Gameplay-wise, he's encouraged to rely on his Allies as meat shield and, and his stock starting deck even encourages him to take Decorated Skull, which accumulates charges when anyone dies near it, friend or foe (though his personal weakness does make him discard his Allies to put them out of danger)
Ash has been criticized for being stuck in a "floating timeline", as well as for his long-lasting inability to win many major Pokmon League competitions in the series
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Summoning two D Dragoons, blowing up monsters to do LP damage, then XYZ summoning SDRC Gustav Max to do an additional 2000 points of damage could, potentially, drain upwards of 4000LP from your opponent in one turn