I must disagree wholeheartedly, Red is by far the ultimate trainer, while Red and Gold are both very strong and well-rounded characters, the matchup is almost laughable, Red is a pokemon champion who when he went through the league 3 years before Golds quest began, he had to fight his way through 8 gym leader who were overall stronger (evidenced by the Gym-leader matchup in the pokemon adventures manga, the only reason kanto lost was because blaine did not want to murder the other opponents). When Red faced team rocket, he had to take down the leader and founder, 8th gym leader and overall one of the strongest trainers in kanto, giovanni, and take down the 3 legendary birds after they were turned uber and combined, while gold has never had to fight a legendary, only wield one that he didn't even catch (also Red caught Mewtwo, before his first journey ended). Gold can only brag that he stopped a broken form of Team rocket whose goal had nothing to do with the original and was weakened by the lose of their original leader. Also since both are pokedex holders they are both seen as very worthy trainers in the eyes of ex-champion Prof Oak, but both are very different in their skills. Red is labeled the Battler, being that he is the strongest battler of all the pokedex holders while Golds title is the Breeder, while both are very noble, breeding is obviously something red would know nothing about being how it wasn't even discovered until 3 years after his journey ended. A final note is that Red in the games has a team of 3 starters, snorlax, lapras and pikachu, this is a weaker team then his manga and canon team, Venusaur, Espeon, Poliwrath, Aerodactyl, Snorlax and pikachu, all of who are much stronger than Gold's team when he supposedly would meet Red, Aipom, Typhlosion, Politoad, Sunflora, Sudowoodo, and togetic, it is obvious that while golds team has proven themselves, they are not battle inclined and would lose to any matchup with Red's dominating battle team
