Demonstrating once more that, in the story, there is a passage of years. More reasons in the article linked above. As for the official information given by the creator of the animated series, we are going to open a broader case concerning the age of Ash in the various series. No, simply the writers have made a mistake. As already mentioned, in the first series were inserted specific references to the months in which the episodes were set. Ash left for his journey in April, and after 9 episodes May arrives.
Here, a year has already passed. Anime writers, instead, have decided to make pass only a couple of months and this way they made another mistake concerning the anime timeline. References: these two pictures as a confirmation.
The Hoenn region is the most southerly located region and is based upon the Kyushu island Japan , where there is an almost tropical climate. In addition , during this generation Ash has also reached Misty in height. On the night before the final battle, he and his friends learned more about the Ash-Greninja transformation.
Ash showed great sincerity and principle following the battle, shaking Alain's hand regardless of the result. During the closing ceremony of the conference, Team Flare began their final operation, using the power of the blue Zygarde Core Z2 to cause massive roots to destroy parts of Lumiose City. However, upon hearing Pikachu's voice, Ash resisted the machine's influence, even getting Greninja to do the same thing.
After talking some sense into Alain, Ash and Greninja broke free from their bindings by using Bond Phenomenon. Ash and Alain soon engaged in a battle against Lysandre, and ultimately managed to defeat him. When Ash later heard about the Giant Rock , he met up with the rest to combat it. Thanks to everyone's combined effort, Chespie was saved from the Giant Rock. Squishy and Z2 ultimately destroyed the creature, before the two Zygarde left.
Following the crisis, Ash helped Alain and Serena resolve their issues and bade farewell to his rivals. Later, after dropping Goodra off at the wetlands again, the group came across Xerosic , one of Team Flare's Scientists.
Ash, his Greninja, and his friends and the gang were ultimately able to foil Xerosic's plans and hand him over to Officer Jenny. The group soon reunited with Squishy and Z2, who requested Greninja's help to obliterate the remaining negative energy left by Team Flare's crisis. Knowing this was for the sake of Kalos, Ash bade farewell to Greninja before Greninja left with the two Zygarde. After releasing Greninja, Ash and the gang headed back to Lumiose City to say their final goodbyes.
Ash traveled with Delia to the Alola region after Mimey won the trip via lottery. With these discoveries, Ash decided to remain in Alola to study at the school and learn more about Z-Moves, living with Professor Kukui. Later, Tapu Koko challenged Ash and Pikachu to a battle. Ash then decided to take on the island challenge to obtain new Z-Crystals and prove his worth.
Also, Ash struck up a friendly rivalry with Lillie's brother Gladion. One day, Ash was entrusted to take care of a Cosmog by Solgaleo and Lunala , which he saw in a dream.
The Cosmog, nicknamed Nebby by Lillie, took a liking to Ash and frequently caused trouble with its ability to teleport people around. In Faba's Revenge! When Ash and Lillie learned about this, they enlisted Gladion and Lusamine in helping them rescue it. When the four found Faba, they also found that he successfully forced Nebby to summon a Nihilego from an Ultra Wormhole. After Nihilego kidnapped Lusamine and retreated into the Ultra Wormhole, Ash discovered that the incident caused Nebby to evolve into a Cosmoem.
The attack defeated Nihilego, weakening it long enough for Lillie and Gladion to pull their mother free from its hold. The Pikashunium Z then reverted to an Electrium Z. With their mission finished, Lusamine was taken back through the Ultra Wormhole to the Altar of the Sunne.
During Kukui and Burnet's wedding reception in the aftermath of the incident, Ash and his friends were invited to join an Ultra Beast response task force, known as the Ultra Guardians , which they all agreed to.
On their first mission, Ash and his classmates were assigned to capture a Buzzwole that had appeared through an Ultra Wormhole. The Ultra Guardians encountered it at Mahalo Trail , where Ash eventually realized it preferred flexing to battling.
As a result, Ash and Kiawe distracted it long enough for the former to throw a Beast Ball at it, successfully capturing it. Later, Buzzwole was brought to Melemele Meadow , where Professor Burnet temporarily opened a new wormhole, allowing Buzzwole to return home.
Later, Ash encountered a Poipole who seemed strangely attached to Pikachu. After a while, Poipole was confirmed to be an Ultra Beast. Ash was permitted to capture it, though he failed several times as Poipole thought the catching process was a game. After Ash helped it understand what was happening, Poipole allowed itself to be captured and was allowed to stay with the group until they could find its Ultra Wormhole and send it back.
Ash attempted to participate in the Ula'ula Island challenge, but he was rejected by Nanu and lost in an impromptu "pre-trial". Afterward, Ash decided to stay on the island and train under Tapu Bulu. This allowed him to formally participate in his island challenge, which turned out to be a battle against Jessie's Mimikyu , who recently gained a Mimikium Z.
Ash barely won thanks to Pikachu learning Electroweb , as well as being able to once again use 10,, Volt Thunderbolt. Finally, Ash participated in the grand trial, where he faced off against Nanu in a 3-on-1 battle in Nanu's favor and won, earning himself a Lycanium Z.
Ash led the Ultra Guardians investigation into mysterious dark clouds that appeared over the Alola region, causing all of the adults in Alola to lose their energy and motivation. The cause was revealed to be a Necrozma pursuing a Lunala , which resulted in a massive battle against Necrozma. There, they learned about how Necrozma needed to regain its true form to release Nebby. The combined Z-Moves fully restored Necrozma's light, giving it the strength to become its true form, Ultra Necrozma.
Afterward, the Ultra Guardians, Nebby, and Lunala traveled back to Alola through the Ultra Wormhole, while Ash said farewell to Poipole, who chose to stay behind in its world. Later, Ash and his classmates arrived on Poni Island for their research projects for school.
Ash's project was to have a grand trial battle. In A Grand Debut! Letting Pikachu choose their reward for the completion, Ash received a Steelium Z.
Following this victory, Ash entered the first-ever Manalo Conference , along with his classmates. He eventually made it to the semifinals, where he faced off against the Team Skull Boss Guzma. After a tough match, Ash was able to defeat him and advance to the finals, where he was set to face Gladion.
The match eventually resulted in a battle between the two Trainers' Lycanroc , with Ash's Lycanroc eventually emerging victorious, thus earning Ash the title of Alola League Champion. After winning the Alola League championship, Ash was given the right to have an exhibition match against the Masked Royal.
With his cover blown, Kukui decided to battle Ash as himself and make the exhibition match a Full Battle, which Ash agreed to. During the battle, Ash's Torracat was finally able to defeat its longtime rival, Professor Kukui's Incineroar , and evolve into an Incineroar itself. After the Manalo Conference had ended, Ash was left unsure of what to do next. However, after hearing Olivia mention how important knowing the "outside world" is, he decided to return home and start traveling around the world.
During this encounter, he also met a boy named Goh , and the two shared a ride with Lugia throughout Kanto. When they later returned to the Cerise Laboratory, Professor Cerise was amazed by the information they had gathered about Lugia, and he asked them to become his research assistants.
They accepted the offer and were provided with their own room to stay in. Delia also left Mimey at the lab to take care of Ash while he stayed there.
The match ended in the victory of Galar's undefeated Champion Leon , thus making him the Monarch, the official strongest Trainer in the world.
Inspired by this, Ash decided he wanted to battle Leon himself. However, before he could challenge him, a Gigantamax Drednaw went on a rampage and started causing havoc. While Ash and Goh battled it, Pikachu ended up Gigantamaxing as well, therefore giving him enough power to defeat Drednaw. Leon, impressed by Ash's performance, accepted his challenge to a battle.
After Ash lost, he decided to take part in the World Coronation Series as well and climb through its ranks to one day challenge Leon again. Upon entering the World Coronation Series, Ash immediately started building up a winning streak, soon even reaching the Great Class after defeating Korrina. Ash's winning streak came to an end, however, when he encountered Bea , a Fighting-type Gym Leader from Galar, who was also aiming to defeat Leon.
This crushing defeat caused Ash to start losing his self-confidence and led to him entering a losing streak, even resulting in him falling back into the Normal Class. This caused him to get depressed, until he was snapped back into his senses by a motivational speech from Goh.
Thanks to this, he quickly fought his way back into the Great Class and challenged Bea to a rematch at the Cianwood Gym , managing to tie with her this time. One night, Ash's Dynamax Band began to glow. Soon after arriving in the region, Ash and Goh ended up getting separated while in the Slumbering Weald , where Ash encountered Zacian , whereas Goh encountered Zamazenta. During this quest, they ended up encountering Chairman Rose and Oleana , and Ash accompanied them to dine and spend a night at Rose Tower.
When he departed the next day to rendezvous with Goh, Eternatus emerged from the Hammerlocke Energy Plant , starting the Darkest Day and prompting Ash to head there. At the Hammerlocke Stadium , Ash re-encountered Rose and engaged him in a battle, eventually winning thanks to his newly evolved Lucario.
Reuniting with Goh, the two then engaged in a battle against Eternatus, after Leon had failed to stop it. With Zacian and Zamazenta's help, they successfully defeated Eternatus and sealed it away, ending the Darkest Day.
Following his second battle with Bea, Ash entered another winning streak, steadily increasing his ranking. One day , he received a letter from Iris, challenging him to a World Coronation Series battle. He happily accepted her invitation, but was later surprised to find out that Iris had succeed Alder as the new Champion of Unova. After an intense battle, Ash defeated his former traveling companion and rose to the Ultra Class as a result.
In his first Ultra Class battle, Ash was pitted against Volkner and succeeded in defeating him. Following the match, Volkner informed Ash that Cynthia was taking part in the World Coronation Series as well, and had managed to climb her way into the Master Class.
After receiving a Mega Glove from Korrina, Ash traveled to Mega Island and managed to obtain himself a Lucarionite , just in time to receive a message informing him that Bea was to be his next Ultra Class opponent. As such, Ash then traveled to Stow-on-Side to settle his score with Bea once and for all on her home turf. Using his newly acquired Mega Lucario, Ash was able defeat Bea's Gigantamax Machamp , finally earning him a victory against his rival. He is also very fair-minded and trusting, a true testament to his good-natured character.
In those cases, he will selflessly volunteer to help them. Despite this, and previous dealings with villainous teams, Ash has retained a remarkably optimistic and naive outlook, a trait his companions seem to share. Also, Ash is determined to see the best in everybody unless he has a very good reason not to. An example would be Team Rocket's frequent "sudden appearances" that coincide with their needs at that time, and Ash never questioning it until it is too late.
Another example would be how he always praises Clemont for his inventions , no matter their high failure rate, and the near-inevitable explosion, or Cilan for his various hobbies. Furthermore, even though almost all of his friends have large dreams, Ash fully supports them and has never doubted their ability to accomplish them, possibly due to his own highly ambitious goal.
A noticeable trait of Ash's is his willingness to learn from both his victories and defeats. Even his losses can inspire him, such as when he lost to Clayton in Short and To the Punch!
Mime had used during their battle. In the beginning of the anime, Ash had a bit of an inferiority complex, as well as some form of personal pride, most likely stemming from his rivalry with Gary. He overcame his disappointment after seeing and listening to how Ritchie took his loss as a way to better himself as a Trainer in Friends to the End. Perhaps one of Ash's greatest rivalries was against Paul during his time in the Sinnoh region. Due to this, aside from winning the Sinnoh League , Ash's biggest goal during his Sinnoh travels was to ultimately change Paul's mindset and have the latter finally acknowledge him as a Trainer worth of his attention.
After a long and exhausting journey, he finally managed to accomplish this after defeating Paul at the Lily of the Valley Conference , after which Paul finally recognized Ash as his rival and equal. In most episodes of the anime, especially those during the Johto League arc, Ash befriends someone who will influence him and cause him to strive to become a better Trainer.
Although he is not a dependent individual, he is still young and has learned to make his way relying on his friends, particularly the maternal skills of Brock. The honor of "best friend" is usually reserved for Pikachu, but Ash has come to see his closest human friends in the same light over time; using the term for Misty and Brock in Gotta Catch Ya Later!
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The boy with many faces but the same inspiration. Anipoke pic.
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