"My beautiful serving dome!"
Score: 6/10
The heroes meet a guy named Stephan, who challenges Ash to a battle and throws out a Blitzle. Ash sends out Pikachu, but Oshawott wants to battle. Then the opening credits happen, then the narrator tells us what happened one minute before. Thanks, bro.
Oshawott's scalchop can deflect electric attacks, and it performs admirably against Blitzle, but when it tries to attack Blitzle with its scalchop, Blitzle accidentally kicks the item miles away into a nearby forest. Stephan agrees to wait for tomorrow, and Oshawott and Ash run into the forest to search. Ash, Oshawott, and Pikachu look through the forest, Ash not sending out his other pokemon to help because he’s kind of a dumbass.
The heroes just kind of give up searching for the scalchop, and when Iris and Cilan finally decide to help, guess Iris' brilliant plan? Replace Oshawott's scalchop with a berry. When it fails, Iris laments that it "seemed like a good idea at the time," but honestly, it didn't. Not really. Eventually, Cilan has Dwebble carve a new shield out of rock to protect itself, but it’s larger than Oshawott and like twelve hundred pounds. Still, Ash insists they learn to use the rock shield. We then literally get a training montage or Oshawott getting used to its new scalchop.
The next day, the heroes go looking for Stephan for their battle, and find him using an electrical generator for enhancing Blitzle. Don’t worry. This isn’t important. It’s just padding.
Blitzle's attacks are now extremely powerful, and Oshawott's rock shield is destroyed in less than a minute. Ash decides that the best defense is a strong offense, so he has Oshawott just run up and punch Blitzle in the face, also known as the Superman Defense. Deciding he has nothing left to lose, Ash just has Oshawott use aqua jet - but its aim is still poor. For some reason, Blitzle runs alongside it in a flame charge, and they collide with a boulder, knocking Blitzle out but leaving Oshawott up.
As the episode ends, Axew finds Oshawott’s scalchop. How did it do this? Why was it still searching for it? The answers to these questions will not be found in this episode.
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Started: July 6, 2005