>>44871584The World Championships is just to qualify for the actual Top 8 tournament. It's equivalent to preliminaries in League Conferences but with dozens or hundreds of times the participants.
>>44871594And? Goh has the aid of an entire lab, Ash's aid, advice and training and has access to numerous powerful breeds of pokemon that he has captured and trained. Hell, Ash's own pokemon train with them.
Goh capturing a low-level legendary like Zapdos (one of the most common legendaries at that) is pretty fucking sensible when you consider all of the resources, aid and drive he has to do so. Ash could have realistically captured a Zapdos back in XY and that was before he qualified for the league.
