina’s Pokemon were like the most powerful pokemon in the original series. Even more powerful than Charizard was (and Charizard was pretty strong in the original anime)
Bro, I didn't even watch all of Kanto, but the SECOND I heard Jessie's voice after Giovanni tagged out, I knew Ash was blessed by the plot armor gods...
Gym 1: won Brock’s respect but not the battle Gym 2: battle was interrupted halfway trough and sister claimed that theoretically he could’ve won but didn’t actually win yet Gym 3: won fair and square Gym 4: I can’t even explain this one but he didn’t win Gym 5: battle was interrupted halfway trough saved Pokemon from burning building but didn’t actually win yet Gym 6: battle was interrupted halfway trough and they saddled it with a 1on1 Gym 7: won fair and square even though it was a 1on1 Gym 8: won fair and square but was team rocket so 😒
2:08 No wonder Brock doesn't know weaknesses.
If my ground type Pokemon got hit by an electric move, I would also question the entire type chart.
Fun fact: when i was a kid i played Pokemon Red and also used Pikachu to use thundershock ("it doesn't effect Geodude") me: Wtf?!? That's classic Pokemon for ya😂😂😂
Still questioning the chart to this day. Why does punching hurt dark type Pokémon so much? Why doesn’t steel type do double damage against dragons despite legends of knights/samurai cutting them down??? why are normal types immune to ghost type moves?
@@Sub-Sownik So your Pikachu passed the drug test?
@@donvielenio8956 unfortunately nope 😂👍
@@CombatSportsNerdfor the normal type is because in theory normal people aren't able to touch spirits since they don't have a physical bodies and this also work for the contrary
No wonder Charizard didn't obey Ash.
He looked at his badges and said, "You won maybe 2 of those legitimately - no dice."
Still I wish they never made that March of the Exeggutor Squad episode.
@@retroguy9233I agree, that episode sucks and it shouldn't exist!
badges randomly handed out and each has a effect on them. like one give a effect for your pokemon that's level 20 and over to obey you. sense that badge was just handed rather actually owned it. I guessing the effect didn't work. plus Ash is basically speed running the gym fights. so his pokemon are not leveling as big. buuuut the anime is for little kids. so it basically just doesn't make sense on why his pokemon that are over 20 at some point obeys ash and Charizard doesn't.
@@rickydiscord7671 Do you think the original series of Pokémon needs to be fixed?
Yea I know
Electric Shock Showdown is so iconic that they reference it several more times in the series, and Ash's Pikachu STILL knows Quick Attack to this day.
Doesn't know Agility anymore though. Probably for the best since in the anime it's either just Quick Attack without the "Attack" part or a second version of the secret fifth move Dodge which isn't useful unless the Pokemon is naturally slow like Metagross.
So much so, they repeat the story in DP, where Pikachu gets rolled by a Raichu, Ash considers evolving Pikachu and Pikachu gets revenge.
@@megasean3000ngl that DP raichu battle is actually even better than the original one
@gekkouga2828Honestly that entire episode was just "Electric Shock Showdown 2: The Better One"
@@castform7 lmao
Your reaction to Team Rocket being the eighth gym fight genuinely made me laugh
As soon as Uncle Ruckus's theme started playing, I struggled to keep my composure at work.
The amount of times ash has just been gifted a win is crazy, he's definitely sorry
That was mostly in the beginning of the series though. He got much better later on in the series.
It doesn't matter if he gets robbed on the important once
Selfless deeds aren’t gifts
@@madnessarcade7447 Glazing 😭 you get a badge from beating somebody not helping them out. Telling me youngster joey w/ his lv 2 ratatta should get a badge cause his ratatta is helping the ecosystem?
@@tristysstuff6664alright Ash has his moments but y’all gotta stop this nonsense. He’s had some *insanely* high battle IQ moments, so this notion of him being a clueless idiot needs to come to a grinding halt. Sure, for plot reasons, he has been given a few Ws, but like the person above me said it means jack shit when he doesn’t get those gifts where it matters. He gets hoed WAY more than he gets saved.
You know, that always bothered me as a kid when the Gym leaders Pokémon just instantly evolves the moment it gets sent out. Like! WHAT?!?! Like if I lived in the Pokemon universe, I guess snapping my fingers would work to get it to evolve.
sabrina ordering abra to evolve marked me.
@@eimardgomes1128 same
That experience was so free the pokemon got early access.
You're right, but again Satoshi Tajiri said that the Pokemon Adventures manga is a way closer adaption to the main pokemon games than the anime is
“ This what it looks like, if you let your pikachu balls, drop a little, bit” had me dying😂
Same
same, dude.
Got enough commas there?
@@shooby9496 I, think they could, use a few, more, personally,.
I love how Brock is like ‘I’m not snitching on a fellow gym leader’ while Sabrina has no hesitation in just straight up nearly flattening two of hers and turning them into dolls. You’d think there would be league repercussions for that.
Also Sabrina is complete nonsense in how Ash ‘won’, but how the fuck did anyone else who got to the finals get a Marsh badge if this is what they were getting slapped with. Seriously.
EDIT: You can stop replying to me about how there’s more than 8 gyms, my point is more that if basically nobody is coming to the League finals with one how are they not looking into that.
The anime had more gyms that Ash never visited
There's a Gym for every type. We only ever get to see 8.
you guys seem to think there are these people who have control over their universe....theres a reason why children are the gym leaders....theres maybe 1/100th of the adults theres supposed to be. Without adults, no kid would listen to them....There doesn't seem to be a real organization that keeps track of who is a gym leader and if they follow the rules...
There are multiple gyms in the anime
Look at black and white for example
We have confirmation that over there
There are at least 10 gyms and probably more
@@ravinraven6913…..There literally is an organization in the Pokemon League
Which has a chairman of the board
You mimicking Seel was something I wasn't expecting. Caught me off guard 💀
I swear
@@StillMossi this dude needs his own parody show
self aware laugh killed me and earned the sub
@@profpuffofficial2 lmfao he knew how stupid that was 😂
Yeah but didn't bother to mention it when it was sucked from team rockets machine. 😅 Poor seel
Pikachu vs Raichu and Charizard vs Magmar were always the two best gym battles out of the original series for me easily.
Viridian City is where plot really had to intervene unfortunately, cause if Sabrina's Psychic Pokémon were tough then there was no way that Ash would have stood any chance against Giovanni while he still had Mewtwo with him. Even in the movie the most effective thing Ash could even do in the end to stop something as powerful as Mewtwo was sacrificing himself and turning to stone.
Though we can't ever forget how ballsy of a moment it was to watch Ash actually run up to punch Mewtwo himself to defend everyone, even if it was crazy to even try.
That whole Sabina section was pure gold
brother what WERE THEY COOKING
@@RampioreRegis Fun Fact: she's voiced by Lisa Ortiz, as in Serenity from Yu Gi Oh, and Lina Inverse from Slayers. Compete 180 in personality from Sabrina.
@orangeslash1667 also Amy
@@kingbowserchannel1585 yes
One of the best moments of the show honestly
This is literally the best video I've seen talking about Ash's Kanto gym battles! The Sabrina part was spot on and the Viridian gym part where you talked about Team Rocket trio taking over for Giovanni had me dying, straight up rolling on the floor laughing 🤣🤣🤣
Love your videos man!
Yeah but for real they overpowered the shit out of psychic types in the show.
all of us know u were not rolling on the floor with laughter bruh
As a kid, Fire Blast looked scary as hell in the anime because I didn't know what kanji was, so I thought it was shaped like a person on fire. I thought "This move is actually gonna KILL Pikachu if it hits!!!"
ngl, that description just made Fire Blast WAAAAAYYY more badass!
Well, the fire kanji (火) DOES have the person kanji (人) in the center… so you actually aren’t too far off!
@@browniethesnivy uhmmm I think it's just the character for big 大
@@janzeze6912 I went to fact check this, because I was always told by RUclips videos as a kid (before I started learning Japanese) that it was supposed to resemble the kanji for fire, but you’re right! It’s based off of a Japanese festival where they light a big bonfire in the shape of the 大 kanji. It definitely resembles that kanji more, but I assumed it was just stylized. My mistake, thanks for the correction.
I always thought it looked like the Blair witch symbol even though it came before
I never noticed how cold Serge and Raichu were when I was a kid. The group emote was savage.
I had the Blaine gym battle on VHS as a kid and would rewatch it to death, the tape is all scratched up from the rewinding but that’s expected. My absolute favorite gym battle of the first season.
I had the sabrina gym as a kid. It the one where brock and misty got turned into dolls and haunter saves the day with the help of the old man. The “you must be her photographer” on her father line was one of my favorite. That was my favorite episode as a kid, didn’t have any other episodes unfortunately.
For me it was the 1st Pokémon movie. We didnt have cable so I watched it basically every day after school
the blaine battle was one of those iconic episodes i just never saw as a kid. and i think i saw every other gym battle episode. i feel like they didn't play that one on tv as much. i don't think i saw that ep until i watched all of indigo league on like netflix or something. i also never understood why he looked so different from his video game counterpart. ironically his disguise looks more like Blaine than Blaine does
Same
The biggest issue with the gym battle (not story related)... is the safety violations regarding the gym's location.
I have to say that while I loved indigo league, and as a huge fan of pokemon, it DID get really annoying at points when the amount of free gym badges ash was getting absurd. Like at parts you almost forgot that ash’s main goal is to collect all of them because how they’re structured is just like another filler episode. VERY satisfied with xy and galar, those series did it much better
no one can stand filler episodes in xy and galar. On the other hand, the "filler" episodes from season 1 marked the childhood of many. The xy and galar battles are very exciting, but the episodes as a whole are only truly great for me in seasons 1 and 2.
@eimardgomes1128 I love the filler episodes in XY/XYZ which is my favorite series
The only youtuber doing mons content with some real sauce. you gotta rate his league performances like the playoffs or his other gym challenges you a natural at this bro
'preciate that bro thats high praise 🙏🏾
I need Inside the NBA for Pokémon league battles.
"SEAL-UGH SEAL-UGH" HAD ME DYING 😭😭😭😭
Really shows how Pikachu has changed over the years. Dude didn't want to fight a friend in episode 7. Fast forward to Sun and Moon and Journeys and bro is ready to throw hands with her Mega Gyarados and is actively surprised when Ash didn't pick him to fight Politoed.
And honestly I don't mind Erika giving him the badge cause what kind of workers do you hire that get so butthurt about someone dissing their profession they won't let you fight the gym? I get it, he was rude but it's a 10 year old boy with a scuffed opinion not even about you but your perfume. So what, if I say modeling's for losers I can't fight Elesa or Nessa? Ban him from the store, not the gym.
Don't forget. It has been explicitly stated prior to that episode that gym leaders have to except all challengers. And there is absolutely no way Erika doesn't know that her staff are turning away challengers or even assaulting them with big ass stamps. Someone aught to report them.
I know I'm thinking to deep into this but For Real tho that episode pisses me off even to this day
Plus when you think about it was Ash being rude because he didn't just go in there and start trash talking about perfume he went in their to get his Pikachu and Misty like always opens her big mouth and ask Ash his opinion and Ash gave it to her but then Erica overheard them and asked Ash the same thing I mean seriously you guys asked him he was only in their to get his Pikachu he literally care nothing for the perfume their at all
@DeafeatedSamuelB yep they could've easily gotten Erika in trouble cause their are Gym inspectors as revealed later on
@@dantemustdie00 yeah and that is technically abuse of power because then that would mean only people that like perfume could battle her and let's not forget that theirs a chance that someone maybe allergic to perfume as well the only reason that Erica didn't suffer any form of repercussion is because Ash didn't know Brock was to young to know about them and Misty is a entitled brat
Plus Ash school standards must have suck because when he was at the Alola school he did pretty well
Pikachu was a baby there
So may be he thought that if he’d fight Misty they won’t be friends anymore
But later he understood , that was only friendly battle
7:25
Lmfao 😭God forbid meowth makes a helpful suggestion. Team rocket the goats FR🗣️🔥🔥🔥
I get making the protagonist struggle to promote character growth, but for fucks sake, the way they wrote Ash was diabolical. They made him so damn inept. But for real keep up the good work bro! You're in my top two for Pokemon RUclipsrs.
I can understand since this is the beginning of his journey it makes more sense for him to be trash here than compared to Unova when at that point he already has 4 regions of experience plus winning the Battle Frontier and Orange Island League
@@Radiolonestarhe wasn’t trash in unova he was naive and impulsive learn the difference
@@madnessarcade7447 he's always been naive and impulsive that didn't stop him from being a more competent trainer
@natalimoina I wouldn't of comment if I hadn't watched the season don't just assume thing cause you disagree
@natalimoina He oimproves as the series goes on but for.most of it he wasn't on top of his game like in DP or xy and onward
Best pokemon channel out right now, this narration got me hooked😭😭. Keep up the good content man
“ I ain’t evolving I to that long hair ole dusty thing I’m the mascot” had me weak 😂
Brock's Onix became "damp" by the spinklers, turning it temporarily water type. Best explanation.
You know that Pokémon Quagmire or Swampert them being immune to electric moves males Ornix's defeat dodgy😂
Sprinklers used 'soak'
Maybe that’s why the Charizard Vs Magmar was so lit back then. Was literally the only real battle up to then
Weirdly enough... You'd think the impact from that seismic toss might have oh I don't know... rekindled the volcano... again. Like seriously I get it's the fire gym but messing with a volcano at all is just beeeeeeeegggggggggggging for death.
@@Wiggy_ton I still think Ash should've caught Aerodactyl from the prehistoric Pokémon episode and use it to fight Blaine's Magmar.
@@retroguy9233 That's a great idea 👍
@@retroguy9233yea good idea, but Ash was lowkey dumb af in the series lol
@@richardneboh5617 Then I'm going to have to make him smarter in my version.
It was heartbreaking for a lot of children in the 1990s when Charizard was the reason why Ash lost the Pokémon league. But the animators/Director of the Pokémon series could’ve made a storyline for the orange island where Ash realizes that even though he’s a heroic person, he didn’t really deserve to win the Pokémon league because of how many times he was rewarded badges, instead of winning with rematches. And then Charizard also respects the grind that Ash is doing, and then this leads them to bond. I think that would’ve been a better storyline about Ash realizing that, even though he is heroic, he hast to do things the right way instead of being gifted badges
I wish they never made the March of the Exeggutor Squad 😪
@@retroguy9233I agree! I hate that episode!
@@retroguy9233The only thing I didn’t like about that episode was that Ash went and caught those Executor under hypnosis but didn’t get to keep one.
@@magicaltour1 That makes the episode even worse.
Man that episode feels too filler to be canon
This is why Ash deserved the L in the Kanto league damn near all of his badges were handed to him like birthday presents
But the L could've been handled better
But it's fine,it was their first attempt,it wasn't gonna be good off the rip,it was good for a first attempt
Still somehow got Top 16 and lost in a pretty unfair way. He got kidnapped prior to the fight and two of his Pokemon were exhausted in breaking him free and getting him to the tournament on time. It also didn't help that he had to resort to Charizard who didn't listen to him.
@@coolyeh1017even if he beat Richie he will lose to the guy who beat Gary anyway he wasn't ready for the league
@@faresfares-ultra though true, Top 16 for a rookie who is clearly underprepared is quite impressive. Ash was carried by the plot/his Pokemon though.
You forgot the biggest bullshit in that fight, which Iirc literally never happened again - iirc his Bulbasaur got put to sleep and the ref... just called it a knock out.@@coolyeh1017
16:50
Btw they're not racist, that's literally Kabuki, the classic japanese theathre, is literally where the
''Yooooooooooooooo'' thing comes from, and Jiraiya's look inspiration etc
They're literally meant to be loud and scandalous compared to the more calm and relaxed traditional theatre.
The Seel impression had me dead 😂
Also, you legit almost sounded like Brock during the Blaine segment.
The effort put into this video is honestly impressive! Cheers!
Surge got whipped so hard he taught future his students how to counter ash’s move 😂
What do you mean? Did it come back up at some point?
@@Prodigial6 What they're talking about is the episode in Pokemon Journeys where Ash went back to the Vermillion gym and fought Visquez, a student and temporary replacement for Lt. Surge while he was away. In the battle Ash repeats the "put your tail in the ground" technique but Raichu pushes through it with a persistent Volt Tackle.
@@castform7 that is freaking amazing!!!
either you don't speak english or you are 5? he taught future...what? his students? he taught his future students how to counter? That isn't what you said....
@@ravinraven6913….You might need glasses
Brother I loved your commentary it's freaking hilarious 😂 ❤ my first time watching you I'm locked in now 💯
I feel like a video about Ash's stupidest moments in Unova would go hard
I offered that too like i can see the titles be like :"Pikachu's fall from grace" as he loses to a level 5 Snivy.
@@omrizubary "Pikachu's BITCHASS eliminated by a level 5 snivy"
Pikachu performance is really a Rollercoaster. He can go from besting legendaries to losing to inexperience starters to beating mons with Mega Evolution it was crazy
I don't know. Aside from the Mickey ass garbage that was Elesa and Pikachu losing to Panpour, all of the gym battles were legit and pretty decent. I don't even mind Roxie that much cause if there's one squad that can almost choke a 6v3, it's the Unova squad.
ash deadass had brainrot in that series
Now I understand why Ash's pokemon don't evolve. He literally gets badges for free
Bro, you’re actually hilarious. The editing must take forever to do, but man is it worth it. Glad I found your channel.🤣
Learning why gary was in the pokemon movie fighting against mewtwo now is amazing i know i could have watched the series and learned it but i saw so many episodes out of order i just didn't feel like watching them but that is amazing
Erica needed to get her gym leader status revoked for that nonesense. Barring a challenger for not buying from your fragrance MLM is some wild bs
And the dragon chick from Johto
You win and she refuses to give the badge over because she was upset she lost
@@DrakeKnight99 If we're talking games, the same applies to Norman for refusing to fight you before you have 4 badges. Let him beat you up if you're too low leveled, but at least follow the damn rules and accept all challengers🤷♂️
@azentra7560 tbf that's technically against the rules but that wasn't him being a jerk he just wanted the player to have a chance against him before they battled
@@DrakeKnight99 are you fucking kidding me?
I mean tbf he did just outright insult her business and her entire life's work
Oh man too funny! Make more of these!! Next time Johto? Too good and the edit was on point!
Nobody ever talks about the dude that challenged Surge and Raichu with a Pidgey.
hey, to be fair, it's like one of the three most common pokemon up to that point, and not everyone had a professor oak to just hand you a decent pokemon at the start. guy was doing his best with what he got.
@@x3mskbordTo also be fair, Rattatta would've been WAY better as a choice by type advantage alone
@AmatMiguel maybe he wasn't able to catch a rattata. Or maybe that rattata that we saw that was all charred up was also his. Or maybe big brain play: since everything was getting one-shotted regardless of type advantage anyway, he ignored types completely and just hoped for sand attack hax. Who knows? But one thing we do know is, type matchups are almost never relevant in the anime; we've got literal ground types getting hit with electricity
That was me, I was only five at the time
Decisions were made. Not good ones, but decisions.
OG Ash is the type of person to play Mario Party by picking Luigi and just doing nothing in the minigames.
Bro I lost it when you started singing the theme for Micky Mouse club house lmfaooo
Mannn that Saffron City Sabrina episode used to give me nightmares as a youth 😂
Haunter vs Kadabra was quite a disappointment!
nah brow recently found this channel absolute love the recap style cant wait for you tu cover whole ash's gym battles
19:36 Who can forget “Aim for the horn!” Haha really enjoyed the video
I'm still wondering how even the writters could do that level of bullshit at sabrina's gym
It being a kids show probably have something to do with it lol
Being a kids show is no excuse. Look at Avatar the Last Airbender, it's an absolute masterpiece with amazing morals and gut wrenching moments. @TheGodJames
They must've been on something to come up with that whole arc. Ash was having a literal out of body experience.
In the games she became a movie star in unova . We never got that reunion or the second meeting with ash original haunter.
@@sexylazercatwizardwell it’s iconic and considered one of the best moments in the show so clearly it worked out fine
Haha this blokes voiceover and editing is hilarious!
Thanks from Australia
this video was nothing but FACTS! Your commentary is sooo A1 bro!
you had me cracking tf up 😂can legit say youre in my top 3 fav youtubers
keep it up brodie, you gonna blow up! we movinnnn
appreciate that bro i always see you showing love. ima keep trying my best 😂
how is pikachus electricity starting a fire by hitting sprinklers a fact? It's not even true...so your statement logically isn't true...Pikachu didn't hit the sprinklers, he hit the lights. The lights caught on fire and set the sprinklers off....thats 3 things he got wrong on one fact....you guys don't know anything do you?
Dude this commentary is me watching Pokemon with my kids. Fantastic job. I grew up with the show and the games since day one and now the 4 oldest are huge into it, and when i turn it on some of these battles legit are just questionable to hilarious
You should totally do the Johto ones as well, there is some embarrassing shit in those seasons as well, just barely executed better.
I love this channel. My favorite channel I’ve discovered recently. And the best Pokémon series channel. This dude is hilarious and extremely creative. And he’s active with how much he posts? I’ve literally already seen people copying his content on other smaller channels lmao. GOAT.
Bro you had me dying at Lt. Surge bit 😂
Ash has to be the biggest fraud in the first series
And in Johto
And in Hoenn
And in Sinnoh
@@xpdev0 What kind of fraudulent activity was going on in those seasons. The only times I can think of are his battle against Whitney being kind of scuffed and him (unknowingly) cheating against Wattson. The rest were fair and square.
@@castform7actually Ash never cheated against the Wattson because even if Pikachu got a power up from absorbing the electricity from the mechanic it broke in self-defense its no different if Pikachu had the Lightning Rod ability and in the pokedex entire their tails are always getting struck by lightning anyways plus powering up electric Pokemon with electricity isn't illegal infact it's in their very nature to take in electricity
So all in all Ash did nothing wrong at most that he did wrong if you can even called him out on it is not have his Pikachu practice taking in more electricity from lightning storms or other forms of electricity to get use to the power
@xpdev0 brother in Sinnoh Ash was COOKING, if only it weren't for that bullshit asspull that was Tobias.
@@xpdev0bro ash was on point in sinnoh the hell you on about
These OG episodes with gym battles were wacky but in a creative way that we don't see much anymore. Gotta love how much personality the silly Ghosts have, the Pika-Rai rivalry and how creepy Sabrina's backstory is, not to mention the sprinklers and Blaine
The re zero sound for Sabrina was perfect
Where was this channel my entire life? This is gold.
My abridge dubbing were my favorite parts for sure, +1 sub.
i'm never gonna get tired of these recaps, keep em coming
First video of yours I came across...loved your breakdown of the gym battles and how many freebies Ash got! Subscribed.
Blaine was 100% ripping dabs in that secret volcano can’t tell me otherwise
That was too funny
sure I can....only an loser would even make a connection....
Saw Ash get tons of free badges. Brought a Game Boy Color, with Pokémon Red....was level pissed when that shit didn't happen to me while playing the game, steups. Also, your Lt. Surge's comment about Pikachu had me rolling on the ground, man!! Full support for your channel, keep it up bro!
Let’s be real here. If Giovanni was at the gym. He would be a lawnmower and ash would be grass
NAAH BUT BRO, pikachu lost to his persian but idk if it matters much cuz they battled for like 10 secs in the black n white anime but ash getting washed up there no amount of plot armour bullshit saving him there, even if he wins he gonna get his ass handed to himby mewtwo like bro is not winning
Man ash is so lucky mewtwo broke away
Imagine if he was there
@@painvillegaming4119 We don't have to imagine since Ash had to deal with Mewtwo. And a more unhinged Mewtwo that wasn't under anyone's control at that.
I love this video so much. Probably, the best thing you've made. Would love to see this for the following seasons
AYOOOOO. You the goat when it comes to talking about pokemon episode. You better never stop. I love this channel.
The fact that Ash NEVER fights Giovanni ever in the anime at any point despite the anime hyping him up so much is quite possibly the franchise’s biggest crime
I mean Ash fought him in Unova but that series was so trash it makes sense why you don't remember 😭
This here content is gold, keep it up!
We need this to be a series bro was fr cooking with this video
Been watching this and the Infernape video and my man, you do an amazing job summarizing these boring-ass episodes and make it entertaining as hell!
much appreciated gangy
Boring? Really?i mean,i doubt its aimed at adults but as a kid and an early teen this was peak
Stop cursing its a sin dude.........
@@gregkareem9824 kiss my ass
It’s not boring there’s no filler
Funny Af. Had me laughing the whole time. So many Pokémon videos on RUclips feel the same but your commentary and editing is great. Easy sub
Never stop dude
This video is SO entertaining! Great content
gotta commend Ash though, he's the best lightning rod ever. Bro gets electrocuted generally at least once an episode in season 1 and he doesn't even FLINCH 😂😂
Please cover more regions. His performance versus Wulfric needs to be studied.
That was fun. Good commentary
this is why Diamond and Pearl is the best series, fucking fight me
w take, go raptors
True. To be honest, it's my second favorite series behind XY/XYZ series but Diamond & Pearl was great
Please do the other region gym battles. This was dope.
This Pokémon stuff is great dude keep it up you funny as hell
just found your channel and already loving it
Not gonna lie, I forgot how dark the Sabrina gym fights were 😅😅😂😂
also WHY ARE ALL POKEMON DADS ALLERGIC TO BEING WITH THEIR FAMILIES SERIOUSLY DUDE 😭😭🤣🤣
Think of it more like being in the army
They have a duty to
Well, you forgot James’s dad. But… that family has an ENTIRELY different set of problems.
Plus they didn’t really seem to have THAT much of a problem that he went into organized crime, so never mind I guess…
....true that @@Dabrick47
Bro... this video was so good... I subscribed on the spot! Ash didn't deserve most of those badges.
this man is a W ACTUALLY GOOD POKEMON COMMENTARY
Oh my god! Your dubbing is so funny. You just got a new sub. 🤣🤣🤣
I hope you decide to do this for every generation. This video was funny as hell man
what a way to be introduced to this channel 😭😭😭
The Indigo League tournament was mickey mouse if Ash made it to top 16 off of freebies 💀
Wasn't his very first battle a 1 v 3 sweep with a Krabby that he never trained?
Ash had no freebies in the League in Indigo Mandi was cocky only to get swept by an untrained Krabby/ Kingler we don’t know much about number 2 and Ash earned his victory against Petey and the. He managed to beat Jennett because of Muk if it wasn’t for her bellsproyt he would of won 3-1 with Bulbasaur
Yo this made me laugh out loud, can't wait for the sequels
PLEASE DO THE OTHER REGIONS BRODIE I WAS DEAD ASF WATCHING THIS 😂😂
Loved the commentary especially for ash’s first three gym battles. I hope you can do this for the other ash’s other regions.
Binge watching yo vids on repeat bruh🤣🔥 keep the uploads coming
Sad that A.J. was never brought up again in the anime. That southern boy was making a water resistant sandshrew and never even made an appearance at the Indigo League.
Maybe he was arrested.
@@rocko2184I hope so!
This video was fire 😂🔥
Bro these videos are all hilarious. You must be a professional comedian. Also the memes your pulling out...10 out of 10
I never understood why Mewtwo didn't invite Sabrina to his island during the events of the movie. As far as Kanto is concerned, she's gotta be the most powerful trainer in the whole region. She's over powered as hell.
That would have been dope to see Mewtwo annihilate her Pokemon!!!
Prior to Mewtwo Sabrina’s Pokemon were like the most powerful pokemon in the original series. Even more powerful than Charizard was (and Charizard was pretty strong in the original anime)
Content going hard bro I see the vision
This has to be a series
Bro, I didn't even watch all of Kanto, but the SECOND I heard Jessie's voice after Giovanni tagged out, I knew Ash was blessed by the plot armor gods...
This channel is actually my favourite channel now.
that's humbling bro thank you 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Pikachu spinning the block and saying he'll naw when he saw onix trying to send out a different pokemon is SENDING ME!!!!!!!
Gym 1: won Brock’s respect but not the battle
Gym 2: battle was interrupted halfway trough and sister claimed that theoretically he could’ve won but didn’t actually win yet
Gym 3: won fair and square
Gym 4: I can’t even explain this one but he didn’t win
Gym 5: battle was interrupted halfway trough saved Pokemon from burning building but didn’t actually win yet
Gym 6: battle was interrupted halfway trough and they saddled it with a 1on1
Gym 7: won fair and square even though it was a 1on1
Gym 8: won fair and square but was team rocket so 😒
this video was funny af ahahaha I need more
you should do this for every region imo
Do this for all the regions bro this is fire
Would you ever make this a series where you go over all of Ash’s gym battles throughout the regions?