Ash would definitely beat Takuto if he/she use a normal pokémon

I think Ash did his best because nobody defeated Darkrai except him and he also defeated another legendary.This shows us he is a great trainer and better than everybody in this league.

I also think using legendary is not fair.

Overall I was very happy for the outcome of this episode. Obviously I would have liked to see Satoshi win but that's not going to happen any time soon. What made this episode sweet was the fact that Jukain was able to defeat Darkrai for the first time in Sinnoh. None of the gym leaders or Sinnoh opponents that Takuto faced was able to defeat it. Also, Pikachu being able to face Latios like that was also epic. Satoshi just needs to catch that Ho-oh he keeps seeing so he'd have his own legendary Pokemon.

Yet in BW we're going to see Pikachu lose to normal Pokemon again.

Its like how Pikachu defeated Regice at the end of Battle Frontier, and went to losing to normal weak Pokemon again at the start of DP.

A few edits in the English dub, once again mainly with Team Rocket.

Link to Dub edits: http://www.pocketmonsters.net/episodes/1120#Edits