You know, I think I could handle that.

[But he's got a lot of upper body strength. Those arms, and so on.]

And maybe it does rely on similar thinking, but it puts me right in the middle of the action. Not that I don't spar with my Pokémon, but there's a limit to what I can really do with them. Human opponents and Pokémon react differently, and I need to be able to hold my own against both.