>>57866068>one of its Gym Leaders was so powerful he could have become the champion of another regionThis can be applied to several gym leaders before Raihan, Galar doesn't even have an elite four or anything like frontier brains, so aside from Leon, their gym leaders are the very best trainers in the region, downplaying Raihan's position as merely a gym leader to make him being on par with other champions more impressive makes no sense even if he were the only gym leader that was this good because in his region the gym leaders effectively are the Elite Four.
>>57866953If we're adding games to this, we'd include Lance being a former elite four member, Koga got promoted to be a member of the elite four from his previous gym leader position, Cheren actually beat the Elite Four and would've challenged Alder if it wasn't for Hilbert/Hilda and Team Plasma, Siebold's Blastoise beat Alain's Charizard without too much trouble, Kahili is a trial challenge champion, Acerola was just a trial captain yet she is an elite four member, Nanu was offered a position as one of Alola's elite four but he refused, Larry straight up is a gym leader who is also an Elite Four member and Drayton was the champion of blueberry academy until Kieran beat him.
