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Treating most of his matches as fodder is the problem though. I agree that battling one shot characters isn't compelling, but the solution should have been to have Ash battle against noteworthy trainers more frequently instead. The Gym Leader battles should have been the standard kind of quality for his PWC matches as opposed to being the highlights. Skipping a bunch of his battles in basically the first half of the tournament doesn't really help to make it compelling or look particularly challenging, at least for me.They showed us enough of Ash battling one off characters at the beginning of a saga because quite frankly those matches are fodder and not that important. We saw them to see how Ash rose to Super rank but seeing Ash battle one off filler characters isn’t that compelling.
That's a big reason why even having longer battles going forward doesn't do much for me. It is a potentially good sign, but it also feels too little, too late at the same time. Instead of waiting until Hyper Class to give potentially give Ash three-on-three matches, that should have been the case from the start to make the battles more engaging and interesting, especially when winning a one-on-one battle doesn't really mean much in terms of a trainer's skills.
I thought that your point was more on how his matches have increased as he rises in the ranks, not that his matches against Gym Leaders or video game based characters have been two-on-two so far.My point was all battles against established Gym leaders or game characters have been 2 on 2 so far, like Korrina, the Bea matches, the Vermilion Gym, Iris, etc. And now in Hyper class we’re getting 3 on 3’s for each match. As he progresses the matches will continue like this.