u/ComfortableEnergy591

So this is the follow up to the Ash's Team's Redone, and following from that I'm gonna be giving him a couple of Rival's of course like last time I'm only going to be going over the changes I make to existing teams, to bad that's every Trainer in this case.

Kanto: Ritchie is the First league Rival Ash would face, and his team is... Well it's a lot to explain, firstly I completely changed his Team... Yeah... So the Starter trio I know is important it's supposed to show him as the "Better Ash" I'm changing it cause it's stupid how easy the Starter's are to find in Kanto apparently, why would there be a specific place to get them if there's so many in the wild, what is this let's go? Okay let's really start, Clefairy is here because it was going to be Ash's stater before Pikachu was decided on, if Richie were a modern rival it'd probably be an Eevee, but I digress, next is Growlithe, it's the Chameleon replacement, being a non fully evolved pure fire type Pokemon, next is Poliwrath, it is here purely cause of Manga Red, and I couldn't find a place to put it into Ash's Team, Fearow is here cause Ash originally had a Pidgeot in the anime but released it, Better Ash means not releasing your Pokemon for no reason, Vileplume is here to round out the Fire Grass Water trio, and Kangaskan is here to be the Safari Zone capture to mirror Ash's Rhydon in my team for him in Kanto

Johto: So he's got two Rivals in two very different ways here, First is Gary I've removed his literally mostly Ground Team from the Johto conference, and kept some of his heavy hitters well adding a few new ones by a few I mean two, Kingdra is here as I see Ash's Dragonair evolving in Johto into Dragonite, or even it evolving the Orange Island's, and the Two Pokemon have a Rivalry so why not? And Pidgeot, Blue famously has a Pidgeot in basically all of his team's, and since Ash doesn't have Pidgeot, why not let him use his iconic mon in the anime.

Silver: Yes I'm adding Silver as an actual character and not a still frame, Silver is Ash's first big jerk Rival that isn't competition in the League, but he is still a rival to Ash seeing him as Weak for treating his Pokemon with care and affection, but eventually gravitating towards Ash's personality and methods helps him in his goals of dismantling team Rocket, His Feraligatr is the same one Ash had as a Totodile, which means that despite Silver's seriousness, this guy's a big loveable goof, Crobat is here to show his growth as a character when it evolves via friendship, Electabuzz is here cause I gave Ash Ursaring and thought I'd be a good parallel to Pikachu kinda like Paul's but in this case we haven't seen any Electabuzz cause Surge doesn't use one, Sneasel is just Sneasel, it's the same thing as the game's, Gyarados is here as the Shiny representative of the series, having Ash's first show off the mechanic, as for Lance, I have a different idea in mind that will have to wait. And finally Machoke is here cause he doesn't have any friends, he can't trade with anyone to evolve it so it's stuck as a Machoke and if he ever came back it'd be Machamp to show his growth.

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So I'm about to get as much hate as possible, for posting my options on Reddit and I should be ready for the backlash I'm gonna revive so let's do this! This is going over the main team's, but just know Ash will probably make extra captures or capture Pokemon and just won't have them be apart of his main team that he'd use during the journey.

**Kanto:** Ash keeps the Three starter squad with Bulbasaur evolving after the events of Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden, choosing to Evolve to help ash, nextly Rhydon is caught in the Safari Zone along with his thirty Taruos and Dragonair is a Dratini that chooses to stay with Ash after a battle at the Celadon Game Corner leads to Team Rocket being exposed for running the game Corner

**Johto:** no starters? Well I mean I love them don't get me wrong but none of them had that Ash vibe honestly so this one's got a lot to go over, Espeon, is the Eevee we wish Ash had, since Gary has Umberon it'd make sense for Ash to get the opposite eeveelution, Ursaring ironically I can see as the big mama bear of the group, and gets extremely pissed when someone hurts what she perceives as her babys (literally every other team member), Misdreavus is just a prankster ghost type that I grew to love and would love to see how Ash adapts it's unorthodox nature in battle, Houndoom is literally here to show off the Dark type, if it weren't him it'd be the baby Tyranitar that he never got to have.

**Hoenn:** Oh boy let's get to Hoenn, first is Shiny Kirlia why is it Shiny? I thought the shiny looked nice and Ash didn't catch one in Johto so here he gets one, Kirlia isn't the usual Ash battle style mon so adapting it's dancing Physcic moves is what's gonna carry their personality, Sceptile is Sceptile no need to explain him, Flygon, do I need to explain the reason for Flygon? No, will I? I mean it's a cool flying dragon why not give it a very goofy attitude and it's perfect for Ash. Sableye is just here so it can show off a Dark Ghost type with no weakness and also I imagine it trying to dig for gems every time Ash sends them out when not in Battle. Torkoal... Look man I needed one mon and Hoenn is hurting for Fire types and you know what I at least think it's crying gag is funny enough.

**Sinnoh:** So then once again, what am I doing giving Ash Shiny Gallade- it's just Kirlia, he's the Kirlia from Hoenn, it's a new evolution for an existing Pokemon that's Sinnoh's whole thing aside from Cynthia, Staraptor and Infernape are the same Pokemon they've always been, peak, Gastrodon is a very bulky very slow Pokemon, not Ash coded, but I can imagine it moving around on muddy water waves it uses as a tactic to move around speedy compared to it's slow normal movement, Abomasnow is here to be beeg strong man with a heart of gold, and can see it being used against Paul's Ursaring in the Sinnoh conference.

**Unova:** Ah the glorious region of Unova and the horrible team it gave Ash, let's go over my personal team for it, Braviary is caught early as a Rufflet, and is a scrappy determined fighter and only gets stronger when it evolves, Scolipede I can see having an interesting fighting style of it actually continuing to use a ball form to traverse like it did as Whirlipede, wrapping it's enemies up to deal out Cross Poison or X Scissor, Darmanitan is literally just better Emboar without the need to have it repeat Charizard and Infernape stories again right after having Infernape last series, Hydreigon is a beast, I could imagine it being an Iris mon, but Iris literally has a Dragonite already, this is just the same thing but with the Unova Psudo-Legendary, instead I'll have this be the Charizard of Ash's team, but it's just like Charizard in the way it won't listen to Ash cause it doesn't respect him until Ash earns his respect, maybe during a battle with Team Plasma and Team Rocket.

**Kalos:** Haha I'm so fucking dead, okay so to get it out of the way, I kept Greninja and Hawlucha the exact same, they are great, Ash's other team members, well I've got a lot of explaining to do. First up why did I get rid of Talonflame? Simple, I'm replacing it with Noibat/Noivern Ash would catch Noibat very early into Kalos, and it's a nervous wreck, it can't fly straight, battle properly, or fend for itself, that's when we stumble on Hawlucha, who inspires Noibat to fight and thus we get the big bro little bro dynamic in a different but similar way and when it evolves into Noivern it's way tougher thanks to Hawlucha taking it under its wing very early. Now Shiny Trevenant, it's a bit of an obvious pick, but I like em for Ash. Now Meowstic Male is purely Bais for me I love Meowstic, and it'd make for a good duo Pokemon with the different Gender forms and if Serena had the Female one also X Y game Parallel with the opposite gender rival having their corresponding Meowstic.

**Alola:** okay so I traded Melmetal for Alolan Meowth... That's literally it, cause I would find the Rivalry with Team Rocket Meowth funny as fuck, that is all I have to say, I love his Alola Team so I didn't make as many changes to it as I did say Unova.

**Journeys:** Okay... So Journey's team, haha oh boy, so firstly, the Tyranitar, obviously this is the Larvitar that Ash saved all the way back in Johto, and is now joining his team as the powerhouse it always was meant to be. Cinderace, now I know that Rillaboom is the universally accepted Galar stater for Ash, but I like the idea of Ash teaching Scorbunny all the different types of Ball related moves, Electro Ball, Shadow Ball (cause it can learn that for some reason) before eventually mastering it and being able to use Pyro Ball, and finally Hisuian Zoroark, I can see it being caught up in a space time distortion caused by Team Galactic trying to return Cyrus to their world, and arrives in modern day as a Zorua that follows around Ash as it witnessed his battle with Team Galactic, till it finally joins him and would evolve into Hisuian Zoroark (because game synergy)

**Horizon/Paldea:** So this is a whole ass what if Team, aside from the Obvious, Lokix, Palafin, even Cyclizar are some of the more popular picks for Ash's what if Paldea team's, well time for a controversial one, Ceruledge, I know since Amethio has one, why give Ash one? It doesn't fit him at all, Armarouge is obviously the better pick for Ash, all things I will probably be told here, but, to plead my case, I argue that you can have a heroic personality for a Ceruledge well showing it's showing it's more hostile nature, how? Simply make it Keldeo, okay what I mean is, it's a very confident maybe over confident Knight, it's not as experienced as Amethio's Ceruledge and is annoyed by that fact it keeps losing but not because it's just losing its disgracing Ash by losing, and eventually will have to accept the fact it has to keep growing, and Farigarf, we'll uhh I think it'd be interesting to see it's ability put to use as Ash has to train a type of Pokemon he's met before but also that has an air of malice in it but still.

And that's all the team's least until winds and waves come out where I'll be cooked again for my personal opinions yay!