I love it.
Except I can do so much better than Ash. C'mon, I have standards and ****.
I think ash is literally one of the most underrated protagonists that exist in anime.
He comes up with decent to brilliant strategies.
He's beaten 45 gyms at this point
He's always made it past bracket in the league competitions and made it into at least top 16 (Stop and consider for a moment that there are literally thousands of trainers that can't get past all the gyms or make it past the qualifying rounds.)
Defeated the entire battle frontier.
Brings out pretty much the max potential of his pokemon regardless of evolution.
Able to compete with top contest contenders with no experience in that type of battling at all.
He's pretty damn good.