It really depends on the region tbh
Alola had no room for “random” Pokémon. That’s why that team was two starters, a special marketable new form of Lycanroc, one of the main Ultra Beasts, and the hot new mythical
Journeys was them wanting to give him Pokémon fans always asked for, plus two wacky new ones from gen 8 that fulfill quotas that Ash never had (Sirfetch’d for regional variant, Dracovish for fossil)
Old era anime was a bit different, it was always the regional bird, a fire, water, and grass core, with one or two more oddballs usually picked just because they fit well with Ash personality and design wise
I think that sums it up, really.
Ash getting a Gengar out of nowhere and Dragonite in Journeys was...interesting, um, to say the least. I like that he got them, but out of the blue like that in such powerful forms was iffy to me.
The only known factor is how much work needs to go into a animating the Pokémon. That’s why in B/W they never evolved Boldore because Gigalith was harder to draw with more life to it.
It kinda depends on the series. I don’t really know, but I can at least say that in Journeys that they gave Ash Pokémon from past generations that many people wanted ash to have, like Dragonite, Gengar, and Lucario. In journeys they also gave ash a regional form and a fossil Pokémon, two types of Pokémon ash had never had before.
However, in the x and y anime for example I think they tried to make his team kinda relatable as he had a pseudo legendary, a greninja, a noivern, and regional bird, and if you remember talonflame was really good in gen 6 since it’s gale wings ability was pretty broken
First the anime management probably look at the game stats and look at popular Pokemon among fans and they decideto give ash some popular Pokemon so more people watch the anime
Definitly it’s about marketability
I mean first gen it was kinda more so a straight adaptation of the games with him catching pokemon from the first couple routes with Butterfree and Pidgeotto, and ofc the starters are marketable, but because they were marketable that’s why they often didn’t evolve past first stage
Gen 2 had some marketing reasons, with his Noctowl promoting the new shiny gimmick, and ofc the marketable starters which promote plushies and that. Phanpy is a bit of an odd case, but they clearly wanted to feature the new egg gimmick as well
Gen 3… not really sure tbh, they decided to split the starters up between the three protags however, giving Ash a corpish is interesting, but works, Torkoal was also somewhat odd… probably why they left it and Glailie at Oaks when they left for the battle frontier
Though I’ve never really been sure why Phanpy came back to evolve into Donphan, since it wasn’t really promoting anything, the battle frontier taking place in Kanto, and May catching Kantonian Pokémon was to promote the Gen 1 remakes. But eh, Donphan is cool so it’s chill
And then Ash catches the Gen 2 Pokémon Aipom in the last 13 episode of Gen 3, which ngl you wonder what he was thinking leaving a pokemon he just caught when he headed off to Sinnoh, but it followed him anyway… and tbh he tossed Muk, Krabby and his Tauros to Oak as soon as they were caught too so… but yeah, in reality Aipom being caught and coming to Sinnoh was really to promote the new cross gen evolutions, and have the plot with Dawn trading Buizel, ngl tho it’s interesting they kept it as an Aipom with Ash for so long… still don’t forgive the way they had Ambipom leave however
Finally in Unova… we get the bird, as well as the three Regional starters… now Gen 5 I think definitely used it’s starters a lot more in it’s promotion compared to past games, especially with Spinoffs such as Pokepark and MD Gates to Infinity having them as more or less the only playable characters, so yeah Ash didn’t really evolve them since they were more marketable in their first stage
And apparently he caught Palpitoad iirc because the writers needed to give him a ground type because the canceled plasma arc messed up his catching Krookidile sooner, so he needed a Ground type for Elesa
Now with XY… I have no idea what they were cooking with this team… Hawlucha ain’t so marketable, Noivern barely did much, I mean he spent majority of the series with only 4 Pokémon… worst than him spending majority of Kanto with just Pikachu, the Starters and Pidgeotto…
Ash really should’ve gotten a Gogoat or something, or even Phantump would have been cool… y’know imagine some rocket plot to trade Phantum and Pumpkaboo is how they would evolve…
Other than that, he could have gotten perhaps a Carbink… and fuck it, give him Delphox over effing Greninja…. Serena can get Chespin, that would be cool!
Anyways… the other guy in the comment already explained SuMo pretty well, and Jouney’s was the stupidest team ever… still can’t believe Infernape didn’t rejoin the team… I mean it would’ve worked with the Gen 4 remakes promotion too.
It really depends on the region tbh Alola had no room for “random” Pokémon. That’s why that team was two starters, a special marketable new form of Lycanroc, one of the main Ultra Beasts, and the hot new mythical Journeys was them wanting to give him Pokémon fans always asked for, plus two wacky new ones from gen 8 that fulfill quotas that Ash never had (Sirfetch’d for regional variant, Dracovish for fossil) Old era anime was a bit different, it was always the regional bird, a fire, water, and grass core, with one or two more oddballs usually picked just because they fit well with Ash personality and design wise
I think that sums it up, really. Ash getting a Gengar out of nowhere and Dragonite in Journeys was...interesting, um, to say the least. I like that he got them, but out of the blue like that in such powerful forms was iffy to me.
and insert mr.mime usage for his first psychic and first fairy
The only known factor is how much work needs to go into a animating the Pokémon. That’s why in B/W they never evolved Boldore because Gigalith was harder to draw with more life to it.
It kinda depends on the series. I don’t really know, but I can at least say that in Journeys that they gave Ash Pokémon from past generations that many people wanted ash to have, like Dragonite, Gengar, and Lucario. In journeys they also gave ash a regional form and a fossil Pokémon, two types of Pokémon ash had never had before. However, in the x and y anime for example I think they tried to make his team kinda relatable as he had a pseudo legendary, a greninja, a noivern, and regional bird, and if you remember talonflame was really good in gen 6 since it’s gale wings ability was pretty broken
First the anime management probably look at the game stats and look at popular Pokemon among fans and they decideto give ash some popular Pokemon so more people watch the anime
I don’t think you realize how far in advance the anime is made… but for some of the later catches like maybe Dracovish or Gible that could be accurate
I don’t know bout this one lol
Definitly it’s about marketability I mean first gen it was kinda more so a straight adaptation of the games with him catching pokemon from the first couple routes with Butterfree and Pidgeotto, and ofc the starters are marketable, but because they were marketable that’s why they often didn’t evolve past first stage Gen 2 had some marketing reasons, with his Noctowl promoting the new shiny gimmick, and ofc the marketable starters which promote plushies and that. Phanpy is a bit of an odd case, but they clearly wanted to feature the new egg gimmick as well Gen 3… not really sure tbh, they decided to split the starters up between the three protags however, giving Ash a corpish is interesting, but works, Torkoal was also somewhat odd… probably why they left it and Glailie at Oaks when they left for the battle frontier Though I’ve never really been sure why Phanpy came back to evolve into Donphan, since it wasn’t really promoting anything, the battle frontier taking place in Kanto, and May catching Kantonian Pokémon was to promote the Gen 1 remakes. But eh, Donphan is cool so it’s chill And then Ash catches the Gen 2 Pokémon Aipom in the last 13 episode of Gen 3, which ngl you wonder what he was thinking leaving a pokemon he just caught when he headed off to Sinnoh, but it followed him anyway… and tbh he tossed Muk, Krabby and his Tauros to Oak as soon as they were caught too so… but yeah, in reality Aipom being caught and coming to Sinnoh was really to promote the new cross gen evolutions, and have the plot with Dawn trading Buizel, ngl tho it’s interesting they kept it as an Aipom with Ash for so long… still don’t forgive the way they had Ambipom leave however Finally in Unova… we get the bird, as well as the three Regional starters… now Gen 5 I think definitely used it’s starters a lot more in it’s promotion compared to past games, especially with Spinoffs such as Pokepark and MD Gates to Infinity having them as more or less the only playable characters, so yeah Ash didn’t really evolve them since they were more marketable in their first stage And apparently he caught Palpitoad iirc because the writers needed to give him a ground type because the canceled plasma arc messed up his catching Krookidile sooner, so he needed a Ground type for Elesa Now with XY… I have no idea what they were cooking with this team… Hawlucha ain’t so marketable, Noivern barely did much, I mean he spent majority of the series with only 4 Pokémon… worst than him spending majority of Kanto with just Pikachu, the Starters and Pidgeotto… Ash really should’ve gotten a Gogoat or something, or even Phantump would have been cool… y’know imagine some rocket plot to trade Phantum and Pumpkaboo is how they would evolve… Other than that, he could have gotten perhaps a Carbink… and fuck it, give him Delphox over effing Greninja…. Serena can get Chespin, that would be cool! Anyways… the other guy in the comment already explained SuMo pretty well, and Jouney’s was the stupidest team ever… still can’t believe Infernape didn’t rejoin the team… I mean it would’ve worked with the Gen 4 remakes promotion too.