>>51336040This, that dynamic was perfect, Goh as the brains and Ash as the brawn, but unlike the Ash-Clemont relationship where one was clearly the lead and the other his nerdy sidekick. Ash and Goh's relationship worked more like friends and rivals, showing that sometimes a rational decision and a good strategy is the route to follow, and vice versa situations where instinct and brute force prevail, as well as the mixture of both.
Here Chloe would have functioned as a mediator, this would have made her decision to become a researcher more credible as she was the one who managed the information collected by her field researchers, live specimens by Goh and reports by Ash (perhaps recordings thanks to her RotomPhone)