A few things I wanted to clarify:
About whether attacks should glow or not, I think that whenever a special energy is being used they should glow, or whenever it helps define the attack better. I mean what then is there to distinguish something like Rest from normal sleep? After all, normal sleeping doesn't cure a Pokemon of ailments and restores its energy to the max in less than a minute.
As for Crabhammer, it is a Water type attack so having it glow makes more sense to give it the elemental aspect to it.
`Master~Harley' said:
May was very overconfident and it led to her getting pwned by Harley.
Overconfidence didn't seem to have anything to do with it, besides Harley winning only because of that wouldn't have redeemed him as a skilled opponent now would it? It also shows how much May has matured in that she took a loss to a jerk (he may be skilled, funny and a great character but he's still a jerk) like Harley so well.
Both May and Harley faught extremely well, and their "life bars" were quite even for most of the battle. This was the best kind of pokemon battle, both sides giving their all and using various strategies while the other tries to counter them with their own, until the more skilled trainer wins (even though luck plays a part as well).
RaikousThunder said:
I wish TR didnt barge in on Harley's appeal. Why must they ruin the good stuff? Do the writers think its funny to have TR constantly appear and ruin things?
But they didn't barge in on the appeal. Wobbuffet came crashing in for a hilarious scene. If it hadn't we wouldn't have gotten to see how Ariados can change the facial markings on its back like Spinarak can.
My single disappointment, although actually its nice in terms of continuity is that Harley's Ariados seems to still be a weak fighter who is only good at spraying webs. But that is the main reason it lost to May's Squirtle, Harley should have given it more offensive attacks like Night Shade, Fury Swipes and such.