Short and To The Punch (627)

[Serebii]

Growling Ice Punch! Buizel VS Mr. Mime!!

While training his Gible's Draco Meteor, Ash & Co. encounter a trainer and his Mr. Mime. The trainer quickly challenges Ash to a battle to prove his strength, specifically a battle against Ash's Buizel. Ash quickly accepts. However, after losing the battle, Ash & Buizel decide to start training to learn the move Ice Punch. Will Ash & Buizel succeed in the training and win a rematch?

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[V Faction]

Missed the starting half, but...

- Mr. Mime trainer rubs me the wrong way.
- Apparently Buizel was able to start off his punch training rather easily.
- It was pretty boss in this episode.
- Training with leaves.
- Ice Paunch-getto!
- Rematch time; dodging the Thunderpunch like a player.
- RAIN HAX; Swift Swim initiate!
- Victor: Buizel

Oak Lecture: Charmeleon. BBQ'd Oak.

[PK0082]

Today's episode was.......

I forgot everything after I watched ED. XD

WTH

[An00bis]

First time watching since the Holidays. ROLL BATTLE.

Trainer's Mr. Mime:
- Double Team (*Sigh ...*)
- Thunder Punch
- Ice Punch
- Psychic

Buizel
- Ice Punch

V Faction's summary was better then mine's and it makes me feel sad.

Should have known the Thunderstorm was for Swift Swim, though. Made him ridiculously fast this time.

I should have felt excited for this episode but I really didn't enjoy it. Maybe it was because it was very similar to the Gliscor Training / Release episode we've had a few weeks earlier.

[Ash-kid]

Good, Buizel won the rematch and finaly Ash got a win.

Gible is still training on his Draco Meteor, Buizel used the ability "Swift Swim"

[TeddiUrsa]

Damn, those suspicious clouds in the sky...who would have thought that Buizel´s ability becomes a plot point in this episode again?
Makes you wonder why Satoshi doesn´t think of teachin Buizel Rain Dance...
I guess he forgot that the attack existed.

The episode was....alright. I liked Gible in the beginning and the battle in the end...but the training was boresome and besides the training and the 2 matches...nothing really happended. It was to be expected, I guess.


The ending scared the **** out of me. CRAZY animation for the ending. Who animated it? The characters looked so...real.

[V Faction]

Trainer's Mr. Mime:
- Double Team (*Sigh ...*)
- Thunder Punch
- Ice Punch
- Psychic

Psychic-type attack: Check
Obvious Thunderpunch: Check
Slightly unexpected but not surprising Ice Punch: Check
Double Team! Hi again, Double Team: Check-Check!

[PK0082]

The ending scared the **** out of me. CRAZY animation for the ending. Who animated it? The characters looked so...real.

It was real people/dancers. =P

[Sand Alchemist]

lol, Gible drowning in the river because it ate the platform where it was was funny.

[shac]

Mr. Mime - for a 'barrier pokemon' not much defensive, was he? No defensive move - that surprised me a bit, really.

I do hope Ash realises the benefit of swift swim, and decides to teach Buizel rain-dance. That would be so cool, and Pika can get an accuracy boost for its Thunder too - not that Anime makes references to accuracy much.......but still.

[KibaLG8]

Who said repeatedly Swift Swim would Activate again??? I forget who it was???lol Well I enjoyed the episode.

[Ciccone]

I expected Mr. Mime to have used defensive moves, but it was too offensive for my taste. It's trainer must have trained it using different methods :/

Glad Buizel learned a new move though, it was almost like the Gliscor episode except that...

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Buizel wasn't released which was fabulous.
 

[Locormus]

This episode, was meh and win.. Torn much? Sady.. yes, I am.. xD

- The episode starts of with Ash training Gible
- Ash says something along the lines of: Your a dragon type, fire DM!
- Gible fails
- Piplup gets struck down while swimming, and sinks like an anchor..
- Hikari scolds Ash about this now overused gag, it isn't funny anymore..
- Ash wants to scold Gible, who's eating the rock on which it was standing..
- Rock doesn't exist anymore.. so Gible hasn't got footing..
- The Shark falls into the water! Where's the Jaws theme??
- Buizel gets send out, and is happy about!
- Buizel saves Gible, who's still munching down in Sandshrews' locker..
- Two mysterious figures jump out of a waterfall, que epic music!
- It's a fighter and a mime.. what a duo!
- Obvious introductions, but this fighter seems to confuse Brock and Dawn a lot xD
- He wants to fight Ash because Buizel was SUCH a hero!.. yup..
- Battle starts:
----Aqua Jet -> Psychic = Buizel slammed against a tree
----Sonic Boom -> Double team = Mr. Mine not getting hit and jumping in the air
----Aqua Jet -> Thunder Punch = Knock out for Buizel..
- What a dumb battle..
- We see the gang at the fighter's house.. talking about punches and stuff
- Is this guy saying something that Buizel can learn Ice Punch??
- Ash starts the waterfall punching along with Buizel..
- Fighter punches the waterfall and something shines.. Ash's reaction
- Ash and Buizel are punching while jogging, Buizel punches bushes in the mean time..
- Ash notices this.
- Dinner time!!! But of course Buizel and Ash can't eat.. they want to train!
- Ash looks at the full moon and turns into Darkrai.. no not really.. but would've been cool.. *it actually looks like a frozen Water pulls, if you look at it with a weird angle.. a hint perhaps?
- Ash starts blowing leaves at Buizel so he can freeze them.. to little success..
- It's a new day, and Ash rechallenges the fighter..
- It's stormy, oh gosh, is this a plot point??
- Team Rocket runs up to Ash, ready to fight, but get hit by lightning crashing down
- Oh my.. it was a plot point!
- The battle starts:
----Aqua Jet -> Psychic = Buizel gets slammed to the same tree again, but somehow doesn't crash, because he expected this much..
----Sonic Boom -> Double Team = nothing happens well this much looks kinda the same.. BORING!
----Punching time! Ice Punch vs Thunder Punch! = Buizel loses the punchout!
- It looks as if Buizel's rubber sack cancelled out some of the electricity..
----OHH NOEZ IT'S STARTING TO RAIN, Buizel and Ash eye contact! It's going to go down!
----Buizel slipstreams towards the Mime
- Shocked fighter expression: GOSH IT'S MIGHTY FAST ALL OF A SUDDEN!
----Ice Punch vs Thunder Punch = Buizel evades the Mime due to speed (Looks epic btw) and hits the Mime! then standoff faces.. and half the Mime's belly freezes.. KNOCKING IT OUT ! This mime has no defences what so ever! That's one attack that took it down.. geesh..

- Everybody dances in the rain and are happy..
- The fighter starts into a speech.. God no! Buizel isn't going to get released here is he???
- Thankfully Buizel stays on the team.. I broke out a sweat there.. phew.. I can breath again..
- They part ways with the fighter, but somehow... Ash has whiskers like Buizel

It was a pretty good episode, but a lot like the Gliscor one, but in this one, Ash felt how Buizel felt a lot sooner then with Gliscor.. Both eps involved staring at the moon as well..
Buizel wasn't as strong as Mr. Mime.. so it's weird why it won. *Mr. Mime froze a small waterfall with it's Ice Punch, while Buizel could only freeze half of Mr. Mime's belly..

The music on the other hand, was pretty epic throughout the episode

[shac]

-^- You, my friend, need to write episode summaries more often. I was laughing half the time....

[Almighty Zard]

Buizel won by using Swift Swim again...

Ash teach the bloody thing how to use Rain Dance...now.

[Ciccone]

Rain Dance probably would give it a competitive edge, but I don't see Buizel winning with that and Swift Swim, even if they gave it Rain Dance. The writers like to make Ash's team weaker as time goes on.

[uber gon]

Hopefully Ash will let Buizel learn Rain Dance next.

[Dax]

I have a feeling is going to rain a lot at the league...>_>

[Ciccone]

Hopefully Ash will let Buizel learn Rain Dance next.

The Pokemon doesn't actually dance.....does it?

I have a feeling is going to rain a lot at the league...>_>

So do I. I think it's a good strategy overall, but maybe not something I'd enjoy seeing.

[Kuno-121]

Ash's Buziel Should be awesome in the fight ^^

It is so cwool lol but i dont like the way it has to have swift swim to win tough battles so hopefully ice-punch will help it drasticlly