>>54450251There's virtually no difference that fucking matters once they decided to pull that "chosen" shit off in a movie that's long since is considered canon and repeatedly getting shoe-horned into the front with ancient deities, confrontations with the bad guys who want to take advantage control the legendaries.
That shit went up more and more plus his powerwank writing except for the leagues pre-SM where it takes an abrupt nosedive in writing.
You might have been right that it wasn't gary stu at the start for both sides, but the first season was already starting to dim the water with that movie. And since Hoenn it's one of the more broken loops onwards.
I couldn't give two shits about the anime in general, but keeping his ass on board made him too stale. XY being the mercy fuck up to break the status quo, only to end up with an mythical and a undiscovered form of that rock wolf with an Z-move only exclusive to him. And of course the fan-service in JN.
Ash post OS was a mistake.
