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GryphonCool is gonna give us information from Animage tomorrow anyway, the place he gets the magazine from sells it a day early

Spoon has released a better screenshot of the Leon/Diantha poster

Tobias isn't a character, he's a walking plot device created solely to stop Ash from winning the Sinnoh League, so I think even the most hardcore Iris haters would prefer her being here over the complete non-character that is Tobias.

Ash probably won't fight G-Max Rillaboom, this is just for the opening ceremony or for Leon's other battles to show that he isn't completely reliant on Charizard. Also, there's a Leon/Diantha poster in Spoon magazine, completing the poster set. This is all I could find of it right now though.

It's pretty clear how time works here; it works like The Simpsons or Family Guy. Apu had bunch of kids while Bart stayed 10. Stewie is still 1. Years pass and things happen, the characters simply never age.

The latter would mean Paul has REALLY fallen behind Ash

No, but it was used as a justification for Ash to travel the entire world instead of just one region at a time like he used to. SM ends with Ash deciding to travel the world, and that's more or less what he's doing here, the PWC just gives him a more tangible goal.

Or we still have Ash, but the SV series is a reboot. Not a soft reboot like BW and SM were, just a full continuity reboot. Either that or Ash goes the way of Goku and continues to search for new challenges. As JN100 stated, Leon can still grow stronger despite already being the strongest, so the...

Yeah, Diantha and Steven being relegated to cameos basically tells us that they're losing in the first round.

Plus there's the fact that Leon personality-wise is basically Ash in an adult body

We got an opening update, namely the other 7 members of the Masters 8 each representing one of the seven colors of Pikachu's 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt And them all standing underneath Leon's Gigantamax Charizard

Yeah, pretty much. Bea, Raihan, Lance, Cynthia, and Leon have been teased as Ash's "rivals" multiple times, and Bea and Raihan have been defeated.

Last I checked Lance didn't have the #1 spot, the PWC was a new thing at the time, so there wasn't a Monarch. It was Lance and Leon battling for the title, not Leon taking it from Lance.

They have history together from the Mega Evo specials, whereas Ash has the least interaction with Steven out of any Champion.

Even after Cynthia was revealed, we had no reason to believe that Lance still didn't hold the #2 spot. I would have expected Cynthia being #3, but Lance being bumped down to #4, Cynthia taking his old rank, and Steven also being ranked above him were surprises.

https://twitter.com/Sunma47/status/1524248133202776064 Kensho Ono, Alain's VA, has finished recording his lines for Alain's appearance

The best round 1 opponent for Steven is Alain

She does, but it's balanced out by the fact that most of her Pokemon aren't very good. Leon has similar levels, but Pokemon with high stats and good movesets. And in the context of the anime, the reason Diantha and Steven aren't expected to make it past the first round is pretty simple...

Cynthia may not be a Dragon-type specialist per say, but she does have an affinity for them. A battle with Cynthia would be just as if not more meaningful for Iris's character as one with Lance, given their battle in BW.

I don't see any point in Ash battling Diantha, it wouldn't feel satisfying since up until now, she's had nothing but cameos. And I get why people want a rematch with Alain, but that's exactly why I'm not interested in it; it would feel too much like the writers trying to fix a "mistake", and...