>>52353616It was before the XYZ season, so that might have been it.
Rewatching it really cemented it to me that he was more collected overall and his biggest fuck ups honestly were only his tendency to rush into things instead of taking atleast some time to get his game straight. His first Match against Viola showed that well, he didn't trained with his Pikachu and his Fletchling against her Bug types and her Icefield tactic and he payed for it. Same goes for the 8th Gym, although the execution about it was really bad, with that snowball scene taking the cake of going about delivering a good message the wrong way, which was then honestly well-summarized by Serena after Ash lost in the Kalos League:
All that mattered to him in the end was that he honestly gave it all he got with his team and he wouldn't ask for more than it.
