>>50970504She used a unique unregulated power-up. Ash also kind of does it with boosting his Lucario with Aura.
At least Ash wins, Iris is a loser.
>Barely clutching a winNow thats a retarded cope. It was a mid-diff win or so for Cynthia, by far the easiest win anyone has had over an active champion so far in the series - which paints Cynthia as the strongest champion (besides Ash)
slug totally dominated mole and Iris had to desperately rely on a last ditch ~30% plot rng
Milotic destroyed two and Cynthia could have just recalled it - but they had to make Iris seem more impressive by giving it a pointless KO on Milotic
Garchomp was > Haxorus from the start (unphased by Outrage) and then utterly wrecked it in Mega despite Haxorus getting boosted, while remaining undamaged