God, you read my mind. Such a missed chance, plus the idea of fashion with a rank up would have been great for Serena. Heck I even would have taken Bonnie doing them over Ash, they burn so much screen time on him regularly I literally want to vomit.
Mamoswine was never strong to begin with or a great battler imo. Though I have to agree that Dawn's cameo was crap, that's what happens when you don't have Contest for her to feed off of. She becomes useless. Zoey/May looked like strong battlers and Coordinator, Dawn was just a good Coordinator but her battling skills were never amazing. That's why her fate was sealed the minute she entered a BATTLE tournament, no way she was beating Trip's Serperior, Dragonite or anything noteworthy with her uselessMamoswine of all Pokemon.
Uhhh those Ash stans, I want to shade them so badly. Especially that one girl who hates Iris because she called him a kid and hates both Misty/Iris for being critical of him. Like WTF, you're going to hate every character who calls out Ash on his mistakes and childish behavior? Or let him be and idiot and do stupid crap that gets him and his friends in trouble, if he seriously agrees to give away Pikachu to Princess Parfum next week in battle and even takes the risk that shows how stupid he is. I just know Iris would give him more than a sizable tongue-lashing for betting his starter and best friend in a battle.
You speak nothing but the truth, you're completely right about them. Right down to the last letter.
I was hoping if she would try Sky Battles, Fennekin would evolve into Braixen and use its psychic talents to levitate or fly on his wand/broomstick but meh. They're likely giving them to Ash, what with the merchandise pointing to a Talonflame debut I imagine Fletchling gets killed by one sooner or later.