>>35536930He is! Lance explicitly tells you how amazing his dragons are, or how obviously amazing you must be to challenge him for the Champion title. Obvious stuff that anyone could say. Drake's intro is both appropriate for his age and rank while doubling as a warning that dragons are boss monsters and beating them (without a safe spammable ice move) requires you know what your squad can do very, very well. Which, from experience, is 100% true.
Then the ORAS rematch is just "You know what I'm on about: try and ****ing stop me!"