The Pokemon anime has seen its fair share of big tournaments. Pokemon Journeys however, has set up possibly the biggest tournament yet. With a new Pokemon generation on the horizon, the anime’s latest season, Pokemon Journeys is nearing its conclusion. Bringing together trainers from all over the Pokemon world, the World Coronation Tournament is Ash’s big challenge for this season.
We’ve seen him perform progressively better and better with each successive big tournament he takes part in. The last season, Sun and Moon even saw Ash finally become a champion himself. And now, he’s earned entry into the Masters Tournament, putting him up against the 7 best trainers in the world. But, does he have any chance against the other seven contestants?
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The matchups for the first round of the tournament were recently revealed, allowing us to start realistically predicting how the tournament might go. The first match starts off strong, with the Galar champion Leon against Alain, who won the Kalos league against Ash. While Alain was able to take Ash out back then, Leon is on a whole other level. It should be fun watching Alain and Leon’s Charizard duke it out, but ultimately Leon will likely make it through. Alain simply doesn’t have the star power of his opponent, who was the last winner of the Masters Tournament. In the 2nd match, the two champions Lance and Diantha will go head-to-head. Seeing as how Lance was the runner-up in the last Masters Tournament, and is currently ranked higher than Diantha, it’s likely that he will come out on top.
The next two matches pit Ash and his former partner Iris against champions Steven and Cynthia respectively. This is where things get more tricky. While
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