>>57900716Reading the nth story about a trainer freezing up (they think about how hard life is for 2000 words before they say anything to their pokemon). "Smart trainer" or "empathic trainer" freezes up in battle was barely ok the first two times. But it seems to have become a reoccurring staple.
It's ok to have educated people suck at the actual application of what they do
working with "experts" IRL should show you that's often the case . I'd be leary of making it a main character, for the reasons that
>>57900716 and
>>57900978 mention.
On the otherhand having two different battle styles traveling together is nice. Even rivals with different approaches to these things is good. There's a reason Paul sticks out, he's radically different from Ash and does get results
when the plot allows him to . He's not just a strawman to say "this style of battle doesn't actually ever work watch my SI/the world shit on it"
>>57900955By making trainers have digital assistants that look like Vtuber versions of pokemon
they're all a side evolution of porygon 