Hybrid: 7 Year old Max was Ash’s oddest
and most unique companion at the time of his
debut.
His main role was centered around navigating
the group through the Hoenn region as he was
the holder of the PokeNav, he substituted
for Misty by being the one to ruin all of
Brock’s dreams, but the one thing that made
him more unique than anyone else at the time
was that he was the only protagonist to not
own any Pokemon, as he was too young to be
a trainer.
Despite that Max always had a lot of knowledge
on various different kinds of Pokemon and
was always eager to learn more.
He also has befriended quite a lot of Pokemon
and has even commanded certain Pokemon in
battle.
He’s also made a few promises to certain
Pokemon that he’ll come back for them once
he’s a Pokemon Trainer, but above all, he’s
promised Ash that they’ll have a battle
one day when he becomes a Trainer.
So this raises the question…
When Max is 10 and is ready to take on Ash
in this inevitable battle…
What Pokemon will he bring?
What would Max’s Team Be?
Hybrid: What’s going on guys!
HybridHero here!
I’ve made a team video predicting Lillie’s
team in the games before but I haven’t done
a video like this on Ash’s team or any other
Anime character yet even though I’ve wanted
to do something of the sorts for such a long
time now.
Mainly because most of the protagonists new
and old don’t catch too many Pokemon or
because their teams have already been very
established.
But there are two protagonists in particular
that we can have a lot of fun with speculation,
Max and Bonnie.
And since I don’t know too much about the
latter I decided to make a video trying to
figure out what Max’s Pokemon Team could
be!
But don’t worry as I will be helping cover
a video of what Bonnies team could be over
on Entity Mays Channel!
Oh and did I mention that he’s here to help
out with this video as well?
Mays: What’s going on everyone?
EntityMays here.
And like Hybrid said we’re going to be talking
about what Bonnies team could possibly be
over on my channel, but for now we’re going
to be talking about what Max’s team could
be.
We mainly picked the Pokemon on his team by
looking at the Pokemon Max encountered and
befriended while on his journey with Ash,
May, and Brock, as long as we thought they
were fit enough for battling, as Max does
want to become a Pokemon trainer, and even
beat Ash in a Pokemon battle!
But we also chose some Pokemon that just made
sense for him in other ways that we’ll talk
about as we go along with the video.
For now how about we just jump into this and
get started?
Hybrid: Starting off with the most obvious
Pokemon on this list, we have Gallade.
Now Gallade is the most fitting and obvious
Pokemon for Max for a few reasons.
In the episode “Do I Hear a Ralts?”
Max found a sick ralts that was calling out
to him telepathically, and helped it recovery
from pneumonia.
After Max helped it recover, its family came
for it, but Ralts didn’t want to go and
wanted to stay with Max.
Max then let Ralts go and promised that he
would come back for it once he’s a Pokemon
Trainer.
We know that Ash also promised that he’d
come back for his Pidgeot, but we honestly
believe that the case is different with Max
especially since we don’t really have a
Wally counterpart in the anime.
Some people could argue that the closest counterpart
to Wally that we have in the anime IS Max.
So seeing as how Max has made a promise to
Ralts, and how Wally’s ace Pokemon is a
Gallade, I think it’s fair to say that Max
will end up getting this very same Ralts and
evolving it into a Gallade, possibly even
making it the ace or closest Pokemon to him
on his team.
Ben: The very first Pokemon Max would get
though, probably wouldn’t be Ralts, but
rather one of the three Hoenn starters, as
he has to become a Pokemon trainer before
he can even go and get Ralts.
But which of the 3 will he get?
Well it certainly won’t be Torchic, as his
sister already has a Blaziken and it doesn’t
really make sense for Max to get one as well,
or at the very least, he’d try and go for
a different starter to be different from his
sister.
Treecko would make a lot of sense, but considering
the rest of the team we have for Max, we doubt
it’s Treecko, and on top of this, Ash already
has a Sceptile.
We’d like to think that Max holds Ash and
May as his main rivals so he’d want to do
things different than them and become better
than them.
Now of course Brock did have a Mudkip, but
we think Max sees Brock more of someone that
can help him out rather than a rival, and
as he is the younger sibling it kinda makes
sense for him to have the type advantage over
his older sister.
Maybe thats just us but it makes sense in
our head.
Sure he’s at a disadvantage with Ash in
this sense, but you could argue that this
really makes Ash Max’s rival as it’s like
how the player character always gets the weaker
starter in the games.
On top of all this, between the main cast
Swampert was the only Hoenn starter that we
didn’t get to see as Brock for whatever
reason never evolved his Marshtomp.
Making Swampert a Pokemon that’d be unique
to Max from the main cast.
And with all these reasons put together, we
definitely think that Max is gonna start off
his journey with a Mudkip!
Hybrid: Of course now that Max has started
off his journey as a Pokemon trainer, it’s
more than likely that Norman would give Max
a Pokemon as a gift, and what other Pokemon
would he give than a Slakoth?
You might be saying, “Well May is also Norman’s
kid but she never got a gift Pokemon from
him…”
And that is true, but we think thats because
May was trying to become a Pokemon Coordinator
and Slakoth probably wouldn’t help too much
in that department, but more so because May
didn’t look up to Norman the same way Max
did.
Max looked up to Norman so much, that when
Ash beat Norman for his 5th gym badge in the
Hoenn region, Max was devastated and stole
the Balance Badge before Norman could hand
it over to Ash.
That alone shows how much Max looked up to
his father.
Eventually Norman did manage to settle him
down, and Max ended up being the one to give
Ash the Balance badge.
So I don’t know if this is symbolic of anything,
but it could be a sign that Max takes over
the Petalburg gym years from now, and to do
that he’s definitely gonna need a Slaking
on his team!
He might have Vigoroth for most of the journey,
but to make things less complex we’re gonna
have his whole team be fully evolved, and
besides Slaking is a complete power house
that he can really use to gain the upperhand
against Ash and the rest trainers he faces!
Ben: Going back to some of the Pokemon that
he’s befriended we have 2 more of them that
we think should make his team, one of them
being Shroomish.
Now the Shroomish that Max befriended didn’t
make a promise the same way Ralts did, as
it just wanted to stay back with it’s other
Shroomish and help rebuild a forest with them
and their friend Alex.
But this episode did open the doors to Max
using a Breloom in the future.
Not only did he befriend it, but it’s kinda
a staple Hoenn Pokemon that none of the main
cast used, not to mention that its powerful
one.
Yeah it’s another fighting type Pokemon
but does it really matter?
It’s a Breloom after all!
Now Max just may go head and go get the Shroomish
that he befriended from Alex, but he’s been
getting a lot of Pokemon handed to him, so
let’s make this one Pokemon a random Shroomish
that he captures.
Or even if it is the same Shroomish, he’ll
have to defeat it in battle before it decides
to come with him.
As it was a stubborn lil thing in the anime.
Hybrid: Unlike Shroomish however we do think
that Max will go and get the Shuppet that
he befriended on his journey.
This Shuppet was also befriended by a playmate
named Emily years ago, but growing up she
kinda forget about Shuppet, till Max and the
rest of our heroes successfully brought Emily
and Shuppet together and rekindled their friendship.
Shuppet then helped Emily in her pursuits
of running a hotel.
We’re thinking that one day Max will decide
to stay at Emily’s mansion, and Emily will
see how much of a great Pokemon trainer Max
has become, and will also see that Shuppet
is really into Pokemon battling as it’s
a lot of fun, and simply ask Max to capture
and take Shuppet with him, as it still has
that playful nature and it’ll be better
put to use in battle than scaring or helping
people in hotels.
Max would accept and proceed to get into a
battle with his old friend, capturing it,
and even later evolving it into a Banette!
A Pokemon that would be super cool for Max’s
team if you ask me!
And it’s even cooler cause this Banette
actually had a similar personality to Ash’s
Haunter!
So it could be a nice throwback to that as
well.
Ben: Our final Pokemon for Max’s team is
one that we don’t think many of you are
expecting Max to have, and that Pokemon is
none other than Roserade.
Not only do we think that in terms of design
Roserade seems to fitting for a slightly older
Max, but this Roserade will more than likely
be a gift from his friend, Drew.
Well…
It’d technically be a gift from his sister’s
boyfriend.
But, yes.
We are thinking that May and Drew will get
together if there ever is a timeskip in the
Pokemon anime, and in that case, we do think
that Drew and Max will have a more established
relationship, and one where Drew will actually
be sorta like an older brother to Max.
He would end up being Max’s brother-in-law
down the line after all.
So Drew would help him learn about Pokemon,
and possibly even help him participate in
contests if he ever wanted to.
And with this brotherly friendship, we’re
sure that Drew would end up giving Max a Budew
egg, that came from his own Roselia or Roserade,
midway through Max’s journey.
Max would then hatch and evolve it all the
way into Roserade, becoming a powerful member
on his team, and possibly even being a contest
star or a one-hit wonder in that department,
as we don’t really see Max’s participating
in too many contests, but maybe just one seeing
as how his mom.
May, and Drew all were co-ordinators.
Yes, this is another grass type, but Ash had
3 ground types on his Sinnoh team at one point,
one which shared a type with two other of
his Pokemon, so we think it’s fine.
Hybrid: And those are the 6 Pokemon we have
for Max’s team!
A team that symbolizes the friendships that
he's made, the relationships that he holds
dear, and the memories that he carries with
him.
But this isn’t the only team that we made
was it Ben?
Ben: Yeah Hybrid, we also made a team for
Bonnie over on my channel.
And Bonnie wanted to be both a Pokemon Trainer,
as well as a Pokemon Performer!
So since her motivations are different than
Max’s, the style and member of her team
are pretty different than Max’s, so you
definitely want to check that video out as
well!
Link will be in the description, icard and
end card, along with my channel!
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