I had no idea until this topic people called Rowlet a god.
Fandoms are weird. I've seen a lot of characters get weird reputations that stick on the internet despite a lack of textual backing for it.
ehem ehem STARAPTOR ehem ehem
Swellow: 13 wins, 1 tie, 8 losses, won battles against Frontier Brains, elite trainers you need an invitation to fight.
Makes sense, only a pokemon that takes a move that it's weak to and uses it as armor can be a literal God.
Personality.
I do prefer Ohsubame over Mukubird, but we can't ignore the former had some BS victories. The Thunder Armor in Tokusane Gym and its Wing Attack one-hit knockout in Hiwamaki Gym for eg.
The DEM to end all DEMs.
It's still a major victory, though. And frankly due to how horribly Rowlet's victory over Decidueye was written, Rowlet didn't deserve to have any more wins.
lolno. I literally just described exactly why those two are actually exactly the same. The only reason people cut Rowlet more slack is just because he's allied with the protagonist, but take that away and there's little to no difference between how those two were handled.
Meltan was already the fall guy against Gladion so that's a big no there too. Besides, making a Mythical the fall guy twice would have been weird at best and infuriating at worst.
i never really got how that was supposed to be a dem, since we know how crazy resistant it was to electricity as a tailow. I havent watched the episode in a while, maybe i should.
It's not the resistance to electricity but the out of nowhere armor property.
Much of the vitriol Cameron gets is because of the way his battle against Ash was written. To wit, Cameron constantly did idiotic thing after idiotic thing during that battle (such as bringing only 5 Pokemon to a 6v6 match and sending out a Ferrothorn against a Pignite and a Swanna against a Pikachu, two Pokemon that have a quadruple weakness against their respective opponents. Even Ash has never sent a Pokemon to battle an opponent with such an overwhelming type advantage more than once. The only time Ash ever used a Pokemon with a quadruple weakness against an opponent was when he sent out Gliscor to battle at the Ice Gym in Sinnoh, and even that example is largely mitigated by the fact that at least Gliscor knew two attacks that were super-effective against Ice, so it wasn't entirely defenseless) but not only did he not suffer any major consequences for his blunders, he actually gets rewarded for them due to his Riolu evolving and wiping out half of Ash's team singlehanded.
overwheming force proving a barrier against psychic attacks? We also see something similar with electro web so /shrug
Actually, if anything Cameron's Ferrothorn and Swanna getting OHKO'd only makes things even worse because it effectively means that he beat Ash's team of six with only half a team, so it's still an example of his idiocy being rewarded.
I have no idea. I only saw that video once years and years ago.
I couldn't care less about why it happened. What bothers me is how the entire thing was executed what with Ash being declared the loser and Hau being cruelly teased with victory only for Hala to wait until the last possible second to point out that Rowlet hadn't actually fainted instead of saying something before Nanu could finish his call. And in any case, Rowlet's sleepiness is something that should have been addressed properly instead of being solely used as a gag.
