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Fighting Flyer With Fire! (133)

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Fighting Flyer With Fire!

Now at the Violet Gym, Ash meets the trainer Falkner who helps get Pikachu back from Team Rocket. Ash & Falkner quickly bond since they both have had a Pidgeot and Ash heads up to the Gym Battle...3 on 3 against Hoothoot, Dodrio and Pidgeot. Can Ash beat his first Gym Leader foe?

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R

Ryuu

Guest
Ash was pretty foolish to send Chikorita out. :p

Also we see that Ash hasn't forgotten his own Pidgeot. He says "Someday I may see my old friend again".

Good old Charizard! Yet another victory scraped for Ash. :D
 
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meggirl63

Guest
Phantom_Bugsy said:
Yes, Falkner is indeed UBER hot. XD Teee.

He sounded EVIL. XD That was adorable.
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He didn't sound evil to me.
 
Alfonso

Alfonso

Derpgull
Phantom_Bugsy said:
Yes, Falkner is indeed UBER hot. XD Teee.

He sounded EVIL. XD That was adorable.
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Didn't he, like, have the same voice as Rudy? (Who, in turn, had a similar voice to that guy with the Jolteon. The Eevee Brother, I mean.) If so, then I can see why you thought he sounded evil. XD

"Dance, Starmie! A VICTORY DANCE!" :3

Edit: Oh, and Falkner is SO slashable.
 
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meggirl63

Guest
Alfonso said:
Didn't he, like, have the same voice as Rudy? (Who, in turn, had a similar voice to that guy with the Jolteon. The Eevee Brother, I mean.) If so, then I can see why you thought he sounded evil. XD

"Dance, Starmie! A VICTORY DANCE!" :3

Edit: Oh, and Falkner is SO slashable.
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Now, that you mentioned the idea, I didn't quite notice that he had the same voice as Rudy. Also, I still don't think that Falkner sounded evil. OK? Enough said.
 
C

charizard trainer #1

Ready to lose???
Hey is Falkner the only bird training gym leader? Anyway the episode was pretty cool- sometimes i feel that Ash can be a bit of a dodo- sending out Chikorita against flying types.
 
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Pika Hikari KT

FOOL!
No; there's also Winona, the 6th Hoenn leader. BTW; it's never been said in the animé until now that Grass Pokémon are weak against Flying types, so this was their chance.;) Man, with two fully evolved Pokémon; most beginners wouldn't stand a chance against Falkner...I guess that's why he has Hoothoot.^_^; The battle was great; and featured Dodrio, who we haven't seen since the Pokémon-athon!O_O The dogfight between Pidgeot and Charizard stole the show, and would be Char's last gym battle for a very long time.:( The continuity with Ash's Pidgeot was nice, but WHY HASN'T HE AT LEAST VISITED IT YET SINCE DROPPING IT OFF?!>_< 7.5/10 for this eppie.
 
D

DarkWobbuffet

BEEEEAAAARR!!!
Pika Hikari KT said:
Man, with two fully evolved Pokémon; most beginners wouldn't stand a chance against Falkner...
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I think most Gym Leaders have a wider varity of Pokemon to choose from, depending on how skilled their opponent is. I'll bet he has a spare Pidgey or Pidgeotto to use against newbie trainers, and just saves his bigger team members for the more experienced ones like Ash.

Pika Hikari KT said:
The continuity with Ash's Pidgeot was nice, but WHY HASN'T HE AT LEAST VISITED IT YET SINCE DROPPING IT OFF?!
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I don't know, that bugged the hell out of me too. -_-'

Anyway, very nicely done episode. Falkner's personality was great, and the battle was just plain awesome. Seems to me that the writers had Ash start with Chikorita so when it came down to fighting Pidgeot it would be "down to the wire" suspence. I also enjoyed seeing Ash take advantage of his opponent's strategy to beat Pidgeot, just goes to show how much smarter he's gotten in battles.
 
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Kenta master

Marsh Trainer
Charizard rules the sky!

The Gym Leader battles are always great matches(almost all of them). this first Johto Gym battle was one of my favorites, because ;006; was incredible (as always,eheh) ... But from the begining; was very stupied sending out ;152; against ;163;, continued the first match against ;025; and ;163;, then ;025; against ;085;-In this combat ;085; battled very weel, performing a sort of Fly attack, then a Fury Attack and a Drill Peck, when dodrio prepared the final attack, Tri Attack, ;025; still Thunderbolt him! After this when ;018; defeated ;025; it came out for shore ;006; to the final match, ;018; was very fast using all that QuickAttack and Agillity, but Ash found a surprised way to defeat ;018;, pretty amazing this Gym Leader Battle - ''Charizard! Turn around and use FIreSpin!''
 
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wobbanut

Team Awesome
This was a pretty interesting episode, though I think Ash was a bit boneheaded to use Chikorita. I do love Chikorita, but Ash hadn't quite gotten the hang of getting his pokemon to overcome type disadvantage yet, and Chikorita was still relatively new to his team. At least when he did the same thing by sending Grovyle against altaria in "Sky High Gym Battle" four years later, he was able to overcome disadvantage with style. Charizard's battle against pidgeot was pretty good too.

I also get a chuckle from the final scene with Team Rocket in the middle of the ocean in their balloon. The half-submerged balloon head looks depressed. LOL
 
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Shikamaru

Strawberry Milk
I actually thought that it was a good move to send out chikorita. You may not notice but ash was somewhat raising chikorita in the progress. He was testing how well chikorita could fair agiasnt a flying pokemon. Sure it lost in the progress but he was trying to take away chikoritas weakness agianst flying pokemon.
 
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Phantom_Bugsy

So hot he's on fire.
Using smilies in place of Pokemon names makes baby Jesus slit his wrists.

Poor Hayato D: He got whooped, yo D: And we still didn't get any background info on him :<
 
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Aptenodytes

Well-Known Member
falkner was a great gym leader, im suprised that he accually lost! i loved this battle, it was exciting and suspenseful!
 
F

Fofa

Thunder Trainer
vulpix said:
it wasn't a smart idea for Ash to use Chicorita.
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More evidence that Ash isn't exactly the smartest (or even wisest, knowing how we've been following him).
 
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lightspeed

Guest
Cool episode, I like the battle and I think Chikorita should've done more and shown that pokemon types don't matter, just like Ash said. Overall, a rather good episode.
 
S

S_P

Soul Trainer
What I thought was most interesting was the electricial limits when thunderbolt comes into the air.

Most of the time when Pikachu (or electricity, or any electric pokemon) is showcased against a flying type, usually the flying type is fried.

However, I quite liked it how Hayato utilised flying height to nullify the electrical attacks. This is unlike the far future battle against Nagi, where she instead had the flying type go directly to the ground to do the exact opposite.

Except for cases where Pikachu's Thunderbolt couldn't reach team rocket's Hot Air Balloon, I don't think you actually see a flying type using extreme height and speed to get away from a thunderbolt vertically ... specifically in any battle.

And the way they balanced the episide was nice (on the other hand several things were imbalanced. Lizardon and a wing injury seems like that was a first timer for that regard. It also seemed like the first case it was in a losing battle and then won ... since in OI it either lost or won to certain degrees.). I'm rather happy there wasn't really ... any Mud Slap from the birds.
 
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