Op: gold thoughts.

Nami deserved a gay movie. I dig Carina. She's neat. I also love that she's known as Hellcat??? HELLO??

So when does Brook get to compete in Drag Race huh?????

Zoro looked good being the damsel in distress. Sanji also looked good on fire.

Sabo.... Sabo I have only known you for a short period but I love u already. Even if hearing him say Fire Fist fucking BROKE ME. It was a punch to the GUT I did not anticipate. Ouch.

Crocodile's casino legacy lives on, as it should. But he would have done better than Tesoro.

I love the Franky content. Love him.

ROB. MOTHERFUCKIN. LUCCI. H E L L O. HI. I still hate your new beard but GOD DAMN H E L L O SIR. hOO.

Yeah that's all. Great movie, 8/10 I'm ngl. Next is Stampede, except I gotta. I gotta read a lot before we watch that one bc I KNOW that one has some spoilers that I ain't prepared for.

Gold and pokemon battles (battle strength explained}

So i’ve been thinking a lot about what would happen if Gold were to actually get into a pokemon battle and who would win, Gold or (insert opponent here), and I ended up basing the probability of victory on the #OfficialPokemonTimeline provided by masuda here.

So, each arrow is 2 years pokemon time, Gold started his journey at 12, so hes 18 during sumo time which im assuming is most peoples mainverse. When Gold beat the gyms (and not the pokemon league, because he doesn’t want to do that) golds team were low to mid sixties in approximate level. He then went on to get thoroughly destroyed by Red and go through a whole emotional episode due to the fact that whilst he’d suffered losses, he’d never really been fucked that hard, I won’t go into detail because you can find that on Gold’s Bio but longstory short from about 13 and up Gold was trained personally by Red.

So, Golds approximate strength after that is dependent on how long he’s been training with Red, it took about 6 months before Gold really started dedicating himself to his training and listening to what Red had to say, and he’s rarely actually ON Mt.Silver, Gold’s goal isn’t to be the strongest, just stronger than Red, he’s smart enough to know experiences are their own form of training.

So that leaves about 4 years and 6 months of dedicated training with Red and to defeat him, with intervals to go meet Red personally every 2-3 months, in which the biggest gains were made, so based on this, in game terms levels in each game are as follows: R/B/G/Y/ORAS: Null HGSS/DPP maingame: 50-55 HGSS/DPP postgame: 60-65 Between BW and HGSS/DPP: 68-70 BW:75-80 XY/BW2: 85-88 SUMO: 90 That’s Golds approximate LEVEL in each region with his mainteam. However, levels are boring and I like the anime format better so we’re explaining it differently.

The more Gold trained with Red, the more Gold’s skill as a trainer improved, and in anime terms that means a lot more. For example, round about BW time, Gold realized that Red would always have a plan for whatever move he used and be able to see what move was coming next, so Gold just decided to take full combo’s and give them whole new names, E.G: Thunderwave ---> Power-up punch -----> Thunder punch from ambipom is ‘thunder clap’. As  well as that, his general battle sense has improved, Gold can see attack patterns and has better memorized counter action to specific types that he may be weak to.

In conclusion: it’s around about Black/White that Gold really starts becoming formidable for the average trainer and a nightmare for the bellow average trainer, his overall movepool won’t change unless he’s using entirely different pokemon, but the proficiency he shows in USING that movepool scales up drastically.

It’s also worth noting that unless somebody who would sensibly HAVE a Z-ring/megring and the corresponding crystals/megastones gives him to them IN A THREAD he doesn’t have them. One day though cos I wanna see my boy do the campy Z-move dances.