Ash Ketchum, the 10-year-old who led the Pokémon franchise for many years, proves time and again that he is actually extremely strong (not just for his age) by holding various Pokémon throughout the series. And people noticed.
Pokémon’s Ash Ketchum is actually ridiculously strong
He clearly lifts, bro
Image: OLM/The Pokémon Company
Saira Mueller is the interim culture editor at Polygon. She is fascinated by health and technology and has written about it for CNN, Wired, Mashable, and Self.
One of those people is Trevor Wagner, a fitness content creator and self-proclaimed gamer dude who decided to put Ash’s strength to the test. To do so, Wagner pulled images of Ash holding various Pokémon in the series, then researched their estimated weight before trying to recreate and lift that same weight (in the same way) himself.
In the video, titled “Seeing if I am as strong as Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town,” Wagner starts off with Pikachu, Ash’s ride or die, who weighs in at 13 pounds. Things quickly get out of hand when Ash overhead presses a Latias, which weighs in around 88 pounds. Wagner’s video ends with Ash throwing Mewtwo, which weighs approximately 269 pounds, overhead with one arm.
Honestly, Wagner’s caption for the video says it all: “Why is ash so strong 😭”
To watch how Wagner fairs, watch the video in its entirety below.
As it turns out, very few people are as strong as the perpetually 10-year-old Pokémon trainer.
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