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Christ, I feel like this may be a terrible idea...
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Kepekley23/Poliwrath_reacts_to_Doom_Desire
We need to discuss if this scales. It's a legitimate .24 c feat, and given that Pokemon well below that are .034 c, it's not an outlier, but we need to discuss two things:
One, should we scale from the manga? I'd say yes, as we've opened up scaling to the anime for normal Pokemon, so the manga shouldn't be an exception, and Satoshi Tajiri said that it's most accurate to how he wanted Pokemon to be. And given that we've considered scaling Pokemon to the feats of Deliberd and the manga!Starters, it's not something that was just brought up.
And two, should Pokemon scale from Red's Poliwrath? Again, I say yes. Our profiles take Pokemon at their potential peaks, as they're a species (save for a few exceptions). Poliwrath doesn't have a higher peak potential than any other Pokemon of its caliber. An Arcanine can be just as, if not around as fast or as strong as said Poliwrath. And before anyone asks, Pikachu (Anime) is a main protagonist with the power of relevancy, allowing it to defeat Pokemon well out of how any other Pikachu would logically behave, and Lucario (Mystery of Mew) is already an anomaly, being able to talk. From what I can remember, Pokemon Adventures doesn't have any special snowflake other than that one Eevee, who was experimented on to be a special snowflake.
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Kepekley23/Poliwrath_reacts_to_Doom_Desire
We need to discuss if this scales. It's a legitimate .24 c feat, and given that Pokemon well below that are .034 c, it's not an outlier, but we need to discuss two things:
One, should we scale from the manga? I'd say yes, as we've opened up scaling to the anime for normal Pokemon, so the manga shouldn't be an exception, and Satoshi Tajiri said that it's most accurate to how he wanted Pokemon to be. And given that we've considered scaling Pokemon to the feats of Deliberd and the manga!Starters, it's not something that was just brought up.
And two, should Pokemon scale from Red's Poliwrath? Again, I say yes. Our profiles take Pokemon at their potential peaks, as they're a species (save for a few exceptions). Poliwrath doesn't have a higher peak potential than any other Pokemon of its caliber. An Arcanine can be just as, if not around as fast or as strong as said Poliwrath. And before anyone asks, Pikachu (Anime) is a main protagonist with the power of relevancy, allowing it to defeat Pokemon well out of how any other Pikachu would logically behave, and Lucario (Mystery of Mew) is already an anomaly, being able to talk. From what I can remember, Pokemon Adventures doesn't have any special snowflake other than that one Eevee, who was experimented on to be a special snowflake.