>>34662724Alain is shown fucking curbstomping Mega's left right and center, and goes with Steven to fight against the fucking Primals.
Ash is shown as doing ok against a bunch of piss-ants, while trying to replace Pikachu with Greninja.
>>34662725>As well trained as Ash'sAsh's Kalos Pokemon outside of Greninja and Hawlaucha were shit and did fuck all.
>b-but he never showed any other PokemonAsh still fucking trains his Heracross and Charizard, and all of his friends have pulled Pokemon from their ass as well, I think it's alright for Alain to actually have a fucking team of Pokemon like practically every other non-meme trainer in the universe.
>>34662726>As a narrative, it felt incredibly off though.Yes and no. If they hadn't had the Mega Specials, definitely, and if you only watched X and Y I'd agree.
>Ash Greninja was hyped up massively over the season, even knocking over the Champion's Mega, just like how Alain's Charizard was able to spar with (an admittingly, seemingly non-serious) Steven's Metagross.Ok, Steven's Metagross is on an entirely different fucking level than fucking Mega Gardevoir. Steven's a top 3 trainer in the universe, while Diantha's your run of the mill area boss. Metagross if kicking it with the Primals, while Gardevoir's getting pushed over by fucking frogs.
There is absolutely no way you could say with a straight face that you'd expect Greninja to be able to take hits from the Primals, or even live against them.
>The fact that Ash had already lost to Alain twice only to lose the final, climatic battle again made it all seem sort of pointless.Yeah, their whole plot for the arc was pretty shit.
