>>47532294He was probably going to change his mons but he never got the chance. You would think that the circumstances would warrant a rain check or something or at least let him heal his Pokemon considering half his team was tired. Why was no one the least but curious on why he showed up so late? Or why he was on team rocket's balloon?
What's funny is that Ash probably would have lost anyways since he spent more most of the later episodes of the season dicking around instead of training, but the why things turned out it Ash would have been fucked either way. And the worst part is that everyone loses. Ash was humiliated (in front of possibly the entire country since this is a televised event), Ritchie didn't get the awesome battle he wanted from Ash, and the audience (both in show and real-life) got screwed out of an entertaining battle.
