Pruning a Passel of Pals!! (546)

[RageKaiser]

- Uh-oh, Zoey's sleeping in the same room as Dawn. You know what this means...SEXY SLUMBER PARTY!

Shall she influence May? Will Saori have a problem when May returns to wherever she came from?

- So lemme get this straight...to this very day, Buizel has still not won a single battle under Dawn or Ash?

This is correct. If any pokemon is a candidate for Poke-suicide, Buizel would be it.

[jorisw]

You can see it on youtube

[lightdash]

- So lemme get this straight...to this very day, Buizel has still not won a single battle under Dawn or Ash?

No. Otherwise he wouldn't have passed the first round in the battle portion then.

[latios reborn]

Yeah I would have liked to have seen the origins of Mays Bulbasaur's evolution.

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[King Charizard]

Thanx for the episode link!

[Ragnarofl]

While he's good at appeals (the boy knows how to show off!) he's still got a gym battle mindset when it comes to contest battles. He and buizel were just standing there waiting for the opponent to actually attack before realizing they needed to do something else they'd lose even more points.

Good point.

[Almighty Zard]

No. Otherwise he wouldn't have passed the first round in the battle portion then.

One shot matches that don't show much happening in this episode are just as a bad as TR battles are so I don't see them counting.

Until Buizel wins a drawn out battle against a worthy opponent it will continue to be useless.

Heck at this rate, it'll have to evolve to win something.

[latios reborn]

Buiezel holds it's own it's not useless

[Aura Guardian88]

Buiezel holds it's own it's not useless

Seriously. It held it's own and tied with Maylene's Lucario, a very strong pokemon.

[DarkWobbuffet]

Still you have to admit, Buizel has had a rather bum rap ever since he was caught, which is strange when you consider he royally beat up Pikachu, Piplup and Glameow in his debut episode. Aside from beating Kecleon in a contest, he hasen't a single win. Sure he was able to tie against Lucario, but that still isn't saying much when you consider Lucario had gotten beat around by Chimchar and Staravia beforehand.

[latios reborn]

well not really Lucario didn't take that much damage did it?
And well Buizel hasn't really bettled that much since it was caught.

[Almighty Zard]

well not really Lucario didn't take that much damage did it?
And well Buizel hasn't really bettled that much since it was caught.

Not really from Staravia, but Chimchar did hit it with a Flame Wheel which left a mark.

You can't really use that battle to justify Buizel's strength either, it was clearly obvious that if buizel hadn't learned Water pulse out of it's arse, or had it's ability conviently kick in from the rain it would've lost to Lucario without tieing, but the fact it was only able to tie with both those factors is also rediculious as well because it shows how weak it is overall.

Until it beats something in a drawn out battle by itself it will be weak and useless, sure it likes to battle, but what's the point of doing so when you can't win at all?

[latios reborn]

To get better and stronger then eventually evolve

[Almighty Zard]

Evolution comes when the writers want it, not when we want it, and no matter how worthy a pokemon may be or how hard it trains it's always up to them who goes and when they go, Starly and Snorunt sure didn't get any stronger before they went for it for example.

Just because Buizel fights hard doesn't mean crud to me,wins are everything in this show and if it can't win at least once agianst a worthy opponent then it's worthless.

I'm stopping there cause i have no intention of dragging this discussion out further.

[lightdash]

To get better and stronger then eventually evolve

What is the deal with all of these lousy assumption about their Pokemon evolving?

[Almighty Zard]

^well when you consider nearly all of May's pokemon have evolved people are kinda wanting the writers to pick up the pace with Ash's pokemon.--;;

[dman_dustin]

I've seen the pics AND the episode and I can't tell if May was implying she saw Uxie at the lake up in the snowy area.

Well I didn't see Uxie at all (when May flashbacked), so I'm thinking it has to do with the fact that there are three lakes in Sinnoh and May, was pointing out Lake Acuity, as a possible third location for "Uxie" or fairy thing. Though I have no idea what Brock and Zoey were saying, so I don't know if they were explaining, Azelf, Mespirit, and Uxie or a legend involving the trio.

[TeddiUrsa]

Yay! The continuity continues

- Musashi being annoyed by Wobbuffet because she didn´t make it into the battle round was cute. Yes, I said it. Musashi was cute. No jailbait needed for her.

- funny when people call Lanturn winning because of its electric attacks a DEM. shows how this forum has developed

- Momoan recognizes Musashi´s reporter outfit from the Kanto Grand Festival. Very, very nice.

- I don´t know HOW Buizel can pilot that ice-shard-thing it was trapped in, but it was a cooll scene anyway. Good to see that the old double-battle training episode wasn´t forgotten at all.

- Too bad that Venusaur and Eneko ( german name ftw ) only got lame stills instead of actual screentime

- The girls scene in the bedroom screams new gambler club-dojinshi to me ^^

- for a Kinoshita episode this episode didn´t look too bad. LOTS of stills and reused animation, but the battle looked ok to me nevertheless. Takeda is still my most hated animation-director.

- shiny Joe from the School of Hard Knocks freaked me out


let´s hope that the next episode isn´t rushed...

[Dax]

Buneary won something and against a frigging Wailmer who was x10 times her size!! Screw the other part of the episode, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time!

Buizel, Buizel, Buizel... and I thought Staravia was going to be new Torkoal. I'm not mad at you because it was points related but man, when are you going to win?

Kaito looks cool. I'm not a fan of Lanturn but I'm glad he has a Crawdaunt.

There goes Piplup to battle again. I'm not mad because the others battled so I'll let it pass.

[S.Suikun]

let´s hope that the next episode isn´t rushed...

This is my concern, as we have a whopping three matches we must plough through, plus the closing ceremonies and whatnot. An extra episode of this arc could have not only extended one of the two-second battles seen in DP078, but given more leeway for DP079's time.