>>50421209>She literally acts like an older sister in SMPretty much. Ash is present as their "silly little bro" in SM. Still kinda weird they did the whole turning down guy thing because of Ash only to bring her back 4 weeks later and drop it.
Now with Serena being conceptualized to be in love with him/admire him, we'll probably never actually see them even stand in this close proximity to each other ever again, whereas with Misty, Dawn, Iris, etc it's fine being arounf them the whole episode.