>>58740548A win's a win. And it's a very meaningful win considering the pedestal Masters puts Red on.
Don't look at things just from a powerscaling sense. Look at the narrative of the story and the message it is pushing.
>Red lost several times in MastersCool. Never shown on-screen nor they made a big deal out of them. Meanwhile the opposite happened with Red vs Leon.
What is the message here? What is the company trying to make you see and think?
They're not doing this with the intention being for people to think
>>58740626 this. They're doing it with the intention being for people to think "wow, Leon sure is awesome, he managed to beat Red and be blessed by Arceus! He sure is super duper strong!".
>>58740556Not really.
You know your idealized self doesn't necessarily has to be literally you, right? In fact, that almost defeats the point. Tons of people self-inserts are completely different from how they are IRL. Surely you've seen countless self-inserts from your time on the internet, right?
Doesn't necessarily have to be a self-insert too. Just an OC donut steel fits too.
