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>mfw there are actual unironic defenders of PM's writing ITT
Now, listen. What I'm going to write, frankly, is not for you. You are either too mentally handicapped to grasp things, or maybe your taste is so pathological you really enjoy eating shit, or maybe you're shitposting and thus in bad faith; regardless of the option, arguing with you is worthless and thus I have as much pretense of influencing your opinions as I do that of worms.
That being said, it's still interesting to convey why this whole Alain battle was an absolute disaster on almost every level.
Now, I don't give a shit about whether move X is super duper effective in the games or if some mon had 6x type advantage. I don't give a shit because the anime's never been consistent about those things. It only matters when they need it to matter, and if they need a Pokemon to power through type disadvantages, they do. So the question we have to ask ourselves is: WHY did they present the battle in that way? WHAT did they seek to accomplish with it? WHY are people aggravated at Alain being clowned?
For the first two questions: It's obvious that the main purpose of the fight was to show Leon as being OP and using Alain as a prop for that. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that (besides using Alain when that sets up the wrong but entirely justifiable expectations and defying expectations without good reason is in itself bad writing, as well as inadvertently setting up expectations you didn't mean to, but that is a conversation for another topic).
The main problem is that with the clowning, they overplayed it. It felt absolutely comical. Alain's Pokemon were taken out in seconds and his Mega was taken down by a base version. It had no seriousness to it whatsoever.
