Hey, I just thought of something. Who did Blue beat to become the Pokemon Champion in Gen 1?

Don't you have to beat the champion to become the champion? Because I don't think Lance could have been the champion considering he's part of the Elite Four.

To people saying it's Lance and he got bumped to Elite Four by losing: Considering in every single Pokemon game you become the new Champion and no one gets bumped down, that doesn't make sense

I think that might be a plot hole. Some say he was the first champion, but how could there be no champion before BLue? If Lance is a completely unbeaten Trainer and thus the champion hasn't been crowned, isn't Lance the champion?

But we know Lance can't be the champion because "bumping down" has never been a system in any of the games. So Lance isn't the champion because Lance hasn't beaten Lance?

If the requirement to be the Champion originally wasn't beating the previous champ and it was just "Beat Lance', then I feel really fucking bad for Lance

Dude's already been crowned the hardest trainer to beat, and yet he doesn't count as champion, the first one to beat him does

I subscribe to the age old wrestling adage of "To be the man, you have to beat the man". Lance got screwed! If he's been appointed "Hardest test for a champion" and no one has ever beat him, he should be the champion! #JusticeForLance

Here we go, this is probably the canon answer: https://twitter.com/MahDryBread/status/1265011624118833154