But in the spirit of fansubber humility mentioned by lanu, I will admit that yes, that was a deliberate rewrite. Though if I really wanted to go full troll with it, I would’ve done “We’re pretty much Pinkémon Masters at this point.” When subbing children’s anime as a 1- or 2-person group, there’s always the temptation (at least for me) to amuse oneself and hopefully a few viewers by spicing up the usual low-variety Japanese scriptwriting. And I do try to keep things “more or less accurate to the Japanese,” or at least somewhat based on the original dialogue. I prefer to think of it as liberalism in the style of a.f.k. (who also slipped a Pokémon reference into Lucky Star at one point) rather than the whole-cloth rewrites of gg/Commie/Coalguys, where “There’s no such thing as a chair I can’t sit in” becomes “Standing is for poor people” and “They’ve locked on to me” becomes “Fox, get this guy off me!”

Sorry but I just can’t stop laughing

A general rule all of you probably use is to translate it into >english< as people are used to hearing/reading instead of a literal translation that a vocal group seems to be in favor of.
Since they have alot more experience with the japanese language and can deduct the intent from it that people new to anime"S" can't.

My japanese is too awful to actually agree or disagree with the complaints you're getting, but I feel you are doing a great job.