Pikachu….
Guys it’s so tough and lowkey annoying watching Pikachu’s battles pre hoenn, not cause they are necessarily bad but IRON TAIL. Because he doesn’t know iron tail yet and it’s lowkey insufferable. In my opinion Iron tail is pikachu’s classic move right alongside his thunderbolt. That iron tail has given us such amazing battles and Ash and Pikachu such amazing wins. For instance in Sinnoh he cut down a Ryhorn’s gigantic surf using his iron tail. So today I was watching one of his orange league’s match and pikachu was against electubuzz. His electric attacks were obviously not working and I immediately went like “use iron tail” but then I realised”oh wait, he doesn’t know it yet.” Pikachu lost this battle and boy it was unbearable.
And see, I don’t find his hoenn or sinnoh battles unbearable because he doesn’t know electroball that he only learns in Unova. It’s not that I m comparing a character developed pikachu with baby pikachu but iron tail gave pikachu a chance to win against pokemon he has a type disadvantage with. Pre hoenn when pikachu battles against mons with a type disadvantage, he either loses or wins in a rigged way, like his thunderbolt working on rock types. I know it happens post hoenn too but including iron tail in his arsenal did make a difference. It makes us feel like pikachu still has a fair chance even if the type matchup isn’t in his favour.
Idk, do you guys relate? Iron tail is OP.