Well, I've been in a very similiar situation in LG, it was in Virdian forest, my only Pokemon was Bulbasaur, I faced up against a Bug catcher & he had a Metapod, it was bad-timing that my Bulbasaur's tackle went out of PP & it was its only attack move, that left it with growl & as u all know...
I think they'll manage to keep the Pokemon in one place 4 a longer time, maybe they can even hand some over to Giovanni but of course in the end, Ash & co. will get their Pokemon back from the thieves
I think it's b/c the amount of legendaries are rising up, there're alot of them now or it could be that the writers just want to please the fans having the legendaries appear more oftenly
I just loved the start of this ep! The battle between Yanappu & Kibago was so funny. The way both sides attack made me laugh so hard, especially the solar beam XD
Poor lil' Kibago, it was not strong enough to do anything though its dragon rage has some impressive power, I must say, but it...