>want to play 4 gen for some reason
>start platinum
>pick piplup obviously
>barry beats me on the first battle spamming withdraw

what the fuck is this shit

this is actually the first time I've lost in years

Have you ever lost against a rival? Last time I got close to losing was when I was a kid and Silver appeared out of fucking nowhere at the end of victory road and my team was really low on hp and pp