>>54886364If you watch BW it's fucking hilarious how he makes three appearances in the first 22 episodes where he's this smug and skilled asshole who's shitting all over Ash, but after that they do a complete 180 on him and make him a complete buttmonkey that loses all the time and also drop his rivalry with Ash for an obsession with dethroning Alder out of disrespect for him, a plotline that ends with Alder assraping the fuck out of him in front of a live audience of thousands.
Then he makes one more appearance in the league preliminaries where Ash beats his ass as a pure formality and fucks off forever after that.
It's so clear the writers saw that nobody liked this guy and changed their plans for him in response.
