CaptainBuggles
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I respectfully disagree. I personally see Paul as a well-built character and the best rival Ash has ever had, who also got a satisfying conclusion.
I can't say I'm too disappointed, since this is pretty much exactly what I was expecting. But the brevity comes off like you don't really want me to try coaxing anything else out of you, so I won't.
But... moving past that, I want to at least follow up on what I mean by punishment, I don't even think he should permanently never train again, I would just suspend him and make him take some kind of course. He is a kid after all. Even if he's a kid with a super punchable face.
And considering he's been a Trainer for a while, there's even the possibility that there was actually more than one "Chimchar" situation, where he released a Pokemon and left lasting mental harm rather than just how his 'typical' releases go. And you can argue against that, sure. But the past possibility or future potential for even a single other hypothetical case like Chimchar makes me very uncomfortable. Even one case was already too much. What if he'd never met anyone able to prove him wrong? What then? How much longer would he go unchecked?