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Yes, I know that his Pokemon seem to have way more endurance than regular Pokemon. The one thing that was difficult to accept and throw to the curve was this: Pokemon battling in the anime is different than the games. Things like super-effective hits dealing a lot of damage and the Pokemon being defeated instead of shaking it off, electric attacks damaging Ground types, and many more issues. When I say overpowered, I am mostly referring to how Paul’s Pokemon have much higher defenses than normal.
The main thing noticed was yesterday during the Hitmonlee vs. Ursaring match where the normal type took plenty of damage from super-effective moves and was still standing.
It took damage from Spikes, Mega Kick, High Jump Kick, Close Combat, Blaze Kick, the final collision of a Blaze Kick and its Hammer Arm, its own Focus Blast attack because it was deflected by Steel Wing, the Drill Peck/Slash collision and though it wasn’t shown it should have taken damage from being burned from Blaze Kick.
Yes, it did use Bulk Up which raised Attack/Defense, but not enough defenses for it take all of these physical attacks and still be shown standing. Though if battling was exactly like the games the range of battling styles in the anime would seriously be limited. Bulk Up raised its attack up 1 but that should have been brought back down from being burned but raised up again from Guts.
Many of Paul’s Pokemon have much higher defenses than in the games or other Pokemon of the same species in the anime. I think besides Urasring my second choice for abnormal defenses would be his Honchrow. It can take hits like nothing ever happened at all. In the games, this Pokemon has near awful defenses. If you don’t believe me check out Paul/Ash Pokeringer match and you’ll see what I am taking about.
His Elekid, took a Slam and other heavy attack moves at Oreburg Gym, Weavile survived Close Combat during the full battle, Torterra took multiple attacks from Gliscor, Magmortar took a Hydro Cannon, and there are more examples.
I think besides plot, it could be the way he trains his Pokemon for battle. Most of his training scenes he is scolding them for not having fast reaction times, or look at how he trained Chimchar to take hits and still fight (mainly because of Blaze activating). Though he doesn’t train them all like Chimchar as he mentioned in Glory Blaze. I mean his style is more of being able to take hits, but also deal out some powerful attacks. Though these are just my thoughts on it.
The main thing noticed was yesterday during the Hitmonlee vs. Ursaring match where the normal type took plenty of damage from super-effective moves and was still standing.
It took damage from Spikes, Mega Kick, High Jump Kick, Close Combat, Blaze Kick, the final collision of a Blaze Kick and its Hammer Arm, its own Focus Blast attack because it was deflected by Steel Wing, the Drill Peck/Slash collision and though it wasn’t shown it should have taken damage from being burned from Blaze Kick.
Yes, it did use Bulk Up which raised Attack/Defense, but not enough defenses for it take all of these physical attacks and still be shown standing. Though if battling was exactly like the games the range of battling styles in the anime would seriously be limited. Bulk Up raised its attack up 1 but that should have been brought back down from being burned but raised up again from Guts.
Many of Paul’s Pokemon have much higher defenses than in the games or other Pokemon of the same species in the anime. I think besides Urasring my second choice for abnormal defenses would be his Honchrow. It can take hits like nothing ever happened at all. In the games, this Pokemon has near awful defenses. If you don’t believe me check out Paul/Ash Pokeringer match and you’ll see what I am taking about.
His Elekid, took a Slam and other heavy attack moves at Oreburg Gym, Weavile survived Close Combat during the full battle, Torterra took multiple attacks from Gliscor, Magmortar took a Hydro Cannon, and there are more examples.
I think besides plot, it could be the way he trains his Pokemon for battle. Most of his training scenes he is scolding them for not having fast reaction times, or look at how he trained Chimchar to take hits and still fight (mainly because of Blaze activating). Though he doesn’t train them all like Chimchar as he mentioned in Glory Blaze. I mean his style is more of being able to take hits, but also deal out some powerful attacks. Though these are just my thoughts on it.
