Even if Ash did pick one person from ten different areas, it was not guaranteed that each of them would end up using what had been given to them.
Even if they were given such things, it was not guaranteed that they would be able to make full use of them.
Perhaps those who did make use of such things would still turn out to be quite weak and have difficulty surviving, while others would die during the process of gaining strength.
It was a gamble on each of them at the end of the day.
Those thoughts made it more difficult to fully narrow down her list of choices once there were only two or three left among those she had looked through within one area.
She did start putting them in order once they reached such a small number, rather than eliminating them further until one was left.
It would probably be better to pick the one who seemed most suitable from what she had observed, but it would still be a good idea to see how things proceeded going forward.
