>>50196576Because she had way too much chemistry with drew, you need to remember this is gen 3 so in people’s mind ash was for misty specially with that random added line in the jirachi movie dub
It was only until dawn appeared and showed chemistry with ash that people started forgetting about misty, some people tried dawn x paul but when lyra showed up and shipped dawn with ash in the show it pretty much stablished Dawn x ash as the stronger optio