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Let me elaborate on the question. We've seen many strong Trainers in the main series Pokémon games. However, could Volo lorewise be considered the strongest Trainer relative to his time period and peers? Unlike any other Trainer we've seen previously, Volo has trained his Pokémon in a time when Poké Balls aren't yet widely used, let alone Pokémon battling or even the concept of Trainers exists yet where he lives. Nonetheless he boasts a full team of extraordinarily powerful Pokémon and even takes command of a Legendary Pokémon. Obviously, he's easily the most powerful Trainer in PLA and there's no one who can even attempt to compete. He's like Gen 1 Mewtwo in this regard.
What's even crazier is that while usually the respective player characters are canonically considered the most powerful Trainers in the Pokémon Universe, in Volo's case this doesn't apply because he and the player character for PLA don't originally share the same time period. Think about it. Akari and Rei are heavily implied to have been outstanding Pokémon Trainers in the current age and have the advantage of coming from a society accustomed to living, training and battling with Pokémon. They literally have the advantage of some 200 years of development in strategy, technique, technology, Pokémon domestication and societal progess this field compared to Volo, plus their own implied personal experience as a Trainer in this enviroment. And even then Volo can go toe to toe with themand kick their ass over and over.
One of the reasons Arceus sends the player character back in time is to deal with Volo specifically and I think this is because at the time there was no one else in the Pokémon Universe who could get close to stopping him. Yes, the player characters in their respective time periods may be the most powerful, but are they relatively speaking more powerful compared to their contemporaries than Volo was in his time? Looking at it from this perspective I think there's an argument in favour of Volo in his time period being the single strongest Trainer we've seen so far, including player characters. What do you think?
What's even crazier is that while usually the respective player characters are canonically considered the most powerful Trainers in the Pokémon Universe, in Volo's case this doesn't apply because he and the player character for PLA don't originally share the same time period. Think about it. Akari and Rei are heavily implied to have been outstanding Pokémon Trainers in the current age and have the advantage of coming from a society accustomed to living, training and battling with Pokémon. They literally have the advantage of some 200 years of development in strategy, technique, technology, Pokémon domestication and societal progess this field compared to Volo, plus their own implied personal experience as a Trainer in this enviroment. And even then Volo can go toe to toe with them
One of the reasons Arceus sends the player character back in time is to deal with Volo specifically and I think this is because at the time there was no one else in the Pokémon Universe who could get close to stopping him. Yes, the player characters in their respective time periods may be the most powerful, but are they relatively speaking more powerful compared to their contemporaries than Volo was in his time? Looking at it from this perspective I think there's an argument in favour of Volo in his time period being the single strongest Trainer we've seen so far, including player characters. What do you think?