I wouldn't exactly say that. I'd say that Ash's Lucario more so TRIES to be the stereotypical Lucario than anything else, but fails in that aspect because of its immaturity. You can clearly see in the Lucario and Cinderace episode that Lucario TRIES hard to keep his cool, but ultimately fails and loses his temper.
If only they tried harder (and better!) to showcase their personalities...
Each of Ash's Pokémon has a distinctive and established personality.
If it tried to be different, like Kotetsu's, them I wouldn't hate it that much.
They're just quirky, beneath that nothing.
The issue isn't that they don't HAVE personalities, but rather that it isn't showcased in a meaningful way. For instance, the Hikachu episode was a great example of showcasing the pokemon. Lucario and Cinderace both showed off their unique dynamic in that episode, and how it differed from Ash and Goh's instead of just being a carbon copy of their relationship.
Riolu's aborted rivalry with Kamon would have been an interesting plot.
Though I do wish we had gotten a Dragonite episode, I will say, one of the things I like most about Dragonite....is he didn't need one. We get to see Dragonite's personality show itself in multiple appearances, in multiple ways...before the staff seemingly decided on how they wanted to allocate screentime. In 14, we get to see how competitive it could be (perhaps via Ash) with him wanting to beat Gou's Beedrill via racing. In episode 23, we get to see how he handles conflict (and possible change/ exception to that) wanting to keep Ash, Gou, Pikachu, and Riolu away from the conflict, to let the parties figure itself out, but later on, after that didn't work, to confront, help the Pokemon solve the Golurk dilemma. That was a good way, I feel to show Dragonite off without having to "allocate" an episode to it, and I liked that approach.
I agree with Max! Inteleon's debut episode was disappointing for me action-wise, and Snipe Shot looked like a Water Gun (not even the pose from the game's animation). But if these images are anything to go by, it seems Go's Inteleon will be quite animated when dealing with Kecleon, which I will greatly appreciate. Maybe we might even see the famed secret blade Inteleon allegedly keep in their tails. I'm super excited~
Didn't know it already came out sorry
That only exposes this series' poor animation quality. Not surprisingly.
Just look at Goh for instance.
