Shield With A Twist! (570)

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Though it certainly destroys people's theories about only one contest being held in each city per year. But really, does it truly make sense to build a huge contest hall that only holds one event per year?

Again... this Contest was NOT in Hearthome! It was in some anime only town called Kawarage or something like that
But I agree it's stupid to believe each Contest is held only once a year (especially since it's only the dub who invented this, in the original they never said that)

[kpt25]

awesome gym battle,and a massive surprise to see Jessie/Musashi winning her second ribbon...one more and Dawn/Hikari will be in a lot of trouble...
Finally Da 3rd Monkey gets his piece of the cake a wins a gym battle,i guess that Gliscor should be next with Byron
Lol at the spammage of "Counter Shield" in this battle,Ash really needs to come up with better ideas for battles
I also liked the massive amount of ENGRISH! "Prease,Reric Badgi-desu" was priceless,the quote of the episode
Did anyone noticed at the end of the episode(after the preview of DP 103) that Buizel "speaks" with a very deep and "depressed" like voice? It was totally different from the normal one we see
Off topic:Sweet,Empoleon appears in 3 episodes in a row,that totally made my day .

OFFICIAL Moveset for Drifblim:
Hypnosis/Ominious Wind/Psychic/Will-o-wisp

Mismagius : Dark Pulse-Psywave-Magical Leaf-4th move
Gengar was difficult to know,i know it had Shadow Punch for sure,and probably confuse ray...maybe shadow sneak as well at the beginning of the battle?

[thunderblade12]

Comments:

-Jessie winning a ribbon is the best TR subplot in any gym episode ever
- Chimchar taking down 2 of Fantina's pokemon and starring in the gym was cool, I knew Chimchar would start being the star with these last 4 gyms
- Fantina is the 2nd most entertaining Sinnoh Gym leader, only narrowly beaten by Gardenia
- Wonder what Jun said about Chimchar?
- Pikachu is such a failure in Sinnoh, guess thats why they had him take down Empoleon the episode before this
- Drifblim is Fantina's star pokemon and not Mismagius?

[Somorio]

I love the fact that everyone was hating the fact that buizel was so much as even mentioned in this battle but from what i'm seeing right now, no one seems to have an issue with it at this moment.

pokemon fandom is a strange fickle lass, that she is.

[ShinyCharyZard]

Its official....Fantina is now my favourite Gym Leader!!! Lets hope the dub doesn't ruin her.

I love the fact that everyone was hating the fact that buizel was so much as even mentioned in this battle but from what i'm seeing right now, no one seems to have an issue with it at this moment.

pokemon fandom is a strange fickle lass, that she is.

Sure, it was annoying that Buizel was used again, but i can forgive it. I mean, did you see that break dancing? It was almost as good as Ambipom!

[Bliksem]

Buizel's an awesome Pokemon. Don't know why anyone would hate it considering it's actually useful.

[!Munchlax!]

what the hell was that attack that Drifblim kept using?! I thought it was will-o-wisp, but then it turned into Aqua Ring (yeah i know it wasn't actually Aqua Ring), and then came the yellow X which I assumed was Block but now I'm not sure...

I believe it was will-o-wisp combined with telekenesis...or some other psychic attack...

[Torpoleon]

I loved this battle,Yay Chimchar was th spotlight!

[ShinyCharyZard]

and what the hell was that attack that Drifblim kept using?! I thought it was will-o-wisp, but then it turned into Aqua Ring (yeah i know it wasn't actually Aqua Ring), and then came the yellow X which I assumed was Block but now I'm not sure...

Will-O-Wisp combined with Psychic

and the yellow X was Hypnosis...

[Silent Conversation]

Jessie won another contest? Sweet!

Unlike all those you are moaning about Jessie winning contests lately, I like it. It'll be nice to see Jessie in the GF legally (and not by theft/other "bad" ways)

[Sonic Boom]

Its official....Fantina is now my favourite Gym Leader!!! Lets hope the dub doesn't ruin her.

Wow. I actually hated her in this episode. She annoyed the hell out of me throughout the entire battle with that body language and her cockiness during the battle. Unless she wasn't being cocky...I can't understand Japanese to save my life.

Sure, it was annoying that Buizel was used again, but i can forgive it. I mean, did you see that break dancing? It was almost as good as Ambipom!

I was reminded of Dance Dance Revolution when I saw it do that for some reason.

[Electivirus]

Wow. I actually hated her in this episode. She annoyed the hell out of me throughout the entire battle with that body language and her cockiness during the battle. Unless she wasn't being cocky...I can't understand Japanese to save my life.

I think she was just being overly flamboyent. I rather liked her quirkiness. Definitely the best Gym Leader in terms of personality, rivaling Gardenia.

[Araleon]

This was a great episode.

The Gym win, Jessie's Contest win...

Chimchar was really good, Buizel was good too. Looks like he learned from Ambipom! Break dancing FTW! And for the first time in a while, I felt bad for Pikachu. He hasn't had the best of luck in Gym this region.

Plus, Fantina is a cool Gym Leader, and Drifblim sounded really cool.

And Chimchar acted like the Chimchar we saw in the beginning of the season(way back in DP003).

[Endoplasmic Reticulum]

I found it stupid that they made Drifblim Fantina's sig and not Mismagius. It's Mismagius in the games.

[ShinyCharyZard]

I found it stupid that they made Drifblim Fantina's sig and not Mismagius. It's Mismagius in the games.

Strongest Pokemon =/= Signature Pokemon

Games =/= Anime

I mean, i can't believe anyone would think that Drifblim wasn't her star after seeing it evolve, having it on top of her gym AND having her dress based off of it. How much more obvious did they have to make it?

[Somorio]

Strongest Pokemon =/= Signature Pokemon

Games =/= Anime

I mean, i can't believe anyone would think that Drifblim wasn't her star after seeing it evolve, having it on top of her gym AND having her dress based off of it. How much more obvious did they have to make it?

To further clarify, strongest pokemon in the games will always be the signature, that's the way it's always been, but the anime has swapped some things around in the past before. Wasn't winnona's signature swapped around I'm not totally sure.

Also, I'm completely lost as to how chimchar reverted the will o wisp psychic back into a ominous wind for it's own power...this made no sense to me...anyone wanna clear this up for me?

[hmmm]

Okay so I saw the tail end of this episode while searching for the next episode's preview, which looks lame btw :P.

Anyways, I don't speak Japanese, but I think I caught the jyst of what Jun was saying to Ash with the flashback and map. Was he saying that he wanted to go to Iron Island to catch a Steelix?

[pikachu85]

Sounds like a great episode to me! Can't wait to watch it.

[Ancax]

Ash needs to use these strategies against Paul. It is almost like he gets stupider whenever he fights him.

[Pokeballs]

Okay so I saw the tail end of this episode while searching for the next episode's preview, which looks lame btw :P.

Anyways, I don't speak Japanese, but I think I caught the jyst of what Jun was saying to Ash with the flashback and map. Was he saying that he wanted to go to Iron Island to catch a Steelix?

Both Ash and Jun are going to challenge the gym. Jun mentioned that if Ash wins, he'd become his rival.