Pokémon X and Pokémon Y

Then you'd have to put up with the same whining from the fairy tail thread that he's always winning, it's worse than it sounds.

The solution in a show like pokémon to have a protag that isn't an idiot is quite simple, new protags every now and then. Let ash win a pineappleing league and become a pokémon master and let a new character take over, obviously it's quite too late for that to happen, but it's the kind of direction that was originally planned for the pokémon anime but due to how popular ash's pokémon had become they stuck with them. Aaaaaand then ash ditches most of them and ends up with an entirely new crew of pokémon minus the stable few like pikachu and occasionally appearing ones like charizard.