>>24587405But he isn't a different character, that's my point. He still looks the same he did 16 years ago except his clothes look worse now.
If anything, him suddenly being competent is too radical a change. One day an idiot, the other day a smogonfag.
They should either have replaced him, or written one or two story arcs where he's forced to take battling more seriously and to git gud to explain this shift.
But as far as I know there was no such thing, so now all of a sudden this former retard has epic battles with dynamic camera perspectives and fancy special effects. It just comes across as cringy.