>>43161065>Literal no standards.To be considered the strongest trainer in the world, you require no qualifications to enter the tournament. Just to win it.
>require eight badges Kanto Gyms were all jokes. Johto gyms were all jokes compared to OS Ash (barring maybe Clair). Ash had to use fresh teams against all of the other regional gyms just to be fair.
>or an equivalent to even participateThe anime went out of its way to show how shitty trainers that participated in that method are.
>requires four badges to enter a matchCompleting activities like Gen 7, wowie.
>Alola's league requires you to exist to enterSo just like the World Tournament? Incredible.
Daily reminder that Ash was among the 20 strongest trainers in all of Kanto when he only actually earned two badges in actual battles.
