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Oct 22, 2024 · Ash Ketchum (Japanese: サトシ Satoshi) is the main character of Pokémon the Series. He is also the main character of various manga based on the animated series, including The Electric Tale of Pikachu, Ash & Pikachu, and Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl.
- Krabby → Kingler
Ash originally obtained Kingler as a Krabby in Mystery at...
- Ash's Gengar
Ash showed up, managed to free Gengar, and convinced it to...
- Squirtle
Two of his sisters are also Squirtle, twins named Kamee and...
- Ash's Buizel
Ash's Buizel (Japanese: サトシのブイゼル Satoshi's Buoysel) is the...
- Krookodile
Ash's Krookodile (Japanese: サトシのワルビアル Satoshi's Waruvial)...
- Taillow → Swellow
Ash caught Swellow as a Taillow in You Never Can Taillow!.It...
- Chikorita → Bayleef
Ash called on Bayleef's assistance in his Silver Conference...
- Talonflame
In Fairy-Type Trickery!, Fletchinder was the first Pokémon...
- Krabby → Kingler
- Overview
- Appearance
- Personality
- Skills
- Biography
- Pokémon
- Achievements
- Voice actors
Ash Ketchum is the main protagonist of the first 25 seasons of Pokémon the Series. He is a 10-year-old Pokémon Trainer from Pallet Town in the Kanto region who has always dreamed of becoming the world's best Pokémon Master. The first human character introduced in the series, he is the winner of the Orange League and Kanto Battle Frontier and the Alola Region's Pokémon Champion, receiving the title after winning its first Pokémon League Conference. He is also one of the eight best trainers in the Pokémon World after defeating Raihan and reached Master Class in the World Coronation Series. Ash became the Monarch (World Champion) and became the Strongest Pokémon Trainer in the Pokémon World after winning the Masters Eight Tournament defeating the Previously Monarch Leon.
On his 10th birthday, Ash realized he overslept and rushed to Professor Oak's Laboratory to get his first Pokémon. Originally wanting to choose Squirtle, Bulbasaur or Charmander, but he ended up receiving the Pokémon Pikachu instead, as he arrived late (thus leaving him with no other Starters to choose from even though this was his birthday). At first, Pikachu did not obey Ash and kept running away, so Ash had to tie him up. After getting chased by a flock of Spearow later in the day thanks to Ash's recklessness, Ash attempted to save Pikachu from them. Seeing that Ash was so determined to help him, Pikachu protected Ash from the Spearow by electrocuting the entire flock (which was thanks to being struck by lightning at that exact moment and having his Electric-type move supercharged). From then on, Pikachu and Ash became best friends. As an unskilled Trainer, Ash traveled with Misty and Brock throughout the Kanto region, capturing new Pokémon along the way.
Ash eventually managed to collect every badge from the Gym Leaders (although some of his badges were earned out of gratitude due to varying circumstances), allowing him to enter in the Indigo Plateau Conference. Since then, Ash has continued to travel, journeying through the various regions and making new friends, from Misty and Brock to Chloe and Goh. With each new region he traveled to, Ash continued to challenge all the Gym Leaders, entering Pokémon League Conferences and catching new Pokémon while still following his goal of becoming a Pokémon Master. Since this goal is so close to his heart, he sometimes acts a bit rash and rushes to the next battle he can as fast as possible without thinking.
While Ash was traveling, he was constantly pursued by Team Rocket's Jessie, James, and Meowth, who wanted his Pikachu. They chased him across all the regions so far and are still chasing them to this day. Team Rocket never manages to capture Pikachu though, due to Ash's other Pokémon and friends helping him.
Ash is a skinny, slender preteen with a dark shade of cyan hair, slightly tan skin, and brown eyes with two distinctive lightning bolt-like markings for cheeks underneath each eye. Ash's pupils were not visible during the Indigo League and through the Diamond & Pearl series until the Best Wishes series made them more profound and distinguishable.
While Ash wears a few different outfits, he always wears a baseball cap, which changes depending on the region he is in. Without a cap, Ash is shown to have a cowlick and a narrow, triangular, and edgy tuft of hair in the middle of his forehead that comes to a point on the right side.
Ash is very determined to be a great Pokémon Trainer. Personality-wise, Ash is a strong person, shows confidence when battling and shows a lot of sympathy towards Pokémon, usually helping and befriending them through his long journey. As a result, Ash doesn't like Trainers who mistreat Pokémon, such as Damian, Paul, and Shamus. Ash also serves as a role model for many people such as May, Dawn, N, Serena, Sawyer, Lillie, and Goh. In fact, he often astounds people with his skills and abilities, and unpredictability. Ash's strategy and tactics in battle are usually problem-solving, including thinking on his feet during special matches or that relate to the special and unique abilities of Pokémon. Also, Ash even takes input from his friends and has always helped him whenever he was stuck in a jam.
Ash is generally kind, brave, enthusiastic, compassionate, passionate, adventurous, selfless, fair-minded, trusting and good-natured. However, he can be stubborn, hot-headed, short-tempered, impatient, cocky, reckless, and sometimes impulsive at times. During his journey, Ash realized that some of those traits were affecting him, as they had caused him to lose some of his gym battles. By recognizing this, Ash trained himself for his rematches and keeping those parts of himself in check so they would not only affect him in battle again, but also outside of it as well. Although those traits still remain, they have been shown to be less of a problem during his Pokémon battles. Thanks to his hard work, Ash has corrected the hot-headed, cocky, and impulsive parts of his personality, though he still shows them if Pokémon were being mistreated, some of his friends teasing him, and various other reasons. Since then, Ash has demonstrated much greater maturity and level-headedness both in and out of battles. In addition, he has given everyone around him good advice to better themselves and their goals. Ash also has a fascination with science and technology, even though he cannot understand most of it.
Ash has a hard time opening up to others, as he does not like to talk about his feelings and his past. At first, he had difficult times when it came to taking advice or criticism from his peers, especially from his friends, but that changed as time went on. While Ash has grown to be more open towards talking about his feelings and taking advice or criticism, he still has trouble opening up about his past sometimes. However, Ash does open up about his past with his friends and Pokémon whenever the topic comes up, though it is only if he needs someone to talk to or if he felt like talking about it, since it either reflects a mistake of his or it makes him feels comfortable sharing to anyone who is closest to him. Despite being more open, Ash still shows his stubborn side at times, although it's mostly shown when he is depressed or upset.
Ash is also honest and a Trainer that keeps his word as he usually doesn't break promises to his friends, family, and Pokémon, although he does the same thing for ones that aren't his. Sometimes, Ash makes promises to himself as well, which was shown during his first Pokémon League competition where he decided to not repeat the same mistakes, he made in future League competitions. This was shown again after the events of the Kalos crisis, as Ash blamed himself for what happened when he unknowingly revealed one of his abilities to a leader of a villainous organization, which ended up putting himself and his Pokémon, Pikachu and his Kalos Pokémon, in danger. After that event, Ash decided to keep his special abilities, Aura and Bond Phenomenon, hidden from others. However, Ash has only told a few of his friends and Pokémon about his abilities as he has faith in them. So far, Ash has not told his mother, Misty, Tracey, Iris, Cilan, Lana, Kiawe, Lillie, Sophocles, Mallow, Goh and the rest of his Pokémon family about his rare abilities. When questioned or comforted about the skills or powers he possesses and the mysteries he holds, Ash had shown to panic about that or somewhat denies what he can do, which was mainly shown with Gladion and Goh, as he not only sees himself as an ordinary Trainer just on his journey to reach his goals but is also trying to protect the ones he cares deeply for.
Despite this, Ash has trained his Pokémon that are connected to his abilities. In addition to keeping his abilities hidden, Ash decided to keep his "Alola Pokémon League Champion" reputation a secret from anyone outside the Region, excluding a couple individuals, as he wanted to resume his journey as a Trainer, not as a regional Pokémon League Champion. Although Ash's other reason for wanting to keep his "Alola Pokémon League Champion" reputation a secret was because he was worried that he wasn't going to be taken seriously. However, after finding out that Iris became the Champion of Unova region and having a homecoming in Alola, Ash came to accept that he couldn't keep his reputation a secret anymore and realized that he was taken seriously as both a Champion and Trainer, as he didn't mind being called Champion in the Masters Tournament.
On the other side, Ash has a natural, inborn love for battling. He enjoys battling Gym Leaders and anyone who challenges him, especially Trainers with a similar zeal and passion as him. However, while Ash is passionate, a good battler, and has a lot of achievements under his belt, he loses most of the Pokémon Leagues he challenges, though his skills have improved overtime. Prior to becoming the Monarch in the Masters Eight Tournament, Ash had only triumphed over the Orange League in the Orange Archipelago and the Manalo Conference in the Alola region.
Ash has quite a few abilities and skills. First and foremost is his athleticism, despite his young age, as Ash is very athletic and physically able. In fact, Ash was once even called a "human Mankey" because of his skill at climbing. Aside from climbing, Ash can run, swing on vines, carry heavy loads, and swim. Ash can also survive Pokémon attacks for a long period of time without taking too much damage, although it depends on the situation. Additionally, while Ash is a talented battler, he also has some performing skills due to competing in a couple of Pokémon Contests along with watching May and Dawn's performances. Likewise, Ash has good fishing skills. Also, Ash has some cooking skills and does have good knowledge about Pokémon, due to spending a lot of time around friends who can cook and have deep knowledge about them.
Much like an Aura Guardian, Ash can sense and control Aura. However, after obtaining a Key Stone, Ash's Aura powers were increased. Also, Ash has shown the ability to use Bond Phenomenon, as showcased in the XY series with his Greninja. Ash even demonstrated great skills in utilizing Z-Moves, as shown in the Sun & Moon series. In addition, Ash even created his own Z-Crystal, Pikashunium Z, and performed an exclusive Z-Move with Pikachu known as 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt. Also, Ash even demonstrated some skills in utilizing Dynamax and Gigantamax, as shown in the Journey series. Unlike some Trainers, Ash is able to Gigantamax his Pikachu without having him return to his Poké Ball. In addition, Ash can perform Mega Evolution, which he does with his Lucario.
Much like Dawn, Ash sometimes displays the ability to understand the feelings of Pokémon, due to spending a lot of time around them. His connection with Pokémon is so great that he even sometimes displays the ability to share a connection with Mythical or Legendary Pokémon. This is because of Ash's compassion and his strong will power to protect them; instances of it were shown when Azelf chose to connect with Ash in the Diamond & Pearl series, Battle Dimension and Galactic Battles, and when Victini linked up with him in the movie Black/White Victini and Zekrom/Reshiram.
When Ash has a connection with Mythical or Legendary Pokémon, he can feel their pain, sense if they have been captured, and see their thoughts or memories. On the other side of the link, the Pokémon can appear to Ash in his dreams to ask him for help, show him impending danger, or as a way of asking him to do something for them, as shown with Azelf, Victini, Solgaleo, and Lunala. Ash has also shown the ability to hear what Legendary Pokémon are saying, shown with Solgaleo, Lunala, and Lugia. At times, Ash has shown the ability to sense the presence of Pokémon or people whenever any of them are nearby or if they're in danger.
One of Ash's other abilities is that he can learn new things really fast as he picks it up right away, although there have been times that he needed to practice first before figuring it out. Also, during battle, Ash can come up with strategies easily as he would use the environment to his advantages or find a flaw in his opponent's strategies.
Ash's battling tactics skill is, as like other Pokémon Trainers, using type advantages against his opponents, but sometimes, he uses Pokémon that have a type of disadvantage. Ash's methods of battling can be overwhelming his opponents by a combination of moves using physical and special kinds of moves. One of Ash's signature traits is his adaptability and creativity, often using unorthodox methods to overcome difficult adversaries, like having his Charizard melt the battlefield during his battle against Gary's Blastoise to trap it and creating the Counter Shield to counter Fantina's Ghost Pokémon.
Anime
When he was a little boy, Ash went looking for Pokémon in the forest. However, Ash got lost and it was frightened to the point of tears. When it started to rain, Ash was forced to take shelter under a hollow tree. While under the tree, Ash noticed a group of Pokémon who were also seeking shelter from the rain. Ash invited the Pokémon inside the tree where they kept him safe and warm. This made Ash so happy that he wondered how much he wanted to become a Trainer to travel the entire world with his Pokémon friends. Later on, Ash shows his mother a poster of Professor Oak's Pokémon summer camp that he wanted to go to and she happily signed him up. However, Ash overslept and missed the summer camp. After that, Ash went home, hoping he would go next time. Sometime later, Ash successfully enrolled in another one of Professor Oak's Pokémon Summer Camp where he would learn the basics of Pokémon and being a Trainer when he gets older. While looking for a Poliwag, Ash happened upon a young girl and fellow camper named Serena who got lost in the forest while looking for her group. Seeing that she injured her knee when a Poliwag startled her, Ash wrapped a clean blue handkerchief with a Poké Ball on each corner around her wounded knee to brace it. Ash lent her his hand and helped her up when she couldn't get herself up due to the pain. While doing so, Ash even hugged her then he guided her out of the forest and took her back to the campsite. At some point before starting their journeys, Ash was friends with Gary Oak, Professor Oak's grandson, as they would go to the movies together when they were younger. Then one day, Ash and Gary both fished out a Poké Ball on both of their fishing lines. After arguing about who keeps it, Ash and Gary both broke the Poké Ball into two pieces where they kept one half of it as a reminder of that day.
Badges
•Ash's Kanto Badges. •Ash's Orange Islands Badges. •Ash's Johto Badges. •Ash's Hoenn Badges. •Ash's Sinnoh Badges. •Ash's Unova Badges. •Ash's Kalos Badges.
Kanto League
1.Boulder Badge 2.Cascade Badge 3.Thunder Badge 4.Marsh Badge 5.Rainbow Badge 6.Soul Badge 7.Volcano Badge 8.Earth Badge
Orange Islands
1.Coral-Eye Badge 2.Sea Ruby Badge 3.Spike Shell Badge 4.Jade Star Badge
•Japanese:
•Rika Matsumoto
•Hana Takeda (young) ("Enter Pikachu!")
•English:
•Veronica Taylor (Seasons 1–8, A Sneak Peek at Pokémon, Mewtwo Returns)
•Sarah Natochenny (Seasons 9–25, The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon redubbing)
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Apr 9, 2024 · Ash Ketchum of the Pokémon anime is canonically 10 years old. That's as true back in the first episodes in Kanto as it is in Ash's final Aim to Be a Master miniseries episodes. But suppose time had been flowing for Ash all this while--how old would he be if that were the case?
Ash Ketchum, known as Satoshi (サトシ) in Japan, is a character in the Pokémon franchise owned by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. He was the protagonist of the Pokémon anime for the first 25 seasons, as well as the protagonist of several manga series.
- Why Should Ash Keep Delia To Himself? Ash owes everything to his mother, but the anime treats Delia like a minor supporting character. Aside from the occasional cameo, she is a non-factor for the majority of the series.
- Mother Of The Year. Regardless of Ash's personal feelings, the protagonist could not have asked for a more dedicated parent. Even if Delia seemed weirdly accepting of Ash's decision to embrace the life of a Pokémon trainer, her actions can chiefly be attributed to the wider society regarding such a journey as a rite of passage.
- Surrogate Family. Delia worked tirelessly to ensure Ash never felt like he was missing out, and she deserves credit for shouldering way more responsibility than should ever be demanded of any teenager.
- One Ketchum Enters, One Ketchum Leaves... Onto a less nauseating subject, Delia's mother passed away during her daughter's pregnancy. For whatever reason, the universe appears to hold a grudge against Ash's mother.
For an overview of similar named pages, see Ash Ketchum (disambiguation). Ash Ketchum is the main protagonist of Pokémon the Series and a Trainer from Pallet Town, aspiring to become a Pokémon Master. He becomes the first Pokémon Champion of the Alola region's Pokémon League. Ash wears a new...
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Apr 10, 2024 · Fan theories about Ash's father can be quite wild; one popular theory in times past was that Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket, was actually Ash's father, an idea that sprouted from the Pokémon Live! stage show. In the stage show, Delia reveals that she and Giovanni once dated when they were younger.
