I tried rewatching the gen 1 series again and literally rage quit. To everybody who says the Indigo League anime is the best... what is your standard of quality? The writing is BEYOND unbelievable and I'm not even talking about the localization issues. Ash starts out as a kid who GROWS UP in the Pokemon world and doesn't know the most basic of basic crap, like weakening Pokemon to catch them or what COMMON Pokemon like Pidgey and Spearow are capable of. The kid has Pokemon merch in his room and has trouble identifying Voltorb and Snorlax, WHICH HE HAS IN HIS ROOM. He spends time watching competitive battles on TV, showing he follows the competitive sport and can't get basic type matchups, taking on Brock with a butterfly, a bird and an electric mouse. This is a world where it is COMMONPLACE to send your ten-year-old into the wilderness, and this protagonist is incapable of making any good calls without handholding by a couple of tagalong characters who, by all logic, should have gotten sick of his crap after a week and ditched him.
Gen 1 Ash is a terrible protagonist who should have never been able to survive the start of his Pokemon journey. The fact he's as ignorant as he is, being a native of the Pokemon world, is unbelievable. Were it an Isekai scenario, his ignorance would have made sense, but that is not the case.