What's all the debate about? I get why people wouldn't like the special form made just for Ash, but Charmander, Chimchar and Froakie's arcs were all fine.
>>43174272Froakie lived with other Froakie after it was born but was alienated and attacked because all its peers wanted to play around and relax while it wanted to train and get stronger. Then Froakie was given away to various trainers but it either abandoned those trainers or was given back to Sycamore because it couldn't bond with any of those trainers and couldn't trust them to help it get stronger. Ash was the first trainer who Froakie could completely trust.
>>43174298>>43174334Paul was abusive, he went beyond normal training methods. He would have multiple Pokémon attack Chimchar, even when it was exhausted.