Top Ten Most Overrated Pokemon Anime Arcs

I'm honestly not a huge fan of XY&Z. Amourshipping was basically forced in order to attract mote fans. No development and too one-sided. Just blushing throughout. I don't hate Serena, but the romance is unnecessary.

Ash-Greninja also came out of the blue to attract more fans and to serve as Ash's deus ex machina. Well, at least it served an importance plot.

I also found Ash bland to be honest. I will accept the fact that he was more competent unlike the idiot from BW, but I feel that he was a bit too positive. At least he had his negative side after Wulfric's battle. Honestly I feel that DP handled competent Ash much better, as he had a motivation other than his usual "never give up" attitude.

The league, while beautifully animated, was rushed.

Team Rocket was very annoying and just the same "steal the twerp's Pikachu" kind of thing.

Alain was interesting in Mega Evolution Special, but when put in the main plot, he was overpowered just to prevent Ash ...more

It seems people only praise Team Flare arc ignoring everything else. There were fillers, some things were rushed, some Pokemon were underdeveloped (looking at you Noivern! Aside from having been a cute baby Pokemon who had a sweet relationship with Hawlucha and Fletchlinder/Talonflame for a few episodes, I'd say Leavanny or Boldore did more than it!) and even some older episodes like those with Hunter J or Team Galactic matched Team Flare arc in my opinion. Also, AmourShipping should've just not existed.

This is actually my favorite one. However, I can see why it would be overrated.

While it had the potential to be great, it felt way too rushed. They tried to condense 23-ish hours of gameplay into 90 minutes, need I say more? It would've worked much better if they took time and made a series with more, longer episodes that would cover the whole game.

Its not better than the anime people. Four episodes. Ten second battles. Pokemon have no personalities whatsoever but in the Anime they do. A Gary Stu Protagonist. No character development. And yes there can be character development in four episodes. The mega evolution special proved that.

Overall the only thing that it has over the overall anime is the protagonist winning the league in my opinion.

This made more red fans. Way to go Game Freak that's just what we needed. NOT!

It had way more potential to be good. It felt more like the Charizard show.

Overrated by genwunners. It had fillers (only had less because it wasn't long), Misty was unbearable, and while some of the 'pity badges' didn't bother me, like the Rainbow Badge that he won from a brave act and somewhat the Marsh Badge for getting Sabrina out of her madness and returning her family back to normal, some felt exaggerated like the Earth Badge that he won by beating Jessie whom he was able to beat in every other episode, or the Boulder Badge, which made some of these badges feel undeserved or Ash feel 'too special'. Aside from TRio (which were very funny except the whole 'scary Jessie' thing), the humour was decent at best. Every single of Misty's gag was annoying, abusive and repetitive (aside from the snarky comments to Brock's flirting, those were sometimes funny), the Jigglypuff was funny but would end up getting stale. Brock's flirting was sometimes funny but did end up getting stale and the only funny part of it was Misty's snarky remarks. It was classic too, maybe ...more

People saying that this was the only good season. Its nice and nostalgic to watch and all, but aside from humor it pales in comparison to the rest. And the rest are funny to in my opinion.

XY was generic.

Generic badge quest.

Generic fillers overloaded with forced shipping and cutesy dressing scenes, I'd rather rewatch the entirety of Johto arc than only one of these fillers, only a few were entertaining like the haunted houses ones for their humor or the Malamar ones, sad that this was dropped...

Generic overall plot, Ash challenges gyms and that's it (not counting XY&Z, again, this is a separate entry).

No evil team, and honestly I don't get why people say they were the best handled. They showed up in a few episodes (only the last season in three seasons is few episodes) and had a climax with former characters coming back... You know who else had this, Team Aqua/Magma except everyone generally agrees that they could've been handled better. Team Flare wasn't that bad, but they should've appeared in the episode where Ash and co were at Ambrette Town (since Glittering Cave didn't appear in the anime). At least, they were better handled than ...more

I have to say though; this series is much better than Origins and Generations combined. It's long and has actual character development.

This is sort of a slap in the face. This series could have been so much more with the right amount of focus. Is it not possible to have two full blown Pokemon animes then?! They completely breezed through blues Pokemon League like ugh I mean.

I like Pokemon Generations, especially the animation and the dark atmosphere.

But everybody seems to hate it though so...

Inb4 "it's nothing but filler! "

Every Pokemon season has filler.

"Team Rocket sucks now! "

They actually defeated ash in this season.

"Ash is a goofball! "

Watch orange islands.

"The new girls suck! Bring back Misty/Serena! "

Not only did Lillie already go through far more character development than Serena already, and I really did love Serena. But she also didn't need over forty episodes in order to be even slightly likeable, unlike both misty and Serena in my opinion!

"The fight scenes are terrible! "

Watch Indigo League. Or even better yet. Watch Origins.

"The Animation Is HELL! "

HAVE YOI EVEN SEEN INDIGO LEAGUE?!

"It's not funny anymore! "

Watch the final Kiawe Scene from episode 13 in my opinion!

"Ash Lost To Team Rocket! Pikachu Is Weak Now! "

But I thought that you wanted Team Rocket to be strong.

"Pikachu best Hariyama! Such BS! "

But I thought that you ...more