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Her design is based on the ace trainer from XY. I think she looks super cool and would've made a great rival to Ash. However, her appearances are minor. She debuted in the pokemon XY specials, where she battles Alain, but loses. Then she battles Ash in Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction and defeats him. Later on she faces Ash again, this time at the pokemon league, but their battle is mostly cut and we only get to see Hawlucha dealing the final blow against her Absol. It was still cool that she got a couple of appearances, her only known pokemon are Absol, Meowstic and Pyroar.

So on Twitter there's been a video going around that some guy made in which he used AI to "fix" the Ash vs Alain fight which the video its self was garbage AI slop that nobody really tolerated,but its brought back the discourse of this fight in particular and a lot unfortunate greninja slander. Grenninja slander isn't really new but I feel the need to push back some of these slanderist points because they are ridiculous.

I know a lot of people might not like to hear this but Ash losing made perfect sense. Now before you get mad I just wanna say that Pokemon Xyz is my favorite of the Pokemon anime,some might even call me an xy glazer,so just know that this isn't coming from a hater or anything,and trust me when this episode came out I was furious as a kid but as time has gone on and as I've grow up and apon many rewatches I've realized that Ash losing made perfect sense in both the narrative and the just in terms of powerscaling. To explain why it made sense let's look at Alain's feats

Alain has fought a Zygarde at 50% power and was the reason team flare even caught the thing

He also fought against a mega raquaza,primal kyogre and primal Groudon in which he was keeping pace with them

This goes to show just the experience Alain's charizard has in comparison to greninja.

But the fact that Alain had that much experience over greninja and greninja still was able to match him was insane and proves that greninja was a beast despite what people nowadays say whare they say stuff like greninja got three tapped even though thats not how that works. Like its only a three tap if charizard hit greninja three times in a row and knocked him out but no charizard hit greninja at three separate times in the fight so it doesn't count as a three tap. People also like to ignore that fact that one of the big reasons those three attacks were so effective was because ash also feels the same pain when fighting in the form and ash is a ten year old kid so its actually kinda of impressive that he was able to take that. Going back and watching the fight it was very still close,again despite what SOME people in the pokemon anime Fandom say to try and make it seem like Ash greninja had no chance or wasn't as powerful don't listen to those clowns the people who say that usually have the worst takes on pokemon xy anyway.

In terms of the narrative reason why it made sense was to show how Ash as grown to healthily take a loss. After Ashes fight with Wolfric he takes his loss really badly and goes to sulc in the forest for hours which Serena eventually gave him the wake up call he needed which allowed ash to actually master the Ash Greninja transformation and this loss was imo to show how Ash has learned to take a loss in a healthy way which is why he smiles and goes over to shake Alain's hand. Ash obviously wanted to win,but Ash also just loves to battle and it shows winning isn't everything and that this just more experience under Ashes belt which then transfers over to Sun and Moon where he does win,which this goes back to what Ash told Serena when they were in that ditch whiches that nothing you do is a waste of time meaning the loss wasn't for nothing.

Hello people, I have returned, for what? for this

And if you don't know then here is the "rebirth" version

Not ringing a bell? Well my fellow humans, this is Alain, a character in Pokmeon XYZ, plus Journeys. And he is the perfect boy to inflect so many ao3 tags you have no idea.

If you know him, good job, your get a gold star sticker.

If you don't, get to know him.

sketched some guys that i like, might finish these at a later date idk