>>42338224Because Money. They knew they were rebooting the series after Alola.
When they really should have done it at XYZ because of the massive tone in animation and how serious ash is .
I still remember that fucking day, I remember that meme early thread when it was made, I remember twitter blowing up and waves of angry fans from across the world pissed because Ash got fucking denied due to some self insert charizard fuck faggot. I love watching that mega blastoise vs charizard fight just to see it get it's teeth kicked in.
God , even the team that worked on the anime essentially said they didn't agree with the decision. While it's nice to see ash win Alola, it felt cheap in comparison to what XYZ was.
