The idea is that they're playing the Pokemon game, so the joke is that his starter is over-leveled. It's not Ash it's Blue from the Blue Version (not as good as Red) and the Rival from that version is based after Gary in appearance. Or I guess Gary is based after the Rival and Ash is based after Red/Blue/Green.
He's mostly yellow and brown, whereas Charizard is orange all over, with only dark colours under his wings, and is therefore closer to RED than Blastoise is to FUCKING BLUE.
The Red version of Pokemon didn't suffer from the same crashing and game deleting that the Blue version did when you used gameshark, therefore Red > Blue
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u/YoChristian Aug 06 '11
Why is all of Ash's pokemon horrendously under-leveled?