>>54290299XY was the last time I gave a fuck about battles in the anime, I unironically believed he would win back then, and so did some of my friends at school. I remember seething so much at this for about a week or so. Eventually I got over that and moved on.
SM was pretty good just for the fact that it barely had useless CoTDs and used the main cast instead, which was great.
Journeys was all over the place though, I did not like it, felt like a step down.
In short I sort of went from a shonenfag to a waifufag, I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but it's who I am 