I like how you used Snivy's French name in this as opposed to it's English name. Then again, Vipélierre is just all kinds of awesome.How about Ash proving his worth by himself? Isn't that his whole point? Isn't that why Ash strives to be stronger nowadays? To prove a point? To get his own point across, and not have his past rivals go to his present rivals and be all like: Yeah.. uhm.. He beat me although my pokemon were vastly superior, he's basically the second coming, so bend over already and let his ideology take you for a ride up yours...
In fact, I fail to see how this would work into Ash's rival arc plot, as it would severily make it come crumbling down like a brick house in front of an angry pack of Rhyperior/Tyranitar:
Shooti: I'm your rival, I don't like you, I don't think highly of you, I'll give this arc the tension it needs, ya heard!
Ash: LIKE HELL! I'm gonna make you eat those words like Paul!
Paul: Hey, Shooti, listen to Ash, he beat me like as if he was the second coming
Shooti: Then why should I listen to you?
Paul: Because I will battle you to show you that I'm good!
Shooti: But you lost to that country boy, who I just beat using the Vipélierre I just had for two minutes max, how fail can YOU be!
Paul: I.. I.. I.. ASH YOU IDIOT!!!
Ash: Hey what! Zekrom drained my mouse!
Shooti: There he goes with that idiotic excuse again
Paul: Well, he did knock out a Latios with that mouse...
Shooti: Holy crap, then my Vipélierre must be über! I'm sorry Ash, I guess you're okay by regular standards...
Ash: Crap.. Now I've got nothing to prove. Oh well, I guess I can still train these starters and bird I got recently and enter a league.. Just for kicks...
League time: Ash is totally unmotivated and loses in the first round: TOP128 NOOOOB!
If Paul were to make a cameo, for what reason would he battle Shooti? That would make about as much sense as Team Rocket stealing a Pokemon from their own company.
How about Ash proving his worth by himself? Isn't that his whole point? Isn't that why Ash strives to be stronger nowadays? To prove a point? To get his own point across, and not have his past rivals go to his present rivals and be all like: Yeah.. uhm.. He beat me although my pokemon were vastly superior, he's basically the second coming, so bend over already and let his ideology take you for a ride up yours...
In fact, I fail to see how this would work into Ash's rival arc plot, as it would severily make it come crumbling down like a brick house in front of an angry pack of Rhyperior/Tyranitar:
Shooti: I'm your rival, I don't like you, I don't think highly of you, I'll give this arc the tension it needs, ya heard!
Ash: LIKE HELL! I'm gonna make you eat those words like Paul!
Paul: Hey, Shooti, listen to Ash, he beat me like as if he was the second coming
Shooti: Then why should I listen to you?
Paul: Because I will battle you to show you that I'm good!
Shooti: But you lost to that country boy, who I just beat using the Vipélierre I just had for two minutes max, how fail can YOU be!
Paul: I.. I.. I.. ASH YOU IDIOT!!!
Ash: Hey what! Zekrom drained my mouse!
Shooti: There he goes with that idiotic excuse again
Paul: Well, he did knock out a Latios with that mouse...
Shooti: Holy crap, then my Vipélierre must be über! I'm sorry Ash, I guess you're okay by regular standards...
Ash: Crap.. Now I've got nothing to prove. Oh well, I guess I can still train these starters and bird I got recently and enter a league.. Just for kicks...
League time: Ash is totally unmotivated and loses in the first round: TOP128 NOOOOB!
If Paul did show up, I wouldn't want him to beat Shooti before Ash did. What kind of message does that send to the viewers? "Oh hey, Shooti is nothing against Paul but against our hero Ash he's all powerful with his impressive skill"? Shooti is Ash's rival so it's only fair that Ash beats him first unless they want to give that right to someone who is more skilled than Ash like the Champion of the region.