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The XY anime is OK so far, but Serena really feels like most pointless female lead on the show yet. Granted after going through 5 female leads you're going to run out of stuff to do, but other than her crush on Ash, there's literally nothing else she's here for.

Granted, every female protagonists goal in the anime has been handled terribly unless they were a coordinator, so who knows. Even to this day I don't even know what Misty was trying to accomplish while she was on the cast.

This is going pages back, but I wonder what show MatrixBeast was watching with his bizarre grudge against May:

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I despise May.
She was rude and unpleasant, but was never called out on it.

I find it bizarre you claim May was. "rude" since her character was known for being pleasent and down to earth, very rarely if ever mocking other characters like Misty or Iris (or Max) did. The times where she was acting arrogant she got called out on it by Drew, Harley, or the Contest judges.

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She rarely ever lost a contest.

She lost 3 Contests, and both Grand Festivals at reasonable ranks. Top 8 and Top 4. Far more realistic than Dawn getting into the finals her first try.

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Her flaws were never played up, and she was often treated as infallible except for that one time her asshole-ish-ness caused Max to run away.

I have no clue where you got this from. Max never ran away in any May-related episode.

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She got everything because she was an 8 year old in the body of a 14 year old girl.

Where are you getting this from? She's probably the first female companion that actually had the most down to earth and normal personality of the main girls.

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I did not like May. I still don't like May. Her design is nothing special, her attitude makes me wonder why people find her charming, and she won contests using tactics that caused Dawn to lose in DP.

The Contest techniques changed over time because the writers started writing contests differently. It wasn't just May, all the other coordinators in Hoenn did it too.

And I'm still wondering what "attitude" you find from May, when there's literally a vast difference between her and the type of attitude early Kanto Misty had, or Iris' constant condescening tone.

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Best Wishes is regarded as better than previous Pokemon series. Why'd you stop?

Best Wishes is actually considered the worst Pokemon series since the Johto arc.