>>52427437The anime desperately needs to introduce a skilled trainer. M8 has shown us that all the champions are braindead when it comes to strategy and misdirection, every fight is just a slugout. Introduce trainers and pokemon who have the slightest bit of thought put behind their actions and Ash will realistically lost 99/100 times because he still hasn't improved in that facet.
>"Okay Pikachu, use gigavolt ultrakill death tackle! Hit them hard and go bam wam BOOM kapow and then they go aahhh oh no it was so strong I fainted!">"Now Flamigo, use detect into throat chop!">pikachu fucking dies