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What I'm more interested in is how strong these guys are and where they belong in the Pokemon world. People like Brandon exclusively rep legendary Pokemon so there's nothing else to apply to him, and Anabel even keeps hers as a Battle Tree opponent after dimension traveling to the megaverse, while Palmer shows up in-plot, is brought up by Barry as a legendary battler, and is implied to have been on a region-spanning adventure just like the protag and Barry, starting off the exact same way the player's adventure starts in DP: by getting mauled by a bunch of wild Pokemon.
Are they superhuman battlers above Champion status, protag-tier trainers who befriend legendaries and go on their own quests, just some random faces to apply to game mechanics, or are they still weaker than a generic gym leader or E4?
