[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

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86?! I even didnt know he have that much! Welp we could say he have 89 now in Alola. 90 if you count his now capture Poipole. In other words it would be a difficult opponent. As much I hate the guy, I cant disagree he is a strong trainer with a bunch of strong pokemon. Fer example his disobedient Charizard or Infernape who is capable to use the full power of his ability, Blaze. His Greninja who as capable to use his alternative form as a AshGreninja. And I must confess there is one of my favourite moments in Diamon/Pearl. 

When Grotle was fighting Rhyperior, he somehow eat his Energy Ball by mistake. This somehow increase his grass abilities, and in right moment he learn about this ability he was able to use against Rhyperior. Even loosing (again) I must confess that was a genius kind of strategy he use. He use a few times during the season, but I was a little sad he didnt use that in Kalos from what I could see. Oh, and the was the strategy he use to get rid the Poison Spikes in his last battle against Paul. He order Infernape to use Dig the ground and then burn the arena with Inferno (or it was Heat Wave I dont know now). He burn the Poison Spikes AND cause a huge flame damage against his foe.

And of course a more recent one when he use the tail of Pikachu to predict the next moment Meowstics Future Sight would strike again and use against them. There is not denying Ash its a strong trainer, and he would win some pokemon League by now. Unfortanely the writers is pretty dumb with that stupid idea about: "If he win a pokemon League, his journey to be a Master Pokemon would be end." With is not truth. Becoming Champion of a Region its just only the beggining. There wold still the mission to capture all the species of pokemon in one region. And there is others regions do explore, and capture other pokemons. Be a champion its only the first step.

That 86 is including his alolan pokemon, actually (and excluding 29 of his Tauros)

Important to note that Rhyperior was specifically Tower Tycoon Palmer's Solid Rock Rhyperior. Anime loves beefing up Solid Rock to be more effective, and Palmer could probably give Cynthia a run for her money if he tried! (I mean, he even used her battle theme in Diamond and Pearl...yeah...)

I agree, it would be nice to see Ash winning a Championship for once.  Him doing things like beating Hoenn's Battle Frontier are always welcome sights.

Here's another example of how ludicrously strong Ash is: in that battle against Alain that he lost, Pikachu took down Alain's Tyranitar AND Metagross and then proceeded to heavily damage Megazard X on top of that before going down.  (There was really no reason Ash should have lost the battle at that point, other than the writers saying NO!)

Ash actually doesn't try to 'catch 'em all' anymore, though.  That was something he was trying to do to compete with Gary.  Ever since he finally defeated his rival and the rivalry became more friendly, he focuses more on the individual strengths of the pokemon he already has.  He's certainly doing well on 'see 'em all', though, that's for sure.  Catching them all is more Red's mission while he was traveling across Kanto (which he eventually succeeded at doing, barring Mew)