>>58048768Applying ashnime powerscaling to the Horizons characters makes no sense because there's no real Gym&League battling. So there's no official Pokemon League Championship competetive narrative to track all of the challengers, no real standard to compare.
GraNteD, the ashnime stopped being consistent with this too after XYZ ended and ever since SM, the powerscaling got nonsensical and pointless since they got rid of the Gym system in the anime. Yeah the Alola league and the Masters arc in JN makes zero sense in powerscaling standards set by the OSXY seasons. (And even the post XYZ movies I choose You and the Power of Us were more in that OSXY style imo).
But still from the first episode and down to the last episode of XYZ the ashnime held a really really good balance in terms of how all of the rivals were scaled against each other. There were a lot of factors, the game meta as the base, plus shounen factors like tactics, strategy, reaction speed, luck sometimes so the Gen1-6 league battles were ALWAYS unpredictable because there was a LOT of effort put into the battle writing. Horizons doesn't have that because there's no point since there's no Gym+Leagues.
And even the Horizons battles in general are written extremely differently compared to the ashnime ones.
The tendency for battles in Horizons is that they just stick to the game meta extremely closely down to the weird vidya game effects without improvising in an anime way like the ashnime would.
There's no real way to compare Roy's competence in battles to Ash's (by OSXY standards when it still made sense in the ashnime at least) because the battles in Horizons aren't written with consideration of balancing out rivals, Gym Leaders, Elite4s, Champions properly.
It's a pretty dry and to the book adaptation of game battles. Not in a particularly creative way.
Yes, ThunderArmour and Aimforthehorn was kinda more intriguing because that stuff was rare and the main combat was still way more intense.
