>>46192798I don't want to be Ash, and you wouldn't want to be him, either. Think about it - if you found yourself in the Pokemon world at start of anime canon, would you want to even be around Ash? He's a shenanigan and danger magnet. Maybe he'd be cool to have as a buddy, but the amount of disaster that follows him would be hazardous to your health.
On the other hand, you'd get constant encounters with legendary and novel Pokemon. Not to mention Brock's apparently impressive cooking.