Rath
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I'm going to defer to the usual "Ash can never have nice things" statement.
Ash was practically denied the ability to Mega Evolve any of his Pokemon in XY/XYZ, he was denied the chance to obtain a Lucario, and probably other things that would be rooted to the games. I was actually surprised Ash was allowed to use z-moves on such a large scale (if he truly wanted too), and even his Lycanroc got it's own form, and Ash's Pikachu got a z-move that is pretty specific only to anything that is "Ash's Pikachu".
I'll be surprised to see how SwSh will be handled, I'm pretty sure an alternative will be developed that is specific to Ash and Pikachu that will represent Dynamax in some fashion. Similar to how Ash's Greninja got the Ash-Greninja form. In hindsight, I wish "battle bond" actually became a thing in the games as a larger mechanic than just something for Greninja. Game Freak and TCPi can keep Dynamax and Z-moves (even though Z-moves have awesome animation in the games themselves
He was denied Megas because no Gen 6 Pokemon had them until Diancie in ORAS.
Any Pokemon can use Z-Moves, so there was nothing stopping Ash from getting a Z-Ring.
Dynamax also isn't limited to specific Pokemon, so there's nothing stopping Ash from using it.