>>56365397You say that as though the same can't be said for Gym Leaders, when it already has, multiple times.
>Blue>Wallace>Cheren>Iris>RaihanThere's also the fact that Karen is occupying the exact same position that Lance did in gen 1, the mightiest of the Indigo Plateau's Elite Four, but her words somehow hold less weight than those of a random nameless gentleman, who has no known Pokemon of his own?
Beating the Champion isn't even required for one to be invited to the Battle Resort thanks to Wally also being invited despite very recently being punked by Zinnia, it's certainly not a high bar to clear if members of Team Magma and Team Aqua also made it, which includes their nameless grunts.
The cherry on top is that the Battle Resort is not the Battle Frontier, there is no such thing as a "Frontier Brain" because there isn't even a Battle Tower, the closest things they have to Frontier Brains are the Battle Chatelaines and they share battle music with Kalos' Elite Four members and the Frontier Brains.