Threadly reminder
>Ash beat the frontier brains, who are canonically as powerful as the E4 (mentioned by Scott) and he beat the strongest frontier brain, Brandon, who is champion-tier and uses legendaries>Ash's greninja beat the kalos champion's strongest pokemon>Ash's greninja almost beats Alan's mega charizard X, which was way above the champion's levelAsh at full power is way above champion-tier
If he used his best pokemon from every region he's been in, he might as well be the strongest trainer in the entire pokeworld
>>34453677gotta keep pikachu relevant, pikaclones are just there as pokedex filler