when i first played this, i thought both yukiko and rise’s links were pointless since they end up back where they started but after a while i realized that its less about where they are but how they feel about it.
People wanna clown on ash but i promise you if you try to run a trick room team against him he will genuinely just say some shit like “Pikachu use iron tail on the trick room itself” and that shit will actually work. That’s just how battles in the anime work