HumanDawn
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After playing ORAS, I started thinking of how much nicer it would have been to have Wally in the main cast with May, Ash and Brock instead of Max. In the games when he started his journey he wasn't personally prepared and had to stop 1/4 in and go back home, so the staff could have made him a trainer for a while and then halted his gym badge collecting quest and continued with Ash to learn, being similar to how Max ended up learning a lot about Pokemon and battling with him. Even Max got an established connection with a Ralts like Wally, although Max didn't catch it. So why make an original character for the anime when you could have used an existing one that could have filled a similar role and have more potential room for development as well having another character on the cast to advertise in the games? Were they thinking of maybe having Wally used as a rival but ended up not being interested in developing him?
I don't hate Max and actually liked his character and his relationship with Ash and May, but I have to wonder why he was used instead of Wally when all of his traits could have been given to Wally, with only cutting the sister and brother relationship with May. Was Max just an easier 4th character to draw? It's just puzzling when they could have put in a character with a lot more potential than Max in this cast. They might not have been able to develop him like in the games doing so where he ended up having a team of 5 strong Pokemon, but nevertheless, they could have easily just had him join the main cast as a temporary member like they did with Bianca in BW, had him go through his development in the same places as the games with a few alterations and had his in game battle be a battle in the Pokemon League Ash could face.
Wally's absence in the anime and any of the movies leaves me to wonder why he wasn't adapted. While he wasn't a particularly important character in the games, he did get enough attention that warranted an anime adaptation in my opinion which could have been done a bit differently to be more interesting.
I don't hate Max and actually liked his character and his relationship with Ash and May, but I have to wonder why he was used instead of Wally when all of his traits could have been given to Wally, with only cutting the sister and brother relationship with May. Was Max just an easier 4th character to draw? It's just puzzling when they could have put in a character with a lot more potential than Max in this cast. They might not have been able to develop him like in the games doing so where he ended up having a team of 5 strong Pokemon, but nevertheless, they could have easily just had him join the main cast as a temporary member like they did with Bianca in BW, had him go through his development in the same places as the games with a few alterations and had his in game battle be a battle in the Pokemon League Ash could face.
Wally's absence in the anime and any of the movies leaves me to wonder why he wasn't adapted. While he wasn't a particularly important character in the games, he did get enough attention that warranted an anime adaptation in my opinion which could have been done a bit differently to be more interesting.