Would it really be hard to lock onto somebodies mind if you're psychic even if they are faster than you? If in the movie he can communicate with everybody at once, and hold back all the special abilities about 50 pokemon while fighting somebody pretty much his equal, and then erase a whole towns memory while teleporting everybody and their pokemon from his island to the town...it shouldn't be that hard to erase everybodies memory he is fighting and then as they puzzle why they are there teleporting them to the sun or just someplace far away. Or he could just kill them. Movie version anyway, and there really isn't any contradiction in the powers...with maybe the exception of Pikachu koing a Golem at the beginning of the first movie.