Awesome / Pokemon Forum Battle NET

• The forum itself. What started as something made by Delia to help Ash get some friends grows into a globe spanning network coordinated enough to bring down entire criminal organizations, help research Legendary Pokemon, and fight natural disasters. Not bad for something originally put together by a 27 year old diner owner.
• Ash's first day goes pretty much the same as normal, with one minor exception. Taking Bea's lessons to heart about taking advantage of any opportunity, he catches one of the Spearow that had been menacing him.
• Ash manages to win his first battle with Brock, no sprinklers required.
• After the incident on Mt Moon with the TRio, the forum basically puts a hit out on Team Rocket. The eventual result? An entire region spanning criminal organization being dismantled and sent into hiding by a bunch of ten year olds, to the point the League thinks it's a gang war.
• Thanks to the forum members preventing Team Rocket from interrupting, Ash ends up winning his Gym Battle with Misty. No pity Badge here!
• Giselle ends up biting Charmander's abusive trainer Damian. Sheltered rich girl she may be, you do not abuse Pokemon in her presence!
• Ash manages to beat Lt. Surge with a team of 3 Flying types.
• Thanks to greater coordination, everyone onboard the St Anne manages to get off safely, with all the rockets getting arrested.
• Tate and Liza manage to make psychic contact with Groudon and calm it down after Team Magma anger it.
• Allister winds up winning the Galar League placement tournament, narrowly beating out Bea. He ends up losing to Raihan in the final tournament, but is offered the position of Gym Leader for Stow-on-Side as a result of his showing.
• It only takes Nemona four months to reach champion status.
• Bea manages to shatter Mewtwo's psychic barrier. World's strongest ten year old indeed.
• Giselle ends up repeating her performance with Damian on Mewtwo. It's later revealed that she actually used the move Bite, despite being by all accounts an ordinary human. This ends up getting Mew's interest, to the point the legendary joins her team so they can teach her even more ways to bite things.
• The Violet League is both this and Heartwarming. After Ash gets kidnapped by the remnants of Team Rocket before his final 8 battle with Ritchie (itself an improvement over the top 16 placement from canon), Ritchie, after trying and failing to get the referee to postpone the match, decides to say "screw this" and abandons the match to go save him, getting himself disqualified. So does every other member of the Top 8, barring Gary. Nemona, enraged by these proceedings, uses her position as the student body president of Uva Academy, along with her recently acquired champion trainer status, to set up their own tournament in Paldea, with herself taking Gary's position. The resulting battles are a sight to behold, culminating in a final bout between Ash and Nemona that is begging to be animated. The end result? All hail Ash Ketchum, champion.
  • Props have to go to Charles Goodshow. The League president stays up to watch the ad hoc tournament, and makes sure that the participants get their due in the form of commemorative badges and a proper trophy for Ash.
• The battle between Ash and Ritchie is so action packed, it inspires May to become a trainer, rather than being the coordinator she was in canon.
• Samurai manages to beat Gladion. With Metapod.
• While in Paldea, catching Cylizars for the forum, Ash somehow manages to catch Koraidon.
• During the Shamouti incident, all three legendary birds end up getting captured. Special attention goes to Casey, who catches Zapdos via ballistic Snorlax.
• Ash ends up not beating Drake due to not realizing Koraidon isn't a mutant Cylizar. Instead, Casey gets that honor.
• Ritchie wins the Manalo conference.
• The forum members all work together to build a literal castle out of a mountain.
• Gary ended up going to Orre after his win in the Indigo League, with the implication that he ended up saving various Shadow Pokemon from Cipher, if not taking Wes's place entirely.