Until now he’s never been above the top 4, which is sinnoh, most the other times it’s top 8, and once top 12

He actually does mature as the series goes on. His defeat in the Kanto League really humbled him a lot so he doesn’t slack off as much as he used to. In Johto he matured so that he doesn’t take everything personally and put aside his rivalry with Gary. In Hoenn he became a mentor to both May and Max and taught them a…

Except that this series hasn’t been building to that.

The 5th gym battle and this episode especially were absolutely unreal in terms of production value.

Everything you complained about is fixed with XY.

Original Ash is pretty dumb, lol. I guess that was the appeal of his character back then. He’s actually frighteningly competent in XY. So much so that one of his rival dynamics was a trainer who was actually worse than him, and desperately wanted to catch up to Ash because he admired him so much. He’s the favorite of…

He just can’t. He’s the equivalent of the Argentinian Futbol Team IRL.

I think it’d finally be nice if they could transmit a message that “you can be a winner if you try” instead of “your efforts will be steamrolled by people more gifted or lucky at life than you” that they’ve been doing in previous seasons.

If he wins, the curse will be broken and he can finally move forward in the time stream.

I recently checked out an episode of the Kalos championship the other day after not watching Pokemon for a very long time. My god, they really upped the production/animation quality since my last time watching.

Orange Islands isn’t an official league. It’s anime filler.

Don’t care anymore! I have my faith in Eureka now! She is going to be the future Pokemon Master! haha

His mother threw him out of the house at 10 years old what did you expect

Honestly, I really, really, really hope that he does. XY and XY&Z have been great series of the anime and Ash has really grown and shown to be a great trainer, not the lucky doofus he was back in the Kanto days. The first half of the final was spectacular to watch, with the brilliant Talonflame/Unfezant aerial battle…

Nah, we all know that the Orange League is like winning a championship of football 5

Everyone that likes anime should really give at least the last episode a watch. The animation is really top notch, nothing since fate/stay has done action better. It’s way better than you would expect.

It be nice if he won.