UltimateUnknown said:
To be completely honest Ash has been jobbed out to people like Tobias in the Sinnoh league when he had a ton of momentum. In fact Ash's Sinnoh team was looking pretty beast as well at the time and his Infernape seemed pretty unstoppable after that epic match with Paul. You really have to question the writing for including someone like Tobias with all uber-tier pokemon and squashing the protagonist along with everyone else at the league in the season's finale. It's just horribly anti-climactic knowing Ash had absolutely no chance against the guy, getting 6-2ed. Unfortunately to some people Alan is giving somewhat of a Tobias kind of vibe this season although imo nowhere near as bad. I think Ash legitimately has a shot at winning the whole thing this time. |
Yeah Sinnoh was Ash's best outing before Kalos and he really was at his most competent until now. It was unfortunate he had to go out like that. Although he gets the nod for beating any of Tobias' Pokemon during the league.
I don't like Alain being compared to Tobias. Alain has been developed for a while, especially through his own series called Mega Evolution. That particular series has enough episodes to get to know him as he transitioned to the XYZ plot. He didn't come out of nowhere. If fans of XY/XYZ thought of Alain as Tobias 2.0 then I would have to wonder if they've been living under a rock this whole time, no offense to them.
