Vini310
Well-Known Member
If his victory has no significance to him as a character and it's just a "I won! Now I'll go to another region!" (Orange League, Battle Frontier), then there's no need to make him win.
And, according to some episodes, after winning a League, a Trainer must face the Elite Four. Ash has faced some Elite Fours and Champions before, and he lost every single battle (and don't came even close to win), so what's worse: not winning the League or win the League just to lose to a E4/Champion and star everything (including the "badge hunt")? There isn't even a guarantee that Ash will become a Pokémon Master if he win, and if he DOES become one on the instant he wins, then we will have LOTS of plot holes. At least in the manga (The Electric Tale of Pikachu, which is based on the anime), it's told that Pokémon Masters are simply elite Trainers (i.e. Elite Fours, Champions, Trainers who did something amazing, like catching a Legendary, or simply win the League) with celebrity status, but we don't know if the anime follows that definition (well, Ash won the Orange League AND can become a Frontier Brain, and yet don't call himself a Pokémon Master).
I don't want a new protagonist neither, because that would be a very dumb thing to do, unless they changed the entire plot and don't give the new protagonist a Pikachu, but if it's the entire "get badges and win the league" thing, than it's a waste of time to do so. SM is proving that it's possible to make something new without changing the protagonist, and based on everything I've seen until now, I can say that SM is the best thing that happened to the Pokémon anime (M20 onward also count).
Even if Ash wins the Alola League, he will go to another region and continue until become a Pokémon Master, a title that nobody knows what is how to obtain. Pokémon is about the journey, not the end, that's why I always download a new Pokémon game after finishing one, it's something eternal to me and for the writers as well.
And, according to some episodes, after winning a League, a Trainer must face the Elite Four. Ash has faced some Elite Fours and Champions before, and he lost every single battle (and don't came even close to win), so what's worse: not winning the League or win the League just to lose to a E4/Champion and star everything (including the "badge hunt")? There isn't even a guarantee that Ash will become a Pokémon Master if he win, and if he DOES become one on the instant he wins, then we will have LOTS of plot holes. At least in the manga (The Electric Tale of Pikachu, which is based on the anime), it's told that Pokémon Masters are simply elite Trainers (i.e. Elite Fours, Champions, Trainers who did something amazing, like catching a Legendary, or simply win the League) with celebrity status, but we don't know if the anime follows that definition (well, Ash won the Orange League AND can become a Frontier Brain, and yet don't call himself a Pokémon Master).
I don't want a new protagonist neither, because that would be a very dumb thing to do, unless they changed the entire plot and don't give the new protagonist a Pikachu, but if it's the entire "get badges and win the league" thing, than it's a waste of time to do so. SM is proving that it's possible to make something new without changing the protagonist, and based on everything I've seen until now, I can say that SM is the best thing that happened to the Pokémon anime (M20 onward also count).
Even if Ash wins the Alola League, he will go to another region and continue until become a Pokémon Master, a title that nobody knows what is how to obtain. Pokémon is about the journey, not the end, that's why I always download a new Pokémon game after finishing one, it's something eternal to me and for the writers as well.