So we all know Ash, the protagonist of the Pokemon Anime. Now tell me, what is Ash infamously known for throughout the world?

The fact that he made out with a Pokemon? No (though it should be).
The fact that he uses electric moves on ground types? Yeah, but not the point of this thread.

It's the fact that he cannot win a Pokemon league to save his life. No matter where Ash goes, no matter how strong his team is, he always seems to lose at the very last hurdle. Let's recap a bit, shall we?

Kanto League - Ash is inexperienced and this definitely still showed throughout the league here. He ends up losing to Ritchie due to his Charizard being a lazy prick. Good job Charizard. Bad job Ash.

Johto League - After beating his long time rival Gary you'd think Ash has this one in the bag. Well think again. He is doing fine for himself until this new Pokemon called Blaziken comes out and absolutely humiliates Charizard. Bad job Charizard. Bad Job Ash.

Hoenn League - I'm gonna keep it short he just loses to an irrelevant guy with a Meowth. Whoop dee doo.

Sinnoh League - After a series of successful and great battles against opponents like Conway and Paul, Ash finds himself in the semi-finals, which is his best performance yet. And then he faces the gameshark user with a full team of legends and loses. I can kind of forgive Ash for this one. And hey Sceptile was pretty cool.

Unova League - I can't remember what happened here but Ash lost to some Lucario bloke.

Kalos League - Ash makes it to grand finals! Maybe he'll finally win a- nevermind. People still salty about this one.


And that brings us to the present day. Ash is just about to enter the league and doesn't even have a full team of 6 yet. Do you think he has any shot of winning? Please discuss it all in this thread.

I'd personally say no way Jose but after the release of this video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnNhwrojous

I might actually believe it. Unless they pull the biggest troll of the Year and make him lose Round of 16.

lol no!

I haven't watched the anime since Battle Frontier ended, but if there's anything I know, it's that Ash will never become champion. I especially hope it doesn't happen now, considering how awful Ash looks now.

I honestly would believe it. I wouldn't have in a million years until I heard what Sonic told me about how it showed him battling the professor and how whoever faces masked royal.

As much of a let down as it is to face the facts that ash just might win it for once, I'm kind of glad that after over 20 years, He's finally going to get his win he's been waiting for a long time.

Even though honestly he should've won at Kalos, and you cant even deny that.

I guess in summery, I do hope it isn't real but I think he will do it.

This is really hard to say for me cause I can really see it going 2 ways and I don't know which way it's gonna end up. The reason Ash could win finally is the fact that in the opening there is 2 different scenes where Ash is battling Masked Royal and who gets to battle masked royal? the winner of the league lol. On top of that ash has only went down in league placement once which was in unova every other time he had at least did the same as the league before meaning at the very least he should get 2nd but I kinda doubt he keeps getting 2nd place every league lol. The reason I think Ash will probably lose and I'm trying to not get my hopes up for him winning even tho I always will is Guzma was introduced not long ago at all and is being built like he may beat Ash even tho Ash just gave a speech last episode about how he doesn't wanna let Guzma win so hopefully he won't it would be kinda disappointing for Ash to not even be able to stand up for his beliefs about pokemon. With all that being said I go back and forth on if I even want him to win cause I want him to win a league so badly and always have but it's also kinda like he doesn't even have 6 pokemon and I don't think any pokemon is coming back as much as I would love for some to come back. Finally I don't know if this league will even be able to compare to the kalos league for me seeing how Greninja is my favorite pokemon.

I don't really think he wins. I feel like they're saving that moment for when they're finally ending his journey. Whether it's the show in general ending or just his story and a new series begins, I believe that's how they end it.

I mean, if they plan on ending his story after this series then, yeah, it would be a no-brainer to have him win and end on a high note, but I don't think his story is over and I think he still needs to endure a little more pain.

He'll win when the series ends, which I highly doubt will happen. Unless of course Game Freak and Nintendo are pulling some massive reboot of the anime or something.

Whatever happened to Silver anyway?

Yeah I don't think Alola is the end of Ash's journey. I mean I doubt Sword & Shield will be unless they quit pokemon all together. Let's not forget that Ash currently owns a Meltan, which supposedly plays a big role in the Sword & Shield games, so it wouldn't be illogical for them to make Meltan travel with Ash to Galar when the time comes. I know they did it with Aipom when Ambipom was released so I'm keeping that option open.

Ash is also just the personification of Satoshi in the Pokemon world, so as long as he remains part of the Pokemon company I don't see Ash going anywhere anytime soon.

And if they do plan on getting rid of him, at least let him have that reunion with all his pokemon he used, even the ones he released. I mean he did promise some of them he'd see them again at some point.

So the alola league is actually over and ash Spoilers!!! he actually did it... I would be a lot happier if the battle didn't kinda suck xD I never wanna see melmetal battle ever again because of double iron bash. There was also Gladion with his stone edge xD he must of used it 20 times and it hit like what twice? I will say outrage breaking through stone edge was pretty cool but the next time with bite looked stupid and then even worse running straight through the next one. The best part by far was pikachu vs zoroark that whole segment was great. I wish the battle was 6 on 6 instead of 3 on 3 but I digress it was still great to see ash win the league.

they actually let Ash win a Pokemon league....in a region with no gym battles or pre-established "Pokemon League/elite 4"....not to sound like a hater but Ash won a conference...not a League

I am really proud of him and finally after all this time he finally did it! although I did think it was kind of ridiculous at times like using counter to counter counter.

LuckyCharms : If you thought that was weird, how about Gladion's Lycanrock just running through the stone edge.

Double Iron Bash was also the funniest part of the whole league.

SonicOlmstead : knows what I'm talking about.

That actually sounds hilarious.
SonicOlmstead : You better educate me on this. XD

LuckyCharms : No worries I got you I promise it is totally worth it.