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It depends. If we abide by game rules, he'd be crushed by any eight year old with a basic knowledge of the rules. But Ash lives in a world where Pikachu can electrify Onix, agility increases evasiveness, and the most powerful move in the entire world is seismic toss. He'd probably crush everybody here if this was anime world because we'd be so used to game logic.
Except if we had Alakazam or some shit on our team. IIRC strong psychic pokemon are absolute rape on the show. Also Ghost pokemon. If you're ACTUALLY watching pokemon fight, there's no logical explanation for why "pound" won't hit but "bite" will.