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My hot take is that I don’t think any of the game versions of characters actually scale to the creation trio. The Giratina encounter in Platinum can end with the player catching Giratina (and since you have the Master Ball that makes it easy) or just running away which calms Giratina down. There’s no canon outcome in that fight since all three paths continue the story. Ultra Wormhole encounters are dubiously canon with you running into legendaries there and no canon outcome to any fights you have.Most trainers scaling to Creation Trio because of scaling to another trainer outside CTrio games is kinda bunk tbh.
Sure, Red is strong trainer, but like he technically has never officially won against players canonically in SunMoon, BW, GoldSilver etc. Its actually not good because Pokemon has like no other way to get to T2+. Im actually struggling to think other feats.
Hell, "Lusamine is a postgame Title challenger" is bad reason to scale because other challengers can be Gym Leaders and a ******* Youngster. That group really doesnt scream CTrio scaling being valid, they are just challengers, not guarenteed to be as strong.
And god forbid level scaling. Tbh, Iirc levels are a thing in Manga but its a joke for games. Random lv 100 wild mons are as strong as Dialga trust pffft
Also dont Gen4 legendaries escape if you dont capture them, iirc.
The Cyrus fight in USUM has him release Dialga/Palkia from a Pokeball which explicitly weakens their strength, hence needing the Red Chain. And in Legends Arceus the first of the trio you fight is testing your worthiness and when you fight the out of control other trio member you already have Dialga/Palkia on your second and both when you fight Giratina. Even the Arceus fight is him testing you and that’s on top of you already having all members of the trio to face him.