Did Cynthia Just Throw The Most Important Fight Of Her Pokemon Career?
It couldn’t have ended any other way. The Master’s Eight Semi-Finals are over, and Ash has emerged victorious over Sinnoh League Champion Cynthia. This was a fight a decade in the making and it didn’t disappoint. Over four episodes, Ash and Cynthia faced off in a back-and-forth battle that pushed all of their Pokemon to their breaking points. In the end, Ash’s Mega Lucario manages to take down both a Dynamax Togekiss and Garchomp, Cynthia’s partner Pokemon and the ace on her roster. It was a battle for the ages, so why are so many people saying Cynthia threw?
To understand the controversy, we have to start back in the quarter-final match, Cynthia vs. Iris. No one expected Iris to come out ahead, and indeed the fight went pretty much as you’d expect. The big moment from that battle - which has already become iconic - was Cynthia revealing her lipstick Key Stone and Mega Evolving Garchomp. This was an overkill move for the battle at hand, but it served the important purpose of getting in Ash’s head. Cynthia was already a formidable opponent - as her fight with Iris quickly confirmed - and now Ash has to deal with a Mega-powered Garchomp to boot. It was the perfect setup for the battle to come. We’d just been given Chekhov’s Key Stone; it would be wrong not to use it.
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If you watched Ash and Cynthia’s showdown, you already know that isn’t how things played out. After taking down three of Ash’s strongest Pokemon in quick succession, Cynthia decided to Dynamax her Togekiss instead of Mega Evolving Garchomp. In response, Ash unleashed his Mega Lucario - the Pokemon Cynthia was most worried about defeating - and used it to knock out not just Togekiss, but
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