>>46911432Japan is more anal about VAs being the same.
>>46910537Ehh, Aggron was a throwaway Pokémon for both Paul and Conway. Charizard got both it’s X and Y forms divided between Trevor and Alain to both debut the Y form and have Trevor job to establish that anime only rival Alain is far stronger than game rival Trevor. They did a similar thing later by having Sawyer beat Tierno handily, right down to showing off Mega Sceptiles Lightningrod ability helping it defeating Tiernos Raichu. That Ash’s Pikachu has to fight.
>while not the exact same Morrison had meta for and Tyson had MetagrossCorrect. It’s meant to re-establish Tyson is the strongest Hoenn rival, since his pseudo is fully evolved. There’s specific reasons for those last two, but a battle between Paul and Gary seems plausible, as well as what
>>46910419 said about a rivalry between them. Remember that Electivire was given to Gary back at the tail end of Battle Forntier. It pulled double duty as a Kanto mon that got a then brand new Gen 4 evolution, show off its an electric type to surpass Pikachu, and give Pikachu and later Chimchar a rivalry with the entire line later in Sinnoh.
Christ that was autistic.
