Huge thanks to Alpharad: www.youtube.com/@Alpharad and Sarah: twitter.com/sarahnatochenny ARE THERE ANY GIBLE PRONUNCIATION TRUTHERS IN THE COMMENTS

Ash finally learned how to evolve his Pokemon and immediately won the Championship, he was just holding back his own overwheming power to give others a chance what a nice guy

An interesting fact about Ash's snorlax is that it is his only pokemon with a positive K:D ratio, meaning that it has knocked out at least one pokemon every time it's been used.

Man did not just call gible, “jie-ble” 😭😭 16:20

I wasn't expecting you to cite the team that Ash used against Tobias. Which is an shame because the original DP team that he used against Paul was an major powerhouse in its own right.

Ash’s Snorlax is so versatile it can use more than four moves in a battle!

Seeing all of Ash’s Pokémon in pikachu’s vision was so heartwarming, could’ve teared up seeing the first 6 together

Wolfey: "Despite having great typing and ability" Also Wolfey: *Shows flying type pokemon with levitate* ☠

The team Ash used against Paul in Gen 4 was much stronger than the one he lost with. Would've been cool to see that team in here as well.

Ash becomes world champion only after Mr. Fish becomes a part of his team. Coincidence? NO. Mr. Fish SUPREMACY.

That Alpharad guy seems so smart and full of good ideas, what a guy. Ash's Lily of the Valley team was Infernape, Gliscor, Staraptor, Torterra, Buizel, and Pikachu. Tobias battle was more of a "how can I beat Darkrai" kind of team. Would definitely have wanted to see that as part of the analysis although feel as though it would be at the same rank. And it may be helpful to note that Ash's Pikachu has the unique defensive quality of being almost totally immune to ground and rock-type moves, because it can just jump over them

Nothing to do with this ranking but still very much related to Ash's history, I love the fact that he won his greatest victory ever by knocking off a Charizard with Pikachu, remember he lost his first League Conference ever because his own Charizard refused to battle against a Pikachu, I think this was a nice touch even if it's most likely a coincidence

what did he call gible

Honestly would've preferred it if you used the team he used against Kukui instead of the one he used against Gladion.

Your editor is actually insane, all of those lil edits, memes n stuff sprinkled ontop made this analysis of ash's team so much more enjoyable. Give them a raise LOL

I still remember when Ash’s Sinnoh team got snubbed by a freaking Darkrai & Latios

Minor complaint: You acknowledge which Pokémon came out in which era but not the gameplay differences. For example, you mention Thunder Punch not being good with Grovyle’s low attack, even though it would have been special in gen 3

Your delivery in these scripted videos has gotten so natural. I feel like you've really nailed the balance between the personality that made your older videos so appealing and a more focused structure that gets your point across concisely. I will always be an hour-long bagel intro fan, but it's been amazing to watch you grow as a content creator over the years.

use ash team and get rank 1

Pretty sure I was subscribed to one of my favorite youtubers as Pkm is the game I’ve invested the most time through my life but nil, the intro did make double check lol. Greetings all the way from Costa Rica, Pura Vida! Love you Wolfey! I’ve learned so much from you!❤

16:38 G I BLE? REEAALLY?!

Bayleef getting compliments defensively from wolfey was what i needed to hear today

Who else died inside when Wolfey said “Gai-bel”

17:56 who on earth calls “GIIB LE” “GUY BLE” Wolfee the f*ck? 😆

8:12 “the power house of the cell is mitochondria” 🫡

Judging from the stats of his league teams, Ash's playstyle focuses on speedy attacks.

I feel like you should have used the team ash used against Paul than the one he used against Tobias. It's by far his most iconic sinnoh team

You should totally make a video on what ash’s best competitive team would look like in vgc. Not including any Pokémon he had temporarily or released, but everything he currently has either on his journey currently and back at Oaks lab. I’d love to see something like that from you!

I would love to see a version of this, but with Ash’s actual region teams, and giving benefit of the doubt to regions with more that 6 mons

I think a video on how you would improve each of Ash's teams without fundamentally changing them too much would be really cool, like you hinted at at the end of the Unova section.

What makes the Alola cup kinda funny is that while yeah Melmetal, Pikachu, and Lycanroc were in that final team, his backups were also Incineroar and Naganadel. Wow ground just wrecks that team

Everytime Wolfey mispronounced Gible a volcano erupts somewhere in the world this dude is a menace

I think focusing only on the teams used for the last battle of every region makes this as accurate as being mud slapped into oblivion, because you're ignoring some of his most important and relevant pokemon just because they did not take part in one battle, such as Infernape, Gliscor, Muk, Naganadel and Krookodile. Specially considering Infernape has the highest win rate (if we ignore the ones that only fought once and won)

The way Wolf just... butchers names is unreal, Nibble Bite and Chomp, but the man says Guh-EYE-bul

I loved the little Nod to Pilot the Swellow. That was REALLY cute

Had a cool idea that Im not sure if you have already thought about. But would be a cool follow up to this video. Building a competitive team from Ash's pokemon championship pool. You could do two flavours, One team where every pokemon has to be from a different Generation. So even though there is more than 6 gens, you just pick the best one from each gen to make 6. The other one would be just picking the 6 best pokemon to form a team around, no restrictions on one per generation. So Kind of like a "Final Form" for all of Ashs pokemon.

I’m really curious where you’d put Ash’s team against Paul, since that was the team he used through the majority of Sinnoh and the battle with Paul was by far the most important battle in the entire season

I wish you would have included the Orange Islands team. It was his first full 6 Pokemon team, and he had Tauros in Gen 1. Plus, he actually won against an undefeated champion in Drake. Sound familiar?

Jie-bull? You mean Gible bro

I know Ash wants to let his Pokémon choose the form they want He refuses to use Everstones and it’s confirmed he keeps evolution stones just in case his Pokémon change their minds and decide they want to evolve But yeah, not forcing his Pokémon to Evolve definitely hurts his strength

To the Alola League one, you could have used the one from the battle against Kukui, because it's a full team, it is almost part of the league and it kinda has Inceneroar

I made an Ash team in Sword and took it on the ladder. It was Ash hat Pikachu (didn’t get used very much), Charizard, Torcoal, Lapras, Dracovish and Butterfree. It was basically Sun and Rain modes with Butterfree using Rage Powder, Sleep Powder, Tailwind and Pollen Puff. The team did decently well and I got it into Masterball Tier which I was pretty happy with! 😊

Where was the team of Ash in the Orange Islands?

Maybe I didn't understand correctly, but Rotom Wash is an incredible singles Pokemon. It volt switches on everything it can't hit super effectively, stab hydro pump, will o wisp, with decent recovery. Very few pokemon block it, limited to bulky waters immune to electric like gastrodon, assuming room isn't running rare toxic.

I'm just still in awe that he finally did it. I'm just so happy he finally won and became the very best like no one ever was. From the vision pikachu had of all of Ashs pokemon to the first ever theme playing to Ash turning his hat backwards. The best episode of pokemon ever. Made me cry like a baby.

It's a shame the team he used for his exhibition match in Alola wasn't counted as the battle against Kukui felt like the actual "championship" match. I think it would have been his strongest or at least a very close runner up. Melmetal, Naganadel, Incineroar, Lycanroc (and Pikachu and Rowlet yes).

1m views in a month? 😳 Wolfey, my man, this is an amazing contribution for the Pokémon fandom. High quality content, well edited videos, A CAMEO FROM ASH'S VOICE ACTRESS!!!! OMGGGG, Best poketuber ever

Great video, throughly enjoyed it

Looking back you could recognise some growth in Ash teams during the last 3 seasons/leagues, aside from Rowlet and Pikachu everything was evolved 6-7-8 and his placings being second-first and first. Ash has reached his peak finally and now needs to catch Ho-oh

Props to Wolfey for actually adding a segment for Ash's latest league team despite recording this video months before it even existed

Ash's Gible was certainly a wasted opportunity, they introduced it but then remembered ash had a Monferno/infernape and it was supposed to be his ace for the region. They could've easily pulled a Aipom with it and had it go with him to Unova and have it evolve into Garchomp along the way. To me it probably would've been a more interesting story than Krookodile. You could already see it's passion for battling during the Sinnoh league. It would've been interesting to see it evolve and fully awaken a aggressive passion for battling. But no, they wanted ash's Charizard to return for a time instead.

it would be interesting to see a "what if" of all of ash's pokemon teams like what if all of his pokemon in unova were at the best possible state it could be with all of the pokemon fully evolved and how it would be rated then

His Pokémon in indigo league conference isn't only those Pokémon, he used many different teams that contained Pokémon like Muk and Kingler, and those help a lot so if you forgot about that then there you go.

It's a shame the team he used for his exhibition match in Alola wasn't counted as the battle against Kukui felt like the actual "championship" match. I think it would have been his strongest or at least a very close runner up.

I didn't noticed, but its kind of natural that Ash's teams got better with time and Generations, like a continious growth and learning from mistakes like "not evolving you pokemons" o having bad balancing strategy. Like, it's obvious for us that those are mistakes, but not for him. If you look the big schema of things, it all have sense. He was never bad, just unexperienced... like most of us at that age. Excellent video 😄

Also adding something to snorlax: The fighting type that it is weak to is made up almost fully of 90-120 damage moves all with stat lowering recoil so plus the physical bulk allows it to stall out the other Pokémon’s moves and stats while using stockpile a lot

Let it be Known that Ash in Unova had a Krookodile hanging out in the back And yet he brought Unfezant

I really think for Kanto and Alola teams the versions of full battles (vs Drake and vs Kukui) should have been used

The Johto League was my personal favorite. It was intense and neck to neck and that Charziard v Blaziken battle is an all time classic. Not to mention it was a perfect tease of the Hoenn region.

Squirtle can get a sneaky ko with focus sash and mirror coat/counter and then follow up with a torrent boosted aqua jet. Some people know squirlte can learn mirror coat as an egg move but very few know that squirtle can learn counter from the move tutor in fire red/leaf green. It's a set up that a lot of players either don't know about or don't expect to be used. Squirtle can also learn curse and mimic as tutor moves. curse is a solid set up move but mimic is ridiculously good. Mimic can let the user learn any of it's partner's or opponents moves which can be used for all sorts of shenanigans.

I feel like this should be redone using the strongest team from each region, rather than the team he lost/won with. Because a lot of the time there's much stronger teams he used in previous battles in the tournament

16:33 the way he Pronounces Gible two different ways. It has to be on purpose right?

Which website/app do you use to view pokemon stats and moves?

It could be seen as him maturing as well: he's able to evolve his pokemon because he himself has grown and evolved. In Kanto he had the potential but not the fully devolped skills or knowledge to go too far. Eight (and a half) regions later, however, he is far better and more able. Ash *himself* is the one who evolved the most. Yet he's still ten.

The editing on this video is phenomenal. You deserve every one of your subs Wolfey.

had this going on in the background and it took me a good bit to figure out he was talking about gible

Is no one gonna talk about how Wolfey said “Gible”

I still think his Sinnoh team was champion-worthy. Damn Action Replay-using Tobias

It is amazing you actually got Sarah to do a bit of a cameo in your video. Also this video is amazing and I really enjoyed it. It almost seems like low hanging fruit to do something like this, analyzing Ash's teams, but you really did your research and gave some excellent reasons and all that, and because of that I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Excellent video. That's the world champ difference for real.

Something you haven't mentioned, is that in his teams of 3, he had the ability to swap in pokemon from the sidelines.

No one was surprised it was the Lumiose Confrence team from gen 1-7 I got so salty that Ash lost it AND THEN WON ALOLA I get why logically, like the type match up and all that, but it was just SO GOOD. Ash actually had a brain!!! He was awesome! Coupled with the fact he won in the next region. I wouldn’t be as salty if he had lost alola but it felt like a slap in the face to 10 year old me. It’s got faults but that’s by far Ash’s most epic team (at least at the time. Infernape is sick but the general team quality wasn’t the same). Everyone was evolved and did their part, Ash used cool strategies, Ash didn’t tell pikachu to use thunderbolt on a ground type, Ash’s body wasn’t a rectangle making him look cooler, Ash Greninja is my all time favorite Pokémon… is this biased? Yes, but it’s not surprising since it was epic as hell. And also the fact alola is a new championship thing, so there’s a higher win rate. Even so I’m still salty cus I was 10 and loved xyz to bits. I’m so excited for legends ZA finally X and Y can get some love. They got robbed fr

There’s an alternate universe where the Wolfey Bayleef is a humongous meme in the Competitive Pokémon Community

Would have loved to see his regular sinnoh team in this one too

What is the website or app that you use to see those graphs and abilities and stats and every bit of info you sowed us? It would really help me!

16:26 please never say gible like that ever again

You forgot to mention that Ash's Swellow, in particular, doesn't have the species normal weakness to electricity, in fact it seems to have a resistance to it if Ash's Thunder Armor strategy was anything to go by. The reason he caught it in the first place was because it took Pikachu's Thunderbolts like a champ!

TL;DR: Ash got _hella_ robbed in Kalos

I remember watching this video last year shortly after it came out and glad I watched it again. Honestly, I'd like to see this video redone talking about the moves used by the pokemon instead of the moves they could know that would make them more powerhouses and useful. Ash was one to mostly use offensive moves ofer status changing ones, which I feel like would have had to change the rankings a little. Also, were the stats shown for the pokemon from thier respective gens, or where they done with the most current gen you could use them in? I ask because I know with each gen, some of the stats may change for balance reasons. That being said, I wonder if the rankings would change that way as well as taking into consideration other pokemon used on his teams during some of the confrences. Even though the Indigo League and Manalo conferences only used 3 pokemon on the team, he did swap out pokemon between matches when he won his rounds.

I think Ash's team against Kukui and against Paul need to be analyzed as well. Both are arguably more balanced than his others teams from their respective gens and you miss powerhouses like Infernape and Incinaroar (ohh now I know why you didn't use it)

The fact when wolfey pronounce gible as JAYBEL, had me choke

So, what Pokémon can you take on, Dracovish? Dracovish: yes

The Lily of the Valley team is pretty cool. Ash’s semifinals opponent was a Trainer who swept all eight gym battles and all of his tournament battles up that point using only Darkrai. Heracross, in addition to having the type matchup on Darkrai, is also shown to use Sleep Talk. This lets Heracross counter Dark Void with a super effective Megahorn (and Focus Punch, though I don’t think you can use it this way in the games). Still, Ash brought his unevolved Gible to fight a Darkrai, which is silly. Not even Draco Meteor can help Gible much there. But shoutout to Sceptile for FINALLY breaking Darkrai’s winning streak! Trying to think how good Ash's team against Gary was. Tauros, Bayleef, Muk, Heracross,Snorlax, Charizard. No Pikachu this time! A pretty well-balanced team, from my perspective.

I actually never realized how good Ash's Hoenn team was until doing research for my playthrough of Ruby and Sapphire recently.

Ash really liked waiting for a long cutscene and pressing B for every level earned for almost every Pokemon back in the days didn't he?

Ash started winning after serena's kiss💋😍😍

At 3:24 the description of Neutralizing Gas is just "While the user is on the field, the effects of all other abilities of other Pokemon that are currently in battle" ..... WHAT ABOUT THEM WOLFEY?? WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EFFECTS???

Can't help but agree. The fact he won with his new team and not his last one is just an insult. He should 100% have won back then

I recently subscribed as your delivery and content has matured over the years and I appreciate the professional approach. Good luck this generation Wolfey!

20:29 especially since unlike every other trainer, Ash can just activate Battle Bond immediately for free if he’s finished his character development.

I think you could use raichus stats for ashes specific Pikachu which may or may not be accurate, but his Pikachu as always been a little "different"

Ash winning 3/8 tournaments he enters is not bad at all.

Wonderful as always! One thing I'd love to see is you going through Ash's box and making your own best team.

When I remembered Ash had a gible in gen 4 and I saw this vid I thought "I wish he could've evolved it to a gabite" since going into the conference with the first evo of garchomp isn't a good idea but it atleast knew draco meteor so that's a plus

If Gladion had made Silvally into a Ground type rather than a Fighting type, he would've destroyed Ash; heck Ground type Silvally would destroy practically almost every member of his Alolan Team (just Air Slash killing Rowlet to take care of it)

Important to keep in mind (unless I'm completely forgetting something) ash's grenninja could go to ash grenninja form at will. He also did really struggle in the ice gym.

Honestly, I would've ranked Alola's team based on his full party of 6: Pikachu, Rowlet, Torracat, Lycanroc, Melmetal and Naganadel. After all, even if the final was a 3v3, the REAL final battle was the 6v6 against Kukui. I think that would be more fair as a whole, especially considering that he draws from that team of 6 when battling in a 3v3 anyway. Other than that, great video! I always love the synergy analysis and the editing.

Another point of interest about Ash's Manalo team His Pikachu had a Z-move which meant it did not have a light ball

Almost want a version where you judge each team of all of the members were fully evolved. And the best team he could make in each region with the Pokémon he had.

this video came at such a perfect time. I was just having a debate with my friends about ash's teams throughout the years. Love seeing the channels growth Wolfey

Really cool to see how Wolfe has grown as a KZfaqr. A year ago this would be a non-prepared 40 minute VOD of him scrolling through Serebii (which has its own charm tbf). But in traditional KZfaqr standards the vids have gotten so high quality recently 👏