Talk:Lucario VS Renamon/@comment-33058187-20170705202623/@comment-30944269-20170705215149

Ash's Pikachu has had hundreds and hundreds of episodes to prove how powerful he is, and a side from defeating Brandon's Regice, Pikachu has never shown anything above City level.

Throughout the anime, Pikachu has struggled with many, many Pokemon drastically below Regice, and has repeatedly shown that he is not Continent level. On the other hand, Sir Aaron's Lucario only appeared in one movie, and doesn't have nearly as much contradicting the scaling. When a specific character only has a few feats, it's generally a lot harder to call something they've done an outlier.

Tl;dr: Yes, Pikachu beating Regice is a Continent level feat, but it's an outlier. Lucario beating Regirock is possibly one as well, though its harder to judge its consistency due to how few feats that specific Lucario had.