It is. At first, I attributed it to being used in one-on-one matches or defeating the opponent, but that eventually turned out not to be the explanation. Glad to see its secondary effect in action here.
Kinda funny that, if Rillaboom kept its previous moveset, all Dragonite would need to do is fly out of reach and pepper it with Hurricane and Draco Meteor. Longest range the monkey had was Drum Beating, and that wouldn’t help it much.
To be fair, Drasna's Pokemon had a similar advantage against Dracovish and Sirfetch'd (especially the latter) and they still managed to lose (though that was honestly one Journeys Ash win that I can agree was Plot Armor-laden in his favor) so who knows, really.
I was wondering what those were until I saw a video pointing them out just before coming here for the day. Probably some buildup to the next episode and Eternatus.
Yes. After Dragapult went down, Leon pointed out how Ash's remaining Pokémon had all taken damage.
No.
The Best Good Bad Ugly
Breaking the ice to make the psychic energy from Psychic Terrain vanish into thin air... that must have been the dumbest moves I've seen in ages! )
Problem is that Lucario going down like this also proves Cynthia's Garchomp is weak compared to the majority of Leons mons.OK, as I expected, here come the Ash-pull techniques.
Not only does it make no sense from a logical point of view (Non-material, psychic energy can't be "stored" inside or under a layer of ice like for example water in the Arctic Ocean) but it is also nonsense when you look at it from a game mechanics point of view (Psychic Terrain is applied to the battlefield itself and does not depend on another move. So, you can't just "destroy" that move by destroying the ice. What nonsense !) I couldn't help but be reminded of Sirfetch'd being magically able to "see" Garchomp's invisible Stealth Rocks in the Cynthia battle, another prime example of nonsense Ash-pull techniques.
As for the rest of the battle, at least that was quite ok.
However, let me repeat what I already said last week: Leon definitely isn't that impressive. He sure is a strong opponent and champion but judging from what we've seen from him in the finals so far, he clearly doesn't deserve all that exaggerated hype that he's gotten so far if you ask me! I'm getting the feeling his reputation is collapsing like a house of cards.
So, what was the best thing about this episode for me? Clearly the fact that DEM-Lucario got knocked out pretty early (Serves him right
Wouldn't say so. The writers have always been very inconsistent with power levels, even more so in the PWC recently.
It's been the case ever since the anime started way back, so it's nothing specific to Journeys.
It wasn't against Dragapult itself, but to counter Thunderbolt.
It's pretty much the same as what Ash did with Valerie back in XY. It a very Ash-like strategy.OK, as I expected, here come the Ash-pull techniques.
Are we just pretending that Garchomp was definitely not fresh going up against Mega Lucario and didn’t take significant damage from Sir Fetched ?
Because Unoragon is literally a newly discovered species so no one can identify a potential signature move?
Honestly that’s my only remorse on Lucario going down early, but now there’s a potential Sirfetch'd vs Cinderace on the cards!
I'm guessing Ash has learnt the value of switching from Cynthia casually taking out half his team thanks to clever switches.Yep, it seems that way. The problem is in-universe Ash switches rarely. Not counting his unsuccesful switch of Dracovish against Cynthia, his most recent switch was against Drasna! He defeated Raihan, Steven and Cynthia without any switch, which is quite insane when you put it that way. So omitting Dragapult's Dragon Tail forced switch, it would be more reasonable for Leon to assume Ash will try to overcome things without it. Heck, he even left Pikachu against Cynthia's ground-typed Gastrodon.
So it maybe the case that Leon knew that Ash knew that Leon knew that Ash would not be switching.
Anyway, I was glad to see Ash switching and match is still open in believable way.
I guess they planned for that by establishing that Leon likes to change up his moves before every battle xD
Leon said that flat out in the subs.
Nope.
Since "psychic energy" doesn’t actually exist we don’t know the rules for dealing with it.
There are clearly moves that interact with terrains. The anime has established clever manipulation of the battlefield using moves is always on the card. Since OS.
For someone who likes to talk about game mechanics you surely do seem to like to ignore that literally the ONLY chance Cynthia would have against a full health Mega Lucario with a Togekiss and a Garchomp with anywhere near 50% health thanks to Meteor Assault would be to Dynamax Togekiss and use the added bulk to endure moves while hitting Lucario with Max Airstream (which is exactly what she did!) . One steel move and Garchomp is toast. It was a good character moment that shows that Cynthia doesn’t play into generic cliches (boost your strongest even if it’s not favourable) and shows that she knows how to use other Pokémon to her advantage and not just steamroll everything with Garchomp. But of course it goes against your narrative because Cynthia badass garchomp no ko everything.
My interpretation of that was Sirfetch’d pumping the field full of bug type energy (however you wanna call it) to cancel out the psychic one. Makes sense that the SE attack could disrupt it.Breaking the ice to make the psychic energy from Psychic Terrain vanish into thin air... that must have been the dumbest moves I've seen in ages!
Not only does it make no sense from a logical point of view (Non-material, psychic energy can't be "stored" inside or under a layer of ice like for example water in the Arctic Ocean) but it is also nonsense when you look at it from a game mechanics point of view (Psychic Terrain is applied to the battlefield itself and does not depend on another move. So, you can't just "destroy" that move by destroying the ice. What nonsense !)
