Ash vs Astrid was embarrassing, it almost feels like blatant false advertising with how they bothered putting her in the focus of the magazine yet the battle with Ash is literally less then 30 seconds. Guess itās now our third League in a row where the ladies get shafted, not even a Mega can save her :/. At least Hawlucha gets his revenge but it feels hollow because I barely saw it.
I can finally see where the complaints about the League being rushed cone from. Itās only been two episodes and Ash has had two on screen battles that were extremely short (and one hit KOs) and heās already in the Top 4, that just feelsā¦ Wrong to me? Compare to Sinnoh where Ash fought tooth and nail to be in that placing and with Kalos Ash justā¦. gets there no problem, it doesnāt feel earned because the writers wonāt let us see his damn battles. I know the rest of the League will be devoted to his upcomming 6v6 matches but you couldāve managed your time a lot better. If Ash vs Sawyer and Alan donāt pull through Iāll consider this League a massive disappointment, even if Ash manages to make it to the finals (because if it doesnāt feel earned, I canāt be super happy for him).
The good news is that all these problems are at least focused in the episodeās beginning, the actual battle between Tierno and Sawyer is pretty good all things considered, thereās decent strategy, enjoyable match ups, and thereās no obviously rushed parts except the end where thereās at least a reason for it.
Happy to see Raichu kick a little ass and not be held down by Pikachuās shadow. We get to see a bit of Sawyer showing off how much heās grown before ultimately facing Ash and Iām down for that, I just wish it didnāt have to come at the expense of Ashās battles. Goodra also comes back to the shock of no one, at least the speculations can finally be put to rest, letās see how he handles himself.
Overall itās an average League episode, a tangible improvement from last week but honestly these next episodes are going to have to pull out all the stops to bring it home and end on a good note because I didnāt wait this long for just an average League
