Alder.
What is it?
I didn't stand a chance against you. Won't you please tell me what I did wrong in our battle? I must have been lacking something.
You really didn't do anything wrong. You weren't lacking anything. [Except experience]
But you beat me. You kept me from showing how strong I've become.
So what if I did? Thinking back, you asked me the same thing a while ago. I'm pretty sure I know the answer but do you have any admiration for a man like me? Winning, losing, strength, weakness, in the end, your Pokémon will determine all that. There is no easy answer to what you ask. But if I have to choose one thing, I'd say look at all you've learned from the day you started on your journey right up to today. That may be the answer you seek.
Everything I learned...
[Note: This loss was to remind fans that while Trip is a skilled trainer, he is very inexperienced. Trip represents a trainer who thinks that defeating a Champion is easy in real life like in the video games but not realizing there is a difference between video games and reality.]
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