>>53221661>DP, Battle Frontier or Johto were all better stopping points?For me the match with Casey was the point of no return, they literally told us as the audience that Ash could no longer function as an introductory character, he is already on another level and had to take the next step by abandoning the leading role of the show.
With a starter as strong as Charizard that at this moment already recognized him as a Trainer, he no longer needed to go through the same teachings over and over again, it was time to pass the torch to a character like Casey or Jimmy and leave Ash as a background character that was mentioned from time to time (Like they did with Marina's idol career)
But not! We are going to nerf him by removing strong pokemon and lowering experience to Pikachu.
