>>53134680Intuition is telling me it’s because they didn’t Wallace or Alder being their too steal Steven or Iris shine. After all, if they’re in the Masters Eight then that calls into question if Steven and Iris are truly the strongest in their regions or just got lucky that one time.
>>53134694Eh, he’s had his time to shine and nothing came out of it. He was pretty much treated like a joke of a Champion and it didn’t help he was right next to Cynthia most of the time. Iris vs Ash fight should’ve happened way later in the series but it was kino having two Champion friends competing and Alder vs Cynthia wouldn’t have garnered as much hype and be just as irrelevant as Lance vs Diantha.
