Ash's Johto Pokemon were still pretty good, despite there not being a lot of competitions during Johto. Should there have been more competitions during Johto, i would have to say yes there should have been more, but Johto was still a great series of the anime, despite it not having a lot of battle competitions.
Well they are good but I think that Ash used his Kanto and OI pokemon way too much in Johto.
Johto was meant to be sequel to Kanto, so it did make a lot of sense to see a lot of Kanto Pokemon in Johto. Besides his Kanto Pokemon didn't stay with him very long in Johto, Charizard was the first one to leave his Kanto team, so it didn't stay with him very long during Johto but he did call on it for major battles later on, Squirtle also left his team to return to the Squirtle Squad, the only Kanto Pokemon he did have left in Johto besides his Johto Pokemon were Pikachu and Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur did left and got Oak later on in Johto, so the only Kanto Pokemon Ash did have on his Johto team was Pikachu since he is Ash's very first main starter Pokemon and mascot of the entire anime, we know he was going to remain with Ash.
Ok then, but do you think that Johto having more competitions will help Ash and Misty?
And maybe Brock..
Even if they had more competitions, Misty would only participate if it was water based and how many water based competitions could you make? Anything else would be solely for Ash as Brock would not even participate.
Not underestimating Brock but I'm just going with how the writers portrayed him and his characteristics. If they made Misty's water tournaments Contest/Performance like then maybe it would have worked but seeing as they didn't have any ideas like that back then it would not have made sense.
Seriously? I could name a whole lot of ways the writers could make it work, and I've often been called an idiot on various forums and certain IP users on wikis. If even a so-called idiot could come up with loads of ways they can utilize her goal and give it focus, why can't the writers?
To be honest i thought the whirl islands cup was pointless in my opinion. I think Ash should concentrate on the pokemon league and not these irrelevant competitions in my opinion.
This isn't about Ash, this is about Misty.
The thread does not mention misty. Just if there could be other competitions like whirl islands. And i know that misty was the focus of the whirl islands cup.