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For me, I just don't think winning one-on-one battles is particularly impressive. That's been one of my big problems with the PWC, especially for its first two classes. These battles can still be good, but when they're supposed to be matches to determine the top ranked trainer in the world, you'd think that they wouldn't be relatively short battles. It isn't really difficult or impressive to win a one-on-one match and it can be difficult to really make either trainer or their Pokemon really shine. Making the matches three-on-three from the start would have gone a long way to making the PWC more impressive, more of Ash's Pokemon could have gotten a chance to shine and winning his matches could have felt like more of an accomplishment.As for Marnie, the battle itself being good is why it doesn't really matter it was 1 on 1. It probably would have just been Pikachu vs Morpeko if it was another fight.
It also doesn't help that this was in the Hyper Class. I remember people thinking or claiming that the matches would be longer or more consistent once Ash got to the Hyper Class, but they weren't. As far as I know, they didn't give Ash more off-screen victories and his opponents in the Hyper Class have also been established characters, which are definitely improvements, but the fact that they were still giving him shorter matches is still kind of a problem. As cool as it was for them to feature some Galar characters like Marnie and Piers, the latter being one of my favorite Galar Gym Leaders, I think it would have made more sense for Ash to battle Marnie in the Great Class. I like Marnie, but I don't know if it really makes sense for her to be that high in the PWC, at least for her first and most likely only appearance.