Bold opinion about ash not knowing squat, but i disagree to almost everything i read on this article because this nothing but one person's personal opinion. I believe the writer behind this article, isnt even a real pokemon fan. In one of the pokemon movies, it revealed what ashe's journey would be like if he never traveled with brock & misty. Which lead him to pokemon legend hoho, so if anything, it was brock & misty who needed ashe so they can travel