They do correspond the vast majority of the time hence they that is the default expection, hence it’s you who needs to provide evidence that Gengar wasn’t Agatha’s Ace. Also even though Korrina doesn’t use Mega Lucario in the in-game gym battle it’s still pretty clear that it’s her strongest Pokémon and she also uses Mega Lucario when you face her at the Battle Chateau.
Even if Gengar is her ace, then it's more likely than not that Gengar recovered the damage it took from Pikachu via Dream Eater in the end so we can't be really sure about how much good Pikachu's performance overall was in reality considering all aspects.
Good for you; then go make your own Peakachu progression chart. You’re making a false assumption; Gary considered Arcanine to be 1 of his favorites yet it’s pretty obvious that the difference between Arcanine and Blatoise is vast given how easily it lost to Snorlax.
Arcanine was one of Gary's favourites but Gary favoured Blastoise more given how he was kissing Blostoise's Pokeball is the League battle before sending it out. In Lucy's case, it was blatantly obvious that she favoured her Seviper the most; she designed her battling arena the Battle Pike, based on Seviper, her red-rose projectile was designed on Seviper too, the writers even showcased her Seviper earlier against the Trio with her sisters also praising it in, so yeah, it was very likely that Seviper was on the stronger side of her Pokemon and one of her major powerhouses. So I don't really see how it makes sense for Milotic to be that much substantially stronger than Seviper what your progression chart says.
If you watch the Anabel episodes it's more than clear that Alakazam was clearly one of her favoured powerhouses and go to Pokemon as well. She clearly tended to use Alakazam a lot more than her other Pokemon; the only time we got to see her Espeon was in the re-match. On portrayal it's clear that Alakazam is one of her major and favoured powerhouses, and even if Espeon is somehow strong, it doesn't make that much sense to be an astronomical difference like your progression chart is suggesting.
That’s bad reasoning; it can just be that Tyson was paired up against a considerably stronger trainer. I see zero issue with that Persian being somewhere in the B spectrum. Really? I can just as easily say that the writers wanted us to consider Meowth as Tyson’s strongest Pokémon based on how much effort they put into its backstory and hence by extension that Persian couldn’t have been a pushover either.
I don't really think that it's more likely that the writers were trying imply that Tyson was against a way more stronger opponent; if we put in a deep thought about the portrayal of the preliminary round trainers overall, we see in 2 (a.k.a. majority) of the cases that the preliminary trainers were all that special, and suddenly in Tyson's case it was a much stronger opponent? It does sound quite wierd.
Or it could be like that writers were trying to imply that Meowth was Tyson's signature Pokemon with all the backstory rather than being his strongest by a long margin. Like Morrison's Metang was his signature Pokemon but based on the battle against Ash his strongest was definitely Gligar. Along with Puss In Boots(who was shown beating that Persian and a Rhydon), we also saw Tyson's other Pokemon being showcased throughout the League and so on prior to the battle with Ash, like his Metagross earlier on being showcased against the skirmish with the Trio, we saw his Sceptile being shown beating an Aggron and a Rhydon too.
Meowth still definitely is one of Tyson's major powerhouses, but I won't be too sure about it being stronger than his Metagross.
Cotton Guard can let him tank some Rollouts and land counter attacks. He can also keep track of Donphan’s movements with his nose. I don’t see this being an easy revenge kill (Donphan is taking a moderate amount of damage before winning).
I guess that could be the case.
Yeah Salamanca probably isn’t doing much against Hariyama after beating Donphan (at best it gets 1 hit in).
I see it more like being a easy revenge KO for Hariyama.
Actually it was more lower mid to mid diff against Corphish otherwise there would be several scaling issues. For starters it’s obvious that Donphan gave Swellow more difficulty than Hariyama. If Donphan gave Swellow a roughly mid diff fight then Hariyama gave Swellow a roughly lower mid diff fight (Swellow could still tank hits from Metagross, so it beat damaged Hariyama + Metagross definitively) meaning either Donphan is on par or even better than Hariyama (which would result in major some rating changes) or Hariyama was a good deal away from maximum health. I’m going with the 2nd interpretation.
Well there are some scaling inconsistencies like this in the HL battles, like in the Katie battle Swellow doesn't take any direct damage from Katie's Venomoth and Scizor, and yet gets dispatched by her Walrein quite easily, the same Walrein Grovyle goes to beat afterwards. I guess it could be explained like Donphan has a lot of attack power(Rollouts) but low defense power, a.k.a., a glass canon mostly. Swellow didn't even technically use a move on Donphan, it just picked it up and threw Donphan against a rock formation and Donphan fainted just merely of this.
And Slaking can stall Sceptile out with Slack Off causing Sceptile to take considerable stamina drain before finishing Slaking. The point is that Hariyama isn’t damaging Slaking to the degree Hawlucha did a.k.a it won’t be as damaged or injured as it was when Talonflame meaning that Slack Off is going to be more effective in this case. I don’t see Sceptile getting this win while maintaining perfect health + stamina. Also while Sawyer doesn’t really switch I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t leave out a Pokémon that literally has no viable options left against a given opponent whatsoever (he’s supposedly not that stupid).
Hariyama does slightly worser than Hawlucha in that case then I guess. Not sure that the stamina drain from launching a few special attacks would be significant enough to cause a difference in the Sceptile vs Clawitzer battle though.
Read my last sentence above this quoted para. The main point is that Sceptile is getting notable stamina drain giving Clawitzer the definitive advantage in their match. It is amusing to see that you do think that Tyson’s non-Ace team beats Sawyer’s
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Well I see Tyson's non-ace team just barely edging out Sawyer's; that doesn't make a difference either way as Sawyer's ace Sceptile (even without ME) cleans up Tyson's remaining Pokemon comfortably to give Sawyer's a comfortable win, and with ME Sawyer can easily make it a 6-0 sweep.
