Bguy7
The Dragon Lord
That is precisely why it makes no sense to say that these battles would have been better if they were 6vs6, nothing guarantees that.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, there is no guarantee, but there is still lost potential.
the battles in the anime, and especially in SM, also have moments of jokes like the fake KO of Rowlet vs. Hau, and yet they are great battles
the example is how a 6vs6 is not automatically a better challenge for a trainer than a 1vs1 or a 3vs3
A battle with a joke in it is a far cry from a full-on joke battle that has no elements which should be taken seriously. You're comparing apples and oranges.
A much better example of a joke battle would be Ash vs. Faba, which was a utterly ridiculous match that did nothing to show Ash or Meltan's strength and ability.
But fine, if you would rather me be more specific, I'll change my core statement to be "A six-on-six battle provides a better test of a trainer, assuming that the opponent is of a serious skill level and uses a team of competent Pokémon."
If we talk about lost potential, other leagues like Indigo, Hoenn, Unova and Kalos had even greater lost potential.
We can even keep the last 7 episodes of the Alola league (Ash vs Gladion, Guzzlord and Ash vs Kukui) and the league surpasses all the previous ones, being at the level of the best leagues like Johto and Sinnoh
So no, the potential lost although it exists, isn't worse than in several of the previous leagues
Yes, no league is perfect. I never claimed as much. Here's the point where we get into pure opinions. It is my opinion that the lost potential in this league is much worse than previous, and that it matters more because this is the league Ash won. Clearly that is not your opinion, and that's fine, but whatever you say isn't going to change the fact that the lost potential is there, and that to some this potential translates to this not being a good league.
Look, this is clearly going nowhere. The reason we're going in circles so much is because we're arguing two completely different things. I don't care if other leagues didn't meet their potential, I don't care if there have been bad six-on-sixes, I don't care if battles after the tournament help to make up for the tournament's deficiencies. None of that matters to my core argument. Clearly they are all reasons that you like this league, and that's great for you. I'm not trying to say there's anything wrong with you thinking that. Unless you have something new to say that's actually relevant to my perspective, I'm done with this circular debate.
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