History Awesome / Traveler

** Wallace's Wailord, Mathéo, manages to sweep the rest of Ash's team with seemingly effortless ease. His Water Spout cancels out an exhausted Torrent's last ditch Draco Meteor, before knocking him out with a Hyper Beam. Against Dazed, he simply hits her with a staggeringly powerful Attract, which leaves her open to a Hydro Pump. Ash has few options left that can deal with the Wailord due to its bulk, so he attempts to have Sneasel use Mind Breaker. Mathéo lets Sneasel get close, uses his water manipulation to knock Sneasel off balance into his blowhole and Water Spout him flying.

* The exhibition match against Wallace. Despite having only three days to prepare himself, Ash manages to shock the entire audience and Wallace himself by actually taking the lead in the fight, forcing Wallace to use his best Pokémon early to prevent Ash from getting to far ahead. And Ash is ''still keeping up'', even knocking out his ace [[StoneWall Milotic]], leaving both Wallace and Ash with three Pokemon each. Which, if he hadn't increased the stakes to 6 Pokémon each, would have won him the exhibition match.
** Oz defeats Wallace's Ludicolo, Esteban, by carefully biding her time, weathering his assualts before unleashing her Storm Surge technique and catching him in a lightning powered bear hug that he can't escape from. This victory is the first KO of the match, Oz and Ash having accomplished their victory against the Champion without having to wear down his Pokemon with other members of his team.

** The combined efforts of Bruiser, Tangrowth, and Torrent defeat the cornerstone of Wallace's team, his Milotic, Melody. Notably, this is the first time Ash and his team defeat a Champion's cornerstone. Torrent brings her down by being able to show off his full power, not hindered by having to devote energy to keep himself levitating, and unleashes his skills in water manipulation to continually trap and beat down the Milotic.
** Wallace's Wailord, Mathéo, manages to sweep the rest of Ash's team with seemingly effortless ease. His Water Spout cancels out an exhausted Torrent's last ditch Draco Meteor, before knocking him out with a Hyper Beam. Against Dazed, he simply hits her with a staggeringly powerful Attract, which leaves her open to a Hydro Pump. Ash has few options left that can deal with the Wailord due to its bulk, so he attempts to have Sneasel use Mind Breaker. Mathéo simply lets Sneasel get close, uses his water manipulation to knock Sneasel off balance into his blowhole and Water Spout him flying.

* The exhibition match against Wallace. Despite having only three days to prepare himself, Ash manages to shock the entire audience and Wallace himself by actually taking the lead in the fight, forcing Wallace to use his best Pokémon early to prevent Ash from getting to far ahead. And Ash is ''still keeping up'', even knocking out his ace [[StoneWall Milotic]], leaving both Wallace and Ash with three Pokemon each.

** Oz defeats Wallace's Ludicolo, Esteban, by carefully biding her time, weathering his assualts before unleashing her Storm Surge technique and catching him in a lightning powered bear hug that he can't escape from. This victory is the first KO of the match, Oz and Ash having accomplished their victory against the Champion without having

** The combined efforts of Bryiser, Tangrowth, and Torrent the cornerstone of Wallace's team, his Milotic, Melody. Notably, this is the first time Ash and his team defeat a Champion's cornerstone. Torrent brings her down by being able to show off his full power, not hindered by having to devote energy to keep himself levitating, and unleashes his skills in water manipulation to continually trap and beat down the Milotic.

** The combined efforts of Bryiser, Tangrowth, and Torrent defeat. Wallace's cornerstone of his team, his Milotic, Melody. Notably, this is the first time Ash and his team defeat a Champion's cornerstone. Torrent brings her down by being able to show off his full power, not hindered by having to devote energy to keep himself levitating, and unleashes his skills in water manipulation to continually trap and beat down the Milotic.

* The exhibition match against Wallace. Despite having only three days to prepare himself, Ash manages to shock the entire audience and Wallace himself by actually taking the lead in the fight, forcing Wallace to use his best Pokémon early to prevent Ash from getting to far ahead. And Ash is ''still keeping up'', even knocking out his ace [[StoneWall Milotic]], leaving both Wallace and Ash with three Pokemon each.

* Ash finally gains enough of Spiritomb's trust to name it during his training at Mt. Pyre.

** Apparently so many trainers came through Fortree or to Hoenn that the Ever Grande League has to have their Metagross information system constantly at work to process all the information on the trainers Ash fought or those who gathered in Fortree.

* Ash manages to complete his 24 hour Challenge with 578 battles, a new record according to Flannery.

--> '''Delia''': You've involved a young boy in battling terrorists.You've involved a young boy in these...these Legendaries! You've inducted a twelve-year old boy into the Elite Four and sent him off to Hoenn to do your dirty work! My son comes back every time quieter and scarred. Whenever I see him I catch him staring off into space, or waking up in cold sweat when Dazed can't put him to sleep, or ignoring everyone else to train! Because of you, he's a man in a child's body. You can justify it however you want, Champion, but you've risked my son's life too many times for me to stand by and let you drag him into your fights another time!\\

* Ash manages to complete his 24 hour Challenge with 568 battles, a new record according to Flannery.

** Apparently so many trainers came through Fortree or to Hoenn that the Ever Grande League has to have their Metagorss information system constantly at work to process all the information on the trainers Ash fought or those who gathered in Fortree.

* Ash using the Concept of Fire to hasten the flames in the old Hashimoto manor.

** Ash manages to complete his 24 hour Challenge with 568 battles, a new record according to Flannery.

** Paul comes and challenges the Gym. Ash gives him the badge and a minor TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in regards to how Paul treats his Pokémon and asks what he battles for, but he is still polite and does tell Paul to come back for a rematch when he figures out the answer to Ash's question.

* Mewtwo gives Lance the ultimatum that Ash will live if the Champion steps away from the child. Hald delirious, Lance starts to do so but Ash pushes the man to the ground and shields the Champion instead.

* The Greenfield Incident aka Anime/Pokemon3 is filled with these.

--> Delia: You've involved a young boy in battling terrorists.You've involved a young boy in these...these Legendaries! You've inducted a twelve-year old boy into the Elite Four and sent him off to Hoenn to do your dirty work! My son comes back every time quieter and scarred. Whenever I see him I catch him staring off into space, or waking up in cold sweat when Dazed can't put him to sleep, or ignoring everyone else to train! Because of you, he's a man in a child's body. You can justify it however you want, Champion, but you've risked my son's life too many times for me to stand by and let you drag him into your fights another time!
*** The thing about Delia's dressing down? Chapters later, Lance still feels the guilt brought on by her speech and apologizes to Ash for making him clean up the messes left from New Island, Shamouti, and Greenfield when it is supposed to be the adults making things right.

* In chapter 59, Ash beats a Pokemon Master.

* While Winona and Steven are on a mission together, Ash is given control of the Fortree City Gym. After making a quick broadcast about his temporary role and how he would be taking challenges for the next 24 hours. His team proceeds to fight almost 400 battles in the span of 15 hours.

* In chapter 59, Ash beats a Pokemon Master.

** The Legendary Beasts come to take down the Fake Entei and arrive in an order that reflects their creation myth: Raikou, Entei, and Suicune.

--> Ash Ketchum, ordering Infernus to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown take down]] [[PhysicalGod Zapdos and Articuno at Shamouti.]]

--> ''Ash Ketchum, ordering Infernus to take down [[PhysicalGod Zapdos and Articuno.]]''

--> ''Infernus, listen to me! ...I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the Birds. They're tearing the world apart and we're the only ones who can stop it - you can restore balance and force these Legends to acknowledge that [[BadassBoast we - this team - have a right to exist greater than their own.]] Go, Infernus, [[PreAssKickingOneLiner and see if gods can bleed.]]"
--> Ash Ketchum, ordering Infernus to take down [[PhysicalGod Zapdos and Articuno.]]

--> ''Infernus, listen to me! ...I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the Birds. They're tearing the world apart and we're the only ones who can stop it - you can restore balance and force these Legends to acknowledge that [[BadassBoast we - this team - have a right to exist greater than their own.]] Go, Infernus, [[PreAssKickingOneLiner and see if gods can bleed.]]

* During the Indigo Conference, Ash [[spoiler:makes history by coming in second place. Previously, no rookie trainer had ever even reached the semifinals]]. He even gets tapped to be an Elite Four trainee!

** When confronting an Unown created clone of himself, Ash [[spoiler:uses the Concept of Fire to [[BreathWeapon breathe fire on it until the clone melts]]]].

** The Legendary Beasts come to take down the Imagined Entei and arrive in an order that reflects their creation myth: Raikou, Entei, and Suicune.

* Even when he is still a trainee, Ash is shown the same level of respect as a full-fledged member of the Elite Four.