This is fucking bullshit

Why did the ORIGINAL champion lose to literal fucking who. Lance actually had role previously in story and personality vs some fucking French whore who nearly jobbed to jobber frog.

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anything involving ash-greninja isn't canon

The anime is non-cannon anyway, who cares.

Lance doesn't marketable enough to the zoomzooms or the coomcooms so he had to be sacrified at the alter to feed Do-nothing Diantha and Gardewhore.
Though to be fair, at least Diantha earned her victory fair and square and the overall fight was good. She didn't have to resort to bullying a child while making kissy-faces at her, unlike a certain OTHER female champion. .

It's irrelevant because the tour was made to pair Leon vs Ash in the end, Ash vs Iris and Lance vs Leon were already showcased so they avoided the rematches, current director is seething at XY and made Alain lose, one Kalos down means the other had to win etc.

Is the Master 8 writing shit?
Yes, absolutely soulless battles for something so hyped.

Seethe

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this

Lance is a gag character don't know what else you were expecting OP.

Why not? It's not like it matters since the semis are against Leon anyway.

Because they already used him to put Leon over and based on the tournament structure, there is no desire for rematches. That's why we also didn't get Ash vs Iris or Ash vs Alain.

To be fair, Diantha needed it, even if fighting her does nothing for either Lance or Leon.