Awesome / Pokémon Adventures

Apparently Volt Tackle!

RGB arc

• The first moment of awesome in the series was Red saving himself and Professor Oak from a crazed Machoke by reasoning on the fly that Bulbasaur, as a plant-based Pokémon, is empowered by sunlight and unleashing Solar Beam.
• The Safari Zone chapters where in the end Red went from trying desperately to survive to capturing an army of Safari Pokémon.
• Hell, Green's battle against Sabrina. Looks like Sabrina's got her, but Green retorts by sticking out her chest and taunts her saying that at least she's prettier. Of course, Sabrina's not going to take that from an 11 year old. so has Kadabra slash off Green's top...to reveal that Green's boobs were really Poké Balls, and Green immediately releases her Pokémon for an unexpected attack.
• You gotta admire three eleven-year-olds for pretty much taking down a criminal organization by themselves (not to mention taking down the entire building, and a fused form of all three legendary birds as well).
• Red and Blaine's effort to capture Mewtwo. Bonus points to Aero for carrying the weight of Red's entire team at once. Note that this includes the half-ton Snorlax, not to mention Gyarados and Venusaur!
  • Red's final tactic to actually catch Mewtwo? Purposefully cause him to switch back to the cyclone wave, fly straight to the eye of the storm, then smack him in the face with the Master Ball.
• Also, the Red/Giovanni fight in its entirety. From Giovanni's strategy to Red's stealth release of Aerodactyl and his downright awesome comeback with Pikachu. It's the battle which truly shows the importance of trainer skill in the manga.
  • To explain, Giovanni had the battle almost entirely under his control, taking out Poliwrath and Snorlax easily. Red comes back when he secretly hides Aero's Poké Ball under his foot and then suddenly releases it behind him. He takes out Beedrill, but then he's taken out by Nidoqueen. Giovanni traps Red in a fissure, and breaks the Poké Balls of Saur and Gyara, which prevents Red from using either of the two, meaning Giovanni has four Pokémon, his BEST ones, to Red's measly one. His last Pokémon is Pika, and Giovanni smugly declares that in the time it takes to release Pika and unleash thunderbolt, Red's already gone. Red calls his bet and releases Pika anyway, but had Pika charge the bolt INSIDE the Poké Ball by making good use of Surge's insulating gloves. Pika scores FOUR KOES AT ONCE and even slams Giovanni, giving Red the victory and an awesome one-liner.
  Giovanni: I can't believe my own weapons would cause my downfall...
  Red: You're wrong. Your downfall was the pain I sensed from the Pokémon you corrupted.
• For the grand finale of the RGB arc, it comes down to Red's Venusaur versus his rival's Charizard. Everyone thinks it'll be an easy win for Charizard, but Red had purposely chosen his previous two Pokémon (Poliwrath and Pikachu) to set up for this match. The immense steam formed from the battle between Poliwrath and Ninetales and the electric attacks of Pikachu created thunderclouds overhead, so all that was left was to use Venusaur's Vine Whip to turn the flying Charizard...into a kite.
  • The fact that Red managed to do it with a combination of his three closest and longest-serving partners is a symbolically awesome moment (and awesome for the writer to make it not cheesy).

Yellow arc

• When Blue and Evan visit the Power Plant, Agatha appears and snatches Blue up in a Dream Eater that traps him in his memories and slowly drains his life energy while he can't escape. Evan is too scared to do anything, so Blue sends a telepathic message to his Golduck, who relays it to Evan via his Pokédex (a skill it had shown before) to basically tell Evan to man up, all the while in extreme pain and barely able to stay awake. Even better, he gains that advice from the memories that Agatha trapped him in. Evan then gets his own Moment of Awesome as he does man up and use his Haunter to fight off Agatha, and then Blue tops it all off by using his Scyther to slash through Agatha's Ghost Pokémon. Awesome.
• Yellow has a nice Beware the Nice Ones moment in Chapter 57. Team Rocket blows up the engine room of the ship she's on endangering the passengers.. First she allows the passengers to escape by sending the opponent's Pokémon back with Dody's Whirlwind, and ensuring they float using Caterpie's String Shot. Then when they decide to turn the ship nose up and have it sink to cover their getaway, her Omanyte stops them with an Ice Beam and lets them fall, when they switch tactics and attack her she uses her Graveler to catch her while Pika knocks their Pokémon out. Then her Raticate breaks the ship in half and has it fall to crush the Rocket goons only for Graveler to catch it as it barely touches their faces. Yellow then sweetly asks them to surrender or she'll have Graveler let go and have the ship drop on top of them. Needless to say... they obeyed
• Koga and Blue are fighting Agatha and have to deal with her Arbok, who has special powers according to the pattern on it, which Agatha can change by touching it. Koga eventually counters this by having his Golbat use Leech Life on Koga himself, so Golbat can spit up the blood onto Arbok's hood, preventing Agatha from changing it, and leaving them helpless against Blue's Golduck using a solid Confusion attack.
• Green's fight against Lorelei. After Lorelei uses voodoo to chain Green to Sabrina, she spends part of the fight knocked out. After Sabrina herself is knocked out and thrown down a pit, Green wakes up and uses Blastoise to escape the hole. Then she fights against Lorelei herself. Her first move is to have her Clefable use Minimize sneak up on Lorelei and steal the dolls. Unfortunately, Clefable drops the dolls and breaks them apart, severing Green's arm. Except it then turns out that Green's Ditto has been that arm the entire time. Turns out that Green's been playing Lorelei (and Sabrina, who calls her out on this when she wakes up afterward) for fools the entire time. She was never chained to begin with, because she had made Ditto her fake arm before even entering the island cave because she felt the cold weather and predicted she'd face Lorelei in a situation like this. Damn, Green's a magnificent bitch!
• Red's return and rematch against Bruno. The whole battle was intense, but a strong candidate for "best part" was Red using the legendary super Evolution Stones to let Eevee switch between his three evolutions at will.
• Yellow is fighting Lance, and just barely managing keep from falling into the lava that she's Surfing on, thanks to Lance's constant attacks. After a chapter's worth of dodging Lance's attacks, she decides to use what she learned from watching Mewtwo's fighting style and fight back... by Surfing in circles until she creates a lava tornado to suck Lance and his Pokémon into the lava.
  • Immediately after, Lance and his Pokémon survive a dip in the lava... using bubbles. Bubbles that take a Twineedle from Giovanni's Beedrill to cut through, but still. Bubbles.
  • And then of course there's the moment of awesome where all of Yellow's Pokémon (sans Pika) evolve at the exact same time, in battle. Caterpie even evolves twice, all the way up to Butterfree.
• Giovanni gets his own in his Big Damn Heroes moment when he shows up and proceeds to take down Lance, revealing that he too is a Viridian trainer, and the Beedrill mentioned above is a Viridian Pokémon.
• Megavolt. Even better, years later, Pikachus get their own special finishing move with Volt Tackle.

GSC arc

• Falkner deserves a mention here. Up until now only one Gym Leader had even come close to catching Suicine, and Falkner had been shown as a fairly decent new Gym Leader at best. Then not only does he nearly catch both Entei and Raikou, using a Pokémon that's a bad match up to both, but then when Suicine interrupts he almost manages to capture it too. In other words, he nearly managed to take down three Legendaries, at the same time, while at a disadvantage. Badass Normal indeed.
• Being the Catcher, not only does Crystal kick her Poké Balls to catch Pokémon, but she's also frequently seen catching a horde of them in one go.
  • Also, at the end of the arc, we learn that Crys has completed her Kanto/Johto Pokédex, having gathered the data on 250 Pokémon. That's right, Crys managed to catch all Kanto and Johto Pokémon (excluding Legendaries).
• Gold falls into the ocean during the fight with Lugia, and the rope he was holding on to snaps. He's hundreds of feet away from any land or boats, the storm is making very large waves, and Lugia's Aeroblasting everything in sight. What does he do? Gold catches a wild Mantine, grabs his pool cue and about 20 Remoraids and turns the Mantine into a rocket propelled hang glider. He blasts out of the ocean yelling “I’M BACK!” and begins to dogfight with Lugia.
• Blue was trained by Chuck to hone his own abilities to be able to fight with his Pokémon. In his battle with Chuck he takes this to the Nth degree by focusing on Hitmontop's placement and using Mind Reader. That's right. Blue, through sheer force of will and concentration, uses a Pokémon move!
• All of volume 13. The Gym Leader Exhibition Match in all its glory. And when it gets interrupted by Team Rocket, the Gym Leaders all go in charging in to stop them.
• Misty's (almost) Heroic Sacrifice from volume 14.
• Villains Will and Karen torment Classy Cat-Burglar Green with her phobia of birds by summoning Lugia and Ho-oh, the latter of whom caused Green's phobia in the first place. But then they had to show Silver bound up and hurt to her. Regaining her composure, Green reveals she spent the past few months getting over her fear by tracking down and capturing some very particular bird Pokémon...Zapdos, Articuno, Moltres, I choose you!
• Hell, literally everybody gets a Crowning Moment (also counts as heartwarming) during the finale of the the GSC arc. After being wounded by protecting Daisy from falling debris, Bill receives faxes from trainers all over region, them wishing that they could help in the battle at the Indigo Plateau, but can't send their Pokémon over since the Teleporter is still down. Bill gets a Heroic BSoD, crying out what good he is as a scientist since he can't fix the Teleporter, but as soon as Raikou's electricity powers up the machine, Bill wastes no time in sending out the message that it's working again. Every single minor character (and others obviously) introduced in the arc immediately rush over to send over their Pokémon, and a huge ass army of Pokémon, carrying their trainers' wills to stop the battle, manage to break Lugia and Ho-oh free from the Masked Man's control.
• The final battle of the GSC arc also counts. Gold flies into the time stream riding on Raikou to stop Pryce. Then he tells Silver and Crystal to go back without him and he dives down towards the spot where Pryce is. Pryce asks how anyone could comprehend the pain he did when he held La Glace's egg in his hands after La Pris and La Prus died. Gold says he can, because he's the hatcher, then proceeds to unleash SUPER RISING THUNDER! (an attack powered by the moves of everyone else's Pokémon and channeled into his billiard cue like a lightning rod) and destroys the GS Ball that Celebi is stuck in.
  • Note that he did this with a Pichu that's barely been born. That kid is BADASS.

RS arc

• Ruby's escape from Courtney in the Rustboro Tunnel, which involves using his Pokéblock holder as an impromptu zip line. He then cuts the line, dropping Courtney into the flaming inferno below.
• Where Archie, acting as the head of the TV studio, walks out to his car, only to have the muffler start smoking. As he turns, he sees none other than Maxie, walking out of the flames that sprouted from it.
• Words enough cannot describe how awesome it is when Ruby, who wears his hat for freaking all the time, even when sleeping, finally removes it!!! Of course, the real awesome is when we flash back to how he got his scar that the hat is used to cover. As a child he took on a Salamence with only a Skitty, a Poochyena, and a Ralts.... And won.
• The entire final battle of the RS chapter. Right up to Ruby summoning Celebi using a Hadouken pose. If you recall back to the beginning of the arc, you realize that Norman called out one of his Pokémon in the exact same manner!
  • Not as awesome, but there were some clever victories on Sapphire's hands prior to then. First, wasting Roxanne's Nosepass by luring it into facing north (after deducing which way north was by using the wind - smooth move opening the door, Roxy) and exploiting Magnet Pull to accelerate Rono's Take Down. Second, demonstrating some minor skill at martial arts by having Toro counter Brawly's Hariyama with Double Kick - he only saw one at first, but discovered the second after moving Hariyama's hand while it was out.
  • And then there's Saph's battle with Matt and the simultaneous defense of Flannery. Matt used his Azumarill to flood the room and put an air bubble around his head - smart enough on its own, but he tried to make a bloody end for the both of them by calling out Sharpedo. She called out Rono to tank its Bite attack (and break its teeth), and then used his Evil Gloating time to cut open the window of their carriage to drain the chamber with the same teeth she broke off in the first place! Once Matt finally realized how boned he was, she had Rono Take Down him into the next car down! Yeah... that's what "owned" looks like.

FRLG arc

• Green's being assaulted by the unjustifiably angry citizens of the Sevii Islands while she's still weak and tired from her previous ordeal with Deoxys. However, the sailor from the Seagallop comes up with the ship, Kimberly throws down a rope, and Celio jumps at the mob all so that she can get away to continue fighting the real bad guys.
• Deoxys owning Red's team definitely showed how big a threat it really is. No selling everything, even Pikachu's thunder straight to its core. Which turns out to be a moment of awesome for Red. Deoxys wasn't actually no selling the attacks, they were hurting it and the thunder to the core seriously injured it. It was more or less in the same position it left Red's team. Red managed to tie a legendary without even knowing.
• In terms of base level alone, Yellow's easily the weakest of all the Dex Holders (levels range from 20s to 40s). In the FRLG, when facing against Storc/Sird and Oca/Orm, the two of them pretty much laugh at her when checking up on her Pokémon's stats. However, she gets PISSED at the fact they're fighting at the Viridian Forest and her emotions make her Pokémon's levels RISE UP TO THE EIGTHIES. The two pretty much shit their pants and make a run for it, knowing that she'll OWN them if they try to fight back.
  • What makes this scene even more awesome is the fact that the person that calls the retreat and says point blank that Yellow would take them both down is freaking Sird, who thrashed Lorelei earlier in the arc.
  • Technically, Yellow didn't actually get 'pissed', so to speak. Instead, her spirit rose. Which could be considered even more awesome, because her will to drive Team Rocket out of Viridian Forest was so huge that she quadrupled her Pokémon's levels, and yet she remained completely level-headed.
• And Red's rematch with Giovanni. Mewtwo Vs. Deoxys. And it all starts with Giovanni on the lower ground, and he proceeds to demonstrate how utterly badass he is...
  Giovanni: Welcome, Red and Mewtwo! How does it feel, looking down on me from where you're standing?
  Red: What's that mean?!
  Giovanni: You're on higher ground... Because the only one who has bested me in battle... Is none other than you, Red! I wish to make our positions clear... It is only fitting for me, as the challenger, to look up at you on lower ground. I stand here not as ex-gym leader of Viridian City, nor Team Rocket leader... But simply a trainer without any titles! Now... Come and face me, champion!
• Pretty much everything Mewtwo does is a CMOA. One really awesome moment is when the three Dex Holders get grabbed by mechanical tentacles, the intent obviously to separate them. Mewtwo quickly brings out his spoon, extends it, and slices all three tentacles in one smooth movement.
• Red truly proves his credentials as The Hero this time around. He stays behind on the flying fortress to disable the explosions and prevent it from blowing up over Vermillion City, after taking his coat off, and beating Deoxys and making it his ally and then making it transport everyone to safety, while staying behind himself. Deoxys even wonders, after everything that Red through in the arc, how he can stand up and never give up. His response is a thing of awesome.
  Dexoys: You... What are you? You were beaten... You were driven to the edge... Yet you never gave up! What ARE you?
  Red: Me? I'm Red! A Dex Holder from Pallet Town! A Fighter!

Emerald arc

• Gold's Aipom and Typhlosion manage one shortly after their return to the manga. Up until now, Guile has more-or-less been untouchable to anyone, with his magical sword; even Anabel only managed against him by removing his ability to move rather than traditionally over-powering him. Gold’s solution? Send just them, and only them, at the Arc Villain; and together they deliver a massive burst of burst of fire at Guile which is made bigger due to Aipom fanning the flames with Gold’s pool cue.
• The climax of the Emerald arc... Just, goddamn the climax of the Emerald arc. In order:
  • Emerald's impassioned declaration that it's not battling Pokémon that he loves, but the Pokémon themselves. Doubles as a heartwarming moment, and it's what allows him to reach Jirachi to wish the petrified dex holders back to normal.
  • All the dex holders fighting Guile Hideout's army of berserked Pokémon, especially the two-page spread of all ten of them together in the midst of battle. It's ten of them against hundreds of raging Pokémon, five of them have just woken up from being turned to stone after a long battle... And the Dex Holders Hold the Line WITHOUT LOSING A SINGLE POKÉMON.
  • Emerald uses all of this distraction time to calm down all the berserked Pokémon with a soil seal that covers THE ENTIRETY OF THE ISLAND.
  • Red's Poliwrath and Gold's Politoed become Bash Brothers and break Hideout's armor with a double Focus Punch.
  • The nine final-form starters of the first three generations unleash the elemental Hyper Beams (Blast Burn, Hydro Cannon and Frenzy Plant) at a giant Kyogre made entirely of energy. And then Pika, Chuchu, and Gold's Pichu finish it off with a combined Volt Tackle. Triple Finish, eat your heart out and WEEP.
• The unseen Dex Holder tournament to allow Emerald the chance to earn his final symbol... with the implication that he beat Red.

DP arc

• Dia's mach-speed razor leaf. It goes faster than the time it takes to call it!
• Pearl saving Platinum after she faints while riding her bicycle. Thinking quickly, he uses Prinplup and Monferno to help him catch up to her and make an ice bridge that helps her to safety.
• Pearl figuring out why Luxio is an outcast in its group, and then meeting up with same Luxio (now a Luxray) and adventuring through the booby-trapped Fuego Ironworks Factory together to save the foreman. Luxray isn't even officially Pearl's Pokémon yet, but he was willing to get burned just to help out Pearl.
• Dia calmly calling out Pearl saying that he has his own mind and won't be bossed around anymore, then both of them managing to thwart Cyrus together.
• Diamond shows that he has balls of steel when he decides to stay back and face Cyrus to confirm whether or not the man is the leader of Team Galatic. Despite the fact Dia's shaking like crazy in fear (keep in mind that Cyrus nearly killed Pearl and Platinum in a previous event), he brings himself to sing the theme song of his favorite show to catch Cyrus's attention then ask him who he is and what his purpose is. And when Cyrus's response is to try to blow the kid up, Dia manages to steal his camera away from him.
• Dia sneaking on-board Team Galactic's airship by himself. And later on he successfully infiltrates albeit temporarily TG's headquarters by disguising as a grunt and tries to find Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf.
• Dia and Pearl go Back-to-Back Badasses against Dialga and Palkia.
• Dia really gets a lot of moments. When Dia calls out Cyrus for trying to destroy all of existence with a simple yet very heartfelt speech, Dialga and Palkia decide that they'd rather listen to him than Cyrus.
  • A little bit before that, Dia's own courage inspired Regigigas to fight Team Galactic. As Dia's teammate!
    • Regigigas proves to be legendary in every sense of the word when it puts Dialga and Palkia into a dual headlock.
• The DP trio giving up their Pokédexes so they could free Uxie, Azelf, and Mesprit.
• Cynthia vs. Cyrus! A battle everyone wanted to see.
• When Sird makes an unexpected appearance on the Spear Pillar, she explains just what happened the last time we saw her: she had to flee all the way from Kanto to Sinnoh just to get Mewtwo off her trail. And this after she just revealed that she had a Darkrai of all Pokémon. Despite having the perfect counter to Mewtwo type-wise, she still fled from him. Mewtwo is just that badass.
• Platinum's total breaking of Sapphire's badge-collection record. In the same amount of time Sapphire had collected three badges, Platinum had six.
• Paka and Uji's defeat of Saturn, showing exactly why they were picked to be Platinum's bodyguards. When it's time to get serious, goofballs they ain't.
• Platinum's gym battle against Candice. With Rapidash close to fainting, Platinum only has Lopunny left, who quickly faints Abomasnow, but has a harder time against Candice's Froslass. Lopunny faints and Candice thinks she has won, only for Rapidash to come charging out of his Pokéball and wiping the floor with Froslass. What happened? Knowing Froslass would faint her, Lopunny pulled a Heroic Sacrifice and fainted herself through the use of Healing Wish, which completely healed Rapidash! A Moment of Awesome for both Platinum and Lopunny, as this was their first battle together.

Platinum arc

• Looker dodges a Gallade's attack from close-range. For a guy who's normally a comic relief, nonbattler... wow. No wonder he's in the international police.
• Dia once again demonstrates his ability to empathize with Pokémon by managing to befriend Rotom and even convincing it to fight alongside them against Team Galactic.
• Platinum's battles against the Sinnoh frontier brains. Now without the help of Diamond and Pearl beside her, she's shown to be able to hold her own in battle very well, what with having already obtained eight badges(and being the only one in the trio to do so).
  • If we look at what Platinum's done so far (Sinnoh Gym, Super Contest, Sinnoh Battle Frontier), then she basically was able to do what Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald specialize in all at once.
• The field of meteorites at Veilstone? Turns out Cynthia's grandmother created it by practicing Draco Meteor in her youth.
• Know how the battles between a few legendaries are pretty awesome? How about one between Shaymin, Giratina, Dialga, Palkia, Heatran, Regigigas, Darkrai, Cresselia, Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf?
• To top it all off, when Charon tries to escape the Distortion World using Giratina, he is immediately greeted by Cynthia and her Garchomp calling forth a storm of Draco Meteors.
• The bits after Team Galactic disbands deserve particular mention, just for the cathartic feel of them. Giratina gets back up, as if just to spite Platinum, who knows what trouble she's in. Cue a *double* count of Big Damn Heroes. Firstly, Flint, Magmortar, Volkner and Electivire knock this particular Dimension Lord flat on its eldritch ass and look good doing it. Second is a single panel, but only more awesome if anything, as it is Dialga's and Palkia's shadowed figures towering over it, commanding it back into the Distortion World by sheer force of presence.

HGSS arc

• Early in the chapter, Gold participates in all Pokéathlon events and wins every single one on his first try and usually with little effort, even beating the current undefeated Pokéathlon champion and the Indigo Elite Four. And the icing on the cake? He did it just to prove his skills to Lance. It worked — even this one was impressed.
• Silver falling off a Rope Bridge... only to magnificently rise up standing on his Gyarados, demanding that Petrel hand over the plates.
• Crystal KICKS A POKÉ BALL IN ARCEUS' FACE. Enough said!
• When Archer tries to use Arceus' power to re-create the mythical dragon trio for his own usage, Silver provides distraction while Gold and Crystal team up to destroy the dragons before they're fully created. And then Arceus, free of Archer's control and understandably pissed, blasts the four Rocket executives into oblivion.
  • Played a little differently in the official volume release. The dragons reform and the four Rocket executives were merely blasted back a small distance, but it's made even more awesome by seeing who comes in to the rescue: Giovanni, Lance, and Pryce, the first three Big Bads of the series, all ready to kick ass.
• Pryce and Lance taking on their respective dragons. Pryce is immune to Dialga's time-based attacks due to having been trapped in the time void, while Lance has no problem with Palkia bending his Hyper Beams away because he can just bend them right back.
• In relation to above, Giovanni getting Giratina on the ropes with Silver's Ursaring. Unlike Lance and Pryce who were able to counter whatever Dialga and Palkia throw at them, Giovanni simply relies on his skills as a trainer. He's just that good.

BW arc

• N basically beats the crap out of Black while giving him a Hannibal Lecture on why Black can't win because he can't understand his Pokémon. Black tells him to shut up and then says that's exactly why they have the Pokédex: Most people can't understand their Pokémon, so they need it to help them. He also says that even though he can't hear his Pokémon's voices, they still believe in his dream. While he still ultimately loses, Black's Pokémon show N on how much they believe in their trainer.
• Lenora quickly re-establishes herself as That One Boss as she thrashes Black right from the get-go.
• A rare non-action example. Just watching White supervising the preparations for the first Pokémon Musical is a sight to behold. Who cares if she can't fight? Doesn't mean she doesn't have other strengths that are equally impressive.
  • Also, she later does learn to fight, and despite it being hard she pushes on through until she's strong enough to go toe to toe with the Subway Bosses. It really shows that White's biggest strength isn't her business savvy or her battle prowess but the sheer determination she displays while working in those fields.
• The Final Battle of the arc is definitely a crowner with several amazing moments:
  • Black finally has awakened Reshiram, but the Seven Sages are in the way. Unlike the games, however, six of the Gym Leaders were already captured by Team Plasma, Drayden and Iris are stuck protecting the civilians, and the Striaton Trio are too wounded from their battle with the Shadow Triad to show up. Who shows up to the rescue instead? Every named minor character Black has encountered during his journey, declaring that even if they aren't Gym Leaders or Elite 4 members, they still have dreams that they want to fight for and protect.
  • Black goes on an absolute boss rush. First he fights Iris, soon-to-be Opelucid Gym Leader, then Cheren, who did a Face–Heel Turn and joined Team Plasma, and he wins due to a Big Damn Heroes from a now evolved Musha. Next he fights N, unsurprisingly, in what's basically a goddamn kaiju battle between Zekrom and Reshiram. Finally, he fights against Ghetsis, who made sure to, make a team that specifically counters Black's and has advantages in all types... except one Sherlock Scan later, and Black completely turns the tides and STEAMROLLS him. Now THIS is a true champion.

B2W2 arc

• Blake's first fight as a Pokédex holder, where he not only fights Colress' Genesect and actually wins, but finishes the fight by capturing it!
• It's been two years since her most trusted friend disappeared into the Light Stone and was essentially given a Fate Worse than Death. What has White been doing all this time? She helped create Pokéstar Studios, aka POKÉMON HOLLYWOOD.
• Blake is a walking moment of awesome, which is no surprise seeing that he's the Pokémon equivalent of James Bond. First he faces off against Tornadus in his Therian Forme and defeats it with the help of Keldeo who he befriended off-screen, succeeding in arresting Giallo of the Seven Sages. Next, despite being hampered by Roxie, Whitley and Hugh, he managed to arrest Bronius and Ryoku without much effort. He isn't called Mr. Perfect for nothing.
  • Blake's second encounter with Keldeo at Pledge Grove is noteworthy in that he dodges a point-blank Sacred Sword without flinching and managed to get the Pokémon to join his team by offering a mutual gain relationship, thus capturing Keldeo without having to battle him.
• So now that Black is freed from the Light Stone, what does he do? Perform a coordinated double attack on Black Kyurem with White!
  • White in general in this climax, as she's the one largely calling the shots and leading the charge, showing just what a capable Action Girl she's become.
• The B2W2 arc marks the end of its battle by... having all 9 Unova starters using the pledge moves! It's nostalgic, and also gives Hugh, Cheren, and Bianca a moment to shine.
• In the end, who is the one to deliver the final blow to initiate Ghetsis' complete Villainous Breakdown? Whitley, who yells at him that even if he escapes and fools humans again, he will never fool all of the Pokémon he's hurt, for they will never forget him and never forgive him. Cue hundreds of Team Plasma's captive Pokémon gathering around Ghetsis and all shooting him a Death Glare until he's reduced to a terrified, Laughing Mad wreck.

XY arc

• Xerneas choosing Y as its trainer.
• Shauna defeats Celosia with the help of Korrina's Lucario, where she's able to get her own back on her traumatizer.
• During the final battle against Lysandre, by gathering his, Y's, Blue's, Diantha's, and Korrina's Key Stones, X Mega Evolves five of his Pokémon at the same time to fight Zygarde and thanks to Xerxer's Heroic Sacrifice, he manages to win.

ORAS arc

• The battle with Zinnia and the Neo Team Magma and Aqua has not only Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald battling the enemies but Mr. Briney even helps by having Peeko use Soak to damage Zinnia's Goodra!
• As Zinnia is still bitter on Devon Corporation and moping about her Lorekeeper status, it's Emerald that approaches both her and Mr. Stone, talking some sense into them and convincing them to put their differences aside and work together.

SUMO/USUM arc

• Cent is pretty strong for an unevolved Alolan Meowth. At first he can be very sluggish and lazy but in fights he can totally kick ass!
• Nebby and the other Cosmoem evolving at the same time.
• Gladion and Null/Silvally knocking out the Ultra Beast attacking Ula-Ula without too much effort, even Nanu got surprised he has nothing to do after everything got under control thanks to Gladion.
  • Null evolving into Silvally while stopping Guzzlord to save Lillie.
  • And then on Poni Island, Silvally stopping a Xurkitree with both Gladion and Lillie on it's back.
• Kahili fighting 2 Ultra Beast at the same time... With a pair of Golf clubs!
• The battle between Ultra Necrozma and Zygard 100% form in chapter 35. Why couldn't the games come up with this?!
• Cent hunting down Faba when he tries to escape.
• How does Ultra Necrozma get defeated? Solgaleo, Lunala and Zygarde 100% using their respective signature moves on it SIMULTANEOUSLY!

SWSH arc

• Soudo himself, where not to mention his Pragmatic Hero status, he's always shown taking Gym Leaders down without ever losing one of his Pokémon.

Series in general

• We all heard about how Satoshi Tajiri praised the manga once, but really, not only him, but Ken Sugimori, Junichi Masuda, Tsunekazu Ishihara, and even freaking Shigeru Miyamoto made remarks about it at one point!
• Heck, nearly every single battle in the series has some sort of Crowning Moment, given how many of them revolve around complex and ingenious multi-Pokémon strategies running off of Rule of Cool and the fact that the trainers themselves do way more than just bark commands.
• You gotta give the manga-ka some credit for sticking with this series for as long as he has. Most Pokémon manga are just quick cash-ins or advertisements for the latest games, barely having enough content to discuss or speculate about. Hidenori Kusaka actually began when the franchise started and is still going strong with only Pocket Monsters being the other long-running Pokémon manga. Furthermore, due to the fact he doesn't work for Game Freak and plays the games to figure out how he wants to write his story, with all his Chekhov's Guns and Arc Welding, he is either the greatest master of planning things out or the greatest master of writing things out of his ass as he goes along. Either way, he's awesome.
  • Related to this, check out the page of predictions made in Pokémon Adventures. Either Kusaka is a damn prophet, or the creators decided to take more than a little bit of inspiration from his ideas.
• The series is now doing well enough internationally that the creators got to go to France and Singapore for panels and autograph signings.
  • One of the key animator for the Pokémon anime, Masaaki Iwane, made a short animation for Pokémon Adventures. Not a trailer for the anime, but still awesome.
  • In December of 2018, there was an official mini-site for Pokémon Adventures launched in the Japanese Pokémon website, calling it the "Definitive" Pokémon manga. Where, the official Pokémon company has finally acknowledged Pokémon Adventures.

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