>>56714405>Their entire rivalry has been how they are eachother's antitheses.Wrong, Paul barely gave a shit about Ash and Ash just saw Paul as another asshole rival like Gary
>Paul is a pure pragmatist who treats sentimentality with contempt and only cared about results. He was basically a meta gamer. So he would never choose a full team of Pokemon Ash had faced before because that would give Ash an advantage.Youre looking into it too much faggot, Paul just switched his team up nothing more than that. Every trainer does it as part of their journey
>Meanwhile the entire reason Paul always got so deep under Ash's skin is because the consistent results Paul produced by abandoning any Pokemon he considered weak challenged Ash's belief that catching and training a Pokemon is meant to be a commitment. So Ash HAD to use the same team he lost to Paul with at Lake Acuity to prove that he was right to not give up on his Pokemon just because they underperformed before.Again making shit up in your head faggotard, Paul was just another trainer Ash saw a good opponent and Ash hates being called weak and pathetic that's what got under his skin plus he wanted to help Infernape get revenge, not that schizotheory you came up with. Try watching the series first instead of googling up forum posts and posting fantheories faggot
