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Pokemon Anime Teases a Legendary Pokemon Could Join Ash and Co.

Written by Noah Vaca
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While the Pokemon anime has given Ash and co. some powerful teammates, it appears to be adding a Legendary Pokemon to the roster soon.

In the Pokemon anime, Ash Ketchum and his many traveling companions have caught a variety of monsters over the years, ranging from strong Pokemon like Misty's Gyarados to more rare ones like Ash's shiny Noctowl. However, one thing that has been rather inconsistent over time in the many seasons of the anime is Legendary Pokemon.

While the extremely rare Legendary Pokemon mostly tend to appear in the anime's annual movies, there have been some instances where Ash and co. have battled trainers with Legendary Pokemon, such as Tobias' Latios and Darkrai. This has raised questions as to whether there are one of each Legendary Pokemon in the anime universe, like "the" Darkrai seen in Pokemon: The Rise of Darkrai, or just "a" Darkrai like the one trained by Tobias. But now, it seems that Pokemon Journeys is teasing the addition of an incredibly powerful Legendary Pokemon to Goh's collection.

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Suicune was trending on Twitter late last week as a new anime promo featuring the fan-favorite Aurora Pokemon was revealed. The promo showed Ash and Goh getting involved in the usual hijinks, seemingly in the Johto region this time. But near the end of the trailer, Goh is shown throwing a Poke Ball towards Suicune, then holding the Poke Ball afterwards, implying Suicune's capture.

While not much has been officially revealed about this new episode of the anime, it appears that Suicune is being hunted down by a group of Pokemon poachers who successfully capture the Legendary Pokemon in a net. The promo trailer is conveniently spliced up as to not give away every detail of the episode, but the shock on everyone's faces implies that Goh successfully captured Suicune in order to save it from the Pokemon poachers. If Goh does successfully capture Suicune, this would mark the second Legendary Pokemon added to the trainer's Pokedex, as Ash and Goh managed to capture Eternatus together in an earlier episode.

This has raised quite a few fan theories as to what exactly is going on with Suicune in Pokemon Journeys. Since Ash has encountered Suicune many times before, and it appears that Goh catches Suicune rather effortlessly, many are questioning whether this is just "a" Suicune or if this is "the" Suicune. Another fan theory seems to be that Goh simply catches the Legendary to save it from the poachers, later releasing it after the poachers have been defeated.

The Pokemon Journeys anime has certainly come with quite a few surprises, such as giving Ash one of the strongest Pokemon from Sword and Shield. Regardless, it will certainly be interesting to see how the anime plans to address Suicune's capture when the new episode airs tomorrow.

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