Overall, this was a great episode and a good starting point for XY and Z.This list comprise of Pokemon who needs a special evolution conditions in order to evolve. 'I don't want her to cry anymore' would've sounded better. Alain's rage was understandable, but like I said before, his voice sounded odd. I really want to know more about it and just what it exactly did to Chespie. This show is bent on these characters crying.

If he has to mega evolve it for every fight, why not keep it mega evolved throughout the tournament? Seeing all the mega evolutions was neat, although I can't help but wonder if Alain said the whole 'beyond evolution, mega evolve' thing every time he mega evolved Charizard. Versus Ash's Goodra who would take HUGE damage and NOT be healed at all. Some folks say that his Charizard was overpowered, but Alain WAS healing him after the matches. Props to him being one of the few trainers to use healing items during battle in this show. This was a pretty good episode, but Alain's voice acting made it a little rough. While I do generally like Ash, I hope that they make more specials featuring other characters like this in the future as well. Plus, it was just neat to have new Pokemon content the day after Christmas. The battles were intense and I think that the ending with the Zygarde Core does help to lead into the next arc of the anime. It wasn't as big of an ending to the Mega Evolution specials as I thought it was going to be, but it was still pretty good. It was sweet that he wanted to help save Chespin and make Marin smile again, even though it seems it will just allow for Lysandre to manipulate and lie to Alain even more. I thought that Alain would talk to Professor Sycamore again, but he was too angry and just wanted to help Marin. I liked that Steven was trying to comfort Marin and Professor Sycamore showing up was a surprise too. It might have been from how the Zygarde Core called out to it or the machine that was trying to force them to merge together was affecting Chespin too. It was pretty neat that it rescued the Zygarde Core, although I don't know how it got a fever. I realized that they needed Chespin out for the plot, but it seemed it would have made more sense for Marin to do that instead of letting Chespin run off on its own. Although, I don't know why she didn't just call back her Chespin when she was crying. While I don't think that she has gotten much stronger during her travels with Alain, it's clear that they both care about each other. It just caught me by surprised and definitely made Alain and his Charizard ridiculously strong. It was still a cool battle and it didn't feel forced.

I actually thought that Alain was going to lose his Key Stone and Mega Stone due to the bet he made and facing an Elite 4 member made that more likely. Not only did Alain beat Malva, but he defeated her Mega Houndoom. Whenever an Elite 4 member shows up, they're always depicted as incredibly strong and unbeatable to anyone besides other Elite 4 trainers or the Champion. I agree that beating ten Mega Pokemon in a row does make them too overpowered, especially when I think Alain is the first regular trainer to beat an Elite 4 member in the show. The attacks looked more intense and Alain was being smart with using items to help heal Charizard in-between battles.

Going back to Alain battling Mega Evolution trainers after the last two specials had a bit more than that was a bit disappointing, but the battles were still pretty cool. I thought that this special was pretty good.

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