I just realized that Black would probably be an extremely hard to beat Champion if he really wanted to. Or at least it’d be hard to keep him from being champion after he lost.
If he really wants to keep the title then after he became champion there’s at least a chance he’d take notes from the other gym leaders about promising new trainers’ teams each time the Pokémon league came around to prepare for when they came to fight him. And if he lost he could study the new champions team until he was confident he could take the title back.
A champion who studies all the Pokémon who come to challenge him is a pretty difficult opponent.











