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Yes, i know. I can read. But people can reply and talk about what they think.It is called Controversial Opinions XD
I never wanted Ash to win any league. I think most people seem to want him to win, but I really like the concept that its a huge world and there is always someone better. I may not always approve of how he has lost previous leagues, but I never wanted him to actually win one (and no its not because I think the show would end, because I don't). I just think the way this world is portrayed, with battles essentially being the premier competition, that Ash, the way he is portrayed, at his age shouldn't be the best (even though we know in the anime a regional league winner isn't quite the best yet, but still its not like its just some amateur competition, as we see adults competing and a huge variety of trainers - so it is a high level of competition in the Pokemon world's seemingly most popular event). I almost think it would have been better had he finished lower in Kanto so he could keep "improving" his ranking without getting so close to winning but I don't believe they had this type of length of the show in mind back then. But more than anything I wish people wouldn't take the ranking "number" as the indicator of how good a particular team was.
I don't think there should be an impossible barrier, I just don't think Ash should have won any of the regional leagues, that had sometimes hundreds of incredibly talented trainers. If they would have just started with him doing a little worse, but still showing it as a great accomplishment (because with so many highly motivated trainers, even winning a few times in a league is a huge accomplishment), then I think it wouldn't be as big of a deal that he hadn't won yet. Ash has always been shown as someone with flaws, and although he has a lot of skill, I just don't see him as a guy who should be the best of hundreds of similarity motivated and talented trainers. And someone always being better isn't just some writing trope, it is very much reality of any competition, even for the best if they ever get complacent.I agree that no matter how much Ash does, there would always be someone better. That's the one of the classic Shōnen tropes. But I disagree with the idea of Ash shouldn't win a League because of that. Ash can (and should) win competitions like anyone else. There should not be some impossible barrier with something as regional and local like league tournaments. With dedicated training, strategy and determination, Ash can be the best of his peers. However, that doesn't mean he's the best elsewhere, and they don't have to come to the League to prove it. Gary Oak's battles with Ash at the end of the Orange Islands and the Battle Frontier offers the best way to make Ash face newer challenges without denying accomplishments he did earn. They are unofficial battles but remind Ash that there's more to the journey ahead.
Having the someone better coming into a regional League that Ash worked hard for only reinforces the misconception that Leagues are somehow the final step to becoming a Pokémon Master rather than just a small step to be a Master. It's the reason why so many people get frustrated with League losses. If Ash were to find someone better, he should move into the big pond rather than having the big fish come to his.
I don't think there should be an impossible barrier, I just don't think Ash should have won any of the regional leagues, that had sometimes hundreds of incredibly talented trainers. If they would have just started with him doing a little worse, but still showing it as a great accomplishment (because with so many highly motivated trainers, even winning a few times in a league is a huge accomplishment), then I think it wouldn't be as big of a deal that he hadn't won yet. Ash has always been shown as someone with flaws, and although he has a lot of skill, I just don't see him as a guy who should be the best of hundreds of similarity motivated and talented trainers. And someone always being better isn't just some writing trope, it is very much reality of any competition, even for the best if they ever get complacent.
I really get the feeling a lot of people who are mad when Ash doesn't get first out of hundreds, don't really understand or appreciate competition. Someone can be incredibly good at something popular and still not even be in the stratosphere of being the best, even locally. Ash isn't treated as a prodigy for the entirety of a series, so having him be such for 8 weeks at the end of a series doesn't really make sense to me. Implying he should have met all the best trainers during his short journey in a region is also quite unrealistic and silly. When we see hundreds of people at a league, and he knows only a few, but it just so happens that the few he knows are the best ones, that always strikes me the wrong way. There is nothing wrong with him getting beat by someone he doesn't know, that is an extremely realistic reality of stepping up in competition. The league pond isn't a small pond (except maybe the exception of Alola), Ash shouldn't be a Cynthia-level trainer, the way he is portrayed (and that would make a pretty boring show too), so his big pond is stepping into a popular regional league.
Reading how people react to the Alola league win it just appears to me people think it as more like receiving a gift than earning something. To me it still feels a lot more hollow than a win in any of the other leagues (except maybe Indigo) would have felt because there wasn't as much effort put in (in fact, I think it was pretty clear Gladion worked harder, because he was working towards improving nearly every time we saw him), so its more like Ash went into a place where no one cared that much about battling and skated by on his latent skills without much effort. I guess I just wish they hadn't done a league at all, since the series was not really about battling, but whatever, at least SM is almost over.
I actually do like the Alola cast, I just wish they'd handled them better.
Wait a second, people hate them???
I’ll admit that I’m not a fan of Sophocles, but I don’t hate him either. Lillie and Kiawe are my favs.
As stupid as Cameron was, at least he’s a decent trainer and he evolved a lot of his Pokémon.
He was so clueless about practically everything that I often wonder if he evolved them by accident.
Especially when it comes to Hydreigon... I can't help but think that he just got insanely lucky and somehow got the most agreeable Hydreigon ever, because any other Hydreigon should've flipped out and eaten him a long time ago. If Ash could barely handle a Charizard, how the heck did Cameron deal with something like this?He was so clueless about practically everything that I often wonder if he evolved them by accident.
Because Ritchie wasn't an idiot, while Cameron was such an epic failure that you begin to question how he even got as far as he did. Not just in the League, but also as a Trainer in general.I do notice a double standard here. Richie didn’t even win his Pokémon league match with Ash the right way, but he gets a pass and people barely complain about his unfair win (It also helps that Richie was never called out on his cheap victory like Ash and Iris were).
Cameron, despite him being an idiot, wins fair and square (with bad writing and character shilling, to say) without Ash having mishaps before his league. The latter gets bashed more. Why???
Richie won because back then, Ash was still a beginning Trainer who hadn't taken the proper time to train his disobedient Pokémon. Ash looked dumb in their first battle because that's what he basically was back then. Cameron looked so idiotic that for many, he went beyond comedically idiotic and entered the "annoyingly idiotic" territory. Including me. Ash shouldn't lose to a Trainer who's more stupid than him.Before anyone asks, I dislike both characters, but Richie gets under my skin more because I dislike boring, generic Gary Stu characters (like Tobias) that make Ash look dumb and incompetent. Cameron made Ash look like a Nobel Prize winner XD.
The match was perfectly fair and square on Ritchie’s hand though, there was literally no fault of his in the scenario. The people to blame were the league organisers for not postponing (or at least even healing the team) the match when their contestant got attacked by a villainous team, Team Rocket, and Ash himself for never bothering to train Charizard. And even if he never intended to train charizard it was always in his party for some reason.Richie didn’t even win his Pokémon league match with Ash the right way, but he gets a pass and people barely complain about his unfair win (It also helps that Richie was never called out on his cheap victory
The match was perfectly fair and square on Ritchie’s hand though, there was literally no fault of his in the scenario. The people to blame were the league organisers for not postponing (or at least even healing the team) the match when their contestant got attacked by a villainous team, Team Rocket, and Ash himself for never bothering to train Charizard. And even if he never intended to train charizard it was always in his party for some reason.
"I'll keep using a Pokémon till it is perfectly unproblematic and leave it’s side immediately when it faces issues." is really, really out of character for Ash and not really good ethics-wise imo. It’s literally a trainer's job to work out the kinks in a Pokemon.Ash didn’t want to train Charizard because it was disobedient, arrogant, and stubborn. If I were Ash when I lost the Indigo League, I probably would have released Charizard for being such a jerk.