>>55402655>>55402739The furthest she gets is winning a regional league after years of failure, but never makes it deep into the Champions league or able to challenge the Elite Four. But the final arc of the story is there's a gimmick tournament where Champions are tasked with finding a Trainer to take under their wing and apprentice, and she's chosen by one of them since a Champion takes interest in her. The tournament is built around "raising" the next generation of greats and showing them off to the world where after training with their Champion the apprentices will be entered into a tournament against one another where the prize is to fight the champion of their choosing. She's eliminated in the 2nd round and her rival wins the whole thing before getting squashed by the Champion he chose to fight.
She goes from a Trainer who was ready to quit within a day of her first Gym loss because she was a horrid trainer, to eventual regional league champion after years of hard work, to being shown off to the world by her favorite trainer and champion of all time. She makes it as a Trainer, she'll just never be considered one of the all time greats.