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That and he lost most of his power was lost after being stuck down by Zekrom.
Really you need to pay attention to the actual show you're watching before you state this stuff. After all look at his record He defeats a Dragonite then looses to a Bellsprout. He then beats a Regice then looses to an Elekid. It wouldn't be fair for Ash to start out a region with a level 100 pikachu anyways. |
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Also, Pikachu was sick, was he not? I agree that it's stupid that he keeps ditching all his strong Pokemon. I understand why he got rid of Butterfree, but if the whole point of leaving Charizard was for it to train, and it's proven itself as a pretty danged competent Pokemon in every single Pokemon League tournament since it started its training, I think it's trained enough and Ash should start using it on a regular basis. Last edited by Leaftail; February 12, 2011 at 03:47:04 PM. |
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Pikachu's power level resets every season because watching him kill everything in one hit just wouldn't be that interesting.
"I AM THE FINAL AND STRONGEST GYM LEADER, THIS WILL BE YOUR TOUGHEST BATTLE YE-*everything ohko'd* ....... aw." END OF EPISODE. Doesn't sound that great, now does it? If you're looking for an in-universe explanation, maybe Pikachu eats a lot of EV-lowering berries before they go to the new region. But that's just my in-universe guess. |
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I agree with this. Also, there's Zekrom, and let's not forget they originally came here to have a little vaca, so they probably didn't plan on battling.
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That's all well and good, but Pikachu is dangerously strong to begin with. I sincerely doubt that a month of slacking would be enough justification for him to lose to a lv. 5 Pokemon. A Lv. 40, 30, maybe 20, but not a level 5.
The only explanation that makes any sense at all at this point is Zekrom's interference, and that doesn't even explain the other regions. |
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Starters aren't necessarily level 5 in the anime. Dawn's Piplup knew Whirlpool from the start, and it doesn't learn that until level 32. A Torchic in one episode that was supposed to be given away as a starter evolved later in the episode.
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That's true, but the Snivy in question was living in the wild at the time. The law of survival would logically have been governing it's actions (unless it was stupid) and evolution is one of the surest ways to preserve one's survival in that state. A trainer's Pokemon will be more willing to forgo evolution because it is still given a relatively strong guarentee of safety anyway, but in my opinion a wild Pokemon would seek to evolve as soon as possible. Holding that this is the case, the Snivy in question shouldn't have been stronger than about Lv. 16.
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Not to mention that the levels of the Pokémon in the animé aren't ridiculously high very often. The event-distributed "Ash's Pikachu" was Level 50, and was supposed to represent his Pikachu as of the end of the Diamond and Pearl series. The Pokémon belonging to the Champions are likely around the 80s. But it would seem that leveling up takes a fairly long time at the later levels, since I would imagine nobody's Pokémon in the anime are there yet (especially Pikachu, since, despite it being very strong, there are lots of stronger Pokémon out there). This is somewhat supported by Red, the strongest in-game trainer, only being in the 80s in terms of his team's levels, not 100, which is what allows others to defeat him. The only Pokémon from the anime I would be willing to admit is probably Level 100 is Arceus. Despite the fact that the Event Regigigas was also Level 100, the one in the 11th movie may have been less than this (though it could be blamed on it's ability, Slow Start, making it weaker since it had just woken up). Arceus' distribution counterpart was Level 100, and it was able to destroy a giant meteor that would have posed a major threat to Earth, even though it's individual base stats are surpassed by other Pokémon.
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Well, one reason he always leaves his strong pokemon(charazard, infernape, sceptile, et cetra) is because your normally only allowed to take one pokemon from a certain region to another. A pokemon not native to the region would feel uncomfortable. Plus, there would be theives all over Ash for his 'rare' pokemon that aren't seen in Unova unless from an outsider. Professor Oak also wanted Ash to keep low, thus only allowing pikachu to enter the Unova region. Same with keeping low with Team Rocket(Jesse, James, and Meowth).
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I like the new Teamrocket there more sneaky now and more into there jobs than they were when the show first started. They did good upto the point of the SS anne. And they jus sucked at being bad guys. I do recall brock saying in a few episodes back in the old school ones where he said something about the pokemon getting exp. points. They dont say that anymore in the show. i remeber team rocket was reading a book about how to evolve there koffing and ekans using exp. points. and stuff.
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I remember when Ash fought the one dude with Darkrai and Latios in the Sinnoh League Finals (that guy was totally cheating too) and Pikachu held his own pretty well to the end (taking a Luster Purge to the face as he Volt Tackled into it rather epically).
I'm pretty sure abilities in the anime are more based on the trainer's style and situation. The fact that Pikachu has lost several times to gym leaders it should in-game easily cakewalk is testament to this fact. |
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Of course, its Zekrom's fault that Ash lost to Trip, but thats why there's such thing as a BACKUP Pokemon, Him going into the Unova region with just one Pokemon was a big mistake... He should of brought Buizel with him, despite type disadvantage, Buizel would taken down Snivy easily
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