Talk:Ash Ketchum vs. Red/@comment-27825376-20151223134850/@comment-25620113-20151230105200

1) Those team rocket guys are only there for comical effect. Ash has beaten Team Galactic and Team Plasma single handedly although team galactic were defeated with the combined effort of Uxie, Azelf and Mesprit.

2) Ash has actually shown to be reasonably strategic more times than being a dumbass. Watch any other region apart from Kanto and Unova (where the writers obviously didn't know what they were doing) and you will actually find him being able to overcome obstacles even at a type disadvantage (his bayleef defeating a houndoom in the johto league is one example)

3) Yes but if I recall Red was allowed his full team against a team of five as well as being able to use items however many times he wants. Also Ash beat all seven frontier brains, two of them were using legendaries mind you (which are far harder to beat in the anime than in the game), the orange league where the champion used a dragonite with 10 moves and WOULD HAVE won the Sinnoh league had his opponent not been using legendaries which I have already mentioned live up to their names unlike in the games.

4) Red's rival never respects him either and if we are using game red which I have, Red beats him every single time because you can't progress through the game if you lose. If you lose it's back to the pokemon center and just fight him again until you win.