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Brine

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Somorio

Waiting for a hound.
Right, so far for all the gym leaders up to now we have seen their signature moves either from them or from some other charchter.

Roark-Stealth rock (seen)
Gardenia-Grass knot(seen)
Maylene-Drain punch(seen)
Crasher wake-Brine(???)
Fantinia-Shadow claw (seen by zoey)
Byron-Flash cannon (seen)

Oh wait, there's one missing, Crasher wakes signature move, the brine attack.
I think it's kinda interesting they decided to hold off on this move here, in my opinion I think there gonna save it for either buizel or piplup. They were doing so well in showing the gym leaders signature moves up to crasher wake, so I was a little disapointed when they didn't show it.

So here's hoping they give the move to either buizel or piplup.
So what are your opinions, why do you think they skipped this move, why not just let Crasher wake actually feature his own signature move, is there any point in doing this, what are your thoughts.
 
meh, when Wailmer used it in the Wallace cup, it simply spurted water from its blowhole...So with any other Pokemon, it'd probably just be a 'speshul' Water Gun.
 
There is no rule that says a a gym leader must show off their special TM move in the anime. Heck, you just proved it yourself by pointing out that Fantina didn't use hers. Though I'm not enough of a no-life to go back and check every past gym leader's anime moves, I'm pretty sure there are several gym leaders in past regions that didn't show off said move.

As for Brine, remember that there are numarous attacks that just haven't been seen in the series in general, and that includes moves from way back in Gen 1. It wasn't "skipped". Like many, you're simply trying to find an anime parallel to the games that simply doesn't exist.
 
I specifically remember them calling out something along the lines of 'Wailmer, use Brine'.

or was that just a dub error? I can never tell anymore.
 
S.Suikun said:
There is no rule that says a a gym leader must show off their special TM move in the anime. Heck, you just proved it yourself by pointing out that Fantina didn't use hers. Though I'm not enough of a no-life to go back and check every past gym leader's anime moves, I'm pretty sure there are several gym leaders in past regions that didn't show off said move.

As for Brine, remember that there are numarous attacks that just haven't been seen in the series in general, and that includes moves from way back in Gen 1. It wasn't "skipped". Like many, you're simply trying to find an anime parallel to the games that simply doesn't exist.
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True, gym leaders don't always show their signature moves, but they usually more often than nought will be shown by someone eventually or already have been shown, thats why I mentioned zoey with shadow claw.

Brine however has not, so I'm speculating if either buizel or piplup may get that as a move.

mmm yuppers.
 
I say Dawn's Piplup learns it since in Brawl Piplup uses it and I think it will looks just like that in the anime. It will be like a surf just Piplup is running and threws water following him/her. Then it crashes into the person and makes the Pokemon Fly or something like that.
 
While were on the subject of this move, why does exactly does this move do double damage when the enemy is below fifty percent, I never quite understood that. Is the salty water supposed to hurt more, because the enemy has lots of wounds or something like that?
 
I see Piplup learning Brine, since the move's effects seem to be more the kind of thing that could be taken advantage of in a contest setting for some reason. Plus, it seems more like its kind of move, along the line of Bide. But that's just what I think.
 
Somorio said:
While were on the subject of this move, why does exactly does this move do double damage when the enemy is below fifty percent, I never quite understood that. Is the salty water supposed to hurt more, because the enemy has lots of wounds or something like that?
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In Japanese the move is called Tide. It works in the idea that it's a powerful wave that tries to sweep the opponent off its feet. The stronger they are health/energy-wise the more they resist being swept off their feet. The weaker they are the more likely they will be.

Your description would work better for Brine since yes salt water does hurt when you're wounded (open sores though...bruises not so much).
 
Well I mean its just like...a weaker water spout...or whatever that is...so I mean Ash will prolly get it...Buizel is pretty sweet...
 
My idea of brine is kind of like whirlpool. It's a swirling vortex that covers the opponent and it hits the opponent from all angles, the weaker the Pokemon the stronger the force, but instead of a twister thing like Piplup's whirlpool it's flat swirling water object.

Wailmer's brine, does no justice to the attack design.
 
Piplup seriously needs a new attack. Peck, bubblebeam and whirlpool are overused at this point and bide is hardly ever used(and sorta boring anyway)
 
jolteonjak said:
In Japanese the move is called Tide. It works in the idea that it's a powerful wave that tries to sweep the opponent off its feet. The stronger they are health/energy-wise the more they resist being swept off their feet. The weaker they are the more likely they will be.

Your description would work better for Brine since yes salt water does hurt when you're wounded (open sores though...bruises not so much).
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Actually, it's called 'Saltwater'.

Somorio's theory is actually correct in that saltwater does hurt more when you're wounded (though it does kill off bacteria...which is a good thing xD).

Furthermore, Hariyama learns it, indicative of the 'purification salt' ritual involved in sumo wrestling.

It's also why the attack in the game looks like a spray of water from above.
 
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Yeah, I can see Piplup learning Brine, than Buizel. I wonder what it would look like if it were used in a contest along with a second move. Maybe Piplup ought to be a big more stronger than it is right now.
 
if you ask me the games generally do more justice to the attack designs then the anime does to them. Dark pulse, ancient-power are some examples. A-P in the anime does not even look like a rock attack. And brine in the anime was just meh.
 
Wailmer's Brine looked terrible. If anybody learns it, I hope it's a water-type on Paul's team or someone else at the league, because I'd like a tad variety in Buizel and Piplup's moves from here on.

Iota
 
Yeah the gym battle was a bit messed up. The writers put more emphasis on Buizel than the battle or gym leader.
 
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