Not his father but Brandon did beat both Paul and his Brother Reggie. The battle with Paul being one of my favorites in the entire series. Damn Sinnoh was good.
I loved this arc as a kid! This was the perfect transition from the Hoenn League, and the perfect transition into the Sinnoh series! Thanks for doing this Zac. Can’t wait for the actual Galar League.
The end of the battle frontier arc was teasing sinnoh like crazy lol we got a filler episode with chatot then the next filler episode was about weavile I remember those 2 episodes because I saw them recently lol 😂
Yes jt was perfect would’ve been better if they kept his original voice i remember watching the episode where charizard first reappeared it was still ash’s original voice then i think that next episode or like 2 later his voice just changed like BOOM i was like who df is this🤣🤣
To this day the battle frontier season is still one of my absolute fav seasons of Pokémon! It did so many things right with the battles, adapting the battle frontier to the anime, and bringing back old Pokémon for nostalgia and Fan service but in the best way possible. This same strategy is applied to the Sinnoh league with added strategy and makes it feel like a battle frontier 2.0. It still holds up and definitely was my fav season of Pokémon before DP came along. And the music throughout Hoenn made it even better! Great review man! Now it’s time to watch the Alola league review. Yeah I know, mad late watching it. 😅😅
When I saw Galar league I was ready to comment uh this haven’t happened at all yet Then I remembered you did this last year fooling people with the Sinnoh league review with the orange island league review
saiyan 4414 if he did then it’s gonna be worse than the OG Japanese dub I just finished watching that league dub and omg I couldn’t handle guardian of Alola vs 10 million bolt thunderbolt
This was super nostalgic, and one of my favorite eras of the anime. I wish they would showcase more post game content in the anime. Also I think it would be cool to go back and do the style anime review for each of the movies! We have lots of time on our hands lol.
@@valydendor4472 Would you really count Ghost tower tho? Since he was really just unconscious from the fall of the chandelier until the ghost pokemon pulled his soul from his body and then later he just simply jumped back in his body like it was nothing.
@@MSCLeap75 A chandelier fell on him and he got electrocuted right after. The way the ghost types reacted when they didn't respond, minus Haunter, was that of worry. I'm confident in saying that they died for at least a little while.
I think Brandon tests all his challengers by being very brash at first. He does this to weed out those fall short and give up vs. those who truly want to be a master of the Battle Frontier. Look at Sinnoh where Reggie mentioned that Brandon eviscerated him even though like Ash, he had gone through the other leagues.
The Battle Frontier arc was awesome. It was one of my first introductions to the pokemon anime. I was really disappointed to find out that there was a Battle Frontier in the Diamond and Peral games and Ash didn't particapte in it. I really hope Ash particaptes in the Sinnoh Battle Frontier arc for the new series. Plus it would be a great way to introduce the upcoming Diamond and Pearl remakes
ThePokéRaf Let’s go now I know ash brought back the original trio including pikachu in galar! Let’s go he’s even wearing the advanced series clothes! What a throwback!
I could make a whole list of greats mons he could bring back to not only give them more screen time, but also time for some of them to finally evolve. Gible Sceptile Krokodile Noivern Gliscor Glalie Snivy Talonflame Haracross Corphish Scraggy I could go on for days!
Zac: Annabel's ability sounds familiar but I can't exactly remember why... **Shows silhouette of N even though N wasnt even close to being conceived before then* I just love these little moments XD
My favorite moment of Ash v. Brandon #3 is when Pikachu uses 2 Iron Tails in a row. Back when Pikachu was just learning Iron Tail, it actually was physically incapable of doing so, so the fact that Pikachu started off only being able to do one Iron Tail, to being able to do 2 in a row was amazing. It just goes to show how far both Ash AND Pikachu have come since starting out.
@@ethnictendo nah he meang that this start with fast pace action in Pokemon anime which we seen even better in future and give Kalos league battle as example.
Great video. Battle Frontier was one of the most impressive arcs in my opinion, and the one, which saved AG for me from boredom. Still salty, that Sinnoh Battle Frontier didn`t get a proper treatment, like Hoenn one.
Montecristo Smith That was a case of the first episode weirdness trope where the writers were still trying to figure out Ash’s character. He never showed any interest in a relationship after that episode.
The Battle Frontier... the only region where Ash actually moves up levels and we legitimately see his progression live as it’s happening. Also, the Battle Frontier, up to that point, was the most accurate game-to-screen anime season we’d gotten
Ash’s battle style isn’t actually that unpredictable. He’s just an opportunist. Also I don’t mind charizard loosing in episode 10, but if they’re going to Include dusclops’ immunity to seismic toss, why was dusclops able to hurt him with will-o-wisp.
This arc was epic and the peak of Ash Ketchum as trainer (until Ash vs Kukui), he beat the 7 Frontier brains who are as strong as E4 members and defeated 2 legendaries in 1 vs 1, it was the best way to end the advanced generation series
Tbh, I don't know why Brandon is said to be that strong because I could see him being a champion. I'd say if he was a champion he would be just below Leon, Ash, and Cynthia considering he barely lost to Ash and he didn't use two of his legendaries when Ash beat him. Now sure, Ash is stronger and would smoke him if he used his strongest Pokémon but I still could see him destroying Lance, Steven, Iris, and Diantha tbh. Alain would give him a challenge and might beat him but I'd say he would be behind only the ones I mentioned.
After the Twitch marathon, I fell in love with both Sinnoh and Kalos. I kinda forgot just how good Battle Frontier was. Thanks for bringing the memories back!
Noland: I remember thinking OMG Charizard learned Blast Burn! Then was disappointed that it was only Overheat (that 'missed' due to Water Pulse)... Greta: Ash didn't use Swellow or Noctowl instead of Grovyle because... Tucker: Ok, giving Ash PROPS because the intro before the battle was EPICCCC! Great combos in the match, BUT let's be real; Ash had no business winning with Swellow and Corphish HAHA Swampert used like 5 moves so I guess that's karma from Snorlax using 6 before! Ash's team didn't even land an attack on their opponents aside from when they used Aerial Ace and Crabhammer to win! Correct me if I'm wrong but aside from those finishing blows, the only other time Arcanine and Swampert took damage was when they accidentally rammed into each other when Swellow sped up Double Team with Quick Attack! The water/fire fusion was epic because it was used by May in the Grand Festival and then her and Dawn did it during the D/P series! Lucy: You said everything I was thinking about this match in your video! Spenser: Overall, solid battle! Great to see Heracross again! Anabel: Alakazam was so annoying/strong! Geez if Corphish had evolved it would've done great in that battle (even better than it did). Not sure why you'd ever teach Focus Punch to an Alakazam...Anabel's whole 'talking' to Pokemon thing reminded me of Spenser's Battle Area in the games where your Pokemon will 'battle for themselves' and it all comes down to their natures determining defense vs offensive moments. Interesting stuff! Brandon: 1st match was trash.....2nd match was actually GOOD! Why not use Donphan? Immune to Zap Cannon, not effected by Sandstorm so the only thing Registeel could do is Lock on for Metal Claw, BUT Donphan's rolling speed would EASILY make it much faster than Registeel! Not to mention it knew Earthquake as a Phanphy! 3rd battle...Ash's "OH NO I FORGOT!" when Seismic Toss was used on a Ghost type...I'll never forget that OR when Pikachu took out a FULLY RESTORED Regice (thanks to Rest) with a Volt Tackle...the ref didn't even see if it could still battle. It was slammed against the wall and like 2 seconds later; REGICE IS UNABLE TO BATTLE PIKACHU IS THE WINNER! Bro...too bad Hala wasn't there to call out that b.s. nonsense! Great video!
For the 2nd battle with Brandon, Donphan could’ve use Earthquake because the anime banned it. And I don’t think that Donphan can learn any other ground type attacks.
@@davidanthonymercado7064 Just checked Gen 3 moveset and dang...aside from Fissure that was the ONLY Ground move it could learn...that stinks oh or Mud Slap haha
Ash don't know about Registeel moveset and Fire type resist steel type attack, also Earthquake, magnitude and fissure moves are banned since whiscash earthquake Episode.
who watches just for gym battles I’ll help you Nolan 1:00 Grenne 2:47 Tucker 4:21 Lucy 6:08 Spencer 7:54 Anabell 9:13 Rune 12:20 Another battle 14:27 Last Brendan battle 16:13 countinue 18:10
Just when I thought we’d scene the end of these great reviews thanks Zac! Someone already asked this but it would be really cool to see you review mays hoenn and kanto contests along with dawn’s sinnoh contest journey
2 things i wanna say 1. Hoenn had overall bad animation, even johto's was better 2. I wish you would've talked about the final battle of this season Ash vs Gary, Gary himself pointed out Ash's flaw, getting cocky because he won the frontier brains
They really went up on the Battle Animation Budget this Season because the Contest Battles were awesome as well. Also it was the first Season I watched in Japanese. It's so Criminal that we never got a New Battle Frontier Series. I really thought Ash was going to that Northeastern Island of Sinnoh to challenge it like in Platinum or Back to Johto.
Great review and a nice look at how the Battle Frontier was used to help Ash grow strategically and show off all his bonds with his Pokemon and how they've all changed since their first meetings.
When I saw the Galar League title and the length of the video, I thought he was going to make a story up for an entire league for a second. That’d be kinda hilarious actually
I get that Ash nowadays, when he goes to a new region, wants to give his new pokemon a chance. But I would appreciate if Ash would bring back some of his old pokemon again, like he di in johto, hoenn and sinnoh. It would be cool to see his Kanto pokemon, Greeninja, Infenape and Krookodile return for future battles in the Masters 8 in particular.
I kinda understand Brandon's atitude in Battling the Enemy Within. Ash's arrogance led to him being possessed and basically almost _kill_ the referee in their first match. Ash _is_ to blame here. But what I never understood is how he tells Ash for being arrogant, and yet when he faces Paul he praises his battle skills. Pretty much being oblivious to Paul's abuse towards his Pokémon.
Please review contests and the Grand Festivals next!! We got to see the growth of May and Dawn throughout these episodes and contests were a nice twist to traditional gym battles!~
Hey Zac! Love your videos man!! Idk if this is something you'd even consider but you should definitely review the grand festivals and multi-arc tournaments (e.g. Wallace Cup, Club Battle/Clubsplosion in B/W, etc.). Your style of reviewing is awesome and I think it would be great content!!
All of these April Fool jokes got me dissecting every damn video lol I'm so glad this is actually an interesting and surely entertaining video. AG was actually my favorite series before SM took the number 1 spot so this video is a real treat!
One line that I think deserves more recognition is before Ash vs. Brandon (second rematch). Scott said that the stronger you get, the stronger your opponents will be. I think that statement aged like fine wine.
The Battle Frontier arc had one of the best battles in the series and truly show Ash's growth in battling, however I remember not liking it as much because of the voice changes and getting annoyed at Team Rockets typical antics of getting in Ash's way. Looking back at it now, this arc was really great for Ash.
Sabahat Fatima but he dint use his full team of legends that would be pretty cool Stephen vs Brandon like maybe he caught regigigas and used it to fight metagross
Well to be fair the reason Charizard lost to dusclops was because ash commanded Charizard to use seismic toss while that sh*t head forgot it doesn't have any effect on dusclops because it's a ghost type so basically Charizard siesmic tossed him self
Nice try Zac. Ya got me last April Fool’s but I didn’t fall for it this time. But still, thanks for this awesome review of this awesome installment of the franchise. Some of your best work yet.
Here’s a good idea for ya zac!!! I hope this helps. Maybe review every caught Pokémon by ash in the region. Like review the episode he caught the Pokémon in and if you think he should have caught it or maybe something else. Or review every rival battle for each generation in the anime except the Pokémon league battles. Like in kalos with the battles with sawyer before his league battle. Just an idea!! If you use it please do a shout-out appreciate it !
Great video as usual, Zac. In case it has not been recommended yet, you should review all of Ash' s gym leader battles, May and Dawn's contest performances, and some of the rival battles.
Brandon is one of my favorite pokemon characters in history, just because he recurrently tells Ash "NOOOOOOO" and honestly, it just really feels satisfying to me to see someone just completely deny him that way. I want to tell Ash "NOOOO" every time he wins by using an electric attack on a ground type. Way. Too. Often.
Here's a suggestiong. In the future, perhaps you could review the Whirl Cup, the water type competition that both Ash and Misty participated in, if you haven't already. It extends from episodes 215 to 217.
“ If you can go toe to toe with a pseudo, then you’re pretty good.” Does that mean Noivern doesn’t really suck because he did tie with Sawyers Salamance.
Me reading title: *dafuq?!* Me remembering it's April 1st: oh right Btw the only thing that piss me off of Charizard vs Articuno is that Brian when Charizard was losing but Articuno was about to do the same he stopped the referee. It's not that I wanted Charizard to lose, it's just that this sound too bad. I mean, just let Articuno fall first and Charizard win...
BF is truly the amazing season, it was big part of Ash character development and Ash Vs Brandon was the best battle in anipoke before Ash Vs Paul happened.
9:21 this makes me wish the episode involving lucy was a 2 parter. have her befriend the gang (and brock) first, dealing with team rocket shenanigans AND THEN second episode we focus on her battle with ash
The idea of Charizard losing to a dusclops yet mid-high difficulty beats Articuno is disturbing for me. Maybe that Articuno isn't strong as Brandon's team but damn lol
7:39 lol that's the only reason why I was hating max because of him Brock and Lucy never became a thing but I kinda forgive him now because I ship Brock and Olivia more
@@SainaBidi the good news is he isn't in the anime since 2005 so he has 15 years who he is missing lol so we are safe from him expect if the writers will decide bring him back to battle ash 😂
@@oresti9271 i respect your ship but i prefer lucy and brock (then again i can't say that much given i didn't watch that part of alola (because i as waitin for dub but in my country it had a weird schedule, and long story short, i missed everything but come back just in time for alola league))
Thanks for this. The battle frontier season was the only season that I for some reason never got to see. So, this was really helpful and interesting to see.
At first when I saw the thumbnail I knew it was going to be a joke but I didn't expect to be a battle frontier review which was awesome to be honest I'm definitely going to re-watch the battle frontier saga cuz of how awesome it was!!!!!
Oh I see. Now,I really need to talk about Lucy in my future expectations. I talked about her once before but it’s not a priority unlike what I will install for her in the future.
I know Torkoal suck but you think Heracross will done any better? In whole anime Heracross only win 1 important match (2 if you count random trainer Scizor) before sinnoh league, He lost against Spenser's Venasaur and it was Solar beam.
Well to be fair Ash's heracross didn't have to much time to shine he just deposited heracross to proffesor oak in the episode who jessie got wobbuffet and then he didn't used him again since the johto League it's not like his Goodra noivern or torterra I mean Goodra returned for the league and I believe didn't won once a d the only noiverns wins who I know it's against Clemonts bunnelby in the beginning of one of the kalos movies also did torterra ever won something as torterra?
@@oresti9271 I'm just saying Heracross won't make any difference, no way Ash would win against Registeel with Heracross. Heracross beat megmar with type disadvantage and Nando ace than everyone putting him with pokemons like Krookodile and Lycanroc who show much stronger feats.
For everyone asking me to review the gym battles.
I have: ua-cam.com/video/xkPlbsPPFao/v-deo.html
Lumiose Trainer Zac hi love your vids keep it up 👍 especially in this time
Je hee is richt
So when are you going to change the title
@@IJN_Shinano_AL wat? Typ goed ofzo 😂
Make a video review all ash rival pokemon
I love how Ash beating Brandon was a big point of contention in the Ash/Paul rivalry
I didn't realize, but now that I think about it, Paul becomes a bit less of a jerk after he finds this out iirc.
I thought Brandon was his Father. Just like how we later learned that Barry's Father is a Frontier Brain as well in Sinnoh.
Not his father but Brandon did beat both Paul and his Brother Reggie. The battle with Paul being one of my favorites in the entire series. Damn Sinnoh was good.
Ash got it easy battling Brandon in the 3 time. Brandon didn't use all 3 Regi on ash, not like when he battle paul
Ash be like you got 6-0ed by Brandon while I beat him using a squirtle and a bulbasaur
6:08
To be fair, this was actually one of Team Rocket's better schemes.
I loved this arc as a kid! This was the perfect transition from the Hoenn League, and the perfect transition into the Sinnoh series! Thanks for doing this Zac. Can’t wait for the actual Galar League.
The end of the battle frontier arc was teasing sinnoh like crazy lol we got a filler episode with chatot then the next filler episode was about weavile I remember those 2 episodes because I saw them recently lol 😂
Yes jt was perfect would’ve been better if they kept his original voice i remember watching the episode where charizard first reappeared it was still ash’s original voice then i think that next episode or like 2 later his voice just changed like BOOM i was like who df is this🤣🤣
Well this aged badly.
@@leonglitch how it was still a great transitional season one of the best seasons in the entire franchise lol
To this day the battle frontier season is still one of my absolute fav seasons of Pokémon! It did so many things right with the battles, adapting the battle frontier to the anime, and bringing back old Pokémon for nostalgia and Fan service but in the best way possible. This same strategy is applied to the Sinnoh league with added strategy and makes it feel like a battle frontier 2.0. It still holds up and definitely was my fav season of Pokémon before DP came along. And the music throughout Hoenn made it even better! Great review man! Now it’s time to watch the Alola league review. Yeah I know, mad late watching it. 😅😅
Do you like the review?
pokemon fan I loved the review!
@@ChampionBlaze yea me too!
pokemon fan awesome!
@@ChampionBlaze yea though i liked the battle frontier a lot as well.also your videos are awesome
Okay, that title is a great April Fool's joke.
Edit: Now it says Battle Frontier. Originally, it said Galar League.
And First of all. In Galar there is no League, but a World Championship.
Alexandra Pagan there could be tho. We still don’t know yet :))
I think Ash won’t win the world championship. But I think he can win the league
Alexandra Pagan there is but dande/Leon won that and then won the world championship too.
Alexandra Pagan congrats you found the joke
Ikr
When I saw Galar league I was ready to comment uh this haven’t happened at all yet
Then I remembered you did this last year fooling people with the Sinnoh league review with the orange island league review
JC Gam1ng figured maybe he was going to review the Alola league again but with dub clips.
saiyan 4414 if he did then it’s gonna be worse than the OG Japanese dub I just finished watching that league dub and omg I couldn’t handle guardian of Alola vs 10 million bolt thunderbolt
JC Gam1ng yeah true
Me: *sees* *title*
Also me: *am* *confusion*
Me: *sees* *date*
Also me: *nods* *in* *understanding*
@@zainmunawar4807 The original title and thumbnail said "Galar league" review and showed Ash and Leon. It was Zacs April fools prank for the year
This was super nostalgic, and one of my favorite eras of the anime. I wish they would showcase more post game content in the anime. Also I think it would be cool to go back and do the style anime review for each of the movies! We have lots of time on our hands lol.
Arceus Christ, how many times has Ash been possessed and "killed"?
Holy s- that's quite a lot of likes, thx guys!
*Too many*
Well up to that point he's only being possessed & killed once.
@@MSCLeap75 The Ghost tower in Kanto and Metwo Strikes Back, yes it counts.
@@valydendor4472 Would you really count Ghost tower tho? Since he was really just unconscious from the fall of the chandelier until the ghost pokemon pulled his soul from his body and then later he just simply jumped back in his body like it was nothing.
@@MSCLeap75 A chandelier fell on him and he got electrocuted right after. The way the ghost types reacted when they didn't respond, minus Haunter, was that of worry. I'm confident in saying that they died for at least a little while.
I think Brandon tests all his challengers by being very brash at first. He does this to weed out those fall short and give up vs. those who truly want to be a master of the Battle Frontier. Look at Sinnoh where Reggie mentioned that Brandon eviscerated him even though like Ash, he had gone through the other leagues.
The Battle Frontier arc was awesome. It was one of my first introductions to the pokemon anime. I was really disappointed to find out that there was a Battle Frontier in the Diamond and Peral games and Ash didn't particapte in it. I really hope Ash particaptes in the Sinnoh Battle Frontier arc for the new series. Plus it would be a great way to introduce the upcoming Diamond and Pearl remakes
That WOULD be interesting. It could even be a location of the World Championships.
Wait that's genius
Please review the Grand Festival/Showcase arcs as they're kinda like Pokemon Leagues except for the PokeGirls.
I second that. I'd love to see a review for those.
That will be awesome
I third this.
I fourth this
I fifth this.
I’m so glad Ash won the Galar league!1!2!2
ThePokéRaf Let’s go now I know ash brought back the original trio including pikachu in galar! Let’s go he’s even wearing the advanced series clothes! What a throwback!
RuvaRoyale - Gaming yea but the quality seems a bit weird
That’s the battle front.....oh wait nvm
Bruh,we don't know if he won the league or not.
@@priscillamendoza946 OOOOOOH!ok.
We need Ash to use his old ‘mons in the New Series!
I could make a whole list of greats mons he could bring back to not only give them more screen time, but also time for some of them to finally evolve.
Gible
Sceptile
Krokodile
Noivern
Gliscor
Glalie
Snivy
Talonflame
Haracross
Corphish
Scraggy
I could go on for days!
@Isaac Stevenson
I’ll go on for ya.
Torkoal
Torterra
Donphan
Noctowl
Unfezant
Muk
Tauros
Boldore
Palpitoad
Leavanny
S. Wu maybe not Unfezant and Palpatiad because I honestly don’t see hope for them anymore, but I 💯 agree with everything else.
@Firestorm Soldier
No, I don’t watch Ninjago. Why do you ask?
@@isaacstevenson2960 where is snorlax
Zac: Annabel's ability sounds familiar but I can't exactly remember why...
**Shows silhouette of N even though N wasnt even close to being conceived before then*
I just love these little moments XD
My favorite moment of Ash v. Brandon #3 is when Pikachu uses 2 Iron Tails in a row. Back when Pikachu was just learning Iron Tail, it actually was physically incapable of doing so, so the fact that Pikachu started off only being able to do one Iron Tail, to being able to do 2 in a row was amazing. It just goes to show how far both Ash AND Pikachu have come since starting out.
8:41 didn't you said Buizel Vs Lucario was the first Fast pace battle in Pokemon anime.
He said that was the one to be on par with the Kalos League battles in terms of pacing.
@@ethnictendo nah he meang that this start with fast pace action in Pokemon anime which we seen even better in future and give Kalos league battle as example.
Great video. Battle Frontier was one of the most impressive arcs in my opinion, and the one, which saved AG for me from boredom. Still salty, that Sinnoh Battle Frontier didn`t get a proper treatment, like Hoenn one.
I taught the battle frontier ash defeated was the kanto one ,no ?!!
Umm, it was Kanto Battle Frontier
Nobody gonna mention how the 4th Hokage is just chilling at the Battle Tower as referee for Anabel?
I still find it hilarious that Annabel has a Canon Crush on Ash and he was oblivious to the whole thing
And that’s news? This was done numerous times, notably with Serena. Yes, she’s controversial to shippers, but she’s still an example.
I like how one of the only times Ash showed interest in a girl was with that one Lass back in the Indigo League.
@@TrinityCore60 it was one of the first times it was done in the anime
Montecristo Smith That was a case of the first episode weirdness trope where the writers were still trying to figure out Ash’s character. He never showed any interest in a relationship after that episode.
@@montecristosmith2343 that was before Ash became who he is. but still impressive
13:04 this and the other possession in the hoopa movie gave fans an opportunity to play around with the whole “evil version” of the character
It's so 2000s edgy though, like I can picture perfectly those amvs with animal i have become
The Battle Frontier... the only region where Ash actually moves up levels and we legitimately see his progression live as it’s happening. Also, the Battle Frontier, up to that point, was the most accurate game-to-screen anime season we’d gotten
Even though the location of the Frontier changes between regions.
Ash’s battle style isn’t actually that unpredictable. He’s just an opportunist. Also I don’t mind charizard loosing in episode 10, but if they’re going to Include dusclops’ immunity to seismic toss, why was dusclops able to hurt him with will-o-wisp.
For some reason Will-o-Wisp was considered as an offensive move lol
Will o wisp was an offensive move until gen 6
This arc was epic and the peak of Ash Ketchum as trainer (until Ash vs Kukui), he beat the 7 Frontier brains who are as strong as E4 members and defeated 2 legendaries in 1 vs 1, it was the best way to end the advanced generation series
Tbh, I don't know why Brandon is said to be that strong because I could see him being a champion. I'd say if he was a champion he would be just below Leon, Ash, and Cynthia considering he barely lost to Ash and he didn't use two of his legendaries when Ash beat him. Now sure, Ash is stronger and would smoke him if he used his strongest Pokémon but I still could see him destroying Lance, Steven, Iris, and Diantha tbh. Alain would give him a challenge and might beat him but I'd say he would be behind only the ones I mentioned.
After the Twitch marathon, I fell in love with both Sinnoh and Kalos. I kinda forgot just how good Battle Frontier was. Thanks for bringing the memories back!
Ikr! kalos is the best and then sinnoh right after
@@Its_Argo agreed 🔥
Noland: I remember thinking OMG Charizard learned Blast Burn! Then was disappointed that it was only Overheat (that 'missed' due to Water Pulse)...
Greta: Ash didn't use Swellow or Noctowl instead of Grovyle because...
Tucker: Ok, giving Ash PROPS because the intro before the battle was EPICCCC! Great combos in the match, BUT let's be real; Ash had no business winning with Swellow and Corphish HAHA Swampert used like 5 moves so I guess that's karma from Snorlax using 6 before! Ash's team didn't even land an attack on their opponents aside from when they used Aerial Ace and Crabhammer to win! Correct me if I'm wrong but aside from those finishing blows, the only other time Arcanine and Swampert took damage was when they accidentally rammed into each other when Swellow sped up Double Team with Quick Attack! The water/fire fusion was epic because it was used by May in the Grand Festival and then her and Dawn did it during the D/P series!
Lucy: You said everything I was thinking about this match in your video!
Spenser: Overall, solid battle! Great to see Heracross again!
Anabel: Alakazam was so annoying/strong! Geez if Corphish had evolved it would've done great in that battle (even better than it did). Not sure why you'd ever teach Focus Punch to an Alakazam...Anabel's whole 'talking' to Pokemon thing reminded me of Spenser's Battle Area in the games where your Pokemon will 'battle for themselves' and it all comes down to their natures determining defense vs offensive moments. Interesting stuff!
Brandon: 1st match was trash.....2nd match was actually GOOD! Why not use Donphan? Immune to Zap Cannon, not effected by Sandstorm so the only thing Registeel could do is Lock on for Metal Claw, BUT Donphan's rolling speed would EASILY make it much faster than Registeel! Not to mention it knew Earthquake as a Phanphy! 3rd battle...Ash's "OH NO I FORGOT!" when Seismic Toss was used on a Ghost type...I'll never forget that OR when Pikachu took out a FULLY RESTORED Regice (thanks to Rest) with a Volt Tackle...the ref didn't even see if it could still battle. It was slammed against the wall and like 2 seconds later; REGICE IS UNABLE TO BATTLE PIKACHU IS THE WINNER! Bro...too bad Hala wasn't there to call out that b.s. nonsense!
Great video!
For the 2nd battle with Brandon, Donphan could’ve use Earthquake because the anime banned it. And I don’t think that Donphan can learn any other ground type attacks.
@@davidanthonymercado7064 Just checked Gen 3 moveset and dang...aside from Fissure that was the ONLY Ground move it could learn...that stinks oh or Mud Slap haha
Ash don't know about Registeel moveset and Fire type resist steel type attack, also Earthquake, magnitude and fissure moves are banned since whiscash earthquake Episode.
Me in the distance: I STILL DON'T COUNT THE FIRST BATTLE WITH BRANDON AS AN OFFICIAL BATTLE ASH WAS JUST POSSESSED
who watches just for gym battles I’ll help you
Nolan 1:00
Grenne 2:47
Tucker 4:21
Lucy 6:08
Spencer 7:54
Anabell 9:13
Rune 12:20
Another battle 14:27
Last Brendan battle 16:13
countinue 18:10
Just when I thought we’d scene the end of these great reviews thanks Zac! Someone already asked this but it would be really cool to see you review mays hoenn and kanto contests along with dawn’s sinnoh contest journey
2 things i wanna say
1. Hoenn had overall bad animation, even johto's was better
2. I wish you would've talked about the final battle of this season Ash vs Gary, Gary himself pointed out Ash's flaw, getting cocky because he won the frontier brains
I hated the original animation. When they would jump or hit, they'd just put a coloured background. That's kinda lazy and you
Pokémon fan
@@meaganh637 ¿
@@xhale671 cause your Karen of course.
They really went up on the Battle Animation Budget this Season because the Contest Battles were awesome as well. Also it was the first Season I watched in Japanese.
It's so Criminal that we never got a New Battle Frontier Series. I really thought Ash was going to that Northeastern Island of Sinnoh to challenge it like in Platinum or Back to Johto.
The battle was and is still one of my favorite moments in the anime it was just awesome to see ash use so many pokemon and every battle felt unique
Great review and a nice look at how the Battle Frontier was used to help Ash grow strategically and show off all his bonds with his Pokemon and how they've all changed since their first meetings.
Brandon isn’t Iris dad.. he’s Clearly Paul’s dad
Real
I remember watching this in the morning whilst brushing my teeth and having breakfast before school
When I saw the Galar League title and the length of the video, I thought he was going to make a story up for an entire league for a second. That’d be kinda hilarious actually
When I saw Galar league review, i knew it was April fools time
I already knew before he judge .
When I saw I thought(nice try Zac but I’m not falling for it this time)
And you can't call it the Galar league,its the world championship.
I get that Ash nowadays, when he goes to a new region, wants to give his new pokemon a chance. But I would appreciate if Ash would bring back some of his old pokemon again, like he di in johto, hoenn and sinnoh. It would be cool to see his Kanto pokemon, Greeninja, Infenape and Krookodile return for future battles in the Masters 8 in particular.
Yeah for the leagues it would work for me but for like the gym stuff or anything else like that it doesn’t work for me
And THIS is why you are my favorite poketuber. Thanks for another great video zac!
I kinda understand Brandon's atitude in Battling the Enemy Within. Ash's arrogance led to him being possessed and basically almost _kill_ the referee in their first match. Ash _is_ to blame here.
But what I never understood is how he tells Ash for being arrogant, and yet when he faces Paul he praises his battle skills. Pretty much being oblivious to Paul's abuse towards his Pokémon.
I'd love to see Grand Festival reviews, as well as one for the Wallace Cup arc in Diamond and Pearl. I love your content, btw. Keep it up!
Please review contests and the Grand Festivals next!! We got to see the growth of May and Dawn throughout these episodes and contests were a nice twist to traditional gym battles!~
I remember the battle frontier back in the day I definitely need to rewatch them indeed :D Great Video Zac Thanks.
7:37 why the hell can’t I stop laughing?! Easily one of this channel’s funniest bits!
Max was a hell of an annoyance.
Hey Zac! Love your videos man!! Idk if this is something you'd even consider but you should definitely review the grand festivals and multi-arc tournaments (e.g. Wallace Cup, Club Battle/Clubsplosion in B/W, etc.). Your style of reviewing is awesome and I think it would be great content!!
I rewatched this and the "alright iris's dad calm down" gets me all the time ngl
All of these April Fool jokes got me dissecting every damn video lol I'm so glad this is actually an interesting and surely entertaining video. AG was actually my favorite series before SM took the number 1 spot so this video is a real treat!
One line that I think deserves more recognition is before Ash vs. Brandon (second rematch). Scott said that the stronger you get, the stronger your opponents will be.
I think that statement aged like fine wine.
Another April Fool's. You had me for a moment.
The Battle Frontier arc had one of the best battles in the series and truly show Ash's growth in battling, however I remember not liking it as much because of the voice changes and getting annoyed at Team Rockets typical antics of getting in Ash's way. Looking back at it now, this arc was really great for Ash.
Remember, everyone: The battle frontier was said to be as strong as the elite four.
Hell Brandon easily could've been a champion.
@@TRevelationP if they were, ash could be a champion.
Sabahat Fatima but he dint use his full team of legends that would be pretty cool Stephen vs Brandon like maybe he caught regigigas and used it to fight metagross
perhaps that is confirmed in pokemon coronation
I think Brandon is the only one who is at E4 level.
'I think you forgot to include the episode "Numero Uno Articuno", The episode before he decides to challenge Articuno, and call his Charizard.
Did you think all eight seasons were aired on Kids' WB?
I rlly enjoy ur reviews they be making me laugh so hard 😂😭
Haven’t watched the video but betting its April fools.
The Lamb Sauce nah its Battle frontier
This is my favourite arc... remember coming back from school and watchin these episodes from 4pm and onwards.. felt like a trip to a wonderland.
Well to be fair the reason Charizard lost to dusclops was because ash commanded Charizard to use seismic toss while that sh*t head forgot it doesn't have any effect on dusclops because it's a ghost type so basically Charizard siesmic tossed him self
Nice try Zac. Ya got me last April Fool’s but I didn’t fall for it this time. But still, thanks for this awesome review of this awesome installment of the franchise. Some of your best work yet.
Hey, I don’t know about anyone else, but I actually dig Abilityshipping
It's so underrated 😔
@@Qelfi.Z agreed
Yes
Dude I can’t believe ash use only Charizard and nothing else and one shot everything Caught 5 more
You have Ash confused with Leon
vaporterra no
Jate 9880 The only thing Ash catches multiple of is Tauros :)
vaporterra it was a joke
Here’s a good idea for ya zac!!! I hope this helps. Maybe review every caught Pokémon by ash in the region. Like review the episode he caught the Pokémon in and if you think he should have caught it or maybe something else. Or review every rival battle for each generation in the anime except the Pokémon league battles. Like in kalos with the battles with sawyer before his league battle. Just an idea!! If you use it please do a shout-out appreciate it !
Great video as usual, Zac. In case it has not been recommended yet, you should review all of Ash' s gym leader battles, May and Dawn's contest performances, and some of the rival battles.
I know this is an April fools video but I still want to watch anyway.
Brandon is one of my favorite pokemon characters in history, just because he recurrently tells Ash "NOOOOOOO" and honestly, it just really feels satisfying to me to see someone just completely deny him that way.
I want to tell Ash "NOOOO" every time he wins by using an electric attack on a ground type. Way. Too. Often.
Will you rename the video afterwards or you'll let it stick? Coz you'll make Galar League review eventually, assuming we all don't die of Covid-19.
He already renamed it
Here's a suggestiong. In the future, perhaps you could review the Whirl Cup, the water type competition that both Ash and Misty participated in, if you haven't already. It extends from episodes 215 to 217.
“ If you can go toe to toe with a pseudo, then you’re pretty good.”
Does that mean Noivern doesn’t really suck because he did tie with Sawyers Salamance.
David Anthony Mercado Noivern never sucked. Ash just kept pitting it against bad matchups (Alain’s Weavile for example).
@@jjveliz10 Noivern was like Kalos' Torkoal or Torterra. they deserved bettter
@@ianr.navahuber2195 yeah
Man I used to watch all the other ones and he finally uploaded another one when I'm done even like Pokemon that much anymore 😂😭
Me reading title: *dafuq?!*
Me remembering it's April 1st: oh right
Btw the only thing that piss me off of Charizard vs Articuno is that Brian when Charizard was losing but Articuno was about to do the same he stopped the referee.
It's not that I wanted Charizard to lose, it's just that this sound too bad. I mean, just let Articuno fall first and Charizard win...
When you remember that there is still the tournaments in diamond and pearl and black and white. So zac can keep doing this
I don't understand Ash's obsession with Torkoal. He brought it when he faced Darkrai too. FUCKING DARKRAI.
This was wayy better then the whole masters 8 very underrated
Torkoal did it’s best fam
It doesn’t suck it was raised with love
it does but alright
Ash vs spenser, ash vs noland and 3rd ash vs brandon are great battles; they are some of the best battles of the entire pokemon anime
9:43 I definitely ship N and Anabel. AbilityShipping is one of the better Ash ships to be sure, but you can’t defeat AmourShipping.
BF is truly the amazing season, it was big part of Ash character development and Ash Vs Brandon was the best battle in anipoke before Ash Vs Paul happened.
Even though torkoal is a bad pokemon, it put a good fight against Reggie steel And is at least better then stupid Unfent and goodra!
9:21 this makes me wish the episode involving lucy was a 2 parter. have her befriend the gang (and brock) first, dealing with team rocket shenanigans AND THEN second episode we focus on her battle with ash
When I saw the notification I just went in the vid who else did?
The idea of Charizard losing to a dusclops yet mid-high difficulty beats Articuno is disturbing for me. Maybe that Articuno isn't strong as Brandon's team but damn lol
7:39 lol that's the only reason why I was hating max because of him Brock and Lucy never became a thing but I kinda forgive him now because I ship Brock and Olivia more
Yeah max sucks boy seriously he's really annoying
@@SainaBidi the good news is he isn't in the anime since 2005 so he has 15 years who he is missing lol so we are safe from him expect if the writers will decide bring him back to battle ash 😂
@@oresti9271 lol max 15 years
Ash still 10 years 😂😂😂
@@SainaBidi lmao that's true 😂
@@oresti9271 i respect your ship but i prefer lucy and brock
(then again i can't say that much given i didn't watch that part of alola (because i as waitin for dub but in my country it had a weird schedule, and long story short, i missed everything but come back just in time for alola league))
Thanks for this. The battle frontier season was the only season that I for some reason never got to see. So, this was really helpful and interesting to see.
Me: *watching tower of god anime; sees galar league review notification* cool
also me: chotto matte
This is great, keep them coming
Annabelle: telepathic with mons
Me: lafs in Ash Greninja
GREAT... and I mean.... GRREEEAAT video bro🔥🔥🔥.... I screamed at Torkoal's voice @15:25😂😂😂😂😂
Pure genius
Holy cow, has it really been a year since your last april fools day review when you did the Oranga Islands instead of Sinnoh?
4:10-6:30
That Tucker battle was action packed
At first when I saw the thumbnail I knew it was going to be a joke but I didn't expect to be a battle frontier review which was awesome to be honest I'm definitely going to re-watch the battle frontier saga cuz of how awesome it was!!!!!
Love you Zac. You doing good for the comunity. Really enjoy your videos. Keep making that awesome content. 👍🏾
Battle Frontier: Will have Ash beat Articuno with one Pokemon.
SinnohLeauge: He cannot beat Darkrai until he has lost at least 3 Pokemon.
and beat regice with only one pokemon too
His team sucked against Tobias Gibble and torkoal were really a bad choice
Oh I see. Now,I really need to talk about Lucy in my future expectations. I talked about her once before but it’s not a priority unlike what I will install for her in the future.
Battle frontier is one of the best seasons of the Anime
The battle against Greta will always be my favorite. Snorlax was so awesome, he was battling Fighting-types, bro.
Wow so funny 😂 you really got me bro I was actually confused
My favourite moment was when Charizard came back to fight Articuno
I know Torkoal suck but you think Heracross will done any better? In whole anime Heracross only win 1 important match (2 if you count random trainer Scizor) before sinnoh league, He lost against Spenser's Venasaur and it was Solar beam.
Yeah I'm sure Heracross won't make any difference.
Well to be fair Ash's heracross didn't have to much time to shine he just deposited heracross to proffesor oak in the episode who jessie got wobbuffet and then he didn't used him again since the johto League it's not like his Goodra noivern or torterra I mean Goodra returned for the league and I believe didn't won once a d the only noiverns wins who I know it's against Clemonts bunnelby in the beginning of one of the kalos movies also did torterra ever won something as torterra?
@@oresti9271 I'm just saying Heracross won't make any difference, no way Ash would win against Registeel with Heracross. Heracross beat megmar with type disadvantage and Nando ace than everyone putting him with pokemons like Krookodile and Lycanroc who show much stronger feats.
@@inamdaryasin okay that's true
Can you review the contest battles???? I really love them!
Haven't watched the vid yet.
IK THIS IS APRIL FOOLS.
I really like the way you set up this video. From a joke to an epic nostalgia trip 👍