Game Theory: Ash's Age FINALLY Solved! (Pokemon)

This is it Theorists, the FINAL ANSWER on the "age old" mystery that has haunted Pokemon fans for years! Ha, see what I did there? All of that binge watching has finally paid off! Today we solve Pokemon's BIGGEST mystery, how old is Ash Ketchum?

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[gavynperez]

*Please Adjust your fan art accordingly*

[saitogaika]

the only explanation is that humans are also like Pokemons and they have 4 forms. toddler, 10 year old, adult, and grandpa/grandma. so ash will always stay a 10 year old until a certain condition is acquired.

[bleh]

Can we just think about the massive amount of work MatPat did for this and the first episode of this video? He would have had to watch all the Pokemon episodes AND analyse them to find the little details that indicate towards what season it is and not to mention the additional research he did on the Japanese cities that the Pokemon regions are based on. Hats off to you MatPat. You are a legend.

[roachdoggjr]

Iris: What a kid!
Ash: I'm nearly twice your age.

[sunsetvibe]

The depressing part about the fact that ash is 20 years old at this point is that team rocket spent an entire decade following one guy and his one pikachu, I don’t know whether to feel sad or impressed

[Kaiyou]

Ya know, if they had kept Ash’s age like you calculated, they could have had a good opportunity of making him more of a mentor figure for the other 10 year old trainers who are following him anyway

[mypenisisunbelievablysmall]

Ash is 20 and hangs out with 10 year old girls...







Brings a new meaning to “gotta catch em all”

[sylendraws]

How old is Ash?
Too old to only hang out with 10 year olds.

[michaelcherokee]

"18 years old and still sleeping alone in a tent with a tweenager" has got to be the most creepy, damning, and chilling thing that I have ever heard said about the main character of a children's cartoon.

[benjaminalonzo]

So one thing is Serena is Ash’s age as they met when they were kids, so she is 19 like Ash or he is 10 like her

[supposedlymilk]

AND STILL AFTER 11 YEARS







ash still owes misty a bike.

[mizuerenkw]

So... The anime is ending, let's finish the age of our epic hero?

[ziddars]

lets ignore his age and consider the fact that team rocket is still after pikachu after 10 years of failing to catch him

[dibeshsharmadahal]

What if ash is like a nurse Joy. Cloned with the same memories

[ChristianChen]

Plot Twist: Ash just shaves every episode off camera.

[Ponera-Sama]

Note: While Ash was almost 17 when Dawn started her Pokemon journey at age 10, May met Ash when he was 14, and Misty met him close to the start of the series, meaning Dawn is less than 7 years younger than Ash, May is 4 years younger, and Misty is around the same age as him if not older considering she was already a gym leader when Ash first met her. Please re-adjust your fanart accordingly.

[thomasstewart]

Not many people in here talking about the wish he made on a Ho-Ho at the start of his first journey. The wish that his journey would never end. He isn't aging at all. Perpetually 10 years old.

[lucmorris]

But how old is pikachu?

Matpat: *hold my diet coke*

[luz]

My theory is that ash has dedicated his life so much to becoming a Pokémon master, that he forgets his age and calls himself 10

[Dan_ShiningMoon]

Before the Journeys series ends and we start the 9th gen, MatPat should do an update as to how old Ash is now since in Journeys we see summer and winter days