>>52849386Ash is the MC. He's the anime equivalent of the Player Character.
And the Player Character is always a super duper ultra mega hyper mary sue. Losing to them is no shame at all.
People have been looking forward to Ash vs Cynthia since a fucking decade. I'd argue that it was the most looked forward to and wanted match in the entire anime besides Ash vs Alan re-match.
But then...
>Journeys fanfic team instead of Sinnoh team>Cynthia dominates Ash for an episode and half through sick strategies>Then she loses all her braincells midway the match>Sets up SR 3/4 into the match when Ash remaining Pokemon are resistant to SR despite being an strategy monster the previous episode>We're supposed to think Ash clearing the SR is a super duper kino outside the box game changer strat move when literally only one of his Pokemon was affected by it>Outside Pikachu and that's te only strategies Ash uses at all the rest is all unga bunga>Pikachu fucking oneshots Gastrodon because ???>Shows Cynthia having Mega Garchomp against Iris to then not use it against Ash>Doesn't use Kommo-o nor Z-Move despite going out of their way to show Cynthia having a Kommo-o before>Dynamaxes Togekiss instead out of fucking nowhere>All Togekiss does is spam Max Airstream>Gets KO'ed without even touching the shilldog>Garchomp coincidentally has an all-dragon moveset when his final opponent is Mega LucarioPeople aren't upset that Ash beat Cynthia in itself, it's the how it happened rather than in happened. It was unsatisfying as fuck.
