With Pokemon vs Lions. I think Stamina plays a role I think which might help give the Lions a wincon. Especially if no Legendaries are being used.
Apologies if anyone minds me bringing this up (& apologies if I'm slow to reply, I was tired & not feeling ideal recently.), but I don't think the lions have a Stamina avenue either, even if putting aside the matter of enough Durability invalidating piercing.
| Sun | A tale is told of a town that angered Gyarados. Before the sun rose the next day, flames utterly consumed the town, leaving not a trace behind. |
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| Shield | Once it begins to rampage, a Gyarados will burn everything down, even in a harsh storm. |
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| Sapphire | Once Gyarados goes on a rampage, its ferociously violent blood doesn't calm until it has burned everything down. There are records of this Pokémon's rampages lasting a whole month. |
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Put briefly, Gyarados will ramapge for a month, nonstop, & set everything on fire/burn everything down, even in a harsh storm, suggesting these are hard to douse flames.
What is at most a day is enough for Gyarados to have destroyed a town with no trace of it left behind.
No lion can fight for a month, nonstop, & lions don't deal with fire well.
There's also some dubious cases of extreme Stamina like Shelgon, which goes without eating or drinking to the point entries question why Shelgon don't die, during which time its cells are changing at radical rates, then it evolves.
Meditite survives on 1 berry a day, & Medicham trains itself through starvation, through which it achieved its Psychic abilities.
| Ruby | Rhyhorn runs in a straight line, smashing everything in its path. It is not bothered even if it rushes headlong into a block of steel. This Pokémon may feel some pain from the collision the next day, however. |
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Rhyhorn is a Rock-type, its bones are stated to be 1,000 times harder than human bones, & it will neither feel pain, nor have memory of collisions while running, & basically never stops running except in the case of some collisions; Any lions in its path are getting pulverized, they ain't steel, & they ain't 7-C.
| Gold | If approached while asleep, it may awaken and angrily give chase in a groggy state of semi-sleep. |
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| Y | It is always outrageously furious. If it gives chase, it will tenaciously track the target no matter how far. |
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Primeape is implied to chase for extreme amounts of distance/periods of time, & can start chase even if asleep, so passing out from exhaustion might not matter for it.
| Ruby | Vigoroth is always itching and agitated to go on a wild rampage. It simply can't tolerate sitting still for even a minute. This Pokémon's stress level rises if it can't be moving constantly. |
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| Sapphire | Vigoroth is simply incapable of remaining still. Even when it tries to sleep, the blood in its veins grows agitated, compelling this Pokémon to run wild throughout the jungle before it can settle down. |
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| Emerald | It can't keep still because its blood boils with energy. It runs through the fields and mountains all day to calm itself. If it doesn't, it can't sleep at night. |
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The fact that it says "all day" suggests about 12 hours (6 AM to 6 PM.), implying Vigoroth would be doing this for 12 hours. & since it's rampaging, it'll presumably be fighting. Since it massively outstats lions, that's 12 hours of fighting against the lions.
Arcanine:
| Sword | The sight of it running over 6,200 miles in a single day and night has captivated many people. |
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Note that the original distance is 10,000 kilometers, exactly; "Over 6,200 miles" is due to localization for places where miles are the standard instead of km; 10,000 km is actually 6213.71192 miles, but Pokemon likes simple numbers that are multiples of 5 or 10.
More importantly, even if if it's assumed a single day and night" is 36 hours (A 24 hour day plus a 12 hour night, as a lowball.) means covering that distance in that time means running at 77.1604938 meters per second. Besides that that would be categorized as Subsonic (Faster than the Eye), as would the result of "a single day & night" being 24 hours resulting in a speed of 115.740741 m/s.).
At a low end, that's over 172 mph, whereas bullet trains can go 186 mph or more. At the 24 hour end, this is almost 258.9~ miles per hour; Most Nascar vehicles top at around 220 mph, maybe 230, supposedly, & there is
an alleged case of an F1 vehicle setting a record of 258 mph.
Put another way: Imagine being run over by a world record fastest racecar, & that's the speed Arcanine is slamming into you so casually it can do this for 24 hours.
It's questionable if lion bodies would even be capable of impeding it, even with their quantity, especially since Pokemon have many moves that are just ramming into the opponent, like Tackle, Take Down, etc. Heck, Arcanine is 1 of the few to not get Quick Attack... because it's 1 of the first Pokemon to get Extremespeed.
It could literally just run at the lions to defeat them, for 24 hours.
Riolu:
| Pearl | Its body is lithe yet powerful. It can crest three mountains and cross two canyons in one night. |
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The speed isn't easily calculable, but.... Since Pokemon of Riolu's evolutionary stages are scaled to 8-C, which is well in excess of what a lion can reach, meaning it'd likely just be able to spend 12 hours one-shotting lions.
By comparison, most lions don't spend more than a few hours per day hunting, & spend most of it sleeping, especially during the day, since they lose energy hunting in the hot climate. Documentation of how long lions FIGHT for is less clear,
but apparently there was one in which it fought for an hour, linked on our lion profile.
There's also the matter of numerous Magikarp still flopping about after a lake-emptying bomb blast & in theory Zigzagoon & Linoone just re-eating the same berries (Zigzagoon & Linoone can be found with Oran & Sitrus Berries, respectively.) due to Pickup replenishing them.
Like Zigzagoon & Linoone, Pikipek can also be found holding an Oran Berry, & Trumbeak can also be found holding a Sitrus Berry, both being notable for having Pickup.
Pikipek & Trumbeak also specialize in using seeds & stones for ammo for ranged attacks, as their Pokedex entries state, so they shouldn't run out of "ammo" (Ergo, never runs out of PP.), & with a starting berry plus Pickup, they wouldn't run out of Stamina either.
They'd be akin to flying machine guns.
& of course, there's Ride Pokemon not being fazed by charging through rocks in the overworld to shatter them; A lion would be little different. (Though Ride Pokemon may be subject to NLF, as its unclear how long they're meant to be able to go about doing that for.)
But yeah. There are probably other examples, but I don't think Stamina would let lions beat Pokemon, even with 1 trillion.
Heck, if the arena is flammable (& most of a lion's natural habitat is.), it's possible fire spreading would beat the lions.
Sorry for the long post. Hopefully this is helpful, appreciable, &/or interesting.