Why was Sinnoh Ash such a jobber?

this proves that D/P are the hardest games in the series

>>32134963
>Kalos and Johto have the best percentages
>They arguably have the easiest games

kek

>Unova Ash is better than half of them
Because the writers felt like it

>>32135007
Would explain why he jumped nearly 20% from Kanto.

Do those stats include any of the filler arcs?

>>32135054
Stop this meme idiot. Orange arc wasn't filler, the anime it's an original series, not based on a manga, not even based on the games (the plot), how could an arc be a filler?
>To give them the time to release a new game
So the series as a whole is a filler.

Watch his sm rating be complete shit

the fact that BW ash has such high percentage means the whole thing is pointless
he was the weakest ash by far

>>32135054

>I don't know what filler means

>>32134963
it's because Paul kicked his butt every day of the week

>>32135119
>shitting on sm makes me so edgy and cool lol
so far he's won every match so I doubt it'll be much worse or even bad for that matter.

>>32135170
>Orange Islands
>Battle Frontier
>Decolore

These are filler, but Ash still battles. Do they count?

Wasn't Ash competent in Sinnoh? What went wrong?

>>32135254

Since the anime is its own thing and isn't an adaption of anything, there's technically no such thing as "filler", at least not in the same sense as an anime adapted from a manga.

>>32135254
all filler is anime original content but not all anime original content is filler.

>>32135287
Strong opponents. Paul was kicking his add left and right

>>32135287
>NEW RIVALS
>AS YOU FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL
>NOTHING CAN STOP YOU
>DIAMOND AND PEARL

>he was stopped over 50% of the time
really jobs my battles...

>>32135226
>so far he's won every match
He lost to Team Rocket

>>32135340

Bewear interrupted the fight before they could actually "win".

>>32135254
>Battle Frontier
>Filler
Kek

>>32135287
Zekrom nerf

>>32135390
>Zekrom
>Sinnoh
Pick one (1)

That's kind of insane that Johto and Kalos have the exact same numbers. Was it intentional?

>>32135340
>excluding team rocket

>>32135403
My bad, i hardly remember gen 4 and 5.

>>32135354
It wasn't a sanctioned battled or anything, that hardly matters. They beat ash's pokemon up with their pokemon.

>>32135354
Still counts. Like how Bakura stomped Kaiba in Yugioh but had to leave early to catch a flight.

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>>32135928

>(Excluding Team Rocket)

>>32135371
It kind of was. It only existed because DP was delayed and the anime team had to squeeze in another arc.

>>32136105
I seen that. I just still gives point to team rocket for winning even though the match wasnt finished.

>>32135226
He lost to the butler and pompom Oricorio

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>I just still gives point to team rocket for winning
>even though the graph specifically, explicitly excludes battles with Team Rocket

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>>32134963
>Kalos
>80% winrate
>got into the finals
>best team he had
>Ash-Greninja

REPEAT AFTER ME, KIDS
MOTTO

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>>32134963
>Unova Ash had 77% winrate

I'd have never imagined that

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>>32136295
still lost the one match that mattered the most

>>32136383
Still the best he ever made it.

I think you are all missing the biggest point that between all of kanto and the orange islands, ash only had 28 battles that weren't shitty "blasting off again" battles.

Fuck this anime and team rocket, what a waste of time

>>32136295
>>32136391
Didn't he actually win something in Johto? Like, not second place?

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>>32136308
>A- in OU
>Ash-Greninja is the same rank as Protean. A+
>people here thought Ash-Greninja won't be top tier OU

VOLCARONA IS FAR BETTER THAN EDGYZARD TOO

MIZU

>>32136415
He won the orange island league if you want to count a "defeat the current champ title".

>>32136295
TSUYOKU !

IKU Z GEKKOUGA

>>32136418
The fuck do those abbreviations mean? We are talking about the anime.

Frog didn't just lose, he got everyone's hopes up THEN lost HARD.

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>>32136418
MIZU SHURIKEN

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>>32136295
>win every match
>except the one that actually matters
That's what makes him and the frog CHOKERS.

Now, here's some KAMINARI PUNCH

I don't get why everyone is using BW Ash's winning percent as some sort of proof that this is all wrong. It can easily be argued that his competition was also easier in BW, to match his level. Which is probably true. Not saying you need to take this seriously, but to use such a stupid reason as your basis for dismissing it is just, well, stupid.

>>32136391
sure, but they were hyping more than runner-up

>>32134963
>Quality of the anime is inversely proportional to win rate
Wow... really makes u think

>>32136415

He beat the Orange League, and the Hoenn (Kanto in the anime) Battle Frontier.

>>32134963
Because Sinnoh was about Dawn and her gay ass contests. No surprise it's the worst season.

>>32136613
But Sinnoh was by far the worst.

>>32134963
>Unova had more non-TR battles than any other season
Was that because of edgy Team Rocket or those small tournaments that happened every other month?

>>32135054
In the Orange Islands Ash catches Snorlax and his Charizard finally starts listening to him. In Battle Frontier Phanpy and Grovyle evolve.

>>32136239
His glasses are upside down

>>32136783
>sinnoh
>worse than unova
sinnoh was one of the best.

>>32134963

Paul happened.

>>32135054
Yes.

>>32134963
Because Paul was a hard-ass motherfucker.

Where did the term "jobber" even came from? I always thought it was positive

>>32138758
The term "Jobber" comes from professional wrestling. It's based off of the euphemism "doing your job", which describes losing. Jobbers are wrestlers who are routinely booked to lose, meaning that it is their "job" to fail to make others look better.

Simply put, a jobber is a loser by profession.

>>32135102
People tend to think Orange Islands are fillers because Brock was replaced by Tracey
So people think it's not in the continuity. What they don't know is that Brock was written out because the anime staff was worried that he would be perceived as racist in the West.

>>32138822
Wrong tab, back to the Overwatch thread

>>32138770
Which kinda describes Ash since he has to lose the leagues to keep the series going

Sinnoh had a fuckton of focus on actually training the Pokemon. The Sinnoh loses were either used to force Ash to come up with a new technique or to hammer in that his Pokemon hadn't mastered it yet.

>>32134963
>Actually using strategy
>Lost more than half

Really makes you think

>>32138863
>he has to lose the leagues to keep the series going
>drinking the producers' kool-aid

>>32138863
Overall, yes. But particularily in Kalos he was a choker: won almost everything, except the most important one, losing at the end when it mattered the most. Like Messi with Argentina, or the Pats' 18-1.

>>32135440
Fuck off, then.

>>32137699
>sinnoh was one of the best.
Ash-Greninja pulled off what Infernape did better.

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>>32139357
>yfw most of the losses were from Paul

>>32135226
He lost to James at Lillie's mansion.