>>46958954Even noname trainers in the other series were seen with multiple strong pokemon at their disposal. Due to the fact that many participants of the Alola League did not even have 3 pokemon, the outcome of every top16 fight was a bit boring and super predictable.
>Aren't about 4 really strong characters what has always happened in these leagues in the the anime, anon?In XY we for sure knew that Ash, Astrid, Remo, Alain, Sawyer, Tierno and maybe even Trevor were quite strong.
And in DP we had Ash, Paul, Barry, Conway, Tobias, Nando and the dude who lost to Tobias in the finals.
You now see that other series had as many trainers who had at least a slight chance of winning it all as SM had trainers capable of collecting all the required badges if Alola had gyms.
