>>56431921But fuck, we already set Leon as the final boss, and we're currently on Gen 8 so he gotta be the one to shill. What do? Well, let's just fucking double down. Make Leon humiliate Alan for the sake of hype surely this way people will stop being mad about the Kalos Disaster. Let's make Leon fucking destroy Diantha with basically just two Pokemon because surely that will make people hype about how strong he is and that way we can keep the rest of his team mystery woooooooooow so hype oh wait it's just the fucking Galar starters.
In trying to make things "exciting" they ended up overcompensating like crazy and everyone suffered from it.
The weird thing is that it's not like the staff was completely lacking in self-awareness. Cynthia got put second and Steven got put third, so they're aware they're the most popular Champions of the bunch, they made Cynthia be the only one who beat the rat, to also be the other one who was cucked by the one gimmick rule, and left Mega Garchomp completely untouched. They aren't completely retarded, which just makes m wonder what the fuck went so wrong with Leon.
Leon, as much as I hate to say it, suffered from horrendously bad writing on Journeys. Which is a shame because there was some golden nuggets about him being burdened by his position and feeling lonely at the top but they were pretty much ignored in the long-run. A smarter writer would have actually made him be pushed during every M8 match showing that there's indeed strong people out there still, he just had to get the fuck out of Galar to find them.
This got way longer than expected.
