EMOLGA AND THE NEW VOLT SWITCH!
"Wow, a battle between electric-types! A spicy pairing like that could turn out to be electrifying!"
Score: 5/10
Bianca, who is still traveling with the heroes for some reason, challenges Iris to a battle.
Emolga versus Pignite. I dislike how attract is portrayed as the be all and end all of attacks, and after one use of it, Bianca has to recall her pokemon. She sends out Minccino, and their attracts cancel each other out (because that’s how it works). Against Iris' orders, Emolga uses volt switch (so all of one of Iris' pokemon will obey her), causing Excadrill to come out. Emolga's volt switch is "a little different," and doesn't cause it to recall to its pokeball, instead just causing another pokemon to come out. Huh. Well, I’m glad the details of this are explained, right? Iris tries to chew Emolga out for disobeying orders, but it just gives her puppy dog eyes and she stops.
Iris sends Emolga back in to battle, but it just uses volt switch again, somehow sending out Cilan's pokemon. Pansage gets angry when it's hit by accident and knocks out Minccino, and Cilan declares Pansage the winner. Ha, what a dick. Emolga continues to act ultra-cute, but now even Iris doesn’t fall for it, and she declares that Emolga must battle. Bianca sends out Pignite again, but Emolga just volt switches Snivy into the battle and then disappears. Only Iris is concerned by her pokemon disappearing, so Bianca and Ash just start battling. Ha, everyone is dicks.
Iris finds Emolga lazing off by itself in a tree, so Snivy (like three hundred feet away) just uses vine whip to grab it. Iris insists Emolga battle, so it just shocks all everyone... except Snivy, who sees it coming and jumps out of the way. Nice.
They stop for lunch, and Emolga uses attract to get the food of all of the other pokemon. Somehow, this causes them to think the others all stole the food and attack each other. I do enjoy Snivy just staying out of it, though. The humans figure out that someone stole their food, and they honestly can't figure it out. It's Snivy who points it out to them, but Iris defends Emolga, saying it wouldn't. Somehow, the other humans are convinced by Iris' complete lack of evidence, but this sparks angry eyes between Snivy and Emolga. Uh oh.
The heroes stop for a nap, but Emolga, who's still awake, runs off to find some food. Snivy, Oshawott, and Axew follow. Emolga tricks Oshawott and Axew into thinks some wild Watchog attacked it and stole an apple it found, so Oshawott takes some of the apples of the Watchog, causing them to attack in retaliation. They accidentally anger a wild Simisear, so they run off and leave the Simisear to attack the heroes’ pokemon. Simisear kicks Oshawott's ass and knocks it unconscious, and Emolga decides the most logical thing to do is throw an apple at it and just leave Simisear to murder Axew. Fortunately, Snivy appears to help, and the heroes arrive soon after.
Simisear begins beating up Snivy, and Iris yells for Emolga to help. Emolga finally decides to man up and help, and they bravely defeat Simisear in a two-on-one battle. Yeah, you go girl(s)! When Simisear is almost crushed by a rock it dislodges from a nearby cliff, they rescue it, and it finally just gives up and walks away, hoping to find fewer evil Emolga in its future (little does it know that all Pikachu clones are evil).
Emolga offers an apple to Snivy as a peace offering, which it accepts, Bianca runs off to Castelia City to challenge Burgh (I guess she was traveling away from it this entire time?), and the episode ends.
Pretty much the saving grace of this episode is Snivy, who is consistently competent and pretty darn cool.
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Started: July 6, 2005