>>51614968In AG, Ash travels with the rookie May, this coupled with the fact that he was mostly rivalless for the series, meaning there was no one to challenge him, made him arogant, something that was shown and addressed several times, but only fully resolved with the combined efforts of Brandon and Gary by series end. DP continues off from this growth by showing him being mature and humble enough to get frequent help from others by utilizing Dawn's coordinator techniques, asking Kenny for help, people that he is above in experience. The conflict of DP was in the form of Ash being challenged on the ideological front by Paul, something he overcame by acknowledging his methods and even incorporating them to become a more complete trainer. BW and XY drop the ball quite a bit and SM is forced to play catch up from XY's ending but it does so by showing that Ash, after being exhausted from trying to be Mr. Perfect in Kalos for his friends has decided to stay in Alola and relax in a region that is in perfect harmony between its people and Pokémon, he changes his methods of blindly traveling the region from gym to gym by showing us how he found purpose in staying mostly in one place with his schoolmates and second family and how, ultimately, it was this more relaxed mindset and way of experiencing the region that allowed him to become a Champion.
