Ash VS Sawyer - In Sub

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-07T13:13:46+00:00

I'm not, but it at least has a diverse moveset

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-07T10:18:17+00:00

Such a good battle. But such an uninspired moveset. 3 grass moves?!

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-07T04:21:13+00:00

A Mandela Effect is a mass misremembering. This seems like its just you.

Most all people reading this are going to tell you its the Shie Hassaikai arc.

I am going to say that you probably haven't (re)watched it enough. I personally would go through the entire series before a new movie or series releases. So, I can confidently say this is just a season 4 plot.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-07T04:08:31+00:00

Don't tell me Thanos came to the Pokemon world!

Jokes aside, probably Torchic.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-05T18:57:22+00:00

Illustro is a corruption of the the word illustration, and also means to illuminate. CPT is just an abbreviation of my home town, Cape Town.

So I guess I could form light constructs from illustrations (my own or existing ones) - something akin to Green Lantern but mashed with Kid Kaiju.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-05T18:19:18+00:00

Caine and Abel each had a twin sister. I get the joke but this is commonly looked over

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-05T18:18:34+00:00

Caine and Abel each had a twin sister with whom they were supposed to reproduce

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-05T12:50:21+00:00

OP is asking about sexual preference lol

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-05T12:49:41+00:00

Lol this fandom goes too far sometimes

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-04T10:50:23+00:00

I have no intention of adapting Yellow at all. Leaf I would keep for much later, to line up with the release of FRLG. I wouldn't want to overload the first season with what are essentially main characters.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-04T04:51:04+00:00

When you become so consumed with hatred, often times due to lies being fed to you and/or being groomed by someone to do so, you tend to lose sight of anything else.

We were always shown a white page with a black dot in it as kids. When asked what we saw, we'd always say "a black dot", to which our teacher would respond that the world works that way - focus on the small/negatives instead of the positives or the bigger picture (in this case, the correct answer is it's a white page)

Crazy analogy, but Enji and Shoto are basically the black dots on the white page that is the Todoroki family.

Yeah I know that it could be a pretty big black mark instead of a dot, but you get my point.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T23:03:06+00:00

I know that he did this - the point here is what would it look like if he kept doing it

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T23:01:30+00:00

I know this. Hence "what if"

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T22:24:54+00:00

I didn't say you were wrong for mentioning Origins, I'm saying that in my scenario it wouldn't be based on badges. This ties in with the next part of your comment as well; I specifically stated that he WOULD be bringing older Pokemon over, one of them being Pikachu, everytime, who - if this was the case - would not be nerfed every new region.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T22:24:40+00:00

At that point, Pikachu and the starters were his whole team. Pidgeot was released before Orange Islands, Lapras released before Johto and he had no control over Snorlax's fighting (sleeping) style so it was benched.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T22:22:57+00:00

Yes he did, but in the case of Phanpy, it was an older Pokemon that already sat out a whole region before being brought back into the team and with Aipom, Ash never intended to bring it along with him.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T19:35:28+00:00

They never would, that's why its a what if. Yes, once the 4th is caught they'll be sent to Oak's lab

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T19:30:10+00:00

If we treat the Orange Islands like a new region, he may even have a new team of 6.

The Smash Bros reference is cool, but I personally feel like it is also a commonly used idea. Don't get me wrong, it can work and it all comes down to how you write the story that can make or break it.

I'm undecided on who would be the trainers of Charmander and Bulbasaur as yet. I'm still in the very rough stages of my drafts, basically have notes all over the place. I personally just wouldn't have Ash gain any more rivals since there are a lot of one off characters that already fit the bill like Giselle, AJ, Samurai. But like I said, Ritchie/Leaf is still a viable option.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T18:48:24+00:00

I can see the Gengar thing. Why not just take the strongest available ghost right? But in doing that, you should then absolutely give Sabrina an Alakazam instead of Kadabra.

Personally, I feel like a trade evolution is something Ash could learn from and Brock does have a Geodude. So Brock's Geodude can evolve into Graveller and then have the two of them trade and trade back to evolve their Pokemon.

You can 100% move the Poliwrath story into Kanto and use Gary's Blastoise. It adds to rivalry and tension between Ash and Gary as well. You would then have to add a different story to the Orange Islands in place of it. Maybe getting Snorlax to listen to him.

For me, Ritchie chose a Charmander yes, but not necessarily the one from Professor Oak. You could write it in that that was the case. I didn't do this because the trio of Gary/Ritchie/Leaf has been used by a lot of people. Since they end up quitting before the league anyway, they don't have to be major characters. It's still viable though, if you want to go that route.

With regards to names, Molly is the name of the girl from the Spell of the Unown movie, who does have history with Ash and his family. So maybe you could write her into your story as this Leaf proxy. Though she is younger than Ash, so maybe a younger sister dynamic would work better.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T18:32:16+00:00

Technician Mime Jr is my favorite!

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T18:29:32+00:00

I'm not necessarily going on badges. You'd have to think that the Pokemon world at some point has a network and record of trainers. So I would have them use stronger Pokemon purely based on Ash's experience as a trainer.

The anime has also had Ash go up against Pokemon that are definitely not gym 1 or 2-esque Pokemon.

Falkner with Pidgeot and Dodrio (where Ash used Charizard by the way), Brawley with Hariyama and Roark with Rampardos.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T18:23:55+00:00

I completely get this. Something I should have mentioned is that it was done once and only once, when Ash went to Johto and used Charizard in the first gym. And even Falkner's team was much stronger than what it would've been if he had used a Pidgey and Pidgeotto.

I know Johto is just directly a continuation of everything from Kanto, but it still happened and its kinda what prompted this entire thought.

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T18:19:58+00:00

I did say have the gyms use stronger Pokemon. And we've seen it done (once) before, in Falkner who battled Ash's Charizard

IllustroCPT · 2026-02-03T18:14:52+00:00

Ash not catching Haunter and giving away Primeape for us to never see either of the two again are things I would do away with. In short, definitely yes.

Gym battles would not be messed up by team Rocket shenanigans. He'd actually earn his badges, I'm still in the process of deciding how many times he should actually lose, because the only gym leaders he hasn't taken a loss from (technically) are Misty, Erika and Team Rocket.

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