Watching pokemon, there are lots of questions that remain a mystery , like: Ash's immortality Ash's feats of strength Ash's abilities to understand pokemons Absence of Ash's father (never mentioned or shown) And many more However, after this video which I strongly think does make sense I put this thread as a spoiler Spoiler: Ash/Satoshi is a human pokemon hybrid So, now I believe that with all the weird things going on in anime, pokemon will reveal this truth at some point which is being Ash/Satoshi is a pokemon and human hybrid or some sort of cyborg Anyway, I found my answer
Does it really make sense though, then how come pikachu is still weak after so many seasons passed !!!
Well obviously the subconsious reason ash wants to train pokemon isn't to "make friends" or "be the best" but absorb the power or experience slowly from a chosen target to lengthen his lifespan.
Pikachu did get strong and did learn new moves and will probably learn more moves as the journey continues (albeit the pace is slow, too slow in fact), and will probably lose more weight and get more cuter as the seasons progresses
Yeah sounds possible but if he is dreaming then if it is a nightmare, then it is too happy to be so (friends, pokemons, relationships, etc...) and if it is just a regular dream (in coma) then it is simply too sad (he never once got any championship not to mention why would he dream of his mother being in relationship with a pokemon aka mr mime?) That is why, although, that picture explains so much it also doesn't answer many other things. Being half pokemon he clearly yearns for battles and being half human he clearly feels sad that he never won a single championship so far, as for his aging (I think just the same as the video) his father probably was a Ditto