>>51967610>The problem isn't that Ash was underpreparedThe problem is that Ash is a bad trainer with bad pokemon in comparison to his opposition. Maybe if it was a little league tournament hosted by a local elementary school he'd be qualified.
>The problem is that Tobias-is a better trainer than Ash, with better pokemon, and thus better odds of winning. It makes sense that somebody with several legendaries would be a frontier brain or a conference winner, while the kid running around with a Pikachu loses.
>If it was really about what Ash deserved, his faults as a Trainer would be vocalized by the narrator or a character in the showAnd scare children? No. There's a reason they stopped doing that, the marketing team thinks it's bad. The Kanto anime constantly had characters and narration berating Ash for his terrible traits, and most of those traits remain to this day.
>beholden to game mechanicsGame mechanics are shit and don't belong, I agree.
>Never started.You clearly did if you think Ash deserved to win literally every tournament he's ever been in, despite objectively being underqualified for most of them.
>Not at all. Just by virtue of being kicked around for so longWhat happened in prior seasons is irrelevant. In XY, Ash was as much a mary sue as Alain. Even more so considering how special Ash was treated.
>>51967661>The faggot who literally won with a Meowth in boots?As opposed to the faggot who entered the tournament with a pikachu, a snivvy, and an oshawott? Yeah, a single meowth is
pretty tame in comparison.
>Or Tobias where Ash was the only person in the entirety of Sinnoh to not only beat his Darkrai but also his LatiosThat's great. A shame Ash couldn't keep up, he's lucky he even got as far as he did against a trainer with such stronger pokemon.
>And Cameron who was an absolute retard who was still getting owned by Ash’s “baby Pokémon” and then got plot armor with LucarioYes, the anime really has to bend over backwards to accomodate Ash.
