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Iris started out with a lot of promise, and she had a lot of good moments, but much like the rest of Best Wishes, BW2 and executive meddling killed it
>Shit, Iris is the new Champion in the new games, so we have to give her more focus and throw a fully-evolved Dragon type onto her team to make her look strong (Dragonite)
And since Ash now has to fight Roxie instead of Drayden, Drayden get relegated to bringing Iris's character arc to a rushed and premature end
She's still unironically one of my favorites, but BW2 fucked her arc up hard
