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I personally think Lillie should have gotten one especially given that she had helped the Alola Sandshrew in the ice cave earning her her z-crystal.I wanted Ash to get Alolan Sandslash.
What makes that even stranger is that Kanto even established that there were agents hired by the Pokémon League to make sure that the gyms were following the standard set by the Pokémon League. They literally have the power to shut down a gym not adhering to these standards yet somehow they never got on any of these gyms cases. You’d think at least Erika and Sabrina would get into trouble for their conduct.It's weird when you think about some of the implications behind the "pity badges"; Gym Leaders seem to have a lot of leeway in giving badges. Kanto alone also shows how little oversight they have:
*Surge keeps sending challengers to the ER
*Sabrina turns people into dolls
*Erika's junior trainers ban people for complaining about perfume
*Blaine hid his gym and almost killed Pikachu
*After Viridian City's leader vanishes they have an Elite Four member take over. Something tells me there were not a ton of Earth Badges given that year.
Honestly I bet the league knows Giovanni is the leader of Team Rocket and just don't care.
Though maybe that explains Mandy; perhaps he made generous donations to the Gym Leaders.
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A smaller one, but I wish they'd given Brock and Misty some of their G/S Pokémon in Johto, although in Brock's case I suppose it's because his whole GS party were from Kanto but it could have been interesting to see him end up with Kabutops and Omastar somehow, or at least let Geodude evolve.