>>18884695The anime plays out as it did previously, however Ash has all the memories of his coma. He soon notices that the events he dreamed about are all coming to pass, and does things differently to avoid the fuckups he made the first time around.
He knows Charizard will ignore him in the league, so he tracks Anthony down and retrieves his Primeape, which he uses to defeat Ritchie and advance through at least one 6 on 6 battle.
After he's finished the Goldenron City adventures, he calls Kurt and gets the GS Ball back (Kurt had discovered what it was soon after Ash had left, but hadn't bothered getting back to him because he's a lazy old bastard), the planned GS Ball arc is then used as it would have originally.
Ash also gets further in the Unova League by choosing to let Cameron believe the League is in Johto, thus Cameron doesn't compete and isn't matched up with Ash.