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thejourneystartstoday · 2 years ago

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If I say this enough it will speak it into existence: being a Pokémon master does not have to mean being the strongest battler. I’m sure being a strong battler comes with the territory but there are still regions Ash hasn’t been to and Pokémon he hasn’t met. He’s going to keep traveling until he’s seen them all.

#listen I am just nervous #I love ash so much I don’t want this win to be the reason I don’t get to go on adventures with him anymore #actually I would kill for an older-geared story where they let Ash age and take on high stakes battling #but only if it was written well #mostly I am content to watch ash battle his way through new regions #and his new team would be entirely new Pokémon except hos broken Pikachu so #even if ash and Pikachu are the strongest battlers alive give ash an entirely new young team that doesn’t buy into it yet #make him work around more temperamental Pokémon #or let him take a job working for the leagues as a special third party who they send in to handle the big stuff #while simultaneously mentoring a newbie #like maybe ash is on legendary patrol kind of like his current gif with professor cerise just higher stakes all the time #or he’s a junior champion to Lance who manages home base things and send ash off to handle things overseas #like he’s sent tonpaldea specifically because of the time shenanigan rumors a few years after being world champion #maybe he battles regularly in the PWC on the side but his only challengers are gym leaders #elite four and champion level trailers and battle facility masters #ash battled well but he is still so young #and Leon really did have control of the field until Pikachu came out #if you put ash in a higher stakes league on the regular you could still see exciting battles throughout a new story #he doesn’t have to do a gym run #but he could still battle gym leaders on the reg #just maybe not in the leagues themselves #idk I feel like there are so many ways to keep ash around from here #he still has so much to learn about battling #and having 4 uses of gimmicks to Leon’s two definitely helped him #though Leon asked for that tbh so I wouldn’t say it’s unfair #he’s just a kid #let him keep working towards his dream #his journeys goal has been reached but that doesn’t mean his overall dreams are achieved #anipoke spoilers #anipoke

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