A GRAND FIGHT FOR WINNING!
"Glorp"
Score: 7/10
Piplup/Togekiss versus Glameow/Gallade. Logical choices for each of them: Piplup/Glameow as their signature pokemon and Togekiss/Gallade as their new, unknown factor pokemon. Also of interest: Joanna finally deigns to come to the contest that her daughter has been in the entire time. Too good to appear for anything except the finals, lady?
Dawn starts with an aura sphere/bubblebeam combination, but Zoey handles it and then handles Piplup. Zoey tries a signal beam/iron tail combination to send an extra-powerful attack Dawn's way, but whirlpool/aura sphere meet it halfway. Unfortunately for Dawn, Glameow catches onto Togekiss' back by forcing Dawn to focus on the otherwise pointless Gallade. Piplup knocks it off with hydro pump, and we get Togekiss/Piplup flying.
With only a few seconds left on the clock, Puplup and Togekiss combine peck and sky attack, which puts Dawn and Zoey at the same points... but Gallade counters with an electric psycho cut as the clock runs out, so Zoey wins with a tiny, nearly insignificant number of points over Dawn.
Zoey gets the top coordinator trophy, and Dawn gives Joanna back her good luck ribbon. Dawn declares that she has her own ribbons, and her friends, and Joanna is proud of her. Nurse Joy tells Ash that Volkner put in a call to tell him that he's ready for another battle, and I can’t think of any jokes.
Overall: a decent final battle for Dawn… halfway through the season. I'm glad that, unlike May and Ash, Dawn at least got to get to the finals, and her rival was the winner, unlike Ash's and May's. Still, it would be nice if a main character actually won a major event for once... and not the Orange Islands or Battle Frontier.
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Started: July 6, 2005