Light ball was actually introduced in gen 2

Ash has a herd full of Tauros. By Gen 1 standards, hes the most powerful trainer in Kanto.

it's 6 tauros... a team of 6 tauros....

I love how lore-accurate the final team was, with Ash getting easily shredded by Psychic types

There’s an alternate timeline out there where Ash evolved his Gible all the way and the fact that we are not in that timeline is a cruel twist of fate

The Orange Islands Championship Match was a great testament to how strong Tauros was considering it only fainted due to being worn down over time

Based Kingler has the highest winrate out of all of Ash's Pokémon and made the cut!

Ash in gen 1 with an army of Tauros: 👿 Ash in any other gen with an army of Tauros: 💀

In a cut episode Ash brought a team of 6 tauros to a tournament. It ended up so one sided that he became the reason for the species clause

Bro has his own personal stampede of Tauros. I think he’s good.

Damn Species Clause preventing Ash from running 6 Tauros

I think for future gens itd be interesting to add one additional section in the end to ask: Which tier would Ash actually have the most success in? Who knows, maybe he has a killer RU team in one of the later generations

I can see this being like a series, go through each of the gens, ranking the pokemon Ash gets in each of them, then the fun part of not only making the best OU team of the new Pokemon her caught, but also an OU team using all the ones he has caught at the time.

Ash knew his stuff, the man got 30 Tauros to be prepared to top that OU ladder

So, technically... has caught a Mr. Mime in Kanto. It was an offscreen capture, since after the capture of Mr. Mime (Nicknamed Mimie), it stayed with Ash's Mom. This STILL has yet to be shown in a flashback or confirmed by word of mouth, but is assumed due to ALL THE WAY LATER, in Pokemon Journeys, Ash used Mr. Mime (Still going by the nickname, Mimie) in a small Tournament battle, and Ash sent it out from a PokeBall (Which is what Haunter lacked to make it official), and Mr. Mime listened to Ash's Commands in Battle.

While we never saw Ash catch Mr. Mime it is officially counted as one of his Pokemon, and he did eventually use it in battle in Journeys. I assume if you had counted him he would've made the cut instead of Muk (or Charizard in the Haunter team?) so that he'd have some Psychic protection.

this is such a fun idea! I want to imagine it'd be even funnier if you end the episodes with you taking the team and running a single OU match from that generation on showdown i think it'd be funny to see it in action, and kellen's battle commentary

Please continue this series.

Well, this looks absolutely awesome! Can't wait to see the rest of the rest of Ash's Mons!

Imagine Ash being a smart alec troll and starts bringing up obscure nonsensical Gen 1 mechanics when he beats someone he has no business beating under normal and logical circumstances

For some reason, Ash’s Mom’s Mr. Mime is counted as one of Ash’s Pokémon during the final arc, so *technically* he has a Psychic-type.

06:13 - inflicting a burn on a fire type is quite the accomplishment

The way you have been managing to pump up these great ideas for 6 years now and I’ve been following you for 6 years

Super entertaining video, actually interested in seeing it done for each gen of his mons to see how Ash's OU viability changes over the generations

"He definitely would've said bye bye to butterfree the minute he took it into OU" hilarious

this was a fun as heck video. Something about Gen 1 is just so magical. The anime, the cards, the sprites, the wacky mechanics, the glitches, the designs, Man take my boomer ass back. Even Pokemon Go in 2016 was a huge Gen1 tidal wave of feels.

I’m expecting a lot of people to ask for more of this series which is fair this was amazing

I hope this series continues with gen +2, I hope it's not gonna be left in the dust like the how good was this type as Ice type was the only one made

The one edge ash's team has: mindgames. Ain't no way people see haunter and go "Yeah he doesn't have a gengar" they go "oh god he's running double ghosts."

This is the most unique video by False Swipe Gaming! Love it!!!!

2:55 “that’s what happens when you make three pokemon of the same type [normal/flying] in the same generation” Farfetch’d is so bad it doesn’t even count as a pokemon, damn

On Snorlax, Amnesialax was the special variant that Ash could use. But again, since Ash still uses Snorlax in Johto (aka Gen 2), we gonna get a massive lecture on Curselax, which I never get tired of hearing. This series is going to teach us that if Ash evolved his Pokemon, he'd have a competitively viable team and that they wrote Ash as inept for too long.

I love this concept, can’t wait to see his future mons

The series I never knew I needed 😭😭😭💙💙💙

As many people say: This was amazing! Please do the other gens as well 😍

Great concept, structure, execution and presentation. All around great start of a new series 🎉

Really excited to see more of these! It gives a good history lesson on that Gen of competition mons and a walk down memory lane for the show

This was a very well made video and team, FSG! Can’t wait till the Gen 2 video! I’m interested to see how you’re gonna be able to make Ash an actually viable Gen 2 Team with a Bayleef, Quilava, and Noctowl. 😆

I was checking to see if someone else had left this comment. I didn't see it yet, but I'm sure this won't be the last one either. For Charizard's set, having a high crit chance and slash is definitely a boon, but it does not synergize with Swords Dance. For anyone who doesn't know, in Gen 1, crits ignore *all* stat modifications, including ones that would benefit the critter. Thus, a SD boosted crit does the same damage as one without SD. I'm adding this as the video can be read as saying this combo does a lot of damage "if given the chance to set up". I think it probably means that this combo is good, and in addition, Charizard has other moves that are good with some setup.

Really liked this Idea, please keep it going

"Ash never caught a psychic type in gen 1" *Mr Mime miming crying noises*

Ohhh, if this becomes a series, I will be over the moon It was just a meme, but now we are legit doing "How GOOD was Ash Ketchum ACTUALLY?"

This was a really fun idea. Hopefully you do the other seven generations

This was an awesome video and idea, keep it up for the other genz! 😁

Amazing video. I hope this series continues

Here's a crazy thought and maybe this could help: What if, instead, Snorlax was a Special built? It does have access to Amnesia, one of the more broken moves in the game. Since his Pokemon is lacking on the Special department defense wise, Snorlax could switch into that. His only problem would be facing the Alakazam with a high crit ratio, but it would still put up a fight overall.

Loved the format! Looking foward to an analysis of the following gens

The thing that surprises me the most about this isn't where certain mons ranked... but that he only had that few during Gen 1. My man had to catch'em all and he caught like 14.

This is such a sweet format! I’m excited to see the other regions

This looks like this'll be a fun series, also going in on nostalgia!

6:14 "Congratulations Charizard, you are officially mid" Man that hurt to hear. Right in the nostalgia.

"ash's only chance of winning a tournament ou set, is that he has to full send into offense.." me: so, exactly how he battled in the early seasons of the anime. Makes perfect sense.

Nevermind those 2 teams, Ash could just build 5 teams of 6 Tauros and wipe the Indigo League with Body Slams/Hyper Beams all day.

The choice of music was on point!

I only just noticed, and now can never unsee, the little smiley face in Kingler's back sprite.

I would like to see more videos like this. What would be ash's team across the generation of OU

It only gets worse later on because at some points he stops catching more than 6 pokemon

This was great! Seeing footage from Mah-Dry-Bread and JRose11 was a nice surprise, too.

Not gonna sugarcoated. Even if the anime can get corny from time to time, this man was ice cold

This was really fun! I'd love to see a video like this for each generation of Pokemon Ash had!

I can only hope this is a new series that goes through each generation, because this was a lot of fun

This video is such a great idea. Hope to see it for future gens!

This is a cool twist on judging Ash’s Pokémon. Hope that you make more! I find it wild that Ash now has a Lucario, a Gengar, and a Dragonite!

Y’know, it makes sense for ash to have a team that has a barely coherent strategy to it.

I love this concept! Please do a gen 2 version of the team and onward

I like this series!! Keep up the great work!

This was a really cool idea! Let see more of this in the future!

You make fun, but there's a Smogon warstory where someone won a Gen IV OU match using Ash's Orange Islands team. Yes, including the NFE Pikachu, Squirtle and Bulbasaur alongside Tauros, Charizard and Lapras.

I was actually just thinking about tanking ash’s Pokémon from a competitive pov! Great timing guys!

really great vid would love to see this turn into a mini series where you rank all of ash's teams

What about the Mr. Mime he caught for his mom? If Haunter counts then that definitely counts.

Calling Charizard a "Flying orange Lizard." I see false-swipe has been watching some Mr.1Upz

"Congratulations you are officially mid" is one of the most painful things you can ever hear

Great video! Gotta do Gary Oak next:D

Keep it coming! Loved this vid

Don’t be fooled by the media. Ash catching thirty tauros was no accident. He was playing 4D chess on the metagame

What great content! I look forward to more of this type of content! FSG is GOATED pokemon content

6:14 for the first time in a while someone finally uses mid correctly instead of just meaning that it's terrible

This is such a great idea!

Ash knew he could smash any opponent with his herd of Tauros. He simply chose weaker teams to challenge himself.

Great video, can't wait to see the rest of the generations.

Now I want to see how his Gengar and Dragonite fares...

I can't wait for the video on the kalos, alola and galar teams

Already this is a cool topic for you to cover. I hope you'll do more like this!

The writing on this episode is exceptional, please continue the writing style of this one.

this is a great video concept! go crazy dog!

this was a lot of fun, I'd love a similar breakdown of each gen and I hope you're working on or planning one.

I mean. There were this one episode where after the theoretical test, the trainer could fight with a set of rental Pokemon where he used an Arbok, a Meowth and a Weezing. :P

You should take liberties of just fully evolving ash's teams, because besides XY SM and Journeys most of his teams have unevolved Pokemon and I want to hear you talk about Venasur Floatzel Garchomp and Decedueye

I would recommend at least discussing Fire Spin when talking about potential sets for Charizard since trapping moves in Gen 1 completely prevent the opponent from doing anything for 2-5 turns. Combined with Charizard’s good speed tier that could have given him a niche and more opportunities for Swords Dance while the opponent couldn’t move. Though the imperfect accuracy is a drawback. Also crits ignore stat boosts as well as drops in Gen 1 so Slash doesn’t have synergy with Swords Dance, but Smogon does list Slash as an option in UU so I can’t fault you there. All in all great video dude!

I hope you do Ash's team in other generations. Or even May or Dawn's teams

I’d like to see how good his gens 4, 6, 7,& 8 teams would do competitively

Ash's strongest Pokemon at the time was the one who was disowned and left in the rain to die. Such a sad story, but the Pokémon company teaches that love is a strength all by itself.

Please make this a series!

Great video, can’t wait for the other gens if you do them!

Nice concept !

For Charizard, doesn't slash crit ignore attack boosts from swords dance? Since it's gen1

Love the idea and hope to see more

Would like to see this concept, but with *all* of Ash's Gen 1 Pokemon, from OG to Journeys. Gengar and Dragonite, for example.

Amazing video. Please do the rest of his teams