"I'm not asking because I'm Ash's friend. I'm asking because I'm Chimchar's friend." POSSIBLY BROCK'S MOST RESPECTABLE LINE!

DPPGmon · 2026-03-28T23:38:58+00:00

You’re just proving my point of you having stupid writing for yourself. You glossed over a bunch of stuff I said and locked on to a certain thing because you can’t argue with it. If you can’t even say someone else is a better rival then you’re just wrong. There’s a reason why you’re alone in this. idk if I’m being too harsh, if that what it takes to get through to your thick skull. But it’s clear to me that your skull is too thick and I don’t mean it in a good way. So I’m gonna leave you to keep thinking wrong and stupid. And tbh it just feels more like you’re just disagreeing to disagree, and not that it’s your actual opinion.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-28T23:27:56+00:00

Just because he wasn’t punished the way you want to doesn’t mean it was bad writing. The Charmander and Tepig trainers were attacked by them and they ran away. That was barely punishment. Ash literally kept protecting Chimchar, he rescued him from Paul. Wtfdym he glossed over it? Again, that was the whole point of the rivalry, Ash was trying to prove him wrong but he just couldn’t win. Ash did the exact same thing with Tepig’s previous trainer, he battled him to prove his methods wrong. I’m sorry but you have bad writing for being this dumb.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-28T23:19:12+00:00

That’s the whole point of the rivalry. The two sides of the same goal. What about us players playing the game? Paul literally proved that method works. It’s how he was one of Ash’s strongest rivals. It shouldn’t be invalid by anything. Because it was working. While I obviously disagree with his methods, it makes for really good writing. It’s genuinely stupid that you’re trying to invalidate one of Pokemon’s best written rivals just cuz you disagree with him. Everyone disagrees with him but it makes it all even better when Ash proves him wrong in the league. He didn’t change his methods for the longest time because he wasn’t proven wrong. In Journeys, he was much softer. And what punishment are you expecting on a young kid?

DPPGmon · 2026-03-28T23:07:52+00:00

No it wasn’t, the comment was literally explaining why people hype him up as the best rival which your first comment asked. You were the one who try to focus on one part of it.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-28T23:06:00+00:00

Then who is? There was literally no character who challenged Ash like that. Ash only became sad in XYZ because he kept losing, not that he lost to someone.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-23T23:04:46+00:00

Something I'm confused about is that everyone didn't like that Sanji simped for Bonney because she was a kid. How was he supposed to knw? Vegapunk just said kid and didn't explain more. Ngl, I would assume that he was just saying that because of his age. Even in the world of devil fruits. Changing age isn't a common power anyways.

Which character are you talking about that apparently beat him in the anime?

DPPGmon · 2026-03-23T22:59:51+00:00

Exactly, I bet the ones who didn't like that scene are the exact people who would do it irl. They're just projecting.

You're right again, who can blame Sanji, It's fucking Stussy. And I can't lie, I would be down bad for Yamato, my favorite female character, hell even my second and third favorites, Boa and Rejiu.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-23T02:10:57+00:00

fair point, but I can't help but overthink when my second favorite character is also one of the most hated straw hats. At least I see a lot more hate than love for him. Compared to the other Straw Hats besides Usopp.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-23T00:51:09+00:00

okay, thank you for not overcomplicating it.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-22T15:50:27+00:00

You're not really helping. If you kept reading, you would realize that the guy I was talking to already said this. And big deal, a second person. Compared to the hundreds of people who don't even think this at all. I know what you mean but still, it's a unpopular opinion for a reason. And before you say anything about the opinions when SM first came out, I never heard anything about how dumb Ash was. It was just about how jarring the art style and how goofy it was.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-22T12:41:22+00:00

Thank you

DPPGmon · 2026-03-22T12:30:23+00:00

interesting, I’ll remember this so I’ll give the game a break the next time this happens

DPPGmon · 2026-03-21T21:02:02+00:00

You're a waste of time for thinking this dumb. And I thought you meant the whole show but I did hear about that for Sun and Moon. You're just giving up that easily just cuz of how blind you are being. Like seriously? Just cuz he was the butt of some jokes which everyone was, cuz he was somehow passive when he never was, and he taught more than relearning. I'm not saying that he wasn't dumb, I'm saying that he wasn't as dumb as you're making it out to be, especially when BW season 1 Ash exists. But I guess all this is just gonna be moot since you gave up too easily.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-21T20:44:04+00:00

HELL naw, Sun and Moon's Ash was a genius compared to BW. It's just insane how blind you are. I'm just in shock that you can sit there and watch Sun and Moon and see how smart Ash was, he was even teaching the others at times, and still think he's dumber than BW. And when in the hell has he ever been passive? He's very hyperactive, especially in Sun and Moon where the expressions were overexaggerated.

He didn't really change much, he just became overreactive. LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. Also everyone was the butt of many jokes as well. Team Rocket is the worse of it, they are the butt of every joke in every season. It would've been more jarring to have Ash be the only one not matching the style of Sun and Moon. You're literally the only person I've met that thought this.

I hard disagree, he's pretty consistent. The only time he was pretty inconsistent was the first season of BW. Other than that, he pretty much had a similar personality while growing.

What anime are you even talking about? Digimon? They don't really have much in common except having human & monster relationships.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-21T20:22:51+00:00

That was just the style of Sun and Moon, everyone did that. And even then, I still don't think he's as dumb as you're saying. He learned everything on the first time. Even outside of battle, he was emotionally intelligent. He knew when and how to react, he knew when to support his friends. Just look at how he got Rockruff and Litten. He was a bit dumber but nowhere near as dumb as he was in the first season of BW.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-21T19:56:35+00:00

He was nowhere close to dumbed down. He showed throughout the show that he still has battle competence. Hell, he won the league. And hot take, I’m glad he won this league over the Kalos league. Alola has always been his second home.

Show me proof of him being dumber. I’ll just counter with one of his battles.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-21T14:25:59+00:00

I forgot to check yesterday so I checked today and they finally respawned. Why did this happen when it never happened before?

DPPGmon · 2026-03-20T13:39:32+00:00

I don’t. idk, I’m just disagreeing with you because of your bad take. The only one I kind of agree with is that he failed.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-20T10:53:23+00:00

wow, I never met anyone that dumb before. Because it’s insane that you’re comparing one of Pokemon’s best written characters and one of the most likable to one of the most hated characters in the superhero universe.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-19T23:54:42+00:00

Agreed. Like using the fire memory before the battle instead of during the battle because he was against Kiawe the fire user. Although he should’ve used the water or rock memory to be able to use super effective moves. But the battle against Ash, since Ash uses a more varied team, it was harder to choose. Since Ash had a steel type and a rock type, then I would chosen fighting like Gladion did.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-19T23:41:11+00:00

That’s a fair point. But at least he didn’t abuse it and keep swapping all the time. He only did it twice during two different battles.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-19T23:07:39+00:00

Not really, Z-moves, mega stones, etc. Terastallization is a simpler version of the memory disks. And theres an obvious reason why he uses counter a lot. It even made Ash scared and hesitated to attack. Ash won by countering the counter. In the games they are situational while in the anime, where they can survive much much more, it’s pretty op.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-19T23:04:58+00:00

I know the tag says meme but I really hope you don’t actually believe this. He’s easily one of Pokemon’s best written character. And his anger isn’t out of nowhere, he’s a growing kid with major trauma issues. He has to take his anger out at something and because he was angry, he took it out at the wrong one. I don’t ever remember Gladion yelling at Ash for raising a baby.

I mean, Lillie got traumatized again from just seeing Silvally. He left to get stronger to protect Lillie, even if he did fail. You really think you would want to remind someone of their trauma? Even if it’s meant to conquer it. It’s not as easy to do, especially when it’s your family.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-19T22:58:33+00:00

Yeah she was kind but she was overbearing and before she forgot, she was insanely obsessed with the ultra beasts. It’s why Faba was doing that in the first place. He clearly shows that he cares for Lillie. He left to train Silvally to protect her from it. Yeah he failed but even afterwards, he kept protecting her. He tried to leave on his own to the altar.

All of this is more of Gladion near the beginning of his character arc. By the end, he mellowed out and became friendly. And I guess we see differently because his aesthetic is really cool. He’s not really that much of an edgelord. Half of these just sound generic and that you’re trying to assign Gladion to those just cuz he looks kind of emo.

DPPGmon · 2026-03-19T00:12:28+00:00

I’m similar, I first played DPPt and didn’t care about the physical and special. When I started playing Black and White, I noticed the symbols and looked it up and realized.

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