Snivy looks up at the clouds longingly, thinking about Ash protecting Pikachu, and takes a nap in the most open area possible to ensure all potential predators can find it. Pidove spots it and brings Ash to it, so Oshawott frees itself from its pokeball and asks to battle Snivy. Snivy's not impressed and tries to leave again, so Ash... follows it again. Wow, gripping. Once again, Snivy uses attract on Ash’s pokemon and kicks its ass, and then leaves. So Ash follows it again by sending Pidove to track it. While following it, Ash and Pikachu get caught in some... deep mud or something, and they can't escape, so Iris and Cilan rescue him while Snivy watches, apparently otherwise ready to just let Ash die, I guess. Significance of this scene? About two minutes.
Ash has Pidove track down Snivy again, and this time Snivy is impressed with him for no reason and consents to another battle. Ash sends out Tepig, and Iris reminds Ash not to let Tepig get hit by attract. Ash tells her that he already knows that then immediately lets Tepig get hit by attract. He recalls it, and then finally decides to send in Pidove. Snivy finds, to its surprise, that Pidove is immune to its attract because it's a chick (HURR DURR DURR) - and not of the Zoey variety. There actually is a rare legitimately funny moment here where Cilan compliments Ash's skill by sending a girl to fight a girl, and the Heroic Triumph music starts playing, only for Ash to admit he didn't know and the music to immediately stop.
Well, the episode only has two minutes left, so it's easy enough to guess what happens: gust leaf storm gust air cutter quick attack quick attack vine whip air cutter pokeball go. Of note: Snivy is not knocked out, it just kind of lets itself be caught after a while. Ash sends Snivy out immediately and tells it that he'll be taking it to win the Unova League.
Jesus Christ, writers, I literally cannot remember how many “Ash recruits an abused pokemon from another trainer by impressing it with his caring and battle skills” episodes there have been. I literally cannot. This episode doesn’t even have any humans or pokemon other than the main characters and their pokemon in it, it is just twenty minutes of Ash’s quest to find and beat up a girl who’s running through a forest trying to escape him. There are literally horror movies with this premise.
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Started: July 6, 2005