Ash Ketchum's Gym Battles RANKED From Worst to Best. 

8:07 Her name is Candice.

Bruh those Kalos 3D camera angles were pure cinema. So sad they didn't carry out to the Future series

The clash between Magmar and Charizard on a frickin' volcano will go down as one of the most legendary moments in the pokemon anime

I was wondering the whole video why Ash vs Wallace was not in the F tier but when I saw the ending I understood and burst out laughing💀

Man I felt so bad for Elesa, she's my favorite Unovan Gym Leader and her Gym Battle in the anime is only remembered for Ash's stupidity.

Sinnoh and Kalos Gym Battles went so hard Hope we get many more Ash videos and tier lists from you!

Korrina’s battle was really special to me. I already loved Korrina as a character, and just witnessing her pride get shattered with Lucario’s inability to control its Mega was honestly vary sad. She was really trying, and she made me think of Ash to some extent, since Ash has had moments where some of his Pokemon struggle to control a greater power (like Chimchar’s Blaze). I’m glad she returned in Journeys, even if it was for a short time. (I really wish we got to see her and Lucario duke it out with Ash and Greninja)

Zac in 2019: Ash's WORST Gym Battle goes to gis fight against Elesa! Wallace: Hold my Wallace Cup.

Re-looking at the journeys Battles the amount of plot armor Lucario had was insane.

Unova really did ash dirty That elesa battle still hurts me to this day

Since you didn't say it, I must... "I LOVE DEFENSE!!!" I can't not see Byron in a video without that line, lol😂

3:15 "thats not how the move works" Well clearly it is Did Zac forget this is the anime Where things like this happens Bro is okay with thunder armor But this is where he draws the line

I forget Wulfric is actually a competent gym leader in the anime. And they actually gave him a mega Abomosnow because it's the region that introduced megas

My head cannon is that thunderarmor is suppose to be representation of swellows guts ability

Y'know, I really think something goes understated in the Elesa fight that I've never seen anyone else bring up. If Ash was going against a Flying type Emolga, why didn't he just... grab Roggenrola??

I wonder if we will see official gym battles again in the anime, cause if you really think about it, we hadn't have an proper one since x/y anime

The thumbnail got me dying 🥲 Clemont's battle in S tier? You are correct.

*What's your favorite Ash Ketchum Gym Battle?*

Valarie’s battle gets put so low cause breaking trick room “isn’t how the move works”, yet rock tomb climb, Thunder armour and counter shields get praised? Yeah, that makes sense

Ash vs Maylene was so good. Buizel vs Lucario was 🔥🔥🔥

One of my favourites is the first battle with Ash vs Wulfrick. I originally watched the 2nd battle first when I was younger and when I rewatched the xy anime years ago I was like “damn don’t remember Hawlucha here? Holy crap he took down the main member?! How did Ash lose this??” Averlug 3 v 1 Hawlucha, talon flame and Greninja hurt me bro. Ash had good moments like using water shiriken to freeze his feet. But Ash was under pressure catching up with Sawyer, trying to relay on locking in with Greninja since the episode before Sawyer Secptile actually beats Greninja for the first time.

I'm more mad about Ash's loss to Cress than the entire internet's anger towards his loss to Trip. He didn't even have Zekrom's nerf to justify it

I feel like the worst part of Elesa's gym is that Ash not only planned on using just Palpitoad, he made the conscious decision to bench the entire team for just Palpitoad. Ash, the guy who all but twice has had gym battles come down to a 1v1.

In my opinion (istg if y'all start a fight over this) Raihan vs. Ash was kinda bad simply because they made Raihan seem not as strong as he's supposed to be. In pokemon swsh, Raihan is the only person who's ever come close to defeating Leon, so I would think he'd have no problem crushing Ash's team. Raihan has worked his entire life to defeat Leon, yet this kid walks in and takes him down on the first try, THEN manages to make it to the finale tournament? Disappointing to me, a loyal Raihan stan

I think we were definitely robbed of a cyndaquil evolution vs Jasmine's steelix

This video is s tier!! I loved a lot of things about your video, especially the ending! Though I noticed you changed a lot of your opinions on the pokemon episodes lately

I’m surprised Watson is not in F. They barely got to know him, pika he got buffed and one shot everything, team rocket came and blast away and they left

Dang. I thought you'd have Ash vs Wulfric in S, that gym battle was peak!

You didn’t talk about it, but I also really like Korrina’s fight in journeys! It was hyped up for like 3 months due to COVID, and seeing Dragonite destroy one of ash’s greatest opponents made me the biggest Dragonite stan

If you counted the Kahunas, I would have included the Frontier Brains too.

Your ok with thunder armour but you hate trick room breaker are you serious😂

Journeys was by far the most disappointing series tbh. Specially when, all people were waiting for Ash and Serena reunion and all we got a 10 sec hi bye.

The ending caught me off guard but it was hilarious 😂, great video, I agree with pretty much everything.

Impressive work Zactoshi. You should do a ranking video with Ash’s companions and rivals battles.

First I thought I will be disagree with the Kalos battles positioning. But .... The FF battle was truly deserve where you placed it 😤😤

0:33 Basically summed up the entire Pokemon anime in one sentence

Great video!! Ash had some very interesting Gym Battles!! I am very interested to see Pokémon Horizon’s Gym Battle. What’s your thoughts on Pokémon Contests as well as Pokémon Showcases? Ranking Contest Combinations (Who is the true Top Coordinator? Including Rivals, using the logic of Dawn’s Flame Ice Combination, the idea of the protagonist needing to win like in May Vs Harley in the first Kanto Contest) Trying to highlight the other protagonists

I’m glad they made Whitney’s miltank accurate to the games.

Man sinnoh gym battles really were top tier, like not a single one of those battles I will skip when rewatching the anime. Best season of the anime for sure.

i love binge watching your videos!!!

Ash's best gym battles: Olympia, Ramos, Fantina, Falkner, Morty, Gardenia, Clemont, Wulferic, Claire, Korrina, Maylene.

That was a great video! I am happy for Clemont love ❤️ That is my personal favorite gym battle. Also you placed a lot of my favorite ones in the top tier. The only ones I got thrown off was the ones that Ash battled in Journeys like the ones like Raihan, Bea, and Visquez. They weren’t battling for a badge. Was there a reason they were included?

Magmar Vs. Charizard is one of my all time faves. The music and fluent animation still gives me goosebumps.❤🥰🙌 The Maylene gym battle was also fantastic, and I can rewatch that one any day of the week. Wulfric pulling out the mega stone in the 2nd battle was awesome to watch. 💙🥰

3:15 F*ck that, Hawlucha breaking Trick Room was AWESOME, and you can't convince me otherwise.

this man out here speaking straight gospel with that top 5 ngl first video i've seen form here major respect for how you look at all of this and the production value behind all of it respect of the Maylene fight love i've had to remind others about that fight

Brawly is an interesting case of Ash not going into a rematch with the same team, somethjng that doesn’t happen often because rematches are often used as redemption storylines for the team who lost last time around and a way to showcase the results of the training Ash does with them in the interim.

When I 1st saw Ash vs Maylene & how they tied but she gave Ash the badge anyway was so wholesome

my only defense for Ash vs Elisa is Snivy... like how was he meant to know Emolga was female?

Phenomenal video dude

Great to know that we share the same favorite leader, the Japanese dub made it so much better with his theme playing at the end.

Very nice stuff OP.

Damn he’d have to watch A LOT of hours of the Pokemon anime to make this. Nice work man

Awesome video If can should do for league battles and/or full battles if can

My personal favorite is Ash vs Maylene. The fight between Buizel and Lucario was pretty frickin cool and had really good pacing. Though the gym battle with Volkner is a close 2nd for me.

blaines battle with magmar vs charizard is one of the most famous and popular matches in the series history

Ash's battle with Clay was the first battle I've ever watched in my life, but his battle with Clemont is something else...

@Zactoshi, id love a video on your predictions for legends ZA

Norman had so much potential to be the strongest trainer ever with his non truant slaking 🤣🤣

ash vs blain was the first time i ever watched pokemon. the battle fascinated me so much that pokemon became my favorite cartoon and charizard my favorite pokemon. even after 10 years it is

You literally nailed the best ash gym battles my dude 😅

Tepig vs. Pansear was another ridiculous example of one of Ash's Pokemon taking damage from POWERFUL and sometimes even super effective moves (Pansear's Dig) yet it still manages to pull a win from 1 or 2 attacks...

Woke up 2 Zacruto dropping what I alr know is gonna be a banger. P.S Fire shirt where u get it?

I’ve always LOVED Diamond and pearls gym battles They were so awesome to watch

Isnt the clemont battle the best animated one out of all these. I remember How good it looked

Them Kalos gym battles were 🔥

Ideas for a video - Top Best Ash Ketchum Companion’s Rivals or Temporary Companions

i loved the ending to this video

Even though Clemont, Korrina, Maylene and Wulfric were great battles, but for me the absolute peak ash Olympia fight. Absolute 10/10 from start to finish

After Pokémom Journeys, I left watching the anime and whenever I come across these videos, I cannot help myself but weep 😭

I don't know bout you but that flannery fight was highlight of corpish career, i started cheering for that little fella then Corpish! corpish!! corpish!! corpish!!

Ideas for a video - Top Best Ash Ketchum Companion’s Rivals or Companions that only traveled with Ash for 1-3+ Episodes

I really enjoyed both Sinnoh and Kalos every gym battles, especially Kalos. This series was truely masterpiece.

He really only saw it used three times or four times. But it's impressive he was able to figure out how to get around it on his feet.

Lucario becoming Goku with the spiret bomb

You should make a video where you write your own master 8 tournament. your own match ups. pokemon used. how they end up ans etc

You should make a tiering of Ash companions and rivals gym battles

I may or may not have forgotten Volker existed and said 'what's Minato doing here'

I like how Cilan and his brothers are so close to each other lol

Yeah, his win against Wattson had me decide that Sparkles ability should be Lightning Rod whenever I start a new game Also, I see Thunder Armor as Swellow's Guts ability activating as it shattered the Reflect Lunatone set up

I'd give the battle between Ash vs Fantina the crown to my favourite gym battle. Tbh, it's one of those "I dunno why, it just is" kind of favourites. Ash vs Olympia is really close though.

Watching this again there's some weird choices here, I'll overlook Valerie since a lot of other people went into it: 1. Misty's 1st season Gym with Ash was actually very good. Before TR bust through the wall, her Starmie's gem was flashing indicating it was nearly out of energy. Ash would have won, and Butterfree/Pidgeotto did really well in that battle. For only the second Gym of the entire anime, it was a vast improvement over Brock's. Great animation too for 1997. 2. Flannery and Bugsy's Gyms are both much better than a D. Flannery has some great moments with Corphish sleeping and Ash having to wake it up, hitting the underside of Slugma/Magcargo with Bullet Seed and Bubblebeam, and her Torkoal using Overheat and Ash learning how to deal with it. In Bugsy, Cyndaquil spinning in the air (preview to Dawn's move 10 years later), and shooting fire down onto Scyther was fantastic. 3. Visquez was literally one of the best battles in JN. I don't know how you rate it so low, fantastic animation, fantastic battling, and came before JN included gimmicks like Mega/Dynamax in every battle. It's also the first time we see an Electrode in an official match, and Ash's Gengar was fantastic and got a great win here. 4. Pryce was a Kanto pity badge as late as Johto, deserves D tier.

The last battle between Bee and ash is amazing, the reason why i think that could be because Lucario is my favorite pokemon, but still its awesome🤩

Imagine wallace and ash having an Exhibition battle with some WCS ranking involved too, a full battle to showcase the journeys team.

Viola is an actual instrument, i’m a band kid so the only difference ik is violin is soprano pitch and viola is alto pitch

I agree, I loved the friendship and strategy between clement and ash

Could you review the gym leaders from every region?

Agree with number 1 such amazing battle and clemont is really underrated

16:08 that face made me laugh... oh no my Mom's chasing me HELP!

I couldn’t stop laughing at the ending. Man that Journeys episode with Wallace and Serena pissed off both Western and Eastern fans alike that day. XD

I agree with you on that Wallace thing. Ash and Serena could’ve had a talk about what she did when they parted back in X and Y.

League battles next!

Return of the goat 🐐

Ash vs korrina, volkner, Olympia,clemont,Blaine,Clair,Roxie,Candice,clemont,fantina,gardenia,roark, Byron,brycon,pryce,Winona, nanu,Olivia,Norman,Juan,lt surge,and maylene are my favorite gym battles!

Say whatever you want, but Ash vs Olympia will forever be no 1 for me.

Ik neji death is sad and all but he could’ve easily use rotation and parried it away why does he have a defensive jutsu if he ain’t gonna use it when he getting attacked

Ash only bringing Palpitoad was stupid, but at least it wasn't Pikachu losing to a level 5 Snivy.

7:47 - Also Byron is voiced by Dan Green (Yami Yugi). Bonus points there :)

The Nanu battle was really awesome and the arc itself was probably my favorite Sun and Moon arc!! I'm working my way through Diamond and Pearl right now and my favorite right now is the Maylene battle!! Side note: seeing your anime reviews inspired me to do this binge (I'm finished with Sun and Moon, 111 episodes through Diamond and Pearl, 5 episodes through Journeys, and I have a long way to go 😊)!!

Would you considering do this for Ash's Battles with Eliet 4 members? It probably wouldn't be too long, but I think it could be a cool idea to take a look at those battles. Of course, we'd have to figure out what counts as an Elite 4 battle for Gens 7 and 8 because of what they did, with two of the Kuhuas Ash already battled being members in the bse Sun and Moon games, and Gen 8 not having an Elite 4 and instead had that champion tournament. And then do we count the battle with Koga because he was just a Gym Leader back then. But at least Gens 1 and 3 to 6 are straight forward. Gen 1 he fought both Lorelia and Agitha. Gen 3 he battled Drake, which I think was a pretty decent battle back then. Gen 4 he fought both Flint and Bertha and despite them kind of being squash matches he did pretty well it really showed how far he had come. Gen 5 he fought none. Gen 6 he battled Drasna in Journey's/

It’s amazing how far gym battles in the series came since Indigo