best pokemon characters 'n' ships

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*TOP BEST/MOST IMPORTANT: CASSIDY+BUTCH
*ANTAG: SHELLY, JJM, Giovanni, Namba, Zager, BGGG, Plumeria & Guzma!, Rapp/Tupp/Zipp, Colress, Malamar, & loads of the "evil"-team leaders/members
*L33T 4s: Lorelei, Karen, Glacia, Malva; Flint (Bertha, Lucian, Aaron), Larry, Hassel, etc.
*LEADERS: Gio!, Cissy (et. al.), Cress, Roxie, Elesa, Clair, Surge, Blaine, Koga, Pryce, Wattson, Wulfric, Clay, Piers, etc. volkner & falkner lol. the protag ones. (+larry, brassius, tulip, kofu, katy...)
*CHAMP: Cynthia, Alder, etc.
*BRAINS/SUBWAY: Ingo/Emmett
*RELATIVES: Cress, Chili, Lusamine, Mohn, VLD
*SUPPORTING: Faba+Wicke, Nanu, Jervis, Hobbes, Malva, Anella
*RIVAL: Paul, Trip, Gladion, Conway, Stefan, Georgia, Barry, Gary, Ursula, Drew, Nando, Kenny
*PROFS Ivy, Rowan, Elm, Magnolia/Sonia, Oak, etc.
*PROTAG: Misty, Brock, Tracey, Cilan, Clemont, Bonnie, Lillie, Lana, Scrotom (Sophocles, Kiawe, Mallow)
*MISC: mina, mela w/ less hilarious boots
*MOVIES: Domino, Annie, Oakley; merilyn/riot, argus+millis, Risa's hair xD (main group there is cool enough)

(had jotted some honorable-mention-types just bc it's hard...there're always more that i liked but might've had more/stronger faves in their categories or whatever...course now i don't recall exactly whom each letter represented...'<-< "arch`wiks`mola`lanc`perr`dray`alli`ramo or...?`i?" +some girls from rows 5-8)

"favorite Ash companion?" In order: Misty, Brock, Tracey, Lillie, Lana, Clemont or Cilan (& Bonnie I suppose)...now idk where to go actually. Sophocles is cute, Kiawe is cool, Dawn and May and Max and Mallow and Goh and Iris and Serena are aiight...I'd say annoying but they're ALL annoying, they're twerps. Some feel kinda interchangeable, even.

SHIPS:

Butch/Cassidy ● Ash/Misty ● Brock/Lucy ● Drew/May ● Kenny/Dawn ● Clemont/Lilia ● Nando/Gardenia ● Faba/Wicke ● Riot/Merilyn
(& Mohn/Lusamine...etc...most canonical couples are okay...)
*Maybe: Guzma/Plumeria? Tupp/Rapp? "Khoury" (CORY/COREY!)/Lyra?
Hmm...Lillie, Lana, Mallow with either Sophocles or Kiawe? Unsure for Tracey, Iris, Cilan, Serena, Goh (as far as the protags.) Maybe Cilan/Burgundy? --probably K/La + S/Li
LOL (but not impossible): Samuel/Delia ("All Pokemon go to hell, Ash. Well, I'm off to bang your mother!" Or, her unknown husband...or...Mr. Mime...?! *-*'); Flint/Shelly (unless we wanna go with Archie for her, or another Aqua/Magma dude); Looker/Jupiter >D
Seen Clay/Elesa & suppose I could get behind it.
NEVER could have imagined I'd see a day when I shipped Ash/Misty more than Jessie/James, but...now there's just no way to see a romance between the latter...