How is Ash even going to compete against Leon? half his team got jobbed by Steven and only one of them will be left to defeat Cynthia. it's not like they can just use several gimmicks at once, since only one of them can be used per battle. Dragonite, Gengar and Dracovish lose matches too easily and Pikachu got jobbed at the start of the Cynthia battle. Lucario is the only one with a fighting chance against Leon's team and even it's struggling to beat G-Max Togekiss and Garchomp.