Karen herself could look the part, if positioned that way, but I just don't see her offering a fight as exciting on paper as Lance's dragon squad. Houndoom, Tyranitar, and Gengar all work and Umbreon is a nasty a wall as you make it, but those last two slots. But I guess you could say the same thing about Cynthia, since she was the one who really broke the trend of champion fights being mostly larger, beastlier picks.
>>55704142On paper you can see they wanted an "interference" character with a strong cleaner, but didn't want to go too far. Wing Attack and an elemental punch purely to not leave Murkrow and Gengar dead in the water would not have been too much.