Maybe he has a bag of TM's in the dressingroom (well that or he rigged the matchups and knew who he'd fight :P)
Fact remains he's been shown to constantly change the moves before fighting people and this time he changed the movepool to include Ancient Power (4x effective against Fire/Flying & 2x...
The Air Slash apparently did enough damage to warrent Alain returning it, so it clearly did some good damage. And the anime is highly inconsistent in terms of showing recoil damage and having things like Mega and regular evolution some times healing and sometimes not. Point was more that it...
Charizard used the recoil move Flare Blitz twice, lost the first exchange and got hit by Air Slash to which Alain recalled it, then it plowed its ways through Ancient Power (super effective and can boost users stats) and took a point blanc Dragon Pulse (again super effective). So it didn't get...
They kind of forced themselves into that position by making it the Master 8 from the very start and having Leon be included in those 8 slots
They should have just made Leon a rank higher (so basically a champion/king type rank instead of rank 1) and they are holding a Master 8 tournament with...
Why doesn't it make sense? We didn't hear her rank back when she battled Ash, but it was surely close to his if the battle let Ash join Ultra Class as rank 99. So she should have been close to (or even above) rank 99 when they battled.
Then look at the episodes since, there are several where...
Shouldn't be that hard to use all the regions instead of just main game ones along with making up few more (they invent non existing towns all the time afterall) if they wanted to give it a global feeling (not skipping half of Ash's fights would have helped too)
Then there is the very low...
Except winning this wouldn't be remotely the same as "out on top", it's basically little more then him beating the highest ranked person in this system which so far only has 8 regions/countries in it and not the entire world (nr 1 isn't even necessarily the strongest since everyone starts at...
Seemed more if he deemed their potential too low he just didn't want to waste the time training them however he also didn't want to just outright abandon them.
In Starly's case we saw him capture several, decide to keep one with Aerial Ace then released it anyway after battling Ash because it...
If the writers do decide to make capture nr 100 a legendary then hopefully this isn't it (honestly hopefully it isn't a legendary period since Goh isn't remotely close to that level).
If Goh captures a legendary then have him battle it properly on his own with no help (this is literally a 4vs1...
Moltres had a type advantage due to being part flying and Infernape pretty much only had fire and fighting moves (not very effective against a fire bird) and didn't activate blaze, so why should it have destroyed Moltres? If anything Moltres is the worst matchup of the 3 birds for Infernape due...
To be fair, that was mostly based on the fact she actually is the champion in the games so the writers didn't really change much
As for Gladion, he wasn't battling the PWC when Ash was still in Aloha and Ash pretty much instantly joined it after leaving Aloha and has been progressing in its...
Neither does Goh though if you want to be realistic
Goh gained a membership based on a feat he didn't accomplish
He didn't defeat Suicune, he stole it away from a group of poachers that actually did defeat it. Meaning he effectively put his name on someone else's work and handed it in to Oak...
To be fair, Gary gave up being a competitor and switched to research, so he is technically Goh's rival now since they are both in Project Mew trying to catch it first and he and Ash now have very different goals
The bigger problem is how much they keep making it clear Goh has no business being...
Whats funny is Quilava already evolved once on Sinnoh's soil, so if he evolves again it would mean he actually fully evolved in Sinnoh past & present
As for Oshawott & Rowlet, when have they shown they don't want to evolve? Rowlet ate an everstone (which it can easily spit out again) but it...