Ka Boom with a View!
"Wow! You talk great!"
Score: 4/10
So the Battle Palace is a huge palace made out of stone bricks even though Spencer spent the last episode talking about how awesome nature is.
Okay.
The battle will be three-on-three and take place outside in miles of jungle between cliffs and the ocean shore, meaning the entire palace construct is apparently unnecessary. We are then introduced to a flying camera with artificial intelligence that keeps track of the pokemon as they move so the audience (Brock, May, Max, and Scott) will be able to watch. So... yeah, I think we've pretty much established at this point that Spencer's nature philosophy is full of the same stuff that is in his colon.
Spencer sends out Shiftry, so Ash counters with Sceptile even though Swellow would make much more sense. The pokemon immediately run into the jungle, and the trainers follow. Even though Sceptile and Shiftry are moving as fast as they can and it's established that Sceptile can run really freaking fast, especially in a forest, Ash and Spencer easily keep up by... running. I would be mad, but I do remember that Ash can canonically run as fast as a truck in that one episode so okay. Well anyway Sceptile wins easily.
Spencer sends out his Venusaur, and Ash his Heracross. Woah, uh-- I admit I forgot Heracross even existed. Well, Heracross lands a lot of hits, but Venusaur tanks them like a boss and knocks it out with one solar beam because it’s “really high level!”
Ash sends out Swellow, and commands it to fly to the ocean for the next part of the battle, as Spencer desperately attempts to use vine whip to slow it down. When they reach the beach, Swellow uses aerial ace and defeats Venusaur in a way that does not involve the ocean or the sand at all.
Spencer sends out his final pokemon: Claydol, which easily defeats Swellow. Thus, Ash returns Sceptile to the field, who dodges hyper beam and uses solar beam to defeat it. I’m sorry, what? Sceptile’s entire gimmick is movement and more, well, “physical” attacks than Ash’s previous grass types. Why should it know solar beam? Just use a damn leaf blade.
Well, Spencer rewards Ash with the Spirit Symbol and goes off into the forest to pretend he hasn’t wasted his life with a silly philosophy that he himself undermines with his fancy flying cameras.
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Started: July 6, 2005