Probably why they had Ash get rid of it as they were starting to bond, it would have been easy to have Ash win battles with it, same reason they probably made Charizard disobedient at first
Eh, that just sounds kinda lazy to me. They could have found a way around it if they tried, I think. (And that doesn't at all excuse Primeape's ludicrously long absence from the anime, that you can definitely chalk up to the writers just forgetting about it.)
Exactly. It wasn't that Primeape was "too strong" or anything like that. It was literally just them being lazy.
No. It was sheer laziness if you ask me. Ambipom got the exact same treatment in DP.
I think if Ambipom got a big role in the contests it would be dif
The OP part will always be a problem. But they did 'try' to show how Charizard need some more training with higher lvl pokemon (Charizards).
I know you were talking about the gang, anyway Leon is the only case I can remember a main character/ rival got all 3 of his region fully evolved.
Well, the very, very end of Hoenn anyway. (And technically, it was Kanto, since it was the end of Battle Frontier by the time May's Combusken evolved.)
