Ah, I've been sick tonight so I'm doing what I can! I can still think, it's just kind of hard to put exactly what it is that I mean to say when translating the thoughts into writing, aaaaand in cases like this it's my brain knowing what something is and yet providing a mental picture that makes literally no damn sense, so! Appreciating the correction, and...dear god, Bullet Punching everywhere again. Carlisle does have a Sitrus Berry on him (now that Archer has finally gotten it through Kimblee's skull that this is a Good Idea), which is fortunate because that Mamoswine was seriously at a point where if you looked at it wrong it was going to up and die tbh; pretty much another solid hit is going to have it down for the ten-count and Kimblee knows it, so now is when he starts trying to go for the larger moves, because Kimblee Has Had It With This Metagross. He'll be ensuring that the Hail holds up (because continuing to chip away 1/16th of its health is...better than nothing tbh) and then actually attacking with Earth Power, trying to exploit the weakness to Ground.

And he's had a lot of tough competition before her - Talim and Rose were good battlers and his victories against them came down to type advantages; Isaac and Cecil nearly took him out of the tournament and the victories were very narrow. Doesn't change the validity of the compliment any~ (...aka, yes, he is going to notice that smirking.)