Beary
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First off I want to say I agree with your two points. However, I feel that Ash pokemon are strong physically but there’s almost zero to nothing for development for them. The main point of Pokemon for the last 25 years was to develop one team, and then stick with it the entire season. But the writers are being lazy and keep doing these CotD episodes with Goh. With no development for his pokemon, the anime isn’t satisfying. Let’s imagine this, what if Ash just caught a dialga and then beat Paul in D/P? It’s not as satisfying because without infernape, the viewers won’t feel a connection to Ash. The same is happening here. I don’t feel any connection really to dragonite and dracovish and to me this seems like lazy development from the writers. We just need more episodes with Ash and his pokemon alone, no Goh or Chloe. We need to see training because that’s where we see the hardships that his pokemon face. Or else it seems like Ash just catches these great pokemon and they somehow manage to win every battle for him. The only good development in this series is sirfetch, and even then the training episode was stuffed with goh and comedy. I think writers need to lay off the comical moments for important battles and training episodes.It seems a bit odd to me to say that Ash shouldn't capture any more Pokemon because of his current team is being handled, but that he should also bring back his older Pokemon. It's true that his reserves are already developed and wouldn't necessarily need a lot of screentime, but they would overshadow his current team quite easily. I'm also not really sure if they would really feel the need to make Ash use his reserves for any upcoming matches. If his current team can carry him to the Hyper Class, including defeating the Unova Champion, then why would he think he needs to bring in his more experienced Pokemon? Even if he's struggling against certain trainers, wouldn't it make more sense to just train his current team instead? It would at least help to improve on how they're managing Ash's team by having him actually train and work with his Pokemon. I'd still like for Ash to capture some more Pokemon, if only because I still wish that he could have a couple more Galar Pokemon.
I'm pretty sure that there's a huge difference between Ash not using Gengar more frequently and his previous trainer happily abandoning it for years. Saying that there's no difference between them is just harsh and untrue. I'm not saying that this excuses the minimal screentime for Gengar or any of Ash's Pokemon, but painting Ash as this neglectful trainer because of what ultimately is the writers' decisions seems rather harsh. If the writers didn't have most of Ash's PWC matches off screen or have most of them be one-on-one battles, that probably could have gone a long way with showing Ash's team more frequently and giving more weight to these battles as opposed to making them so much more infrequent.
I messed up my message about Ash being a neglectful trainer. I should say the writers are just neglecting Ash instead...