>>51336862The comment wasn't asking how Red got Hitmonlee, it was about how Hitmonlee was randomly the only pokemon other than Charizard that was strong enough to handle Rhyhorn. Victreebel and Kabutops also had type advantage and were faster.
And holy fuck, I just realized how much Kabutops being there ruins the entire "Red didn't train any of his other pokemon" argument. Kabutops has to be at least level 40. WTF how did we all miss that? We're retarded.
>>51335641He had to have at least grown his Kabuto up to level 40, so this argument can't hold.
>>51336931I already addressed the point that Red was shown using his Jolteon already in lavender town, so for the "level 25 Eevee with a Stone slapped on it" means he would have had to only just used it for a couple battles at most in Lavender town and then immediately went back to not using it until this battle.
Rhyhorn wasn't weakened by the time it took down, Victreebel, Kabutops, Jolteon and Snorlax all didn't even get a hit on it before it took them out. And the screen on the side of the battle room even showed the HP of the pokemon in the battles, Rhyhorn was not weak by the time Hitmonlee was sent out.
And even with all of that, the argument still doesn't make sense because Kabutops had to have been at least level 40 and it still got knocked out in two attacks.
