>>54221882In games she's good, arguably better with the white versions since you challenge her as a gym leader. But she does a good job encapsulating the theme of the next generation taking up the mantle for the previous one that's in a lot of shonen based media.
in the anime they really botched it, I didn't watch much of BW but she was just there, after two generations of female protagonists going out for a goal it's weird to have one just traveling with Ash just because again, and then they suddenly give her the champion title after a decade plus of not being on the show and to add insult to injury just completely shit all over that point I made about her game counterpart's arc by using her to job to Cynthia. They really should've just had Alder keep the champion title for the tournament and give him the arc about these battles being his swan song rather than trying to play off Cynthia as being the one looking to retire(again after using her to squash the hopes of the next generation by wrecking Iris).
