Rancid Meat said:
I'll name five.
1. Electric coating. Sure Pikachu and Swellow are strong and worthy of victories. But that electric coating was extremely cheap.
2. Dusclops versus Skitty. Skitty not only used assist and lucked out with power moves but the blizzard worked perfectly when she needed it.
3. Skitty vs. Houndoom. We've debated over this one, but I still think Skitty's weak Blizzard cannot overpower Houndoom's powerful Flamethrower (and STAB if it applies to the anime). The point system was all wrong in this one too.
4. Eevee vs. Marshtomp. The point system was way off and Marshtomp was far more experienced then the newborn.
5. Cacturne and Wigglytuff vs. Eevee and Munchlax- Nothing that bad but the ohko on Cacturne and the hopping on Eevees light tail with Munchlaxs 200 pound body. Eevee and even Munchlax were far too weak for this win.
Stop blabbing about this particular fight. Squirtles victory was very cheap but May has pulled worse crap in other senarios.
1. Pikachu's an electric Pokemon, so it'd have a natural resistance to its own element. Plus, Oosubame has proven to have a high endurance towards electricity (plus, Pikachu was on top of it, taking the full brunt of the lightning bolt). I really don't get why so many people take this to be a cop-out win. So Satoshi took advantage of his Pokemon's resistances, amplified Pikachu's electricity through clouds in the outdoor scenery, and give them a coating that would add an extra boost to their physical attacks. What's so unbelievable about it?
2. I've debated this one too many times.... the writing up to this contest was actually pretty good and made Eneko seem (realistically) well-prepared to win. It learned Assist, a part of its natural moveset, and it learned Blizzard after watching Johny in action. The writing only fell flat for the contest itself. And everyone needs to stop acting like Assist is some uber luck-out move. None of the attacks in Haruka's team are useless, however, none of them are extremely uber, neither. If Haruka gets Eneko back, and she gains a Pokemon that learns Explosion or Splash or something disadvantageous, and it never came up during Assist (or likewise, Assist results in several Hyper Beams in a row), then you should complain.
3. STAB doesn't seem to exist in the anime. Besides, fire and ice can logically cancel eachother out. Ice melts, turns to water, extinguishes fire.
4. Again, Eievui was well-trained and it scoring a win would seem perfectly believable, but the writing for that particular battle just fell flat.
5. Gonbe bouncing off of Eievui's tail was cheap, I admit, but people need to stop having a p*ssy-fit over Noctus's one-hit KO. Focus Punch increased the velocity of a Shadow Ball, making it result in a larger impact, and Noctus wasn't prepared to guard, so it going down like it did made sense. And what the f*** do you mean by this?
Rancid Meat said:
Eevee and even Munchlax were far too weak for this win.
Both Pokemon were well-trained in time for the Grand Festival, much earlier in fact. They certainly seemed like capable fighters.
Now, you wanna try telling me how Zenigame vs. Ariados (or Zenigame's "development" in general) wasn't cheap?