Yeah, I almost forgot about the GS Ball, good point.
Anyway, Ash really could pay his bulbasaur a visit (very personal point of view, I like bulbasaur, ok?), perhaps stop ignoring all those beautiful dragons out there and capture one, get his primeape back (simply for team balancing) and Max could catch a freakin' pokemon so he'd stop being absolutely useless.
They could and should make an episode about gary and umbreon, but a decent one. It'd be fine in the chronicles, less ash suits me fine.
Finally, brock could evolve mudkip into Swampert (I know some ppl here would just love that...
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That's about it, though, 'cause pikachu'll never evolve... damn.
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. Pikachu should have a kid (weird huh?) that is a pichu. Ash should go out with may, they like each other.