Which is all fine and dandy, but if Dragonite's issues gets resolved too quickly then there would've been no reason for it to have problems. Like Emolga's lazy attitude.
Laziness isn't really a problem, everyone is lazy, everyone procrastinates.
If Iris does lose against Dawn then you're 100% right, then Iris can continue to focus on Dragonite to overcome its issues.
I believe that, since Iris is getting two titles focused on her, that she will lose the second battle, just like happened with Georgia in the last tournament. She was featured in two titles but lost the second battle.
But....we all know how Iris's Pokemon problems are handled......
And how are they handled? Excadrill's "problem" only really took one episode since it wasn't like Charizard problem. Emonga doesn't really have a problem, she's just lazy and that's a characteristic, not a problem. And Axew learned Dragon Rage legitimately, he trained and trained.
If anything, I find Axew's Giga Impact the biggest BS so far.
But it's not like they handled Scraggy any differently so I can't really be mad.
Somehow an evolved Pokemon which looks nearly identical to its pre-evolved form with the strongest difference merely being the colors, is somehow makes it how harder to animate?
Axew is a mascot.
If they evolved him, they'd have to keep him animating outside of Iris's hair since a Fraxure is obviously much heavier than Axew so she can't keep him inside. Thus, he'd be forced to walk around the whole time, which, would cost money to draw and animate, I guess.