dman_dustin
Well-Known Member
You know there's something wrong when a Legendary can't handle TRio.
Except they were using science to incapacitate Zapdos. When the electrical/plasma "ropes" hit Zapdos, Zapdos was in noticeable pain.
What other people are also ignoring is that it's not like Zapdos had the most amount of time.
It's not like Ash stood there for a couple of hours watching Zapdos struggle and went like "Oh it's not going to get out, I guess I should help it out"
Ash helped out Zapdos immediately after it was captured so again not sure how it portrays Zapdos being weak.
What people are also ignoring is that there was another character that did catch Moltres and Zapdos.
Also people are ignoring the trainers who have legendary Pokemon on their team.
Look if Pokemon like Garchomp could believably get caught off guard by team rocket in the fashion depicted here, then so can Zapdos.
I also believe the same could happen to Nurse Joy's Latias as well as Tobias's Darkrai.
When you're caught off guard it's hard to recover from that.
Hell Team Magma or Team Aqua managed to catch the uber legendaries of Kyogre/Groudon (one of them at least).
Just because Team Rocket are weak, doesn't mean they are 100% stupid, Meowth or James (doubt it with Jessie) seem to be very close on par to being technologically intelligent as Clemont, true Clemont I can see being smarter, but Meowth/James are no slouches when it comes to technology.
Whenever they have use technology properly they have always captured the Pokemon of the day. It's only through other plot purposes that they fail.
Even if it was from the help of Dr. Zager, The Team Rocket captured Landorus, Thundurus, and Tornadus in Best Wishes.
Given the chance, Team Rocket can contain legendary Pokemon, I think people are giving too much credit to the legendaries, they can't overpower certain technologies, except maybe the super uber Pokemon legendaries, that are well stronger than the lesser legendary.
Pokemon like Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres are lesser legendaries than Pokemon like Darkrai. And also if there's obvious multiple of the same species, they are going to have varying strengths.
I'm pretty sure the "mother" Lugia near Ogi Isle was weaker than the 2nd movie Lugia.
I never meant the beginning.
I meant the final moments. A Boomburst and a HJK were enough to weaken this Zapdos enough for TRio to give it trouble.
As I keep saying, obviously a powerful direct attack would propel Zapdos through a precipice would make it incapacitate it long enough for Team Rocket to get to them.
What people still fail to realize, that Zapdos had literally no time to recover. It's not like Team Rocket waited a few minutes to capture Zapdos, they took less than a minute they took even less than half a minute.
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