ash is told there is 10000 trainers competiing in the series. his first opponent is from the vermilion gym who was trained with lt surge the gym leader with pikachu v raichu to start before ash switches to gengar after pikachu is weakened but electrode is tough and beats gengar but pikachu bputs a good fight and ash gets a hingher ranking.
next time imitatation talent.
Harrison’s world 