History YMMV / PokemonFireAsh

** In version 3.5, you can recalling and legitimately win the Indigo League, meaning that Ash can get a fair rematch against Ritchie, whose fight is infamous in the anime for putting Ash into unfair circumstances that guarantee Ritchie's win, circumstances that, mind you, Ritchie himself didn't like, yet blames the loss on Ash and Ash alone ([[InformedWrongness when really, it was Team Rocket's fault that Ash lost]]) with the only one who doesn't blame Ash being Ritchie himself. And after the match against the person who beat Ritchie, you also get a rematch against Harrison, the guy who beat Ash in the Johto League ([[MythologyGag he stated he wanted to challenge the Indigo League after the Johto League]]). Meaning that, in rechallenging the Indigo League, you get rematches against not one, but two of the Trainers that beat Ash in the League. And the final battle of the rechallenged League is Gary, who himself gets some catharsis by getting to the finals, and since the FinalBoss of the Gen 1 games is Blue (Gary’s game counterpart) who faces Red for the Champion title, this battle between Ash and Gary feels like a TrueFinalBoss (which is helped by the fact Gary’s Pokemon for that fight are the highest-leveled ones for the game).

** Obviously, completing the Pokedex, but it's worse than in the canon games; ''Pokemon Fire Ash'' has all Pokedexes from Kanto to Hisui, and the National Pokedex on top of it. This means you have no less than 905 Pokemon to catch. Worse, most Legendary Pokemon have their catch rates be as low as in canon, making them a hassle to catch even with Ultra Balls or suited Apricorn Balls. The exceptions are Mew, Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Regigigas, Phione, Meloetta, Diancie, Hoopa, Volcanion, Cosmog, Magearna, Marshadow, Zeraora and Eternatus, which are Gift Pokémon, Solgaleo and Meltan, who are Iconic Pokémon, and Kubfu which can be found at a Game Corner. And with the exception of Ho-Oh, all Legendaries that must be obtained by catching them can only be caught once. This means that the Pokedex cannot be completed without SaveScumming or editing the save file so you have infinite Master Balls. Version 3.5 starts fixing this by making the Indigo League rechallengable, which allows you to recatch Mewtwo and the Legendary Birds if you failed to do so the first time and for each of your failures, they respawn whenever you beat the Indigo League, although Mewtwo is on Route 4 rather than in the Viridian Gym, where he's encountered the first time. And it's stated further updates will make more Leagues rechallengable, so it will become easier to catch the Legendaries. Though the above problem seems to be the reason why, up until Version 3.5, you don't receive rewards for completing the Pokedex.

** Obviously, completing the Pokedex, but it's worse than in the canon games; ''Pokemon Fire Ash'' has all Pokedexes from Kanto to Hisui, and the National Pokedex on top of it. This means you have no less than 905 Pokemon to catch. Worse, most Legendary Pokemon have their catch rates be as low as in canon, making them a hassle to catch even with Ultra Balls or suited Apricorn Balls. The exceptions are Mew, Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Regigigas, Phione, Meloetta, Diancie, Hoopa, Volcanion, Cosmog, Magearna, Marshadow, Zeraora and Eternatus, which are Gift Pokémon, Solgaleo and Meltan, who are Iconic Pokémon, and Kubfu which can be found at a Game Corner. And with the exception of Ho-Oh, all Legendaries that must be obtained by catching them can only be caught once. This means that the Pokedex cannot be completed without SaveScumming or editing the save file so you have infinite Master Balls.

** Challenging [[{{Superboss}} Ash]]; not only his Pokemon are all level 85, the highest of all Pokemon in the game, which means you need to spend a good amount of time LevelGrinding unless you edit your save file so you have infinite Rare Candies (though thankfully the post game has a lot of Trainers you can rechallenge endlessly, mainly Gym Leaders, Elite Four, Champions, Ash's traveling companions and rivals, and the Pokedex Holders from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', so if you know this, it's less tedious since you'll likely rely on those Trainers to grind rather than on wild Pokémon, and becomes even less tedious if you know about the GoodBadBug above), but unlike with everything else in the game, [[GuideDangIt the enclosed walkthrough doesn't tell you where you can find him]].

** Obviously, completing the Pokedex, but it's worse than in the canon games; ''Pokemon Fire Ash'' has all Pokedexes from Kanto to Hisui, and the National Pokedex on top of it. This means you have no less than 905 Pokemon to catch. Worse, most Legendary Pokemon have their catch rates be as low as in canon, making them a hassle to catch even with Ultra Balls or suited Apricorn Balls. (The exceptions are Mew, Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Regigigas, Phione, Meloetta, Diancie, Hoopa, Volcanion, Cosmog, Magearna, Marshadow, Zeraora and Eternatus, which are Gift Pokémon, Solgaleo and Meltan, who are Iconic Pokémon, and Kubfu which can be found at a Game Corner.) This means that the Pokedex cannot be completed without SaveScumming or editing the save file so you have infinite Master Balls.

** Obviously, completing the Pokedex, but it's worse than in the canon games; ''Pokemon Fire Ash'' has all Pokedexes from Kanto to Hisui, and the National Pokedex on top of it. This means you have no less than 905 Pokemon to catch. Worse, most Legendary Pokemon have their catch rates be as low as in canon, making them a hassle to catch even with Ultra Balls or suited Apricorn Balls. (The exceptions are Mew, Regice, Regirock, Registeel, Regigigas, Phione, Meloetta, Diancie, Hoopa, Volcanion, Cosmog, Magearna, Marshadow, Zeraora and Eternatus, which are Gift Pokémon, Solgaleo and Meltan, who are Iconic Pokémon, Ho-Oh, which is the only one of them that respawns due to being a random encounter, and Kubfu which can be found at a Game Corner.) This means that the Pokedex cannot be completed without SaveScumming or editing the save file so you have infinite Master Balls.

** Obviously, completing the Pokedex, but it's worse than in the canon games; ''Pokemon Fire Ash'' has all Pokedexes from Kanto to Hisui, and the National Pokedex on top of it. This means you have no less than 905 Pokemon to catch. Worse, most Legendary Pokemon have their catch rates be as low as in canon, making them a hassle to catch even with Ultra Balls or suited Apricorn Balls. This means that the Pokedex cannot be completed without SaveScumming or editing the save file so you have infinite Master Balls.

** Challenging [[{{Superboss}} Ash]]; not only his Pokemon are all level 85, the highest of all Pokemon in the game, which means you need to spend a good amount of time LevelGrinding unless you edit your save file so you have infinite Rare Candies (though thankfully the post game has a lot of Trainers you can rechallenge endlessly, mainly Gym Leaders, Elite Four, Champions, Ash's traveling companions and rivals, and the Pokedex Holders from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', so if you know this, it's less tedious since you'll likely rely on those Trainers to grind rather than on wild Pokémon), but unlike with everything else in the game, [[GuideDangIt the enclosed walkthrough doesn't tell you where you can find him]].

** Challenging [[{{Superboss}} Ash]]; not only his Pokemon are all level 85, the highest of all Pokemon in the game, which means you need to spend a good amount of time LevelGrinding unless you edit your save file so you have infinite Rare Candies, but unlike with everything else in the game, [[GuideDangIt the enclosed walkthrough doesn't tell you where you can find him]].

** Challenging [[{{Superboss}} Ash]]; not only his Pokemon are all level 85 while the second highest , which means you need to spend a good amount of time LevelGrinding unless you edit your save file so you have infinite Rare Candies, but unlike with everything else in the game, [[GuideDangIt the enclosed walkthrough doesn't tell you where you can find him]].

** Subverted; you can defeat everyone who canonically beat Ash in the Pokemon League (and you likely want to defeat [[DiabolusExMachina Tobias]] and [[RonTheDeathEater Alain]]), but [[YouCantFightFate that changes nothing; the game still behaves as if you lost to them]].
** Played straight with the Kanto Gyms; Ash earned half of them through acts of charity. Here, however, you not only can, but you ''must'' obtain the Badges the normal way (defeating the Gym Leader).
** Also played straight in the Pokemon catching sense. You can catch the Pokemon [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter you believe Ash should have caught]], and even live up to the anime's English motto, "GottaCatchEmAll".

** Obviously, completing the Pokedex; ''Pokemon Fire Ash'' has all Pokedexes from Kanto to Hisui, and the National Pokedex on top of it. This means you have no less than 905 Pokemon to catch. Worse, most Legendary Pokemon have their catch rates be as low as in canon, making them a hassle to catch even with Ultra Balls or suited Apricorn Balls. This means that the Pokedex cannot be completed without SaveScumming or editing the save file so you have infinite Master Balls.