Some things I'd change I'd change about Ash's team First thing. Get rid of Uglyvish Second, I'd do one of two things with Ash's team. You could make it strictly a Galar team to give more Galar mons some shine. I'd give him a team of Pikachu Inteleon Corvinknight Urshifu Grimmsnarl Centiskorch Or if you're going to have a team that represents different parts of the world, here's how I would do his squad of six Pikachu (duh) Inteleon (it really suits ash imo but Rilaboom could also work) Espeon (ash deserves one let's be real) Lucario (he was a beast, he can stay) Flygon (could be his flyer) Volcarona (set up a few quiver dances and this bug can shred)
His team i would want him to have Pikachu Lucario Dragonite Arcanine Rillaboom Drewnaw Rotation Corvknight Toxtricty For a journeys team Pikachu Rillaboom corvknight Drewnaw Centiskorch Urshufu Roation Toxtricty Dragupult
@jamesarnold7253 I agree with your points of the target audience, but they could have totally done it in many better ways that don't disrespect Ash's history because guaranteed there are animators that drew that who grew up watching pokémon.
@jamesarnold7253 in a series that celebrates 25 years worth of anime, they shouldn't be the ONLY target audience. Long time fans should also be getting just as much, if not more out of this series than the kids
My boy Infernape was robbed off his predestined face-off against Cynthia's Garchomp and taking down a legendary. Two huge robberies for InfernaGoat. We pretty much missed out on the biggest culmination and full circle of DP.
SOMEONE GETS IT! MAn I wish we had that battle SO BAD. Like I mentioned Lucario vs Garchomp was good but it seemed like a free W, Infernape would've added that extra passion.
@@InfamousTrainer InfernaGoat is my favorite mon of all time, I just wish he beat Flint's Infernape, Cynthia's Garchomp and Moltres just to assert his dominance. Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to read my capture for Ash's Ceruledge? I really want to know your thoughts on it.
@@BlizzardLuinor they did my boy DIRTY. He’s one of ashes strongest Pokémon that’s arguably better then Greninja, and they made him get clapped by moltres and not redeem himself in any way. That’s absolutely messed up. He needs more love
Having ash use his old Pokémons,with some of them evolving in the process,the return of all the pokemon ash released. Everything shown in this video was PEAK FICTION! This is what the PWC should've been like I would probably switch Dynamax togekiss for mega garchomp but regular garchomp vs regular infernape is definitely alright.
I like how murph made all of the overshadowed pokemon get some time to actually get the love that had been hogged Edit:also ash should've caught different Pokemon if he doesn't have his original mons and also used the released mons that weren't used like pidgeot ambipom primeape Butterfree Lapras Tyranitar and Squirtle also WHY THE HELL DID POKEMON NOT GIVE US ASH VS ALAIN IN THE FIRST PLACE CAUSE IF THEY DID EVERYONE (including me) WOULD WANT TO SEE ASH GRENINJA VS MEGA CHARIZARD X BUT THE POKEMON COMPANY PROBABLY WOULDN'T GIVE US THAT
If I could add , they should of had primampe come back for the series and evolve at the end , would of been a great way to get people excited for paldea and the new series even if ash wasn't coming along for the journey, I can't believe he was the one Pokemon forgotten about in that 11 episode series after Leon
A few things this new version of journeys is missing out on is ash getting mega evolution, he should of mega evolved Sceptile vs Diantha. Also I since this just showed the important parts of the journey it skips out on the filler episodes but I think it would be cool if ash cycled through traveling with old companions through out the old series, at least 10 episodes with each companion
@@InfamousTrainer To be fair, any older season could be rewritten to improve his team development (particularly in Johto and BW), or have him with better battles with better conclusions. It's really not that different than any past series re-write I've seen, like people who have Ash beat Tobias in DP or beat Alan in the Kalos league, or give us a better battle against Richie in Kanto. Every season has things that could have been different...
This would've helped his Unova team. I think it's so infuriating that most of his team isn't fully evolved and the fully evolved ones like Unfezant sucked(except Krookodile)
This is better, but I actually think his Journey's team was good. I love Gengar's personality, even Dracovish and sir fetchd were all good fun pokemon to have
This is what needed to happen in Journeys Ash using his old pokemon and evolving them climbing his way up to the M8 class. If this format of a round robin tournament happened in Journeys for the M8 battles. Ash against all the trainers in a 6v6 the M8 tournament would be more memorable. Ash vs Iris 3v3 lineups have so many call backs to the Unova days every pokemon has history with each other bringing it full circle great. Dragonite vs Charizard part 2 classic and Haxorous vs Scafty. Paul evolving Urasing to Ursaluna man it will be more troublesome to defeat Ursaluna and definitely don’t want to activate it's Guts ability. I would still love to see Leon’s other pokemon and great choices by Merph making Ash’s teams against all the M8 opponents and what Ash’s mons will do battle against.
Merph did so good with this like bulbasaur getting shine and all of ashs pokemon getting an evolution or a battle except bayleef staraptor and 29 of ashs tarous also he actually uses naganadle goodra and greninja often so merph W
I love this ending, but I wish Bayleef would have battled once more and/or possibly evolved. And I even would throw in some more reunions like Charizard and Charla... Sceptile and Blaziken and/or Meganium... Lycanroc and Lycanroc... Etc. I would also bring back more gym leaders and even some Frontier brains as well. That would have made this final journey all the better imo.
This. This right here would have made the Journeys anime so much better. Since it's supposed to celebrate Ash's journey as a trainer, it makes so much sense for him to include all of his Pokemon. I love the addition of some of his Pokemon finally evolving to show their growth from the training. The art here made me that more invested in the battles, especially the new teams. I still love Ash's team from Journeys, don't get me wrong, but it would have been excellent for his new team to work together with the old guard. Imagine the strategies and tactics that could have been birthed from the interactions. There can be scenarios like a sparring match between Lucario and Sirfetch'd vs Infernape and Emboar, Dragonite working together with Noivern and Gabite, Gengar playing tricks on the cast in good fun, and just Dracovish being the silly goober that it is.
I like this version of Journeys, but I actually did like his new team (even though I didn't like how they were handled). They were all pretty awesome and it would've been cool to see them fight alongside Ash's old Pokemon.
This is what we should have in Journeys instead of focusing on two useless characters that serve no purpose in the anime. Other than promoting an app game and an Eevee.
EASILY the best rewrite for Journeys!! The only thing that this needed was more screen time with his old companions, now that goddamn Chloe and Goh doesn't hog up the screen time. And I don't know, but I feel like this is how almost all of us want to imagine Journeys went. I know that's what I want, at least. Edit: Something I should mention, I think Ash should battle some of his companions and lose to them. And then have another character like a Paul, Bea or Marnie (someone strong Ash would eventually beat), beat that companion to build up tension. And I think using a similar idea, Ash should lose to Iris and tie to Diantha to make his wins against Cynthia and Alain all the more epic and suspenseful. It also makes sense, since all Champions are super strong, and this would showcase the steep competition beautifully. And have Cynthia and Steven have that same 1 loss (to Leon) and 1 tie (to each other), and have Leon draw with Iris to showcase her growth. But have her lose to Alain and Cynthia to setup some stakes to the rematches. This would make this rewrite 11/10. Edit 2: Swap out Cynthia's Gastrodon for a Lucario and have Ash's Hawlucha fight him instead of Spiritomb, leaving Spiritomb for Crawdaunt and have Donphan deal with Roserade.
@@InfamousTrainer He sure is. Even though I'd do a few things differently, he is without a doubt doing an amazing job. WAY better than whatever we had to suffer through for the last few years.
I love the manga style for this it looks so good. And I agree with most of these although I feel like some of his journeys team should have been caught as I did like some of them.
100% agree that Ash shouldn't have caught anything in Journeys. MAYBE one new Pokemon at most, but he should've spent the whole series rotating in his reserves. Also I love how the final team has representation for every past series: Pikachu = OS, Sceptile = AG, Infernape = DP, Krookodile = BW, Greninja = XY, Lycanroc = SM. What gets me the most is how Journeys had that whole episode about Infernape wanting to become stronger and battle new opponents, yet did nothing with it. He should've been the one to beat Cynthia's Garchomp, we were so robbed man...
I can honestly say that this way was so mich better than how Journeys was portrayed. Although Ash does not get to use any Galar Pokemon, using his older Pokemon and some even evolving more than made up for it
the thumbnail looks amazing its like an alternate universe or an what if like ash brought back some of his old pokemon through journeys and evolve some of them into their final or second evolution in their separate battles
If an ending makes people want to make fanfinction set AFTER the ending of the series, that means people liked the characters so much that they still want to see them. But if an ending makes many people write fanfic that REPLACES the ending, you know that something wasn't right.
I like the position Journeys is in tbh. The kids watching can have memories of this series in the future like how we have memories of older series. The older fans can make these really cool what ifs, and younger audiences can make memories with Journeys.
Yeah... With how much potential journeys had, what they did wasn't exactly adequate In addition to all the fanservice we got, we should have gotten Ash's older Pokemon taking part in the biggest tournament in history. It's meant to be a 25 year celebration of the anime so may as well take every opportunity they can
@@eljordinio7647 NOPe... With how many potential or not journeys had, what they did is exactly adequate. In addition to all the battles or good vs evil we got, we should have gotten Ash's younger Pokemon to take part in the biggest tournament in history. It's meant to be a 25-year celebration of the anime so may as well take every opportunity they can
@@BergmitetheBlueandLointy-sd6dh there's nothing adequate about mediocre results 65 percent of the time nor is good versus evil even relevant!! Get a darn life!!?
@@eljordinio7647 there's nothing adequate about mediocre blinded results 65 percent of the time or crap that is false you are nobody I'm not. or is good versus evil even relevant!! Get a darn life!!?
@@eljordinio7647 again the lady works with the government and so is not Tony Stark's fault the plan was not set in stone by a lady and the government as well fanboy kiddo. his evil deeds as a villain have something to do with the point it's the lady's fault fault well. Not Tony Stark how pathetic can you be? Also, Why would you type like a teen and not a teen plus even a teen types better than you and you're making no sense, Are you an ignorant child?
That journey with Misty & Brock should've been different in so many ways. They should've re-visited old characters of the day in the past like A.J, Giselle, Jennette, Mandi & the Samurai, a reunion with May & Max & not to mention Serena getting a longer reunion with Ash while Misty & Brock meet her for the first time & Misty's rivalry with Serena starts there, The long awaiting downfall of Giovanni & Team Rocket, Ash getting Primeape back, so much more should've been done differently.
I really like how the battles were formatted and what Pokémon Ash used for each one, especially Krookodile getting the respect he deserves after being a semi-rival for a while, though I do have a few things I don’t fully agree with. Evolving some of Ash’s older Pokémon like Totodile and Scraggy feels a bit unnecessary. Totodile especially since his little goofball personality wasn’t the best for full on fighting. While evolution would make him significantly stronger and more efficient, he’d also be losing some of that “little dude” energy that’s so iconic to his character. Scraggy was also a little dude but more headstrong and scrappy. Making Scrafty act almost rude or obnoxious seems like a weird turn for him after being the fun little guy. I am down for others though like Emboar, Dewott, and Typhlosion. These just felt natural as their character arcs got cleaned up and they deserved the finishing power boost to truly shine. I am also a little sad to see Ash’s Journeys team just not exist and while it makes total sense for this scenario, Dracovish gave me this strange feeling of joy seeing them on screen. Having them be beheaded during this is a bit rude.
I still say they should've ended Ash's arc with a big surprise birthday party with all his friends and pokemon throughout the series even Team Rocket would be a part of it And he makes a birthday wish that he could see Ho-oh again and then after the party he wakes up early the next morning and he sees Ho-oh in the sky And after that they show a montage of Ash's history throughout the series and then ends with skipping ahead a few years later with Ash as a teenager and he's still an undefeated champion What do you think of that?
Ok don't get me wrong, Journeys was good, in my opinion but this....this right here was awesome!!!! The artist did an awesome job with all of these no joke. One of my favorite parts of this was having Ash's Pokemon evolve, some of them anyway they SHOULD have evolved in the anime but didn't. Glad the artist here changed that and I loved it. Also seeing some of the new battles was even awesome. It was even cooler to see Infernape get some love here. Amazing work, loved this^^
I truly think Gengar, Lucario and Dragonite should have remained caught by Ash. Still being a part of the series and finding a way to mold them in with Ash’s OG’s
I like the pokemon, but my guy, having them would have ash sideline some pokemon that got to shine where they didn't get too before. cherrypicking those three specifically because they're more liked pokemon or "cooler" than the other three is a bit too much for me. I do agree that he shoulda caught them here, but maybe he does, just after the tournament, it's not like he suddenly has a heart attack after the video after all. :) Edit: I used "cherrypicky" twice in the same sentence like a nonce.
I don’t necessarily mind Ash’s JN team staying, just swap out new catches and reserves, give the new guys more focus and development than JN proper gave them, Give Lucario some unique abilities to take better advantage of the “Ash finally getting to use Aura” possibilities(as opposed to making it a blatant Ash-Greninja ripoff), and…fix Dracovish. Give it more of a personality than just “chomp”, and give it some Proper development instead of having it be strong enough to beat Iris’ infamous Dragonite when it was born, and having its only growth be an equivalent to Thunder Armor(those energy claws infuriate me to no end)
This is like my dream come true. 🤩 Like literally, 'cause I had this dream around Sun&Moon's time that Ash would enter the supposed "international tournament league" and he would use his previously caught Pokemon, and even evolving them along the way. This is the (almost) perfection I've been looking for, and had (very high) expectations for in Journeys. Not to mention the incredible art telling each event and story. Starry Eyed Kudos to Merph. 🌟
I stopped by again while surfing youtube! It's been more than a year since I drew this work!! P.S: It's a very late explanation, but there's some main reasons why I let Cynthia in third opponent. -Cause there's 3 users who using mega evolve, and I don't want to draw two volumes of mega evolution in a row. Just because of unbalanced visual and my modest artist instinct. -U know Ash's Charizard is gonna absenst in final battle, so I should have to put him in semi-final battle. But I can't find his position in Cynthias', so I put him at Steven's instead and lends probability to the story that Charizard can't participate in Leon's battle cause he used too much energy to defeating Mega-Metagross. -More importantly, I didn't want to replace any of the opponents I put into the last battle with Charizard. Of course these are reasons that may be hard to accept, but I hope you guys gonna understand!
The rest of Lance's team were not what I was expecting. I mean Salamence I could get cause like Hydreigon it was part of Lance's PWT team & Aerodactyl is practically a staple in his Dragon Army, but Kommo-o was a random choice {since they signify Lance as both Kanto & Johto champ, at least give him a Johto pokemon like Kingdra} - If anything, since Pokemon Mezastar actually did hint on other champions' pokemon before the tournament episodes had happened (like Leon's Mr. Rime), it might've been best to draw inspirations from there as they might've been factual. Like finally showing Iris' 6th member as Hydreigon and/or the other members for Lance & Steven's full teams (and if it just so happens to repeat pokemon, I think it's fine since the Masters 8 could practically be called by another name as the End of Dragonites Tournament)
Bro this art style is so good that it almost makes the journeys anime even worst. If ash use his older mons instead of his current ones, than he wouldn't have to come from behind to win like three times. Like he's up against three tough champions.
I do wish that Ash had used older Pokémon in Journeys, especially in the Master’s 8. Would have also been nice if he’d got more Mega Evolutions, not just Lucario
I honestly never thought much of Ash using reserves, but man watching this video really made me realise what a missed opportunity it was, especially in the masters 8. Infernape vs Rillaboom would've been awesome, seeing my boy Lycanroc against Mr Rime would've been so interesting. I can just think of so many different possibilities and endings Ash could've had, it's a shame Journeys was so all over the place because if they had written it differently, it could've broke the internet after every other episode 100%
I wish this really happened in journeys like i would love to see his other mons return like ambipom, tyranitar, heck i would if every episode his mons get development and great video infamous 👍
I don't like his Journeys team taking the opportunities from the GOATs, but I still think *someone* should be catching Galarian Pokemon. Maybe if the whole tournament is in Galar, Ash's friends would each have a new Galarian Pokemon when they come to cheer him on. As for some other changes, Casey and the Frontier Brains need to show up or be referenced at some point, and Bulbasaur should agree to finally evolve into Ivysaur (which is one of my favorite Grass types, thanks to Smash Bros.) I like the round robin idea, but I think it could use a couple changes: - The battles against Leon and Cynthia mean Ash can have climactic battles with up to 12 of his all time aces, so he should use some combination of them for the two battles. This also means we don't have to choose between Infernape and Charizard. - Ash and Leon should each lose close matches to Cynthia, who would go undefeated. So when Ash beats Leon in the final match, it's more about personal stakes than about being the best like no one ever was, since apparently Ash doesn't require that to be a Pokemon Master. - Cynthia can gift Ash a Riolu egg after their match. As for the very ending, instead of a random Lati@s, it should be Ho-oh that recognizes Ash but still doesn't want to travel with him, signalling his journey will continue.
For me, IF I were to change things in Journeys: -MORE & BETTER Galar representation ESPECIALLY Gym Leaders & Rivals -Develop Goh's Scorbunny & Sobble better for their Evolution -At The End of Moltres Episode, Mixing BOTH Old AND New Ash Mons ESPECIALLY at Masters 8 -Evolve Quilava, Gible (to Gabite), Snivy, Pignite, Scraggy, Palpitoad, & Boldore (via Trade with Goh's Boldore) -If Goh is gonna have (begrudgingly) ALL Galar Starters, gonna make Grookey NOT annoying -Have Chloe legit own via capture Yamper (maybe evolve to Boltund) & catch Galarian Ponyta & Rapidash -Make Eevee G-Max -Have The Battle of Vs. Wallace in a later Episode -Have Proj. Mew Mission THEN Vs. Cynthia OR Leon -Use Infernape in Vs. Cynthia -The Leon Team would be Pikachu, Charizard, Sceptile, Greninja, Lycanroc, & Lucario -Have the celebration party be THE LOOOONG awaited Reunion of Ash & His Past Companions & if possible past Rivals as well
I like this alot, Galar got so shafted and it would be better to see them get better reputation. Also pacing is nicer with what you have here because Project Mew being after PWC was a bad play.
That's decent too, but the rapid progression of his Journeys team is jarring to me. Like don't get me wrong, they are strong, but with over half their development happening offscreen, it's very hard for me to believably incorporate that team for a series like Journeys (however sad that may be).
I love how various moments in this simply breathtaking adaptation lines up perfectly to things you and the champs have said in the pod when discussing journey's
6:44 I think an easy way to fix this is just to replace Pikachu with another ground type Donfan I think would be perfect for this since I think he has the size and abilities to take down electivire. Also maybe replace Torterra with Gible or gabite since Torterra already kind of fought volkner.
I agree that Journeys should've been Ash using all of his Pokemon instead of a new team but one thing Journeys actually fixed was giving Ash Mega Evolution. This version didn't have ME and Ash needed to have it imo. The perfect Pokemon for Ash to ME was also a Pokemon that could've made an amazing return with Pidgeot. Pidgeot returning with a Mega Stone because its been in the wild would've been absolutely perfect.
I binged from indigo league to xyz. Idk sun and moon isnt really grabbing me with the art style and i havent watched journeys other than some clips and it just feels kind of disjointed compared to the storytelling of DP and XYZ. Which sucks becuz i was liking pokemon again until i reached sun and moon and what little i saw of journeys just felt underwhelming. Im hoping horizons is good when they come out in english
My senpai Gekkouga was done dirty with the Ash-Greninja form being retconed due to Ash leaving, So to fix that I would have him appear in the last second to show his full power against Leon's Charizard
having brock and misty coming back for the final season got old and did nothing to advance the final arc. they were just there. and botching any mean for Ash's end to the Journeys was disappointing. Good to see old Pokemon but he barely use them at times
I like this a lot more than what we got in the anime My only complaints are that you should have kept Gengar, Lucario and Dragonite, as I know they were fan favourites. Not to mention Lucario was his ace in Journey's. Also should have used Sceptile and Charziard more. Maybe even give Sceptile and Charziard Megas (Y, so separate him from Alain's Charizard). Or give Charizard, a G-Max.
This is very well done and if the anime staff knew from the beginning this was going Ash’s last series they likely would’ve done something like this. Although I have my criticisms, like you said Ash needed a few losses and there’s no Mega Evolutions despite many of Ash’s Pokemon having one, also it’s kinda a missed opportunity not having Quilava evolve into a Hisuian Typhlosion instead of a normal one. Also having Ash go against every member of the Masters Eight is a bit excessive, I agree every match should be 6-on-6 but the tournament brackets from the original is fine, the only change I would make is have Ash’s first match be against Lance instead of Steven, reasoning being that Lance has more significance to Ash than Steven does. As for the final match against Leon I agree with you about using Charzard over Infernape simply because Infernape would’ve had his moment against Cynthia’s Garchomp.
Honestly, I'm not really opposed to Ash having a new team for this series (tho Uglyvish could have been swapped for something better) but it is nice to see Ash give his Pokemon a chance to shine. Some things I liked about this included A) some of his mons finally don't need to be evolved or not. B) Greninja got the against Alain he deserved C) it finally let the incinerator battle as an incinerator D) Let's NOT BE real, ash using a team of veterans against Leon would have been Cool a and also evil Paul still needs more punished. The eljorindo7646 user is a pathetic jerk with no games or manners.
You know what I think it needs Ash should have caught a lilligant and an heliolisk, Milo, Nessa, Kabu, Gordie and Melony, and of course a rival who has a tragic past but he was young kid at pokemon camp until something scratched his face and has scars on his left eyes, outcasted and disowned by his parents his heart grew darker, he along with other outcast pokemon become stronger. Then it is revealed that Team rocket are the ones who gave him his scars
On the topic of the Volkner battle and Pikachu's Z-move... did Volkner's Electivire _explicitly_ have Motor Drive? Because as far as I remember, being defeated by 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt could have been due to it having Vital Spirit.
Even I can't lie this is perfect this could have been perfect for Pokemon journeys the perfect anime of the century although I do still wish that use his galar team at least some of them
Few things I would also add: Primeape should’ve come back and possibly evolved We didn’t get to see all of Ash’s past companions reunite with him, like May for example, so I feel like we missed out there (I personally think Dawn got the special treatment) Ash still should’ve gotten Mega Evolution without Lucario, maybe choose between Sceptile or even Charizard
I really love this! BUT as in every season, Ash deserves new captures. Add his Journeys Team PLUS Ash using his other pokemon, EPIC. Double battles using Charizard and Dragonite! An episode of dragon mastery in Blackthorn City with Clair using Dragonite, Gible, Goodra, Naganadel, Noivern and Dracovish. That would make Gible evolve! Dunno so many possibilities! Revisit Saffron Gym with Gengar, receiving a gengar mega stone from Sabrina and her Gengar (ash’s Haunter). Man of course that Ash should have his Journey’s team, but in rotation with his old pokemon. And lets bring back ALL of them haha. Primeape doesn’t need more training with that random dude haha. The Alolan and Orange League Champion and Battle Frontier winner is more capable than a trainer that lost to Ash when he had only 4 badges in his first league😂
Honestly this was actually what I wanted for journeys to pursue all along. 3 things I would still add to Merphisc manga is that Ash's journey pokemon (Lucario, dragonite, gengar, sir'fetch and dracovish) will still be added. I think having new pokemon part of his team will still make ash's pokemon family grow and I like that having new pokemon with him. The other thing is more battles are introduced, ash battles more than the number of battles journeys had, like battling his old rivals who he won and lost to during his Pokemon tournaments like Paul. Just like Paul and his other his rivals, they don't have to be participating in the coronation series or they are participating. Last but not least The battle with Tobias and his darkrai a full on out battle after the coronation series where tobias will test ash if he is the strongest trainer who beat Leon.
There is one thing I would remove from this adaptation of the series, and that is the beheading of dracovish and arctozolt. I don't see ash who would go this far. I think on the episode that dracovish and arctozolt were introduce to ash and goh would still keep it the same as it is were both trainers catch them.
Gotta admit most of this is sooo much better than what Journeys did But the thing that just threw me off was just force writing most of ashs pokemon to just fully evolve
Not exactly, Ash shown here since he's using them much after their season debuts and coming back inbetween the seasons that have time to grow. Plus the PWC would push them. This would also stop people from complaining that Ash doesn't evolve his Pokemon and also shows signs of growth. I don't think evolving them all are neccessary hence why there was still Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and we kept Dewott and Quilava where they were.
@@InfamousTrainer didnt quilava evolve all the way Thought i saw that Also like its been a thing in the anime Evolution isnt needed to show growth or power Pikachu, rowlet, bulbasaur and squirtle being an example of that Yes some of them should evolve like scraggy
Eh it was alright. I would have preferred if Ash used an all Galar team honestly sense Galar got shafted in the anime. Hell they could have even replaced cerise with Magnolia or Sonia and just have had Ash as a research fellow for her. Also I would replace Alan in the masters 8 with Nemona sense she is a champion level trainer as well and loves to battle, and would set up a series set in Paldea. And honestly the only Ash pokemon I want to see make a return are the ones that didn't get enough time to shine, for example his Johto team, he still had his Kanto crew so his Johto team didn't do much for like half the season which is probably why they kinda sucked and didn't evolve.
Clearly, Journeys had a lot of missed opportunities with the writing approach to make Ash a unique character that he could have been. that is why it was a bad idea from the break to use Ash as a tool to promote the anime/games. which is the reason why i choose to move on from him. Horizons is what I wanted as a refresher for the old anime formula. And rather anyone agrees or not all this focus on Ash really wasn't healthy for the betterment of the of the series so letting him go or give him a break is best at this point. and even if they reboot his story I doubt it would last long.
THANK YOU. In all honesty, I don't get the appeal of Ash as a character either. He has potential but man is he bland and is nothing to write home about outside that he's a protagonist for 25 straight seasons. Like I bet anyone could come up with a better story than this rinse-and-repeat process of his never aging battle-obsessed body fighting some sports pros again and again and the nonsense nerfs of his pikachu for fake suspense (looking at you Pikachu vs cranidos, Pikachu vs snivy, etc.). I'm surprised not more people got sick of this narrative and worse want it to continue. Those Ash "fans" are miserable for only wanting the stale repetitive formula.
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What Would YOU Change About Pokemon Journeys?! 😁 Let me know in the comments!
Some things I'd change I'd change about Ash's team
First thing. Get rid of Uglyvish
Second, I'd do one of two things with Ash's team. You could make it strictly a Galar team to give more Galar mons some shine. I'd give him a team of
Pikachu
Inteleon
Corvinknight
Urshifu
Grimmsnarl
Centiskorch
Or if you're going to have a team that represents different parts of the world, here's how I would do his squad of six
Pikachu (duh)
Inteleon (it really suits ash imo but Rilaboom could also work)
Espeon (ash deserves one let's be real)
Lucario (he was a beast, he can stay)
Flygon (could be his flyer)
Volcarona (set up a few quiver dances and this bug can shred)
His team i would want him to have
Pikachu
Lucario
Dragonite
Arcanine
Rillaboom
Drewnaw
Rotation
Corvknight
Toxtricty
For a journeys team
Pikachu
Rillaboom
corvknight
Drewnaw
Centiskorch
Urshufu
Roation
Toxtricty
Dragupult
HAVE ASH INTERACT WITH HIS COMPANIONS MORE LIKE HE DID WITH DAWN Especially Serena,Brock,May,Max (Possibly have a battle with him)
One thing they should have done is add in a hisui pokémon possibly even a starter
I also think that if had a different goal it could have been better
I like the trend of poketubers completely redoing the ending of Ash's journey. Honestly journey could have been so much better
Thanks but major props to Merph for sure!
Yet they chose to screw up quite a bit of it besides Ash vs Leon
@jamesarnold7253 so what? Kids aren't the only audience nor should they be the main focus in a series that's meant to celebrate 25 years of the anime
@jamesarnold7253 I agree with your points of the target audience, but they could have totally done it in many better ways that don't disrespect Ash's history because guaranteed there are animators that drew that who grew up watching pokémon.
@jamesarnold7253 in a series that celebrates 25 years worth of anime, they shouldn't be the ONLY target audience. Long time fans should also be getting just as much, if not more out of this series than the kids
My boy Infernape was robbed off his predestined face-off against Cynthia's Garchomp and taking down a legendary. Two huge robberies for InfernaGoat.
We pretty much missed out on the biggest culmination and full circle of DP.
SOMEONE GETS IT! MAn I wish we had that battle SO BAD. Like I mentioned Lucario vs Garchomp was good but it seemed like a free W, Infernape would've added that extra passion.
@@InfamousTrainer InfernaGoat is my favorite mon of all time, I just wish he beat Flint's Infernape, Cynthia's Garchomp and Moltres just to assert his dominance.
Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to read my capture for Ash's Ceruledge? I really want to know your thoughts on it.
@@BlizzardLuinor they did my boy DIRTY. He’s one of ashes strongest Pokémon that’s arguably better then Greninja, and they made him get clapped by moltres and not redeem himself in any way. That’s absolutely messed up. He needs more love
I didn't think of that. That would've been good. I wish the tournament was longer too.
Infernape definitely was robbed. How can they just do him dirty like that?
Gee, It's an honor to be introduced to my works like this! Thanks a lot everyone to enjoy my fanfic!!
It was amazing
Truly AMAZING! Can't wait to see what's NEXT!
Amazing job
Amazing job
Really? You should've been the one to have written the anime!
Having ash use his old Pokémons,with some of them evolving in the process,the return of all the pokemon ash released.
Everything shown in this video was PEAK FICTION! This is what the PWC should've been like
I would probably switch Dynamax togekiss for mega garchomp but regular garchomp vs regular infernape is definitely alright.
I like how murph made all of the overshadowed pokemon get some time to actually get the love that had been hogged
Edit:also ash should've caught different Pokemon if he doesn't have his original mons and also used the released mons that weren't used like pidgeot ambipom primeape Butterfree Lapras Tyranitar and Squirtle also WHY THE HELL DID POKEMON NOT GIVE US ASH VS ALAIN IN THE FIRST PLACE CAUSE IF THEY DID EVERYONE (including me) WOULD WANT TO SEE ASH GRENINJA VS MEGA CHARIZARD X BUT THE POKEMON COMPANY PROBABLY WOULDN'T GIVE US THAT
If I could add , they should of had primampe come back for the series and evolve at the end , would of been a great way to get people excited for paldea and the new series even if ash wasn't coming along for the journey, I can't believe he was the one Pokemon forgotten about in that 11 episode series after Leon
Yeah, in this story I was thinking about that with what Merph put int. But I think him being added to Ash's Team in Paldea would be cooler!
@@InfamousTraineryeah but before peldea he should catch At least one galar Pokémon but I understand this is a concept
A few things this new version of journeys is missing out on is ash getting mega evolution, he should of mega evolved Sceptile vs Diantha. Also I since this just showed the important parts of the journey it skips out on the filler episodes but I think it would be cool if ash cycled through traveling with old companions through out the old series, at least 10 episodes with each companion
WHY DIDN'T WE GET THIS!?!
Journeys writers should be ashamed for missing so many opportunities like this
Because Journeys is MID then followed with Aim To Be MORE Mid lol
This is indeed cool, but to be fair you can rewrite any older season to give Ash cooler pokemon/battles, etc, it's not exclusive to JN.
@@InfamousTrainer To be fair, any older season could be rewritten to improve his team development (particularly in Johto and BW), or have him with better battles with better conclusions. It's really not that different than any past series re-write I've seen, like people who have Ash beat Tobias in DP or beat Alan in the Kalos league, or give us a better battle against Richie in Kanto. Every season has things that could have been different...
@@Scott-ws8yt the others didn't have nearly as much missed potential aside from Black and White which was severely lackluster
This would've helped his Unova team. I think it's so infuriating that most of his team isn't fully evolved and the fully evolved ones like Unfezant sucked(except Krookodile)
This is better, but I actually think his Journey's team was good. I love Gengar's personality, even Dracovish and sir fetchd were all good fun pokemon to have
Just hearing about the Pokemon battles and the Pokemon teams gave me goosebumps
This is what needed to happen in Journeys Ash using his old pokemon and evolving them climbing his way up to the M8 class. If this format of a round robin tournament happened in Journeys for the M8 battles. Ash against all the trainers in a 6v6 the M8 tournament would be more memorable. Ash vs Iris 3v3 lineups have so many call backs to the Unova days every pokemon has history with each other bringing it full circle great.
Dragonite vs Charizard part 2 classic and Haxorous vs Scafty. Paul evolving Urasing to Ursaluna man it will be more troublesome to defeat Ursaluna and definitely don’t want to activate it's Guts ability. I would still love to see Leon’s other pokemon and great choices by Merph making Ash’s teams against all the M8 opponents and what Ash’s mons will do battle against.
Merph did so good with this like bulbasaur getting shine and all of ashs pokemon getting an evolution or a battle except bayleef staraptor and 29 of ashs tarous also he actually uses naganadle goodra and greninja often so merph W
I love this ending, but I wish Bayleef would have battled once more and/or possibly evolved. And I even would throw in some more reunions like Charizard and Charla... Sceptile and Blaziken and/or Meganium... Lycanroc and Lycanroc... Etc. I would also bring back more gym leaders and even some Frontier brains as well. That would have made this final journey all the better imo.
I actually love this, great job as usual infamous
This. This right here would have made the Journeys anime so much better. Since it's supposed to celebrate Ash's journey as a trainer, it makes so much sense for him to include all of his Pokemon. I love the addition of some of his Pokemon finally evolving to show their growth from the training. The art here made me that more invested in the battles, especially the new teams.
I still love Ash's team from Journeys, don't get me wrong, but it would have been excellent for his new team to work together with the old guard. Imagine the strategies and tactics that could have been birthed from the interactions. There can be scenarios like a sparring match between Lucario and Sirfetch'd vs Infernape and Emboar, Dragonite working together with Noivern and Gabite, Gengar playing tricks on the cast in good fun, and just Dracovish being the silly goober that it is.
I mean ash should have at the very least used his old Pokemon for the ultra class
I like this version of Journeys, but I actually did like his new team (even though I didn't like how they were handled). They were all pretty awesome and it would've been cool to see them fight alongside Ash's old Pokemon.
Brooo this was great! Like you said… WHY didn’t we get this?! I absolutely loved all the panels, the art and choices made here! This went crazy!
This is what we should have in Journeys instead of focusing on two useless characters that serve no purpose in the anime. Other than promoting an app game and an Eevee.
EASILY the best rewrite for Journeys!! The only thing that this needed was more screen time with his old companions, now that goddamn Chloe and Goh doesn't hog up the screen time.
And I don't know, but I feel like this is how almost all of us want to imagine Journeys went. I know that's what I want, at least.
Edit: Something I should mention, I think Ash should battle some of his companions and lose to them. And then have another character like a Paul, Bea or Marnie (someone strong Ash would eventually beat), beat that companion to build up tension. And I think using a similar idea, Ash should lose to Iris and tie to Diantha to make his wins against Cynthia and Alain all the more epic and suspenseful. It also makes sense, since all Champions are super strong, and this would showcase the steep competition beautifully. And have Cynthia and Steven have that same 1 loss (to Leon) and 1 tie (to each other), and have Leon draw with Iris to showcase her growth. But have her lose to Alain and Cynthia to setup some stakes to the rematches. This would make this rewrite 11/10.
Edit 2: Swap out Cynthia's Gastrodon for a Lucario and have Ash's Hawlucha fight him instead of Spiritomb, leaving Spiritomb for Crawdaunt and have Donphan deal with Roserade.
Merph is a story based genuis.
@@InfamousTrainer He sure is. Even though I'd do a few things differently, he is without a doubt doing an amazing job. WAY better than whatever we had to suffer through for the last few years.
I love the manga style for this it looks so good. And I agree with most of these although I feel like some of his journeys team should have been caught as I did like some of them.
100% agree that Ash shouldn't have caught anything in Journeys. MAYBE one new Pokemon at most, but he should've spent the whole series rotating in his reserves. Also I love how the final team has representation for every past series: Pikachu = OS, Sceptile = AG, Infernape = DP, Krookodile = BW, Greninja = XY, Lycanroc = SM.
What gets me the most is how Journeys had that whole episode about Infernape wanting to become stronger and battle new opponents, yet did nothing with it. He should've been the one to beat Cynthia's Garchomp, we were so robbed man...
I think Ash should've caught Mewtwo as his final Pokemon at Mt. Silver for a Rematch.
@@Jadinite-2006 Yeah, nah. Mewtwo’s good but there’s one Legendary capture far superior, and that’s Ho-Oh by a landslide
I can honestly say that this way was so mich better than how Journeys was portrayed. Although Ash does not get to use any Galar Pokemon, using his older Pokemon and some even evolving more than made up for it
the thumbnail looks amazing its like an alternate universe or an what if like ash brought back some of his old pokemon through journeys and evolve some of them into their final or second evolution in their separate battles
Merph is an amazing artist. He killed that picture!
If an ending makes people want to make fanfinction set AFTER the ending of the series, that means people liked the characters so much that they still want to see them.
But if an ending makes many people write fanfic that REPLACES the ending, you know that something wasn't right.
I like the position Journeys is in tbh. The kids watching can have memories of this series in the future like how we have memories of older series. The older fans can make these really cool what ifs, and younger audiences can make memories with Journeys.
Yeah... With how much potential journeys had, what they did wasn't exactly adequate
In addition to all the fanservice we got, we should have gotten Ash's older Pokemon taking part in the biggest tournament in history. It's meant to be a 25 year celebration of the anime so may as well take every opportunity they can
@@eljordinio7647 NOPe... With how many potential or not journeys had, what they did is exactly adequate.
In addition to all the battles or good vs evil we got, we should have gotten Ash's younger Pokemon to take part in the biggest tournament in history. It's meant to be a 25-year celebration of the anime so may as well take every opportunity they can
@@BergmitetheBlueandLointy-sd6dh there's nothing adequate about mediocre results 65 percent of the time nor is good versus evil even relevant!! Get a darn life!!?
@@eljordinio7647 there's nothing adequate about mediocre blinded results 65 percent of the time or crap that is false you are nobody I'm not. or is good versus evil even relevant!! Get a darn life!!?
@@eljordinio7647 again the lady works with the government and so is not Tony Stark's fault the plan was not set in stone by a lady and the government as well fanboy kiddo.
his evil deeds as a villain have something to do with the point it's the lady's fault fault well. Not Tony Stark how pathetic can you be?
Also, Why would you type like a teen and not a teen plus even a teen types better than you and you're making no sense, Are you an ignorant child?
That journey with Misty & Brock should've been different in so many ways. They should've re-visited old characters of the day in the past like A.J, Giselle, Jennette, Mandi & the Samurai, a reunion with May & Max & not to mention Serena getting a longer reunion with Ash while Misty & Brock meet her for the first time & Misty's rivalry with Serena starts there, The long awaiting downfall of Giovanni & Team Rocket, Ash getting Primeape back, so much more should've been done differently.
4:31 ahhhh my man eliminates Dracovish I like this rewrite already😂
Yes, the trash fossil is dead and I am all for it 👍🔥
Finally he killed that stupid fish thing
@@carterryans finally someone else who hates the fossil freak
I really like how the battles were formatted and what Pokémon Ash used for each one, especially Krookodile getting the respect he deserves after being a semi-rival for a while, though I do have a few things I don’t fully agree with.
Evolving some of Ash’s older Pokémon like Totodile and Scraggy feels a bit unnecessary. Totodile especially since his little goofball personality wasn’t the best for full on fighting. While evolution would make him significantly stronger and more efficient, he’d also be losing some of that “little dude” energy that’s so iconic to his character. Scraggy was also a little dude but more headstrong and scrappy. Making Scrafty act almost rude or obnoxious seems like a weird turn for him after being the fun little guy. I am down for others though like Emboar, Dewott, and Typhlosion. These just felt natural as their character arcs got cleaned up and they deserved the finishing power boost to truly shine.
I am also a little sad to see Ash’s Journeys team just not exist and while it makes total sense for this scenario, Dracovish gave me this strange feeling of joy seeing them on screen. Having them be beheaded during this is a bit rude.
I still say they should've ended Ash's arc with a big surprise birthday party with all his friends and pokemon throughout the series even Team Rocket would be a part of it
And he makes a birthday wish that he could see Ho-oh again and then after the party he wakes up early the next morning and he sees Ho-oh in the sky
And after that they show a montage of Ash's history throughout the series and then ends with skipping ahead a few years later with Ash as a teenager and he's still an undefeated champion
What do you think of that?
That would be dope, then after that we get the TIME SKIP!
Now I really hope we see Ash battling in another masters 8 tournament sometime in the future of Pokemon Horizons.
This is honestly WAYYYYYY better than what we got now
Wait is this from the manga or fan made
This would had been the perfect ending for Ash, especially having Infernape battle Cynthia’s Garchomp
Ok don't get me wrong, Journeys was good, in my opinion but this....this right here was awesome!!!!
The artist did an awesome job with all of these no joke. One of my favorite parts of this was having Ash's Pokemon evolve, some of them anyway they SHOULD have evolved in the anime but didn't. Glad the artist here changed that and I loved it. Also seeing some of the new battles was even awesome. It was even cooler to see Infernape get some love here.
Amazing work, loved this^^
Agreed there
Agreed there or not.
I truly think Gengar, Lucario and Dragonite should have remained caught by Ash. Still being a part of the series and finding a way to mold them in with Ash’s OG’s
I like the pokemon, but my guy, having them would have ash sideline some pokemon that got to shine where they didn't get too before. cherrypicking those three specifically because they're more liked pokemon or "cooler" than the other three is a bit too much for me. I do agree that he shoulda caught them here, but maybe he does, just after the tournament, it's not like he suddenly has a heart attack after the video after all. :)
Edit: I used "cherrypicky" twice in the same sentence like a nonce.
I don’t necessarily mind Ash’s JN team staying, just swap out new catches and reserves, give the new guys more focus and development than JN proper gave them, Give Lucario some unique abilities to take better advantage of the “Ash finally getting to use Aura” possibilities(as opposed to making it a blatant Ash-Greninja ripoff), and…fix Dracovish. Give it more of a personality than just “chomp”, and give it some Proper development instead of having it be strong enough to beat Iris’ infamous Dragonite when it was born, and having its only growth be an equivalent to Thunder Armor(those energy claws infuriate me to no end)
This is like my dream come true. 🤩
Like literally, 'cause I had this dream around Sun&Moon's time that Ash would enter the supposed "international tournament league" and he would use his previously caught Pokemon, and even evolving them along the way.
This is the (almost) perfection I've been looking for, and had (very high) expectations for in Journeys.
Not to mention the incredible art telling each event and story. Starry Eyed Kudos to Merph. 🌟
Wow that was awesome! My only correction is still having him use mega evolution for some of his Pokémon (same amount as he was G Max and Z move)
I stopped by again while surfing youtube! It's been more than a year since I drew this work!!
P.S: It's a very late explanation, but there's some main reasons why I let Cynthia in third opponent.
-Cause there's 3 users who using mega evolve, and I don't want to draw two volumes of mega evolution in a row. Just because of unbalanced visual and my modest artist instinct.
-U know Ash's Charizard is gonna absenst in final battle, so I should have to put him in semi-final battle. But I can't find his position in Cynthias', so I put him at Steven's instead and lends probability to the story that Charizard can't participate in Leon's battle cause he used too much energy to defeating Mega-Metagross.
-More importantly, I didn't want to replace any of the opponents I put into the last battle with Charizard.
Of course these are reasons that may be hard to accept, but I hope you guys gonna understand!
I love this idea I gives all the to see all of ash's old pokemon for one last time.
The rest of Lance's team were not what I was expecting. I mean Salamence I could get cause like Hydreigon it was part of Lance's PWT team & Aerodactyl is practically a staple in his Dragon Army, but Kommo-o was a random choice {since they signify Lance as both Kanto & Johto champ, at least give him a Johto pokemon like Kingdra}
- If anything, since Pokemon Mezastar actually did hint on other champions' pokemon before the tournament episodes had happened (like Leon's Mr. Rime), it might've been best to draw inspirations from there as they might've been factual. Like finally showing Iris' 6th member as Hydreigon and/or the other members for Lance & Steven's full teams (and if it just so happens to repeat pokemon, I think it's fine since the Masters 8 could practically be called by another name as the
End of Dragonites Tournament)
Why not Ampharos or Tyranitar?
Bro this art style is so good that it almost makes the journeys anime even worst. If ash use his older mons instead of his current ones, than he wouldn't have to come from behind to win like three times. Like he's up against three tough champions.
As much as I don’t like Greninja, this would have been so much better than what we got
I do wish that Ash had used older Pokémon in Journeys, especially in the Master’s 8. Would have also been nice if he’d got more Mega Evolutions, not just Lucario
It's nice to see another Galaxy-Eyes fan here, best dragon in Yu-Gi-Oh! for me.
Mega Glalie would have went hard
I honestly never thought much of Ash using reserves, but man watching this video really made me realise what a missed opportunity it was, especially in the masters 8. Infernape vs Rillaboom would've been awesome, seeing my boy Lycanroc against Mr Rime would've been so interesting. I can just think of so many different possibilities and endings Ash could've had, it's a shame Journeys was so all over the place because if they had written it differently, it could've broke the internet after every other episode 100%
I like the lycanroc is getting the love he deserves but I’m surprised that charizard didn’t make the final team
He needs it tbh, like he is the reason Ash won the League
@@InfamousTrainer yeah and people still sleep on him. I honestly just think they sleep on him cause they sleep on all of alola
@@InfamousTrainer glad somebody acknowledges the league winner. Putting him on an ultimate team should be a no brainer
THIS is a fanservice tutorial that many companies should follow. (PS: the new team that he caught could be included too)
Aim to be a Pokemon Master could hold that secret.. 👀 #NextRewrite.
i like how paul returns with the 3 pokemon that desimated ash team in sinnoh
I hate the fact that you make ash killing the fossil, poor dracovish, 😡 😠 😤🤬🖕
I wish this really happened in journeys like i would love to see his other mons return like ambipom, tyranitar, heck i would if every episode his mons get development and great video infamous 👍
charizard disrespect is crazy,.. he was ash's first ace he deserves to be on the final team
I feel like Charizard got his shine. Let's give Infernape some spotlight
I don't like his Journeys team taking the opportunities from the GOATs, but I still think *someone* should be catching Galarian Pokemon. Maybe if the whole tournament is in Galar, Ash's friends would each have a new Galarian Pokemon when they come to cheer him on.
As for some other changes, Casey and the Frontier Brains need to show up or be referenced at some point, and Bulbasaur should agree to finally evolve into Ivysaur (which is one of my favorite Grass types, thanks to Smash Bros.)
I like the round robin idea, but I think it could use a couple changes:
- The battles against Leon and Cynthia mean Ash can have climactic battles with up to 12 of his all time aces, so he should use some combination of them for the two battles. This also means we don't have to choose between Infernape and Charizard.
- Ash and Leon should each lose close matches to Cynthia, who would go undefeated. So when Ash beats Leon in the final match, it's more about personal stakes than about being the best like no one ever was, since apparently Ash doesn't require that to be a Pokemon Master.
- Cynthia can gift Ash a Riolu egg after their match.
As for the very ending, instead of a random Lati@s, it should be Ho-oh that recognizes Ash but still doesn't want to travel with him, signalling his journey will continue.
For me, IF I were to change things in Journeys:
-MORE & BETTER Galar representation ESPECIALLY Gym Leaders & Rivals
-Develop Goh's Scorbunny & Sobble better for their Evolution
-At The End of Moltres Episode, Mixing BOTH Old AND New Ash Mons ESPECIALLY at Masters 8
-Evolve Quilava, Gible (to Gabite), Snivy, Pignite, Scraggy, Palpitoad, & Boldore (via Trade with Goh's Boldore)
-If Goh is gonna have (begrudgingly) ALL Galar Starters, gonna make Grookey NOT annoying
-Have Chloe legit own via capture Yamper (maybe evolve to Boltund) & catch Galarian Ponyta & Rapidash
-Make Eevee G-Max
-Have The Battle of Vs. Wallace in a later Episode
-Have Proj. Mew Mission THEN Vs. Cynthia OR Leon
-Use Infernape in Vs. Cynthia
-The Leon Team would be Pikachu, Charizard, Sceptile, Greninja, Lycanroc, & Lucario
-Have the celebration party be THE LOOOONG awaited Reunion of Ash & His Past Companions & if possible past Rivals as well
I like this alot, Galar got so shafted and it would be better to see them get better reputation. Also pacing is nicer with what you have here because Project Mew being after PWC was a bad play.
That's decent too, but the rapid progression of his Journeys team is jarring to me. Like don't get me wrong, they are strong, but with over half their development happening offscreen, it's very hard for me to believably incorporate that team for a series like Journeys (however sad that may be).
This would also kinda result in Krookodile losing a battle which is a bummer cuz after he became a Krookodile he was undefeated
Leon could not remain undefeated forever, so Krookodile can't either
20 something pages and Journeys looks even more like complete garbage. I love Twitter.
I love how various moments in this simply breathtaking adaptation lines up perfectly to things you and the champs have said in the pod when discussing journey's
6:44 I think an easy way to fix this is just to replace Pikachu with another ground type Donfan I think would be perfect for this since I think he has the size and abilities to take down electivire. Also maybe replace Torterra with Gible or gabite since Torterra already kind of fought volkner.
I definitely would've cried at the new ending well done 🙂
I agree that Journeys should've been Ash using all of his Pokemon instead of a new team but one thing Journeys actually fixed was giving Ash Mega Evolution. This version didn't have ME and Ash needed to have it imo. The perfect Pokemon for Ash to ME was also a Pokemon that could've made an amazing return with Pidgeot. Pidgeot returning with a Mega Stone because its been in the wild would've been absolutely perfect.
We needa a full on manga series voice over of this
That would be dope!
I won’t lie seeing this video had me in literally tears, as really that would have been the Pokémon Journey’s anime I would have loved to see 🥹
I binged from indigo league to xyz. Idk sun and moon isnt really grabbing me with the art style and i havent watched journeys other than some clips and it just feels kind of disjointed compared to the storytelling of DP and XYZ. Which sucks becuz i was liking pokemon again until i reached sun and moon and what little i saw of journeys just felt underwhelming. Im hoping horizons is good when they come out in english
My senpai Gekkouga was done dirty with the Ash-Greninja form being retconed due to Ash leaving, So to fix that I would have him appear in the last second to show his full power against Leon's Charizard
having brock and misty coming back for the final season got old and did nothing to advance the final arc. they were just there. and botching any mean for Ash's end to the Journeys was disappointing. Good to see old Pokemon but he barely use them at times
I like this a lot more than what we got in the anime
My only complaints are that you should have kept Gengar, Lucario and Dragonite, as I know they were fan favourites.
Not to mention Lucario was his ace in Journey's.
Also should have used Sceptile and Charziard more.
Maybe even give Sceptile and Charziard Megas (Y, so separate him from Alain's Charizard).
Or give Charizard, a G-Max.
Yeah that's the team everyone need
Man this woude have been awsome seeing ash and all off his pokemon
This is very well done and if the anime staff knew from the beginning this was going Ash’s last series they likely would’ve done something like this. Although I have my criticisms, like you said Ash needed a few losses and there’s no Mega Evolutions despite many of Ash’s Pokemon having one, also it’s kinda a missed opportunity not having Quilava evolve into a Hisuian Typhlosion instead of a normal one.
Also having Ash go against every member of the Masters Eight is a bit excessive, I agree every match should be 6-on-6 but the tournament brackets from the original is fine, the only change I would make is have Ash’s first match be against Lance instead of Steven, reasoning being that Lance has more significance to Ash than Steven does. As for the final match against Leon I agree with you about using Charzard over Infernape simply because Infernape would’ve had his moment against Cynthia’s Garchomp.
Honestly, I'm not really opposed to Ash having a new team for this series (tho Uglyvish could have been swapped for something better) but it is nice to see Ash give his Pokemon a chance to shine. Some things I liked about this included
A) some of his mons finally don't need to be evolved or not.
B) Greninja got the against Alain he deserved
C) it finally let the incinerator battle as an incinerator
D) Let's NOT BE real, ash using a team of veterans against Leon would have been Cool a
and also evil Paul still needs more punished. The eljorindo7646 user is a pathetic jerk with no games or manners.
You know what I think it needs Ash should have caught a lilligant and an heliolisk, Milo, Nessa, Kabu, Gordie and Melony, and of course a rival who has a tragic past but he was young kid at pokemon camp until something scratched his face and has scars on his left eyes, outcasted and disowned by his parents his heart grew darker, he along with other outcast pokemon become stronger. Then it is revealed that Team rocket are the ones who gave him his scars
This adventure is insane !
On the topic of the Volkner battle and Pikachu's Z-move... did Volkner's Electivire _explicitly_ have Motor Drive? Because as far as I remember, being defeated by 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt could have been due to it having Vital Spirit.
He did back in DP
@@גיאורטנשטיין in the DP anime, you mean?
@@jorgegonzalezavila9376 Yes
I feel like the ONLY thing that could have made this better would have been giving a proper conclusion to Team Rocket's arcs.
Infernape going to faint but Infernape activates it's blaze ability
They even realized their mistake and made this partially true in the miniseries.
It's a CRIME that You guys didn't give ash MEGA EVOLUTION
Infernape is by far ash’s greatest Pokémon
NOO charizard better
Even I can't lie this is perfect this could have been perfect for Pokemon journeys the perfect anime of the century although I do still wish that use his galar team at least some of them
That should've ended that way and Ashs lycanroc finally proved he's worthy against Leon taking atleast one of them.
Few things I would also add:
Primeape should’ve come back and possibly evolved
We didn’t get to see all of Ash’s past companions reunite with him, like May for example, so I feel like we missed out there (I personally think Dawn got the special treatment)
Ash still should’ve gotten Mega Evolution without Lucario, maybe choose between Sceptile or even Charizard
Now I also want to see what happens outside of battles in the rewrite.
Can already tell before watching this is going to be peak
World Championships> World Coronation
Can't we, as a community, just agree that THIS is the cannon ending? 🥲
I can.
Definitely
I really love this! BUT as in every season, Ash deserves new captures. Add his Journeys Team PLUS Ash using his other pokemon, EPIC. Double battles using Charizard and Dragonite! An episode of dragon mastery in Blackthorn City with Clair using Dragonite, Gible, Goodra, Naganadel, Noivern and Dracovish. That would make Gible evolve! Dunno so many possibilities! Revisit Saffron Gym with Gengar, receiving a gengar mega stone from Sabrina and her Gengar (ash’s Haunter). Man of course that Ash should have his Journey’s team, but in rotation with his old pokemon. And lets bring back ALL of them haha. Primeape doesn’t need more training with that random dude haha. The Alolan and Orange League Champion and Battle Frontier winner is more capable than a trainer that lost to Ash when he had only 4 badges in his first league😂
3:48 Dewott Be Like
Dewott: Ah Yes I Look More Kick Ass Then Before
Servine: Uhuh Sure Whatever You Say Babe
Me:"watching the whole video"
Me:"sees Melmetal" (unholy sounds of joy)
Also me: dancing to the song "Dancing"
Facts with this team, there's way more gimmicks
Mega sceptile
Rage ability lycanroc
Blaze infernape
Z move Pikachu
Bond phenomenal Greninja
I wish the Journey had been half this good
Since axue and scraggey trained together ot would have been great if ash brought scraggey back and evolved him just to battle iris
Perfect it’s absolutely perfect
Honestly this was actually what I wanted for journeys to pursue all along. 3 things I would still add to Merphisc manga is that Ash's journey pokemon (Lucario, dragonite, gengar, sir'fetch and dracovish) will still be added. I think having new pokemon part of his team will still make ash's pokemon family grow and I like that having new pokemon with him. The other thing is more battles are introduced, ash battles more than the number of battles journeys had, like battling his old rivals who he won and lost to during his Pokemon tournaments like Paul. Just like Paul and his other his rivals, they don't have to be participating in the coronation series or they are participating. Last but not least The battle with Tobias and his darkrai a full on out battle after the coronation series where tobias will test ash if he is the strongest trainer who beat Leon.
There is one thing I would remove from this adaptation of the series, and that is the beheading of dracovish and arctozolt. I don't see ash who would go this far. I think on the episode that dracovish and arctozolt were introduce to ash and goh would still keep it the same as it is were both trainers catch them.
Gotta admit most of this is sooo much better than what Journeys did
But the thing that just threw me off was just force writing most of ashs pokemon to just fully evolve
Not exactly, Ash shown here since he's using them much after their season debuts and coming back inbetween the seasons that have time to grow. Plus the PWC would push them. This would also stop people from complaining that Ash doesn't evolve his Pokemon and also shows signs of growth. I don't think evolving them all are neccessary hence why there was still Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and we kept Dewott and Quilava where they were.
@@InfamousTrainer didnt quilava evolve all the way
Thought i saw that
Also like its been a thing in the anime
Evolution isnt needed to show growth or power
Pikachu, rowlet, bulbasaur and squirtle being an example of that
Yes some of them should evolve like scraggy
Journeys sucked most of the time
Wasted potential
also glad oshawott only evolved to dewott
Eh it was alright. I would have preferred if Ash used an all Galar team honestly sense Galar got shafted in the anime.
Hell they could have even replaced cerise with Magnolia or Sonia and just have had Ash as a research fellow for her.
Also I would replace Alan in the masters 8 with Nemona sense she is a champion level trainer as well and loves to battle, and would set up a series set in Paldea.
And honestly the only Ash pokemon I want to see make a return are the ones that didn't get enough time to shine, for example his Johto team, he still had his Kanto crew so his Johto team didn't do much for like half the season which is probably why they kinda sucked and didn't evolve.
Clearly, Journeys had a lot of missed opportunities with the writing approach to make Ash a unique character that he could have been. that is why it was a bad idea from the break to use Ash as a tool to promote the anime/games. which is the reason why i choose to move on from him. Horizons is what I wanted as a refresher for the old anime formula.
And rather anyone agrees or not all this focus on Ash really wasn't healthy for the betterment of the of the series so letting him go or give him a break is best at this point. and even if they reboot his story I doubt it would last long.
THANK YOU. In all honesty, I don't get the appeal of Ash as a character either. He has potential but man is he bland and is nothing to write home about outside that he's a protagonist for 25 straight seasons. Like I bet anyone could come up with a better story than this rinse-and-repeat process of his never aging battle-obsessed body fighting some sports pros again and again and the nonsense nerfs of his pikachu for fake suspense (looking at you Pikachu vs cranidos, Pikachu vs snivy, etc.). I'm surprised not more people got sick of this narrative and worse want it to continue. Those Ash "fans" are miserable for only wanting the stale repetitive formula.
@@jedidude6358 I approve this message! 👍🏽 plenty fans need to face the reality that this anime was overdue for a change.
That was a dope Journey’s story!! What could’ve been am I right?!!? I wouldn’t substituted Ash’s Kroocodile for Charizard. Sorry, just saying heh 😅
1 match that I would've paid too see is a 2v2 battle against raihan with infernape and greninja
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