>>53591815>Paul would bring a team of Ice-types and FaiIt's incredibly unlikely the show would go that route, and moreover type advantage is hardly an automatic win in the anime anyway. Chances are, even if Paul went all lolmetagamur mode with a bunch of pokemon he only grabbed to beat a specific trainer he'd get MUH BONDS trounced even harder.
The problem people are having is they're using Ash, the most wildly inconsistent trainer in the anime by a country mile, to try to construct a scenario where Paul wins against another hyped trainer outside of his series. That houndoom don't hunt
>but...I don't like Iris!And that's the only reason this thread's dragged on despite the answer being incredibly obvious.