KKS-Lapras
Well-Known Member
Ash has gotten plenty of Water Starters.
Thing is that they've been regulated to comic relief until Greninja came along.
Even so, besides Greninja, they still get shafted the hardest out of the Trios to this day
And even with Greninja, it's the ONLY Starter that Ash has ever had to release
And that is part of the point. The writers could very easily have gone the Chimchar treatment path with Sobble, and finally done a Water starter proper, but no, it went to Goh, and like most everything Goh does, it's haphazard. Ash has had haphazard development/training over the years too, I'm aware, but Sobble's development under Goh has been absolutely infuriating.