Featuring Serena's Team (Pokemon Anime)

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Serena

"We are the power of a miracle"

A girl from Vaniville town who as a young child happened to meet a young Ash Ketchum, Serena is one of the main protagonists of the Pokemon anime's XY series. Originally setting out as a Pokemon trainer to meet up with Ash, she eventually discovered the world of Pokemon performances and found she had a knack for them. Together with her Pokemon she began working towards her dream of becoming the Kalos queen.

However don't think that her focus on performances means she's defenseless. She is also quite capable in battle, and is fully willing to fight against any threats in order to protect those she cares about.

Full Respect Thread

• Body checks Jessie's Pumpkaboo, stopping its shadow ball attack

• Charges through Gourgeist's seed bomb and leaps to catch a falling Eevee

• Takes a fall and then takes an even larger fall

• Uses Braixen to pressure post-league Pikachu and land a strike on him, with Ash commenting on how in sync she is with Braixen.

• Coordinates the moves and abilities of all her Pokemon during the Master Class final round. Most of note is her Pokemon combining their attacks to create a massive flower construct

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Braixen

Serena's first partner and most powerful Pokemon. Originally a Fenniken received from Professor Sycamore, the two share an extremely close bond and Braixen is always ready to use her powerful fire attacks, whether that be in a performance or a battle.

Full Respect Thread

• Blocks an ice shard from a Weavile with flamethrower, producing a large explosion. With a comparable attack Weavile was powerful enough to send a helicopter flying

• Incenerates multiple of Megalith Zygarde's vines

• Creates a large vortex of flame around Serena without harming her

• Tags EoS Pikachu with fire blast and creates an explosion that covers a good portion of the battlefield. And EoS Pikachu is kind of ridiculous

• Slices through a metal net with her claws

• Surprises EoS Pikachu with her speed and clashes at least somewhat with his iron tail.

• Takes a quick attack from EoS Pikachu that produces shockwaves and then an iron tail that sends her slamming into and across the ground (though she does resist this attack)

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Pancham

Pancham was a fighting type that was first encountered when it crashed the first performance Serena went to go see. Realizing that the Pokemon had a love for performing but was self concious about it, she partnered with him in order to work towards her dream. Of course he's no pushover when it comes to a fight either.

Full Respect Thread

• Creates a large blast when striking Quilladin with dark pulse. Worth noting that the Pokedex states Quilladin's shell is hard enough to take a hit from a tractor-trailer without flinching, yet it needed to actively use a move to block this dark pulse

• Knocks a large gear out of a mech (and he did actually snap the metal)

• Strikes all of Team Rocket explosively with stone edge, sending Eevee flying and destroying the device containing her

• Clashes with Quilladin's needle arm, producing a shockwave,

• Cracks rock and breaks through it with repeated strikes

• Does several back flips and then with a rapid flurry of punches dissipates a flamethrower

• Shakes off a super effective psybeam from Inkay which could destroy a stone pathway

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Sylveon

Originally an incredibly shy Eevee that would cower in front of almost everyone, Serena befriended her in the hopes of showing the world Eevee's incredible dances. Eevee's affection for Serena would eventually lead to her evolving into the fairy type Sylveon, and growing far more powerful in the process.

Full Respect Thread

• Using fairy wind creates a barrier of wind that completely blocks Slurpuff's energy ball. This could match Pikachu's thunder bolt, which could send a truck flying by striking the ground near it

• While above Pancham and Serena creates a vortex that lifts them up into the air to be level with her, with the vortex then persisting to slow their fall after Sylveon stops using the attack

• Blasts apart massive vines with swift

• Supports her weight with her ribbons, and then with two more ribbons extends out to grab and lift Serena, flipping her around

• Casually dodges multiple charges from James's Inkay who was comparable in speed to mid series Pikachu. (and mid series Pikachu was fast enough to do this in a "split second")

• Trapped in and repeatedly shocked by a high tech electrified restraint. Possibly worth mentioning that the restraints themselves could easily crush rock

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Using Serena on WWW

Specify what Pokemon she has access to

Specify if she's using one at a time or all at once

Specify if Serena can be attacked directly

Basically standard fair for any Pokemon trainer.

[u/doctorgecko]

Also... she did this

[u/Blayro → u/doctorgecko]

most overpowered character in the Pokemon anime, no wonder they nerf her so hard she left the show

[u/Rezhio → u/doctorgecko]

it's not easy to run up an escalator.

[u/Godofyawn → u/doctorgecko]

As Ash’s legal guardian, do you approve?

[u/doctorgecko → u/Godofyawn]

Definitely