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Ash Ketchum is the main protagonist of the Pokémon Anime and a trainer from Pallet Town, aspiring to become a Pokémon Master.
Appearance
Ash's Dynamax band.
Ash wears a new outfit that slightly resembles his original outfit. He wears a blue vest with yellow outlines, while his undershirt resembles the sleeping clothes that he wore in Kalos. He remains with no gloves as he did in Alola. He wears indigo shorts with black outlines coming from each side of his shorts similar to his Ultra Guardian uniform and wears black sneakers with blue highlights and a white "X" on front respectively. His hat resembles the one he wore in Hoenn, and the PokéBall design is in a black shape of the letter C. In SS013, he obtains a Dynamax band from Leon.
Ash's sided spike hair has increased a bit and are sharper like they were before, his eyebrows and his spike hair tuft is larger than usually seen in previously. When he is not wearing his hat, his hair remains the same, only smoother and shorter. Ash's two lighting bolt-like markings still remain slightly bigger like they were in the sun and moon series. His eyes are a bit wider than they were before.
Personality
Ash maintains his experiences from his previous travels. However, Ash is more overly excited to see Pokémon that he has seen before in the past and ones he's never seen before. Although this trait has caused him a lot of trouble in past and to almost lose his friendship with his previous companions, Ash realized that his stubbornness needs correcting due to his companion, Go, being the same way as he is and decided to not only help him cope with it but also help himself in the process.
Relationships
Friends
Koharu
Ash and Koharu.
Even though Ash is a nice and friendly person, Koharu seems to freeze up when he tries to talk to her. When they first met, Koharu was shy as she often is with new acquaintances. She seemed rather suspicious of Ash and quickly shuffled away without talking to him, despite the fact that her Yamper electrocuted him. However, Ash was able to get Koharu to trust him as she got to know him a little bit better and they also seem to be forming a small friendship.
Professor Sakuragi
Ash and Professor Sakuragi.
Ash met Professor Sakuragi when he opened his lab in Vermillion city with him attending the ceremony. After helping him with his research, Ash accepted Professor Sakuragi’s offer to be his assistant in researching Pokémon more closely.
Pokémon
Dragonite
Ash and Dragonite.
Ash met Dragonite when it was a Dragonair when he and Go visited its home on Dragonite island. Ash was able to help it fly by growing its wings which he was successful with some training he did with. When Ash was sent falling towards the ocean by Team Rocket's Wailord, Dragonite evolved into its final evolution and saves Ash's life. After dealing with Team Rocket, Dragonite asks Ash to let it join his team which he accepts, making Dragonite the first Pokémon he caught in his journey around the world.
Gengar
Ash and Gengar.
Ash first met Gengar at the Sakuragi Institute where it was causing trouble. Although Koharu chased it away, Ash ended up being stalked by Gengar later on as it was still in the area. Hearing that it was abandoned by its original Trainer, similar to the way his Charizard was abandoned by Damian when it was a Charmander, Ash offered Gengar his friendship and it became official when he saved it from Team Rocket. After passing out from a fever he unknowingly caught and recovered when he woke up, Ash noticed an apple and a PokéBall by his bedside. Seeing this, Ash realized that Gengar wanted to go with him and accepted it to his team along with becoming his second Pokémon he caught in his journey around the world.
Biography
Ash, Delia and Professor Oak heading to the Sakuragi Institute.
Ash heads to the Sakuragi Institute with his Mom and Professor Oak. Upon arrival, Ash encounters a Yamper who he tries to befriend but get electrocuted by it instead. Ash then attends at the open ceremony, where he learns that the Legendary Pokémon Lugia was spotted at Vermilion city and attempts to battle Lugia. When arriving at the scene, Ash meets up with a local boy named Go. As the two ride on Lugia. they are able to become friends after getting to know one another. After returning to the Sakuragi Institute, Ash and Go are exhausted when Koharu, Go's childhood friend and Sakuragi’s daughter, shows up and notices how tired they look. Ash and Go then show Professor Sakuragi the information on Lugia that they collected and become assistants of the Sakuragi Institute.[1]
Ash and Go investigating the mystery march of Ivysaur.
Ash and Go’s first assessment is to investigate the Ivysaur all over Vermilion City. Before investigating, Sakuragi gives Ash a special phone then he and Go have a Rotom fuse with their phones to become part of their Pokédex. However, during the investigation, Ash and Go have a fallout when they find an Ivysaur in trouble. Arriving at a Gym being constructed, the two follow the Ivysaur along with their pre-evolved form Bulbasaur to the building. Following the Seed Pokémon, Ash is able to climb easy but notices that Go is having trouble then decides to put his grudge towards him aside to help him climb up. Although it was a long way up, Ash and Go get the top of the building then witness them about to evolve. However, Ash and Go become shocked when Team Rocket show up to steal them. Ash had Pikachu battle Team Rocket and send them blasting off once again. Ash and Go witness their evolution but was oblivious when his friend was telling that he and Pikachu were amazing. Ash and Go bring their findings to Professor Sakuragi then somewhat apologize to one another for their fall out from before.[2]
Ash and Go traveling the Galar region.
Ash and Go‘s next assessment is to investigate the special phenomenon in the Galar Region. Upon arriving in Galar, Ash and Go encounter wild Scorbunny and three Nickit who steal the former's backpack. After getting his backpack back, Ash and Go then head to the train station on route to the Wild Area, to continue their investigation.[3]
Ash and Go witnessing the Giganatmax Phenomenon.
When Ash and Go arrive at the Wild Area, they encounter a sleeping Snorlax and meet up with Scorbunny again. When the Snorlax gets Gigantamax, Ash, Pikachu, Go and Scorbunny try to move the Snorlax where it is blocking the railroad for the incoming train. After successfully dealing with Snorlax, Ash witnesses his friend Go when he catches his very first Pokémon, Scorbunny.[4] Ash helps Go begin his goal on catching all Pokémon to fill in his index on his phone. Ash, Pikachu, and Scorbunny help Go search and catch a bunch of Bug-type Pokémon in the Kanto region, where he is successful on catching them. Ash is also able to teach Go how to catch Pokemon by battling and weakening them during their mission.[5]
Ash battling through the Battle Froniter Flute Cup.
Ash brings Go to the Hoenn Region, where he has them entered in the Battle Frontier Flute Cup tournament. Ash brIngo Pikachu and Mimey with him to compete in the tournament. During their visit, Ash and Gi meet a guy named Houji, who appears to be a cool guy and is nice to Ash but somewhat rude to Go. When the tournament starts, Ash cheers for Go, but sees his friends get quickly defeated by Houji. Meanwhile, Ash is rapidly advancing through the tournament, winning battle after battle. When the final match between him and Houji starts, Ash uses Mimey first against Houji's Hariyama. After Mimey easily defeats Hariyma, Houji sends out his Mightyena, which Mimey easily gives up, forcing to switch with Pikachu.
Ash wins the Battle Frontier tournament.
After winning the tournament, Ash is rewarded with the prize, while Houji congratulates him as he had fun during their battle.[6]
Ash and Go encountered a lost Piplup.
Ash and Go later meet a disheartened and worn-out Piplup in Vermilion's port. It appears this Piplup comes from the Sinnoh region and has gotten lost, and its trainer named Misaki was looking for it, so they decided to take it back home. When they arrive in Sinnoh, they met Misaki who is happy to be reunited with her Piplup. However, they realize Piplup left after Misaki got another Pokémon, a Croagunk who has a rivalry with Piplup. Ash enters in the Drift Ice Race with his Pikachu. However, Ash and Go becone shocked when Team Rocket show up to steal their Pokémon. Ash and Go battle Team Rocket and are able to send them blasting off once again. Afterwards, they witness Misaki and her Pokémon, who finally make amends as they complete their assignment and return home.[7]
Ash and Go next mission is to go to Johto to meet the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh.
Ash and Go read the news about the legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh appearing in Johto, so they head to the region where they can meet it. However, when they arrive they realize that the sightings of Ho-Oh turned out to be fake which were due to a kid name Kurio, who did it to help his grandfather look for Ho-Oh again after giving up searching for it.
Ash and Go learning the Legend of Ho-Oh.
The boys help Kurio and his grandfather look for Ho-Oh in the Bell Tower. However, they run into trouble with a Misdreavus and a Stantler until Go stop them by catching them. When they arrive at the Bell Tower, they try to look for Ho-Oh as they call our for it. Despite failure on searching for Ho-Oh, they help Kurio's Grandfather to get his motivation back as he will continue to look for Ho-Oh himself. After their mission, Ash and Go return home.[8]
Ash and Go arrive at Dragonite Island.
Ash and Go head to an island where they can investigate the Dragonite who live there. During the investigation, Ash and Go discover how the Dragonite live there, such as sleeping, eating, and living together along with their pre-evolve forms Dratini and Dragonair. However while they are doing their research, Ash befriends a Dragonair who has trouble flying and using Dragon Dance. Ash was able to help it master the move and was able to grow its wings. While they were there, Team Rocket attempted to steal the Pokémon but were defeated when Dragonair evolves into a Dragonite. After Team Rocket was dealt with, Ash caught the newly-evolved Dragonite, thus joining it on his team.[9]
Ash and Go encounter a wild Gengar at the Sakuragi Institute.
Ash and Go greeted their Pokémon at Sakuragi Park, where they see Ash's Dragonite with Go's Scyther and Stantler greeting each other with hugs and Go's Wurmple evolving into Cascoon. They later encountered a mysterious Gengar at the Sakuragi Institute and starts attacking everyone. Ash and attempt to battle and catch during their pursuit but failed on doing so. As Gengar continues its mayhem, Koharu shows up and she and Yamper defeat it, causing it to leave the Institute. At night, the boys become determined to battle Gengar the next time it shows up.[10]
Ash and Go head back to the Galar region to watch the Pokémon World Championships.
Ash and Go head back to the Galar region to watch the finals of the Pokémon World Championships. As they arrive to the tournament, they witness the battle between one of the Kanto Elite Four Lance and the Pokémon Champion of Galar, Leon. During the battle Leon defeated Lance and then became the "World Champion". After seeing the battle, Ash declared he wants to battle Leon. When the match ended, the Wyndon Stadium was attacked by a wild Drednaw after Team Rocket accidentally provoked it and caused it to change into its Gigantamax form.[11]
Ash battling against Leon for the first time.
Ash and Go head out of stadium to deal with the Gigantamax Drednaw. However, during their battle, something unexpected happened. The Dynamax energy from underground engulfed Pikachu and caused it to transform into its Gigantamax form. Ash was shocked to see his best friend Gigantamaxing himself but took the opportunity to use it to battle Drednaw. Ash had initial trouble with Pikachu's newly giant form, but somehow got used to it during the fight with Drednaw. Ash and Pikachu then defeated Drednaw, via Leon's advice, with a powerful G-Max move, G-Max Volt Crash. After a victorious win, Pikachu reverted back to its normal size. Ash and Go thanks Leon for his help as Leon thanks them their heroic efforts as well. Ash ask Leon that he want to have a battle with him but Leon stares at him with a interesting look. The other day Ash thinks about Leon as he wants to battle which Go states that he can by entering the Pokémon World Championships himself. Go explain about the rules and ranking system where to climb through the ranks in order to battle Leon. However the Boys were shocked to see Leon as he accept Ash offer, much to the former pleasure.
Ash using Dynamax for the first time.
At the Wydon Stadium, Leon gives Ash a Dynamax Band as Leon realize he use Dynamax without it yesterday. Leon explain how Dynamax works, for when a Pokémon Dynamax, their moves became Max Moves and told Ash that his Pikachu can Giganatmxax and has his own special G-Max Move. Leon also told that he can use Dynamax when a Pokémon returns to its Poké Ball. Ash did remark about Pikachu hate being in his Poké Ball but are sure they still manage and decides to borrow the band. As their battle begin, Ash was being overpowered during the most of their but still managed to hold their ground. During the battle, Ash's Dynamax Band glows and transfer it energy to Pikachu, causing him to activated it Gigantamax form again. Leon response by Gigantamax his Charizard which led the fight into a Gigantamax battle. Due to Ash inexperience with Dynamax, he was defeated by Leon. After battle ash thanks for their fight and tries returns his Dynamax Band but Leon tells Ash he can keep it. Leon told Ash he likes special unrefined trainers like and he need to "pop" more if he want truly satisfy him. Ash ask Leon for another the next time they meet as Leon promise their next one will be an official match. Ash then decides to enter the Pokémon World Championships in to have his official rematch with Leon.[12]
Ash and Go participate in a Raid Battle in the Unova region.
Ash and Go travels to the Unova to investigate the "Ruins of the Giants" that have discovered in a Resort Desert. During their mission, Ash and Go stumbles on some traps, Pokémon and other obstacles in their way. Ash and Go then participated in a raid battle against a giant Golurk, where Go was able to catch it after weaken through their battle. Ash and Go returns to Sakuragi institute where they check on Go's Unova Pokémon sleeping peacefully.[13]
One day at the Sakuragi institute, Ash and Go decides to return to homes after the Institute having problem with maintenance system and will be shut down in a few days. As they go back to their homes, Ash notice that Go left something behind and went to return it to him. As Ash arrives to Go's home, he realize he wasn't there and decided to call. After getting Go, call he tells Ash that Cubone lost its bone by a group of Mankey. Ash meet up with where they help Cubone get its bone back. After finding and defeating the Mankey, they realize they lost Cubone's bone. After countless of searching, they were able to retrieve Cubune's Bone. Ash met Go's parents where they arrive and Ash was invited by Go and his family for a nice dinner.[14]
Ash's second encounter with Gengar.
Ash and Go encounters the Gengar they met before. Seeing it again, Ash and Go blaze with enthusiasm as they declare that they will definitely catch it this time. However, Ash and Go joy turned to dismay when Gengar quickly left. Little did he know, Ash ended up being stalked by Gengar as it his away in his shadow, where he put a curse on him. Due to Gengar in his shadow, Ash ended up having a lot bad luck, such as falling down the stairs, haven't his food ruined and got crushed by his and Go's Pokémon. Ash decided to head outside for some fresh air where he met Gengar's former trainer. However, during the conformation, Ash realizes that the trainer actually left the Gengar at the Sakuragi Institute a couple of years ago and had no intentions of coming back for it. After hearing his story, Ash became surprised when Gengar, who hear the whole conversation, came out of his shadow to exact revenge on its former trainer for his selfish actions. Ash tries to stop Gengar and tried to reason with it, but it was infuriated about the shocking truth of his old trainer abandoning it to listen. Also, Ash scolded the trainer for his careless actions and was disgusted by the way he told Gengar that he is through with it then ran away in fright. After the trainer fled, Ash tries to comfort Gengar but it ran away in anger. Ash decides to find Gengar as he hates to leave it at the state it is in. After finding it, Ash saves Gengar from Team Rocket. Ash told Gengar to team up with him as he knows what his old trainer had done and wants to help it. After Gengar accepts his offer, Ash and the Shadow Pokémon as they teamed up against Team Rocket. After dealing with Team Rocket, Ash told Gengar they should go back to the Sakuragi Institute but then collapsed due to a fever. After waking up from his fever, Ash sees that Gengar gave him some food and an empty Poké Ball. Seeing the Poké Ball, Ash realizes that Gengar wants to go with him and accepted it to his team.[15]
Ash witness Go's Scorbunny evolution into Raboot.
Ash and Go were training at he Sakuragi Institute with their Pokémon Pikachu and Scorbunny until Go's Darmanitan came and mocked Scorbunny for knowin a fire type move. During their quest to find more Pokémon, they encountered Team Rocket and have a battle with them. Go and Scorbunny were quickly defeated but luckily Ash and Pikachu sends Team Rocket flying off again. After dealing with Team Rocket. Ash witness Go and Scorbunny had an argument were Go disapproves of Scorbunny learning a new move. Ash helps Go and Scorbunny made by telling Go how to truly become one with his Pokémon in battle. During their second, battle with Team Rocket, Ash watch Go Scourbunny battle by themselves and not only witness Scorbunny lean a new move: Ember but also witness Scorbunny evolving into Raboot. After Team Rocket has been defeated for the second time, Ash and Pikachu were over Go and Raboot triumph but saw Raboot walk away while ignoring their special fist bump as they usually do.[16]
Ash registers for the new season of the Pokémon World Championships.
Ash registers for the new season of the Pokémon World Championships. He plans to have his first battle with Visquez, the substitute Gym leader of Vermilion Gym. After arriving at the Gym, Ash was surprised that Visquez knows him as she heard about him from Lt. Surge where he won a Gym Battle against him. Ash ask Visquez to be his first opponent in the Pokémon World Championships which she accepts.
Ash battling in his first Pokémon World Championships match.
Ash starts his first Pokémon World Championships mtach in a 2v2 battle. Ash sends Pikachu out against Visquez's Raichu in the first battle. However Pikachu has taken a lot damage during the battle, so Ash decides to switch Pikachu with Gengar. Ash was happy that Gengar was victorious against Raichu but was bummed when it soon lost to Electrode, not before managing to do some damage to it with Psychic. Ash recalls Gengar and praises Gengar for its hard work. Ash sent out Pikachu again to battle Electrode. Ash and Pikachu was able to defeat Electrode by rolling it in reverse and having Pikachu struck it down with his Iron Tail and surviving its Aftermath by using Eletroweb as shield. After the battle, Ash and Pikachu celebrates their victory over their first match as they advance to a new rank. Visquez congratulates Ash for his win in their Battle and she plan to tell Lt. Surge that he could have another rematch with him, much to Ash's pleasure on wanting to battle him again.[17] Template:Incomplete-plot
Pokémon
In rotation
Mr. Mime ♂
Traveling with
Befriended
Achievements
Pokémon World Championships
Ash's Pokémon World Championships Normal Class Rank: 3,763.
- Rank 3,763 (Normal Class)
Tournaments
Battle Frontier Flute Cup's Glass Flutes.
- Battle Frontier flute cup tournament: Winner
- Ice Flow Race: No winner
Trivia
- This is the first time Ash:
- Works with a Professor.
- Travels with only one companion.
- Travels to more than one region during his journey.
- Ash's World team are the very first team to:
- Have a Ghost-Type on a team.
- Have a member know Ghost-Type moves.
- Have a member that one of his previous traveling companions owned.
- Have a member participated in the Pokémon World Championships other than their Trainer's Starter Pokémon.
- Ash's World team shares a few similarities with both his Kanto team and his Johto:
- They have at least one member that had already evolved into its final stage or was fully evolved before being obtained or caught, although that is also shared with his Unova team.
- They have a member that is capable of Mega Evolving, although that is also shared with his Hoenn team.
- Ash's World team shares a couple similarities with just his Kanto team:
- They both have a member that were abandoned by their original Trainers, although that is also shared with his Sinnoh team and his Unova team.
- They both have member or more that are capable of Gigantamax, although that is also shared with the Pokémon from the Orange Islands and his Alola team.
- Like just his Johto team, Ash's World team has a member or more from previous generations, although that is also shared with his Sinnoh team.
- Like his Kalos team, Ash's World team has a Pseudo Legendary Pokémon on a team.
- This is the second time Ash wore an outfit that is not identical to the player character's outfit for Generation VIII. The first being the Advanced Generation series. His shoes appear similar to Leon's.
