>>36679852Say what you will, but the fact that they had to asspull this guy out of nowhere really shows that the writers, executives, TPC and everyone else involved in the production of the anime realized that they legitimately made Ash too powerful of a force for any regular trainer to beat.
Then they regressed him into a retard again for Unova, gave him his shittiest team yet and seemingly made one of the guidelines for a Pokemon League be "Ash cannot use any of his Pokemon from past regions other than Pikachu".
Compare that to Kalos, where Snowflake-Greninja was basically his only notable Pokemon because they specifically wanted to shill Greninja and nothing else until Charizard got to BURASTO BAN the ninja frog into submission as a cold reminder that they'll never let a starter surpass Charizard in shilling power.
