So I didn't add the accent on the e, sue me.

My brother decided to have a marathon and watched all the old Pokemon episodes together. Not that "Johto" or Master League bullcrap, I'm talking about the old Pokemon that didn't suck (as hard.) My brother was on the episode when Ash's Pikachu defeats Brock's Onyx.

When I was a little noob myself, I thought "Holy crap that was a smart way to defeat a match that was already won, I never thought of that"

When I looked at the episode now, I had a few questions, and began to analyze the horrible facts.

For those of you who don't know, the episode starts off as Ash challenging Brock. Obviously Ash, being the biggest noob at the time, chose Pikachu, and Brock Onyx. Not surprisingly, Ash gets thrashed, demoralized, and pwned. A man appears and helps to "super charge" Pikachu by some water wheel or something. Ash comes back, Pikachu fights Onyx, and wins, but the only reason that he won was because when Pikachu used his/her/its most cliche move, thunder shock (not to be confused with thunder, or thunderbolt) he/she/it sets off the sprinklers, and as we all know if even a small speck of water hits Onyx, a rock type pokemon, he will instantly get knocked out.

As I said before, back then I used to this was genius, but now I question it.

The show was modeled after the game, or the game modeled after the show? Either way they should have made the game much more similar to the show/game. In the game, if you even attempt to try a Thunder shock on Onyx, you're only going to tickle him, while he mercilessly beats the crap out of you. In the show, Ash exploits the Gym's structure, and comes out victorious. If you can't do that in the game, why can you do that in the show?

Another few examples are when Ash + any other trainer tells their pokemon to "dodge" That line is used so much in the show "______ use ___ !!" "___, dodge/jump !!" Now I wish I could do that in the game. If I could order my Pokemon to dodge, that'd make things so much clearer. But no, in the game you have to take the hit full on. I always had this sick fantasy of a Smash brothers game only with Pokemon, and the B moves can be their attacks.

Thats just my little rant I had. Thanks for reading.