User blog comment:Jokeman20/Kalos League Finals/@comment-4503935-20160805051200

I think Pikachu's role in this battle is to be the guy who can wear down if not beat some of Alain's strongest pokemon, thereby giving his other teammates, Greninja in particular, a better chance at victory for the team. Pikachu knows that He and Ash have never been closer than where they are now, knows that Alain is a very scary powerful trainer with two scary powerful pokemon, plus four unknown others who they can assume to be just as scary and to take home the gold, they'll have have to go through him and to have the best chance of doing that he'll have to make sure that he does everything in his power and then some to give Ash and their team every advantage and edge they can get in order to triumph over a trainer far more powerful than Paul.