Ash VS Red - Who Would Win? | Goldenrod Podcast 

100 episodes! Thank you for all your love and support over the last two years!

🎉🎉🎉 Woo!!!! 100!!!! Well done. And thank you for the consistent entertainment. 🎉🎉🎉 These battle chats would be a fun segment going forward. One random battle to finish off the episodes.

Congrats 🎉 the big 100 episodes...can't wait to listen to this at work tomorrow ❤

Congrats on making it to 100! Would loved to have seen you recap your 1st episode to see how far you've come but we can do that for episode 500 ;) lol

HAPPY 100!!! 🎉🎉🎉

The Randomizer Trainer Battles is a nice premise that could have been a new segment moving forward rather than one episode because you can set it up at the beginning or end and post a poll for the two trainers for the comments and subscribers to get involved with and then you can see if they agreed with your decision in the next episode before moving on to the next battle. This reminds me of the Cherry Picker I listen to which is a horror movie podcast where at the end of the episode they pick two characters that should have got the axe (whether they died in the movie or not) and give their reasons and opinions to who they select and let the audience determine the winner in a poll that's discussed in the following episode. Just a suggestion but this could lead to some good involvement in the comments.

I love this. Please give me more of this!

Amazing podcast. Glad to see anime being brought up to the roundtable. This battling topic will forever be iconic. Ash has been able to defeat game!Red ever since the late Hoenn days IMO. Just look at his lineup pre-Gen 4: Pikachu (all), Charizard (IL), Snorlax (OI), Heracross (GS), Sceptile (AG) and Donphan (BF). He's stacked since 2006. And this is before he adds on powerhouses like Infernape, Leavanny, Krookodile and the XY and SM Pokémon. His Journeys team was used exclusively for a World Tournament, it would fair against Red's manga team tbh: Gengar VS Venusaur, Dragonte VS Poliwrath, Lucario VS Espeon, Sirfetch'd VS Snorlax and Dracovish VS Aerodactyl. Ash obtained 56 Pokémon and has easy access to 48 of them at all times. Red's max range is 13-25 (19 average). I feel like you should consider LGPE Red too since he sports Arcanine and Machamp, very heavy hitter Pokémon. In Stadium 2 he has the Johto Starters, the Roaming Beasts, Ampharos, Scizor, Tauros and Dragonite too. Ash almost 3folds Red's roster and all Pokémon have proven to be at least early Elite 4 level due to Battle Frontier. Granted, if videogame logic was to be applied, then the movesets of Ash's Pokémon would be way weaker. His Greninja has Cut instead of Night Slash. His Dracovish has Water Gun... not Hydro Pump, Scald, Brine, Surf, etc. If we account for roster versatility, Ash has 4.48x to Red, so his winrate would be 81.75%. It's 71.40% in the games. His team would a lot more fragile since 16/56 are NFEs but still able to win. On a fist fight, Ash clears 151%.

Episode 100!!!🎉🎉🎉

I think you guys should have include Red's Mega Charizard X from Origins. His ability to switch the original 150 pokemon could have also played a factor but Ash still probably takes this win. Even if the Battle Bond was reconned in Journeys, Greninja is still a beast and the water type Ash should have used over Dracovish in my honest opinion lol I hated Dracovish.

QOTP: Is Ash a good dragon type trainer? I think besides the anime proving how strong dragon types are, I don't believe Ash has/had the skills yet to fully bring out their potential. His dragons are usually underdeveloped - Gible - given up or left somewhere halfway through the series, or peaked half way through the series. Then there's Dracovish who's just a gag character with a literal Ash-Pull second ability that never got explained lol but still walked into that world championship battle with Water Gun. I really did not like this mon lol