This reminded me of a major criticism I have from JN where they didnt acknowledge Ashs champion status despite the alola and iris episodes being perfect opportunities to do so
i'm am wondering what's going to happen when it is mentioned, because I have a bad feeling of what might happen when it is, especially when one considers the whole Minor/Major stuff the current games like to throw around.
As for Ashs alola league win not mattering, I disagree. The fact Ash won a league imo is the proper justification for the writers to switch to a new expansive goal
Agreed
Ash should have won the Kalos League then retire just afterwards to marry Serena and become a tutor for young trainers. He was the only trainer worthy of winning the Alola League but Gladion could have won it as well. However the competition in Alola was the weakest by far in any league.
Honestly think the sinnoh league would've been a better time, I know he made it further in the kalos league, but that league was rushed as heck and to be honest even some of the alola fights are better than his 2 kalos league full battles, which were more about the hype that didn't deliver.
not even gonna bring up unova since i know how people feel about that one.
Fans who did not like Alola Ash would somehow feel vindicated about how this Ash was somehow the weakest of all regions. We probably would get into tons of power scaling arguments because that’s sort of our forte.
To this day we have people still discussing the status of the alola league, minor or major all leagues have to start somewhere, so like it or not Ash is Alola's first champion.
Ah yes, the omnipresent fantasy of Ash retiring. He didn’t retire after winning a league in Alola. I doubt he would have retired if he won Kalos, but this thread isn’t about the Kalos League.
If he manages to beat Leon, the writers might not have a choice but to send him off, because how do you go beyond being the world's strongest trainer, even then he's already beaten 1 champion in Iris, and more could in his way to Leon, so either he beats Leon or retries the PWC until he gets to him, either way I can't see Ash going back to hunt for badges if he's taking champion level trainers on.
I honestly don’t think we would bring back the old formula. I still think we would have gotten Journeys anyways. After all, Ash lost Kalos and we still got a series which deviated from the formula. I still can’t see why Journeys wouldn’t happen. It’s not like Journeys actively had boatloads of participants hunt Ash down to get him to battle them or anything.
He still acquired Z-crystals like badges, and did fight all 4 kahuna's like in the games, so while it might have been more lax in execution he was still trinket hunting. Given what he's doing now it's hard to see them send him back to doing that.
Well for Galar, I wanted Ash to become a tutor. He can mentor Gloria & Victor for their gym battles regardless if he won or lost the Alola League.
This is something I kind of want to see if they were going to let ash go, do it slowly be having him be this for the gen 9 protag who focuses on gym battles while either continues the PWC, or if he beats Leon defends his title, after that all I can see is reboot or time skip.
