>>51064877>no tournament rulesWhy would those matter? He fights with his full team, as does everyone else in the PWT.
>fighting an old washed up red Source on Red becoming weaker over time?
On this train of logic Gold beat a frozen, nearly dead Red who had been hacking away at random wilds on Mt. Silver for God knows how long, that clearly wasn't his prime.
>>51064251Don't forget the protagonists who have literally taken on and beaten gods of space and time like Lucas/Dawn or Akari/Rei, or who canonically own world ending dragons like Hilda/Hilbert/Brendan/May, or Victor/Gloria who beat arguably the most powerful trainer in the world along with several other champion class trainers
Red and Gold probably don't crack top 10
