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The reason Ash's Pikachu can get its ass beat by a wild Pokémon is because in the show, there is no such thing as a level. From here, I have two theories. Either evolutions don't really matter, and enough training can get any pokemon to be usable, (Gif related)
or all pokemon are at the equivalent of level 50
damn i've been waiting since 8am to post this