>>55874809>because he was a mary sue who world revolve around for no freaking reasonNot really, if the ashnime does anything right it's that it shows that all the other active league participants (Alain, Ritchie, Paul (?well they showed him doing the Battle Frontier), Gary, arguably Tobias) have tons of cool adventures happening to them too because that's what being a professional league battler entails.
Alain's adventures are arguably even more intense than Ash's AND he gets the whole 10 year old Pokegirl too.