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In the loosest use of the term, he did simply by becoming a champion, since that's the only time in the games the player is told they have become one. But I wouldn't really call someone that until they've completed a dex at least once, and Ash is nowhere near that and never will be. Nor do I really think any anime character will, judging by how everyone in Horizons seems completely averse to catching things at all.
