[Ingo nods knowingly at the first bit. He's never trained the strongest Pokemon in the region - at least, he never had the temerity to challenge a Noble - but he's spent most of his life as the strongest trainer in the region by far. It can breed complacency!]

You must have been quite a new trainer, still. It would be a challenge for anyone!

[He was young too, though in Ingo's mind that's a little less relevant than a lack of hands-on training experience. In a perfect world there would have been someone else on hand to help teach the both of them...but he knows why there wasn't.]

So - you believe that we should seek the outer limits of our monster abilities, first? That does make sense! We have stories from other monsters, but each one of us is so unique...it is difficult to know exactly what we are capable of!