PokeMaster366
Well-Known Member
We all know how Attract works. Hearts fly from the user and towards the enemy, the enemy falls in love, and the user proceeds to spank buns and get an easy win. It's a decent move all-around, but has it overstayed it's welcome in the anime?
We've already seen several occasions pre-Unova (specifically Sinnoh) where Attract (and Cute Charm if you count that) use was limited to where it was only used in order to confirm the genders of certain Pokemon. I think the only time where Attract/Cute Charm played a substantial role in an important battle (pre-Unova) was in that one contest in Solaceon.
It was an interesting gem at that time, but now that we've gone into Unova, it's become more like a novice's cop-out. Ever since Ash caught Snivy, Attract has been used very often by multiple Pokemon in order to gain victories. The battle on that list include:
Snivy vs. most of Ash's team (when he was trying to capture her)
Snivy vs. Servine (first time)
Snivy vs. Clay's Palpitoad
Iris's Emolga vs. Jimmy Ray's Watchog
Emolga vs. Kenyan's Sawk (if use of Attract spam to force Static counts, even if the Attracts were blocked), and
Bianca's Emboar vs. Cameron's Samurott
And this is only counting the 1 vs. 1 battles. If I went into stuff like that mess with the Swoobats and the Durants, the list would probably be longer. Pretty much every other battle where the move failed (Snivy vs. Trip's Frillish) or just wasn't used when it was still part of the moveset (Snivy vs Riolu/Lucario) ended in defeat with the exception of Snivy vs. Pawniard.
Maybe Snivy is just skewing these statistics, but it was just one of those glaring issues that couldn't be ignored. So what's your take on the recent use of Attract in the anime?
We've already seen several occasions pre-Unova (specifically Sinnoh) where Attract (and Cute Charm if you count that) use was limited to where it was only used in order to confirm the genders of certain Pokemon. I think the only time where Attract/Cute Charm played a substantial role in an important battle (pre-Unova) was in that one contest in Solaceon.
It was an interesting gem at that time, but now that we've gone into Unova, it's become more like a novice's cop-out. Ever since Ash caught Snivy, Attract has been used very often by multiple Pokemon in order to gain victories. The battle on that list include:
Snivy vs. most of Ash's team (when he was trying to capture her)
Snivy vs. Servine (first time)
Snivy vs. Clay's Palpitoad
Iris's Emolga vs. Jimmy Ray's Watchog
Emolga vs. Kenyan's Sawk (if use of Attract spam to force Static counts, even if the Attracts were blocked), and
Bianca's Emboar vs. Cameron's Samurott
And this is only counting the 1 vs. 1 battles. If I went into stuff like that mess with the Swoobats and the Durants, the list would probably be longer. Pretty much every other battle where the move failed (Snivy vs. Trip's Frillish) or just wasn't used when it was still part of the moveset (Snivy vs Riolu/Lucario) ended in defeat with the exception of Snivy vs. Pawniard.
Maybe Snivy is just skewing these statistics, but it was just one of those glaring issues that couldn't be ignored. So what's your take on the recent use of Attract in the anime?