I'm getting Itachi Vibes from her... Anyone remember the Itachi Egg episode?

This was what I mean by "Items having reduced effectiveness" and a "natural progression to the next Tier". But regardless, say no change in rank is made, is there any difference between a Born Gold vs a Made Gold? Sure Born helps progressing to the next rank, but without a new rank? There should be no difference.

-cough cough- Favoritism.

This was well done, props to the Author

Just realized something. We were recently informed about the first ever attempt to kill a legendary pokemon, but with this information, I think we can actually guess what fight and pokemon was involved. Team Rocket vs. Mewtwo! Hear me out, we know only a few details regarding the fabled fight. Only that, there were a few dozen Champion Grade pokemon, a 'weak' Legendary pokemon was the target, somehow no one knows fuck all in regards to details, and a fuck ton of Elite level pokemon were used as meat shields and died. With Lt. Surge training a literal Army of Elite tier pokemon, Team Rocket has their Army of disposables. We all know they have a good amount of Champion Grade pokemon. Its team rocket so they probably did all they could to cover their asses and I doubt the Alliance wanted to advertise Team Rockets power thus despite this being such a huge feat thus everything was hushed up. And while we all know Mewtwo as a complete powerhouse in the games, with Mewtwo being a human manufactured Legendary and without being able to be backed by the lore that true legends have, he'd actually be regarded as a 'weak' Legendary pokemon.

50+ are champion no?

Honestly, I think Deino might hit above Diamond Rank. The time it will take Deino to get from 1-50 I can guarantee Alex can get him to shallow Diamond, by the time he evolves Alex will absolutely have acquired numerous Dragon type items for him to progress to true diamond. The 14 levels required after to get him to Hydrogen is said to require a similar time frame, thus its quite possible to get him to Deep Diamond then. On the very unlikely chance Alex can acquire a Full Blooded Legendary item, he can possibly transcend him to what I will dub Transcendent Rank.

What Rank does everyone think Deino here will reach by the end of this? Post a comment below on what Rank and why.

With how difficult it would be to raise, I think anything short of Raw Diamond is impossible to accept. Please reference the post I made earlier as to why.

After going through literally every Pseudo Legendary, Zwelous is tied for first for highest level minimum among starting Pseudo Legends. He will require himself to reach Level 50 by the time he will go from Drink to Zwelous! Other Pseudo Legends like Metagross and Garchomp evolve before well before level 50 while some others like Goodra evolve AT level 50. Hydregon himself is THE highest leveled required Pseudo Legend, requiring a level of 64. The next highest would be Drakoloak of Sword and Shield at level 60. None of the evolutions possess even a decent reputation either, all of them possessing pokedex entries that make him out to be horrendously Hostile or unpleasant. Should Alex accept this he will be undertaking one of, no, THE most Difficult pokemon ever to raise. But should he succeed, will likely possess a pokemon that can likely rival pure blood Legendaries of even this world where they are buffed by their status in lore.

Metal Claw is a Steel Move against a Rock type, I'm pretty sure Water type doesn't give resistance to Steel either.

Even so, the passive damage would make a battle of attrition in favor to Scizor.

So it's Scizor vs Gardevoir, while I wasn't expecting Scizor to win, since no matter what he would have been in a x4 type disadvantage, (while I understand the situation I'm still disappointed Ditto threw such an advantage away), Scizor is the perfect counter Among Alex's team against Gardevoir. I'd go so far as to call it a 3:7 ratio favoring Scizor.

You forgot to set the Status from Health to Poisoned on Gardevoir

You are mistaken, I looked it up just to make sure, Psychic does NOT grant you a resistance to the poison type. The damage should have been well over 260%.

When did Overheat hit Master?

Venoshock had bonus damage since she was poisoned, and toxic deals progressively more damage over time, as you have said that Gardevoir is indeed a fairy Type in this, I feel the result is somewhat skewed... perhaps that's just me.

The issue is that Gardevoir is a fairy Type and is already poisoned by toxic, even with Calm Mind the damage should have been much higher since Venoshock does bonus damage to poisoned targets.

If he didn't get off toxic, I'd have supported that statement. Unfortunately hit and run will only work against her now that she was hit with Toxic from an actual Poison pokemon, which is also her weakness since she's a fairy.

Man screw honor, its called strategy!