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Quoted By: >>18211604 >>18212925 >>18218359
May had the best rivals.
Seriously, her entire arc was one of the saving graces of AG, I could just watch her episodes and skip everything else and the show would be amazing.
What really sold it was, that since she didnt need to win her contests just to advance the plot, there was no guarantee that she would come out on top (unlike Ash, who has to beat these set 8 gym leaders and thus needs to auto win or just repeat the same leader after an episode of training) and sense the way the contests were set up meant you could have recurring rivals who were actually ALLOWED by the plot to win just as much as she had, you could get actual build ups and the like.
Seriously, her entire arc was one of the saving graces of AG, I could just watch her episodes and skip everything else and the show would be amazing.
What really sold it was, that since she didnt need to win her contests just to advance the plot, there was no guarantee that she would come out on top (unlike Ash, who has to beat these set 8 gym leaders and thus needs to auto win or just repeat the same leader after an episode of training) and sense the way the contests were set up meant you could have recurring rivals who were actually ALLOWED by the plot to win just as much as she had, you could get actual build ups and the like.
