>>35327664She comes in at a point of the game where, if you weren't actively training a female rockmon/fightmon, you end up getting screwed over by the Attract/Flinch RNG and Rollout. It didn't help that the level curve was right proper fucked in that game in general, so unless you were grinding like mad, you're going to be slightly underleveled (at best) staring down the udders of a pink cow.
From a trolling dev standpoint, I think the fight is great since the boys who play this game would probably line up their team with a bunch of male-mons because "who would want a bunch of girl-mons on their team? ewww, gross". The starter who has been with them this whole time would probably be male thanks to the 87.5% chance. You either need foresight or needed to actively grind seriously to get to the point where Whitney wasn't a major issue to your team.