"What was hot is now tre cool!"
Score: 5/10
Palpitoad defeats Darumaka in literally less than five seconds. Huh. That was a bizarrely interesting design for Dino and a suspenseful To Be Continued wasted on absolutely nothing. I mean… what was the point of that?
Well, whatever. Next up is Luke versus Iris. Luke's asked Bianca to film him, but she's instead chosen to film Zorua sitting.
Golett versus Axew. Iris opens with scratch, thus showing the writers remembered that ghost types are immune to normal attacks for this episode. Golett splits into three copies of itself with double team and then tries to smash into Axew. Not knowing which is real, Axew stands perfectly still and allows all of them to hit it. I must admit, that is a unique, interesting strategy that I, for one, never would have thought of. Since Axew can only use scratch and dragon rage, it's at a huge disadvantage, so it learns outrage. Wow, that’s a helpful thing to be able to do. By the way, outrage literally consists of just punching your target a bunch of times in a row and visually has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with dragons. Iris is the victor, and snuggles Axew because it’s cute. Enjoy it while you can, Axew, one day you’ll be a Haxorus and no one will snuggle you.
After the battle, Luke is disappointed that Bianca only filmed Zorua and spent her time making it an outfit.
I honestly don’t know what he expected - though I’ll agree that Bianca’s ability to create that much clothing in like two minutes is surprisingly. Bianca, for her part, continues trying to convince Zorua to be her pokemon, to a point where it becomes clear she only wants Zorua because the writers had no idea what to do with her during this tournament after her loss.
Burgundy appears and challenges Cilan to a connoisseur battle during the next Ash/Iris battle, which he agrees to. What does a connoisseur battle consist of? Commenting on things. Despite the quality of commenting and narration being completely subjective, they still manage to find a judge for their battle.
Pikachu versus Axe-- Excadrill?! That's just mean, Iris. That’s just mean. Ash has Pikachu use thunderbolt for its move because he wants to show how serious he is. No, really, that’s his literal explanation. I don’t know either. As the battle goes on, Burgundy and Cilan comment on it - but Cilan is clearly better at it than she is, and she consents to calling the connoisseur battle off. That was… literally 100% pointless padding.
Pikachu does well at first, but it finally loses so much energy that it's knocked down. It bravely, heroically stands up! And then is then knocked out by Excadrill's next attack before it can do anything.
As Iris accepts the prize, she sees a camera, so she says hi to the elders at the Village of Dragons. Wow, I be they’re really excited for your ability to win with non-dragons.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket is planning something with the music hall. OooOOOOOOooooOOOOooo
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Started: July 6, 2005