Akkipeddi
All set to be a nice guy
I think this would have been a more likely opinion near the beginning of the generation. Now that it's been so long without his appearance, I actually do think that if he appeared it would be in an arc, because what would be the point now of having him appear in random fillers.. if he's just going to appear in random fillers.. why hasn't he been doing so all gen long?
Well let's face it, SM has used up all its major plot lines, and now all that's left is LGPE promotion (which shouldn't last more than 2 months, so like 6-8 episodes), Poni Trials, and the league. So with around a year left of SM, simply having these as the major plot points to tie up for a whole year isn't enough imo, so I'm definitely expecting loads of fillers towards the end to tie up till the next gen. That's why, I think they'll introduce Guzma then, as a means of saving someone of some interest during that period.