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To be honest, I think the current YMMV page is far too heavily pro-Skyla/anti-Cilan. I've seen tons of fans who felt the opposite about this episode.
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* BrokenBase: The fanbase has shown to be split in regards to Skyla's [[AdaptationalJerkass personality change from the games]]. While some fans regard it as a breath of fresh air and think it gives her more depth, others consider it to be an unnecessary change of her character, especially given that she was arguably the ''nicest'' of the Unova Gym Leaders in the games.
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* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers don't seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Ash and especially Cilan seem far from warranted. Plus, we're shown her thought processes and how she predicts the battles will go down are actually quite reasonable so her choices seem to have a very high accuracy rate.
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* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers don't seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable (if somewhat selfish) motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Ash and especially Cilan seem far from warranted. Plus, we're shown her thought processes and her predictions for how she predicts the battles will go down are actually quite reasonable reasonable, so her choices seem to have a very high accuracy rate.rate, even if the following episode shows that they're not perfect.
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* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers don't seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Ash and especially Cilan seem far from warranted.
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* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers don't seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Ash and especially Cilan seem far from warranted. Plus, we're shown her thought processes and how she predicts the battles will go down are actually quite reasonable so her choices seem to have a very high accuracy rate.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Even though Skyla was wrong for her methods of gym leading, she wasn’t wrong to point out the fact to a challenger that bug and grass types weren’t a good match against her bird Pokémon.
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* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers don't seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Aah and especially Cilan seem far from warranted.
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* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers don't seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Aah Ash and especially Cilan seem far from warranted.
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* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Aah and especially Cilan seem far from warranted.
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* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers don't seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Aah and especially Cilan seem far from warranted.
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* DesignatedHero: Cilan. See UnintentionallyUnsympathetic below.
* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Aah and especially Cilan seem far from warranted.
* DesignatedVillain: If other trainers were shown feeling let down and insulted by Skyla deciding the match through her Air Battles and giving badges that were not earned through victory in an actual, hard-fought battle, Skyla would come off looking worse. But since the trainers seem at all bothered by her practices and she seems like a friendly, if cocky, girl with an understandable motive behind forgoing real battles in favor of Air Battles (to make more free time to pursue her own hobbies), her being cast in an antagonistic character and the angry reactions she evokes in Aah and especially Cilan seem far from warranted.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Cilan comes off as this for many viewers for a number of reasons:
** Most trainers and even Skyla's own grandfather, who doesn't agree with it, have accepted Skyla's "Air Battles" as just the way this particular Gym Leader chooses to run her gym. Cilan, however, refuses to let it stand even when it's not really any of his business.
** Cilan himself is not living up to his responsibilities as a Gym Leader by traveling with Ash, leaving a gym based on the theme of having three elements with just two, which ends up creating a problem for it in one of the last episodes of the ''Black & White'' series. And yet [[{{Hypocrite}} he acts like Skyla not living up to her responsibilities is an unforgivable transgression that must be corrected.]]
** Lastly, the attitude Cilan displays, that he "cannot stand for this" in regards to someone doing something different from him that he disagrees with, is the exact kind of intolerance that made Team Plasma the bad guys in the ''Black & White'' games. And yet Cilan is meant to be seen as the ''good guy'' in this situation.
** Most trainers and even Skyla's own grandfather, who doesn't agree with it, have accepted Skyla's "Air Battles" as just the way this particular Gym Leader chooses to run her gym. Cilan, however, refuses to let it stand even when it's not really any of his business.
** Cilan himself is not living up to his responsibilities as a Gym Leader by traveling with Ash, leaving a gym based on the theme of having three elements with just two, which ends up creating a problem for it in one of the last episodes of the ''Black & White'' series. And yet [[{{Hypocrite}} he acts like Skyla not living up to her responsibilities is an unforgivable transgression that must be corrected.]]
** Lastly, the attitude Cilan displays, that he "cannot stand for this" in regards to someone doing something different from him that he disagrees with, is the exact kind of intolerance that made Team Plasma the bad guys in the ''Black & White'' games. And yet Cilan is meant to be seen as the ''good guy'' in this situation.
