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I hated that Ursaring. I never liked how it was so successful in battle while being basically a mindless brute who was constantly angry, just rampaged around, and won with those qualities against opponents it should've lost against, like Barry's Hitmonlee/Empoleon. Aside from Brandon's Regice, I think the only Pokémon who was ever seen beating Ursaring was Chimchar, which I'm not a fan of. The fire monkey was already special enough without this status being basically the only one capable of defeating that ridiculously OP bear (emphasis on "ridiculous").Reviving this thread because I rewatched some of the Sinnoh battles recently and there's one in particular that bothered me: at the Sinnoh League, Barry lost to Paul without knocking out any of his Pokemon, which I felt that on top of being kinda mean (since Barry idolizes Paul and wanted to prove himself to him), was also a bit ridiculous as I feel at least one of Paul's Pokemon should have gone down: Ursaring. This thing managed to endure a brutal beating from a Hitmonlee, eventually defeating him despite the type disadvantage, and then it still doesn't go down even when Barry's Empoleon deflected its own Focus Blast back at it? Yeah, no, sorry, but that should have been a KO right there. I can live with how the rest of the fights played out, but Empoleon should have defeated Ursaring imo.