>>28628842Ash is supposed to be the tour guide for new players, teaching kids who just got into pokemon the basics and stuff about friendship, people who want Ash to become some smogon faggot because "muh 20 years" are delusional
This endless cycle also would fuck with Pikachu, who is the series mascot, if Ash became an actual pokemon master this would be the end of his story and Pikachu would retire, which means some other trainer with another mon would need to show up
>Them why not having that trainer also having a pikachuThat would make no sense and it wouldn't be the same Pika
>Them why not have Ash giving away his Pikachu to another playerAsh would never do such thing after how strongly he and his Pikachu have bounded
Finally, we can't have Ash becoming a pokemon master either because that's what kids would also search for after watching the anime, if they ever set on stone "to become a pokemon master you must win this event, them its official" them it means any kid who wants to become a pokemon master can just beat one of the games and he will have acomplished his objective, having the title of pokemon master vague and unknown means more people buying more games and participatiing on this endless cycle that is pokemon
tl;dr Ash is fucked and so are you for playing pokemon