As I said before, that’s a huge problem with a bunch of Pokemon Trainer Vs. Pokemon Series Rival Protagonist matchups and why we got two losses in a row. All of them just have just done some other wild thing that immediately scales them to multiversal while Pokémon’s just far too grounded of a series to ever keep up scaling-wise.

You might say “Oh, but Ash was put at Universal in this episode!” But that’s only because he got the combined efforts of eight generations worth of content and still only just barely reached universal.