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Team Red's argument:

Scorpion is the tankiest merc in this match. It will take a concerted effort from Heavy and Marina to take him down. While hes fairly fast compared to the combatants here (probably outclassed by Pikachu), his teleport gives him an edge.

Heavy is really good. Hes easily the best sustained damage output in this match with his minigun over time, barring a Scorpion fatality or an upper damage Pokemon move. But hes not particularly known for his mobility. If hes focusing on something, say a very large Charizard breathing fire and causing a commotion with a fire blast, hes not going to be able to extremely quickly turn around and deal with a threat behind him.

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Scorpion is uniquely able to take advantage of the minigun-wielding Heavy to get the jump on him - literally - by teleporting behind him.

Lara is best suited for stealthily engaging enemies. While she isnt going to blow anybody away with her durability in a sustained fight, shes certainly going to get hers to get an attack off. As a master of stealth, her most likely target is Sylvando as she will recognize that he is her easiest prey and he will be important to take down. Tomb Raider 2013 is filled with moments of Lara taking out enemies of Sylvandos calibur; most of which she handles while suffering from whatever other wound shes accumulated. Her competition bow, in particular, can be rigged with explosives and penetrating arrows to allow her to face off with Marina, even.

While Heavy is really good in this match, and an extraordinarily skilled gunner with his minigun, he will have a very difficult time protecting Sylvnado when stealth gunner Lara and teleporting Scorpion are able to break through.

Now, Marina is no slouch. Physically, she rivals Scorpion in pure strength and can easily grab and ragdoll any merc in this match that she can get her hands on. Her main problem in this match will be bridging the gap to get in close to any non-pokemon. Shes not necessarily sluggish, and has rocket boosts to kind of glide and catch up speed, but Scorpions reflexes and teleporting make him a very shifty target. Marinas go to defense when she sees a projectile isnt attempting to dodge or parry, but to catch the projectile in midair and throw it back at her foe. Which is a phenomenal feat in and of itself but is going to give her a really bad time when she tries to catch Scorpions kunai in mid air because he can manipulate the trajectory and take advantage of her.

Lastly, we have the tankiest mercenary in this match: Pokemon Trainer Red. Any of Reds Pokemon can provide a reasonable fight for Marina, but the culmination of 6 of them that Marina will have to mow down will be simply too much. Factor in Reds full restores to heal his pokemon at opportune times during the match, and you have a legitimate powerhouse mercenary on your hands.

Charizard:
Speaking of strong mercenaries that can ragdoll their opponents
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Charizard is incredibly beef, can fly, and will mess with opponents by spewing fire everywhere. Smokescreen is a reasonable defensive move to enable Lara to stealth more easily and allow some extra time before Heavy has eyes on opponents.

Venasaur is probably the most useful pokemon in this match. In Pokemon Unite, Venasaur is a traditional bruiser type with an extremely long range and spammable solar beam attack that can hit multiple enemies. Venasaurs real usefulness will be his debuffs: leech seed wil easily turn the tide in any long lasting encounter. Sleep powder hitting Marina or Heavy will almost single handedly turn the tide of the match because it will easily enable a Scorpion fatality. Sweet scent will lower opposing evasion to reduce opposing merc reflexes. Veansaur just has a great kit to debuff enemies, heal himself, chip away at foes, and

Speaking of debuffs, Pikachu might actually be the fastest combatant here. With his natural mobility + quick attack dashing, he will fairly easily be able to close the gap and set up his best attack: another debuff. Both Marina and Heavy are both extremely susceptible to thunder wave. While Pikachu may not be in the match for a very long time (and to be clear, this isnt a wild Veridan Forest Pikachu, this is Reds Pikachu), a single Thunder Wave causing paralysis and massive slow debuff on a foe is just extra fuel. Just like in actual pokemon battles on Smogon, PIkachu inflicting a Thunder Wave on an enemy is just going to allow Scorpion to more easily engage, Lara to get a shot off with her scoped Commando rifle or Red to set up a sweeper with Charizard

Blastoise cleans up after debuffs are dropped. Between his Iron Defense in preparation and timely uses of Protect, he will be a nuisance to finally go down. Hes actually suspiciously mobile when hes surfing around on a torrent of water. He also has a cannon-mode build with Shell Smash where he becomes an insane damaging threat and still has protects and full restores for a little longevity.

Individually, the Reds Pokemon arent world beaters, but the culmination of having 6 of them that he can use strategically to debuff, whittle away, and set up a sweeper is going to be enough to overpower Marina.

Summary:
6 pokemon with various debuffs, ranged options, gap closers, stat buffs, healing is enough to overpower Marina.
Heavy is the best sustained damage DPS in this match but Scorpion teleports behind him and he has a bad time.
Lara as a stealth combat amidst the chaos of multiple Pokemon is a perfect cover to find and eliminate Sylvando and then assist elsewhere as an expert, brilliant marksman.
Red has full restores, will be protected by his Pokemon, has non-bottom tier mobility with his bike, and is against a team that doesnt really have a stealthy assassin to take advantage of his low durability.