Other than that, I really don´t like Turtwig´s speed-powers. It can run across walls now? What´s next? When will it learn to fly Shaymin-style?
I didn't like that either, but I was laughing my a
ss off when the thing ended up barely doing sh
it the entire episode. XD It's made funnier by the fact that this is the last Gym Battle where Naetle will have any real advantage, with the final Gym being the one exception (Grass is resistant to Electric... plus, Electric is full-out weak against Ground, but like hell we'll be seeing a Dodaitose by that point).
I did roll my eyes at yet another Pikachu Vs. Gyarados fight. Hey, go back and watch Claire's Gym in Johto, now THAT was a much better Pikachu Vs. Gyarados battle.
Is it just me or does Pikachu battle against Gyarados and Milotic more than any other water Pokemon?
I will say this: it was nice to see Gyarados go down EXTREMELY quick-like, given all the years it's been played up to be this uber Pokemon. Even when its electricity weakness is brought up, it usually seems to last a while (I recall the battle against Ibuki's was like that, at least).
And you're right, he does seem to go up against those two a lot... that's pretty f
ucked up. But on the other hand, I guess the writers just constantly like to show large Pokemon getting taken down by the protagonists' smaller ones. Aside from Gyarados and Milocaros, need I remind you of the large amount of Haganeil we've been getting over the years? It probably also explains why Saidon has always been such a popular stock opponent with these guys (it amazes me that Dosaidon hasn't premiered at this point just so the writers can get into the habit of abusing it to no end). It's simply remarkable that an Iwark used to actually be on the good guys' team at one point (though being a Takeshi Pokemon, it saw usage once in a blue moon anyhow).
Round 4: Buizel vs. Floatzel
- Flaotzel inflates it's sack, kinda like...actually, I'm not going to use that comparison.
- Buizel stares astonished at how large Floatzel's sack grew.
oh, so Floatsel isn't based off of an otter at all. It's actually based off of the tanuki mythos. XD (BTW, Gravy was right... your post FTW)
But speaking of the Bouysel/Floatsel fight, am I the only one who has a gripe about Bouysel's win? Floatsel was shown to completely friggin' dominate its lesser form all throughout the first half of the match. Absolutely every effort by Bouysel was completely hopeless.... then Pikachu comes in (who doesn't accomplish much against Floatsel neither), it suddenly gets the idea "hey, I'll have him repeat that thing where he causes the edge of a platform to explode so I could use the dust as a smokescreen", and all the sudden, Floatsel goes down in a couple hits. Course, I'm always a bit over-analytical about these sorta things, but still, one loss on Satoshi's side couldn't have hurt (in fact, I think having a perfect win was kinda overkill... almost as bad as his straight win against Tessen, but that was at least justified). Well, I just hope Satoshi's Bouysel will still evolve after this (a common fear I have with evolution line confrontations: several cases usually have the lesser form "trying to prove they're strong enough as is"). After all, Bouysel seems to be a rough Shin'ou equivalent of his Kimori from AG (although not near as badass).
Because winning everything without losing any pokemon always will be pointless and boring. It doesn't show Ash's development and it will be extremely predictable to know he will always win not matter what.
technically, no. I mean, I'm pretty sure I can recall a ton of shounen action heroes who can breeze through a ton of battles easily and still be entertaining. As with a lot of things, it all comes down to execution, really. For instance, they could play it up for lolz, like we have a brief scene where a Gym Leader would act overly cocky, and then sh
it their pants upon witnessing Satoshi's strength and realizing they're completely screwed against him. Unfortunately, this is practically impossible when Pocket Monsters follows an episodic formula, so each Gym confrontation HAS to take up the span of at least one episode (I don't think many fans of the games would appreciate their favorite NPCs getting shafted out of screentime anyway).
Objection!
Corpish, Bulbasaur and Squirtle all developed.
to be fair, Heigani never really gained any new tricks its entire time on the show. No new attacks, no strategies for it to work with, nothing (and in terms of strength, they played it up to be a powerhouse the moment it failed to shake Satoshi's hand... not that this show ever had a good time portraying progressive growth in strength in the first place, no matter how much "training" there is). About the only noteworthy thing was the revelation that it works surprisingly good when it's confused (Drunken Master FTW XD), but that was a fluke more than anything (and about the only scenario where it was even slightly touched upon again was the battle against Lila's Foodin). I mean, there may've been some bits of characterization, but I don't know if his battling style developed in any way.