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I think it that case the reason Pikachu survived Hariyama's attack is because if you look closely you'll see that he actually managed to dodge most of it . That being said, it's pretty telling how Z-Moves tended to be a big double-edged sword in that Ash had some pretty noticeable Plot Armor...

To be fair, the Blaine moment can be chalked up to early installment weirdness, since life endangerment (be it to the Pokemon or trainers themselves) is almost entirely absent from any battles that don't explicitly involve villains, and there's every indication that battles are meant to be...

I don't feel like that's quite a satisfactory answer, though, because no amount of Ash and Paul being strong erases the fact that Paul effectively forfeited the match, something that should have resulted in a disqualification for both him and Ash because, well, it can't really be a tag team...

Speaking of battles involving Paul, the tag tournament is one that he and Ash absolutely shouldn't have won. The entire point of the whole thing was for the paired up trainers to come up with strategies together and work as a team, and yet the least cooperative pair is the one who gets to win...

Yeah, this is another reason why the infamous episode where Pikachu gets jealous of Riolu is so controversial: on paper, the idea of Pikachu's loyalty to Ash having its limits actually has really intriguing potential. In practice, though, it came across as jarring because 1) Ash and Pikachu have...

A lot of BW's battles kinda come across as this to a certain degree when you think about it: Unfezant was made to lose pathetically easily against a Riolu solely for the sake of creating the illusion that Cameron was an amazing trainer. Like, if that Riolu belonged to a Fighting-type specialist...

I distinctly remember saying that you downplay other trainers' accomplishments, so I don't know why you felt the need to bombard me with this unnecessary text wall about Paul's accomplishments or skills as a trainer. How skilled he is has nothing to do with how skilled other characters are...

Chimchar did beat Ursaring 1 on 1 in another instance, though, so it isn't impossible for something to beat it solo. And Empoleon wouldn't have beaten it solo here anyways because it would have already fought Hitmonlee, who we have no way of knowing exactly how powerful it is because it...

Sorry, I just don't see why any of this means Barry shouldn't have knocked out any of Paul's Pokemon. Paul was obviously going to win that fight anyway since there's no way he wasn't gonna face Ash, so what's the harm in letting just one of his Pokemon get KO'd here? Besides, unlike those other...

I know I seem like a broken record, but Ash vs Cameron is still the worst loss Ash has ever had, and I don't think there's a force in this universe capable of convincing me otherwise. His loss to Trip in their rematch was also awful: I can let the result of their first fight slide due to...