>>54303849You can't even get away from Leon in the postgame. Leon takes over Rose Tower and turns it into the Battle Tower, and is the tower boss as well as the only trainer of interest in the whole damn thing. Leon takes over Rose's position as League Chairman, and they make it a point to show him being better at it than Rose, especially since he also sets up the Galarian Star Tournaments. They don't even let Leon losing Champion status affect him much, as people say he's livelier running the Battle Tower than he was as Champion.
This is obscene. Leon is by far and away the most important character in SwSh and in the current season of the anime, all to the detriment of other characters, whose flaws don't matter, who only fails against what might as well be an act of god and the game protagonist. Well, do we get an interesting, grand character out of all this character shilling? No, we get an utter fashion disaster whose personality is being Champion, having a Charizard and being bad at directions (except when it's important to the plot which means it's a flaw that doesn't actually mean anything). Fan-fucking-tastic. There's also little reason to believe why Leon is the greatest trainer of all time. They tell us he is, but they don't show it. Nothing he has or does is especially interesting, strategic or smart, even compared to regular trainers, let alone other Champions. As far as I know, Leon's the best trainer ever because he can use type advantage, something the toddler I fought on Route 2 can do. So why do people like this guy? I think it's revealed in the projections of Leon worshippers - what they accuse Cynthia fans of; because they want to fuck him or see him fuck another, because they like him being a Mary Sue, and/or because of power level worship. Maybe out of sheer contrarianism. Nobody actually likes Leon for his character.
