Ninjago powerscaling (?)

I'm really not too into powerscaling but the arguments I see in debates ever so often kind of baffle me. Especially with the usual suspect, the man in red. People scale characters highly because they've "1v1" this guy or that guy, while the others couldn't. But then you watch the scene, and it's just a few hits exchange where one of them is quickly overpowered. And the others did in fact not fight that guy cause either they jumped him, as they should, or they were just not there. In other...