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Dianthas potential as a trainer is actually insane, out of all the trainers in the masters 8 she’s the one who is without a doubt the most busy and the one with the least amount of time to train cause of her packed schedule, and yet she still managed to make it to the top 4 in the world.imagine if she only focused on battling full time

This should have been the masters 8 schedule Ep115: Ceremony Ep116: Alain vs Leon Ep117: Diantha vs Lance Ep118: Iris vs Cynthia Ep119: Ash vs Steven Ep120: Ash vs Lance (Practice) Ep121: Diantha vs Steven (Practice) Ep122-124: Diantha vs Leon (half of ep124 being battle, other Cynthia backstory) Ep125-127: Ash vs Cynthia Ep128: Goh says bye bye Ep129-132: Ash vs Leon

I like the full circle of Ash losing in Kanto with the Pikachu v Charizard match to turn it around and win the World Championship with a Pikachu V Charizard

Mega gardevoir is just....Yaasssss queen....my most favourite mega ever....and yes when ever there was mega gardevoir present my screen looked elegent and majestic

This was obviously a crazy arc as it was but the fact they included alain only to have him get smacked by leon, rather than a rematch between charizard and greninja was foul

It's actually insane that Ash, Alain and Iris are all masters eight. It means they are all champion level trainers, which is awsome.

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Cynthia is the only trainer who defeated ace Pokemons in both her matches in master 8

Hot take: ash's team in this was, in all honesty, kinda ass. Besides Pikachu and gengar he really didn't have any og pokemon of his which heavily disappointed me. No charizard (which I can understand they didn't want 3 different charizards) but like...why no infernape? No greninja? I feel like he should have has pokemon from across his journey yet we got...this team.

Also fun fact. The Diantha vs Lance episode was originally suppose to come out June 24th. But was changed to 1 week later. June 24th is the same date the lighthouse episode was aired, featuring a huge dragonite. 25 years apart

leon was legit tobias mode against diantha🐱‍💻

Alain and Diantha deserved WAY better in the masters eight

I wish they did Iris vs Lance in R1 instead to complete her Dragon Master arc.

I really like the Ash vs. Cynthia battle.

Personal opinion but the victory would've felt much more sweet if either lean used more then one gimmick as well to match ash or ash say no and match Leon with one gimmick but don't get me wrong am still very happy with how it turned out

right before you said you still get chills about the pikachu v charizard i started getting them too it was such a good battle

Imagine not liking Ash’s Dracovish, couldn’t be me.

4:12 What I didn’t like is that it wasn’t speedy and dodging attacks like in the X and Y series

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After masters eight, my love for diantha went through the roof. The way she defeated lance and the way she was shown in semi finals, she did her best and never backed down. She has vast knowledge about Pokemon battling , moves , abilities and things like that. Her gardevior is the best.

I hate the gigantamax gimmick among all gimmicks but I gotta admit I was so surprised and a little pumped that Cynthia's wildcard against Ash was g-max togekiss. So surprising to say the least!

I would've loved for the anime to have Alain bring back his Bisharp and introduce it as a gen 9 tease Kingambit. They couldve introduced its ability and its move Kowtow Cleave so that Alain couldve at least not gotten swept.

Cynthia and Steven was coolest and Diantha was cutest 😅

Cynthia D-maxing kinda makes sence from a POV of Cynthia. Her Garchomp took major damage agianst KAMON/Sirfetch'd, and Lucario begun to counter alot of togekiss strategies. Also Cynthia is known for using unpredictable strategies, and D-maxing is something NOONE expected. Mega Lucario and Mega garchomp would be AMAZING to watch, but honestly... I see a good reason for Cynthia not to do it

Iris vs cynthia is the only good battle in the first round. one reason is because we have known iris and it was emotional when she starting crying. it also let us know how far she's come to the point where she was doing really well vs cynthia until the lipstick was flipped and cynthia took the W

Everybody gotta hold that rillaboom smoke 😭😭

Although I didn't like how lucario got taken out so early after he defeated mr rime, I do like how each time at least contributed to help ash win!!

This guy is being too generous with the rankings. Here's my ranking: Alain vs Leon, Diantha vs Leon, and Steven vs Ash are all F TIER! Just terrible! I want those battles to be reanimated again.

The way that battle went, I feel like Ash should not have beaten Leon. also Leon vs Allon should have been mega vs dinamax, like in the Kallos League where it was mega versus mega.

I still think we got robbed of a pretty epic Steven vs Alain match but that's just me. I'd have been okey with them having Diantha bite the dust against Leon here and Ash battling his home region's champion Lance. Than they could basically keep everything the same with the exception of Steven or Alain replacing Diantha in the semi finale.

Ghost types moves were so underwhelming in the anime until trick or treat and destiny bond. After dusclops shadow punches though

Who do you think would win, Steven’s Aggron or Leon’s Rillaboom?

I had just watched the final episode and I realized that pikachu tapped into a brand new ability no Pokémon can tap into alone it’s like the bond between your Pokémon must so strong death can’t break it and I wanna kinda call Limitless Bond is what it’s called and only when your bond is so strong with a Pokémon then it can be called forth and its from our knowledge still incredibly hard to tap into

lance vs diantha was one of the battles of all time

Question who wins in a fight dianthas gourgiest or Cynthia’s gastradon

Pikachu vs charizard isnt one of the best. Its hands down THE BEST.

They could have kept Tobias instead of Lance.

My takes on all of these fights: Leon vs Alain: Terrible. How alain lost here was unacceptable. He should have been pushing leon way more considering how strong he is for someone who's not a champion Lance vs Diantha: Choreography wise it was meh but both sides had awesome strategies. Better than the first battle by a large margin Cynthia vs Iris: I am no fan of iris but journeys at least made me respect her a bit compared to how nuch of brat she was in unova. Iris definitely showed why she was a champ with how well she did against Cynthia. They were practically even from the start. Cynthia obviously won but i'll give iris an A for effort Ash vs Steven. Aside from the Cradily portions, this battle wasn't great. Especially when it comes to Pikachu vs Mega Metagross. Ash should have figured out a way to slow Metagross down so he could then land some hits BEFORE using the Z Move Leon vs Diantha: TRASH!! Idk if Leon or the writers have a problem with Kalos but him disrespecting Diantha was inexcusable. After Diantha redeemed herself in a lot of fans' eyed against lance, she looks like a newbie against leon. Two knockouts out of six is disgraceful Ash vs Cynthia: Honestly Cynthia should have used mega evolution but aside from that, this battle was INCREDIBLE!! We wanted to see Ash take on Cynthia for so long and this battle really delivered. Lucario and Pikachu carried the fight but Sirfetch'd put in quite a bit of work, especially against Garchomp. It was so satisfying to see Ash get the win here Ash vs Lepn: Peak PERFECTION!! Not only did ash win but the battlw itself had so much crazy sction, clean animation, and hype moments that kept me on rhe edge of my seat. Plus that pikachu vs Charizard finale, was, EPIC!!!

The big problem I had with the Master's 8 were the matchups. I really hoped that Ash would go against Alain in the first round and redeem himself for loosing. That would have been a perfect way to start the tournament and be a meaningful win for Ash, but it didn't happen😑.

Leon's anime team tbh is very OP in the anime and it would be a super good and annoying team to battle in competitive

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Call me crazy, but I would’ve loved to have seen Ash face of against Lance since (correct me if I’m wrong) both Ash and Lance have history together since Lance is the champion of Jhoto and a Kanto Elite 4 member and they’ve fought together in the past. It would’ve been fun to see happen.

9:10 Dynamaxing togekiss wasn't a bad idea as lucario was a fighting type and togekiss a flying type

The Ash vs leon battle was kinda ruined for me when Eternatus came and gave them a second chance to dynamax. Ash would not have won if Eternatus came😅 pikachu could only use iron tail and quick attack since cinderace Can become a ground type. The most stupid thing was that cinderace was taken down in just one hit only because pikachu was dynamaxed and somehow pikachu protected himself from a fireball. Also, if cinderace used the ground move he wouldn’t have been damaged at all. Cinderace wasnt damaged at all before he was hit by the gmax electric attack and he could easily avoid it by using the ground type move.

I wonder how Alain would do agianst the other M8 trainers. Cmon he was agianst Leon's 2 most powerfull pokemon. Charizard and Rilaboom.

10:36 bro using all of his 5% power just to defeat the almighty King Kong

I woulda put Iris vs Cynthia in S but that’s just my Iris bias

Ash should have brought lucario instead of dracovish although I’d say pikachu and lucario ash the only good Pokémon he had on his team Dragonite: I thought was gonna be stronger due to it beating 2 Pokémon after gengar went down Gengar: may have took down 2 of raihans Pokémon but other than that it lost quite a bit Sirfetchd: I wouldn’t call him too bad but he lost to bea without taking out a single Pokémon but I think he would have been a better choice to use against Steven instead of gengar Dracovish: I think he did okay but lost when his weaknesses were exposed and it wasn’t a good matchup against steel type’s since water is effective and dragon is not very effective

Cynthia didn’t mega evolve Garchomp because the mega form could not match Mega Lucario speed.

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When iris cried i felt so bad

I would bring the Lance vs Diantha battle down to C tier. It had all the good points you mentioned, but the characters for the most part forgot how to dodge and use the battlefield, especially Lance.

Bro put ash vs Steven at b 😂😂😂😂

Let’s just say agree to disagree on some of these placings Lance vs Diantha is a C tier for me personally. It ain’t terrible, but it’s just kinda inoffensive. Same with Ash vs Steven. Iris vs Cynthia was good, aside from some pet peeves like the Garchompite just floating in front of Lucario as it Mega Evolves(a thing with Ash’s Lucario too) Ash vs Cynthia is solid, until Lucario is sent out. Not a fan of the whole thing with Dynamaxing Togekiss, even with Greninja squeezing in another cameo(As an aside, Ash and Lucario’s “Aura Bond” as I’ve heard it be called in some corners of the fandom. Totally not an Ash-Greninja ripoff, Amirite?! /hj). And Bullet Punch vs Dragon Claw was a weaker instance of animation. To compare it with Iris vs Cynthia, I prefer the constant blow exchanges over Garchomp just freezing as Lucario uses Bullet Punch(that sequence would be fine, if it was a Bit faster, to make it look like Garchomp isn’t just taking the hits) And Ash vs Leon. While it was solid, it had a pretty slow start. Lucario’s clash with Mr Rime is also an issue I have with the aforementioned speed thing(with everything slowing everything down so the announcer could talk), the second G Max from Eternatus was kinda wasted IMO, and Dracovish. No offense if you like Dracovish after you earned its respect, but those claws it got. Barely explained, barely foreshadowed(but that’s down to JN not giving Ash and his team a lot of development time compared to Goh), and a big case of “too little, too late” with its character development(May be biased on this one, since Ash’s Dracovish as a whole is just one of my least favorite members of his team(It’s personality is largely one joke, and it barely develops. I thought Goh was the one who caught Grookey, not Ash. HEYOOOOO), so you can take this with a pinch of salt). Part 4, and the final battle with Pikachu and Charizard though? Pure Gold. Cannot possibly improve it Apologies for the Long comment BTW, I get descriptive with my thoughts

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To me Sirfech'd technically got a win on Rillaboom, if you think about it closely Edit: (reason why am not saying Dragonight is because she got Molly whopped in that battle and only got the Dragonight meteor on him)

Ash vs Cynthia A+++

Garchomp can mega evolve and haxourus can't so i say the fight between Iris and Cynthia is a bit unfair.

HARDCORE FTW

Leon vs Alain was great, y'all are just mad he crushed your fave

Obviously lance vs diantha was interesting, but leon vs diantha was stupid and leon vs alain was stupid too. i pretty much agree with every word u say

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It would’ve been cool if Iris went up against Lance, dragon, to dragon diantha versus Cynthia sister to sister and we did get mega Charizard x versus gigantimax charizard and then we got Steven versus Ash mega lucario versus mega metagross steel steel. Then lance battled ash come on they never met and I wanna see ashes draganite take out lances final draganite And the Leon vs diantha except this time we got full battles and the rillaboom vs auras battle rillaboom died to an ice beam. Mainly the full battles And there’s nothing changing about ash vs Leon it 😍

4:13 pause. edit: 4:26 PAUSE AGAIN

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5:25 I think if its not for mega evolve Iris could win the battle

DYNAMAX SHOULD HAVE BEEN USED IN IRIS VS CYNTHIA BATTLE AND MEGA IN ASH VS CYNTHIA

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HARDCORE ftw

People didn't like the R1 roster. Who would you have face each other instead for R1?

He calles Gourgeist "Pumpkaboo" ☠️☠️

Ash wasn't a match against any of 3 tbh he got carried by plot cynthia was toying with him on most of the match and her garchomp was nerfed metagross was abusing pikachu And somehow he needed 4 gimmicks against leon There is nO way a pokemon he caught on less than a year reach the level of a champion Him using his aces would have been believable at least from how long they are training

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All of the battles were underwhelming compared to battles in the past. These could’ve gone down as some of the best battles in history.

I was sad to see how. They nurfed alan

Hardcore FTW

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What gen is this

Lance vs Diantha sucked. They nerfed Lance's skills as a trainer and made him make awful plays left and right just so Diantha could win. What plays am I talking about? Let's see, he: - Hyper Beamed an Ice-/Rock-type(Rock-types resist normal-type moves) pokemon after its trainer called for a Light Screen, and that left his Dragonite open for super effective, S.T.A.B. damage, one being by 4x, and this is when having a 4x Body Press move. - Used Gyarados against Gourgeist despite having a Hydreigon, who resisted both of Gourgeist's S.T.A.B. types, and had Dark Pulse for Super effective, S.T.A.B. damage, which was also a special attack which Lance literally says he knew Light Screen was about to fade. - When Gyarados was on the field he told it to Aqua Tail a Reflect protected Grass-type Pokemon when he had Ice Fang and it fought nothing like it did when facing Leon in the last PWC. Like, where were the Aqua Tail and Ice Fang Flurry attacks at? They literally made Gyarados just a brute force attacker in that fight. Also, where was Dragon Dance at? If Lance got rid of it, then that's yet another nerf as he had no reason to get rid of it, especially when it helped him with his Flurry Attacks. - Saved his Hydreigon and his injured Dragonitrt for Diantha's Fairy-type mega ace... Like why? I get maybe Dragonite because it was such a tank, but Hydreigon? Man knew she'd use Gardevoir, yet instead of using it against Gourgeist earlier on, he wasted his Gyarados on it and saved his mon that's 4x weak to Fairy-types ... For her Fairy-type ace... That mega evolves... And I get people may say "She had Thunderbolt" okay 1. Nothing showed Lance knew that, thus it still would of been a smarter play to save Gyarados for Gardevoir when he knows the opponent has a Fairy-type move for his dragons, especially his one 4x weak to it. 2. Lance could of countered Thunderbolt with a move. Not only does he go by the "offense is the best defense" strat, but he literally did that when facing Leon's Charizard using Thunder Punch. Also, I don't want to hear anyone say that "maybe the writers forgot about his Flurry attacks" because there's no way they did. It was shown in one of the biggest fights ever in the series and literally two episodes before their fight, Paul somewhat mimicked the strategy with his Gyarados when training Ash. - Hyper Beam was nerfed. Remember when Lance faced Leon and Leon's Charizard dodged Hyper Beam? Did Hyper Beam just wear off? No. Gyarados followed it around the stadium for a bit, but nope, not here, they made it to where it could only be shot out and if someone dodged it, that's it. I get Dragonite isn't Gyarados, but that doesn't mean Dragonite can't follow its target, or at the very least, look upwards at Gardevoir as she literally just jumped in the air... Seriously, the most intelligent thing he did in this fight was his Dynamax stall strategy where he used Dragonite's bulk, Dynamax stamina boost, Hail damage anf attacks to do damage and block movess, that's it. They seriously could of made this an amazing fight where both trainers gave it their all and then I'd of been satisfied regardless of the outcome, but they had to almost completely nerf a character and give their opponent an advantage over them so the opponent one could move on. That's seriously disrespectful towards Lance, so it confuses me why people want to talk about Diantha getting disrespected in her fight with Leon, yey fail to mention how Lance was disrespected in his fight with her.

i didnt rlly like lance vs diantha, lance had hydreigon, but he decided to use gyarados against gourgeist.

Diantha was done dirty in the semifinals

Gourgiest not pumpkaboo

Tobias claps them all

Bro was not roasting the girls like this💀

I haven’t watched Pokémon journeys yet…

Ash vs leon is the GREATEST pokemon battle of all time easily!!!

It would have been amazing foreshadowing to have added Geeta instead of Alain. It would have shown how trash she was compared to other champions. Before we saw it in Scarlet and Violet.

definitely would put cynthia vs iris over cynthia vs ash, the visuals for a FIRST round match was incredible. ofc ash v leon takes the cake

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Ngl... glad others enjoy this tournament, but now that recency bias has faded, the only battle I really enjoy is Ash vs Leon. Every other one is either bad or set expectations way too high not to be underwhelming. Diantha vs Lance was painfully slow paced (granted, it's understandable given how overworked the animators were, but still) and Lance feels horribly dumbed down. I get that power has always been his main thing, but come on, the man was capable of making actual plays earlier in this very series. Diantha's strategies were just basic status moves, it feels like the only reason they worked was because her opponent was battling like an idiot. Iris vs Cynthia is... serviceable, but I'll never understand the hype behind it. At least on Iris's end, it's just her losing again to the woman she already lost to. And I say that as someone who wanted Cynthia to win. She doesn't even get to show off a new Pokemon or anything we hadn't seen in her last appearance. Ash vs Cynthia is okay for what it is, but it'll always be so tainted by the fact that Ash didn't use Infernape to beat her. They've been hinting at that practically since her very first appearance, and the lack of reserves will be the biggest black mark on all of his battles.

Meta gross should have won I’m dissatisfied about the plot armor

Why Alain got nerfed 😢

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Where can I watch Pokemon Journeys

Cynthia

What's the name of this episode/series I never watched it

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