Fuck you.
Cynthiafags are annoying but one of the things the anime did best was build the hype, or "protect" to use wrestling talk, the most elite trainers, especially the champions.
Ash vs Lorelai, Ash vs Agatha, Ash vs Drake, Paul vs Cynthia, Paul vs Brandon, these are the matches that made the anime Elite 4 and champions feel like genuine world class threats even compared to the crazy powerlevel Ash witnesses over to other trainers.
Kalos is when they jumped the shark a bit with
>Diantha
but it was tolerable if the result was a desired "Ash breaks the glass ceiling" and won a league. Alain on the otherhand was retarded directors wank having him go over Malva and the winning the league, which brings us to Journey's.
Even if you hate Cynthia above all else, you cannot tell me watching Ash UNGA BUNGA IKUZE his way through the best in the world with his barely trained fanwank team, especially 1 year old Shilldog, over Steven, Cynthia and Leon was satisfying after a 20+ run of meticulous building and protection, resorting to every other Shonen's protag fanwank over an interesting skill/power scale without putting in any effort to make it seem like Ash had the heat to win those matches, just pointless fankwank to try to claw back the hype they lost in the Kalos finals.
