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What are some of the best battles you've seen in the Anime?

If this has been covered, just let me know, I'll delete it

but anyways, my personal favorite has been
the battle between Drake and Ash

there are others, I can't really remember them though
maybe some of you have some that I love too

now, discuss
 
Which Drake? He battled the one from the Orange Crew and the one from the Elite Four.

I never get tired of watching his battle with Gary from the Johto League. The other league battles I get bored of, but this one always stays with me for some reason.
 
the Orange League one, I never got to see the E4 Drake epi

the Gary Vs. Ash was a good one too. Especially because wasn't that the episode we found out that his starter was Squirtle?
 
The Ash Vs. Gary battle was good but it was severely rushed and didn't live up to how epic it could have been after waiting 5 years for them to finally face off. The writers basically gutted Ash and Gary's entire team quickly just so they could turn it into a Charizard Vs. Blastoise fight. I remember asking myself what the hell was the point of a 6 on 6 battle when 5 of both their teams are brought down in seconds just for the sake of a one on one battle between Charizard and Blastoise.

It was also disappointing that we never got a rematch between Pikachu and Umbreon.

It was good but it could have been so much more. Too bad the current writers weren't in charge of the scripting back then, it would have went a lot better.

When Ash and Paul eventually face off in the Sinnoh league, I expect it to be spectacular simply because the writers will probably handle the pacing and the scripting of the battle more efficiently.
 
Scott85 said:
The Ash Vs. Gary battle was good but it was severely rushed and didn't live up to how epic it could have been after waiting 5 years for them to finally face off. The writers basically gutted Ash and Gary's entire team quickly just so they could turn it into a Charizard Vs. Blastoise fight. I remember asking myself what the hell was the point of a 6 on 6 battle when 5 of both their teams are brought down in seconds just for the sake of a one on one battle between Charizard and Blastoise.
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while your comments are justified, as I said in the other thread, Shigeru's match was probably one of the better Full Battles out there (considering we barely see any Full Battles to begin with). Lizardon and Kamex's fight wasn't near as drawn out as Lizardon and Bashamo's, and at least one or two of Satoshi's other Pokemon (namely Heracross) got at least some decent length in their matches and thus ample opportunity to shine, which is a lot more than I could say for the patheticly rushed KO-fest that was Satoshi vs. Hadzuki (the fact that Shigeru actually switched out a Pokemon or two also helped matters). Personally, I'm more bugged by the fact that Lizardon wiped out half of Shigeru's team about two minutes after being called out (this also meant that at least three of Satoshi's Pokemon couldn't get a single KO before going down.... poor Kentauros, Bayleaf, and Betobeton T_T).
 
Too many times have the big, ultimate fights disappointed me. I find myself intrigued by just how many of the lesser (depending on how you look at them) fights I prefer to watch.

Magmar vs. Charizard
A good 'in the eye of the beholder' fight. Wasn't a League battle, but by far the best Kanto has to offer.

Battle's where Ash loses and has to retrain: Whitney, Brawly, Roarke
I like these battles because they knock Ash down a peg, not that his largely unstable fluxuation of being Top-Dog to Lower-than-dirt status really needs any prodding anyway. But the follow-up ep's of training that ultimately lead to victory with some nice (half-and-half) tactics is what clinches it.

Other fights I like for specific Pokemon pwnage or other misc. reasons:

Ash vs. Janette
Ash vs. Winona
Ash vs. Katie
Ash vs. Greta

*crosses fingers for D/P*

In my opinion, we're 2/2 so far on Gym Battles. Let's keep the streak going!
 
Holy crap, it's V Faction!

Any ways, I liked:

Battle Dome : Awesome animation, and it was handled well in the DEM scale
May VS Drew at Kanto GF : The single fact that Squirtle was owned made my day. Plus Combusken vs Absol was epic.
Eterna Gym : It showed us that even Aipom likes Contests, she can still show them off in Gyms.
 
V-Faction is like a ninja.

Ash/Brock Vs. Team Rocket in the Pewter Gym was also insanely good.

Also like to add Beautifly Vs. Medicham, Grovyle Vs. Exploud, and Combusken Vs. literally anything.
 
Ash V Blaine
Ash V Lt Surge
May V Drew (Hoenn GF)
Harley V May (The Contest when it ended Ariados V Squirtle. I soooo thought Ariados had it)
Battle Dome
Battle Pike
 
Ash vs Blaine - Charizard's first bout of glory... and it was magnificent.

Ash vs Drake - One of the best battles in the entire anime hands down. It was worth the STUPIDLY LONG wait we had to endure here after Charizard Chills to get to it.

Ash vs Gary - Duh. (And also, every time they battle really, so the first one with Eevee and the last one with Electivire also count as being awesome)

May vs Drew at the Kanto Grand Festival - one of the best battles in the whole of AG.

Ash vs Roark (first time) - I just love the choreography and the musical scoring of that episode's battle, utterly brilliant and still has the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
 
From what I've seen of the film, I think my absolute favorite battle would have to be Dialga vs. Palkia vs Darkrai.

Others that come to mind:

-Deoxys vs. Rayquaza (I don't know why, I just liked it)

-Team Rocket vs Ash, May, and Brock from Do I Hear A Ralts (EPIC)

-Ash vs Blaine (BEST. GYM. BATTLE. EVER.)

-Charizard vs. Entei (The 2nd best movie battle, right behind Darkrai's)

-Brandon vs. Ash (specifically their final battle)
 
Scott85 said:
Yeah, the Octillery Vs. Munchlax battle was a billion times better, not to mention Harley finally scoring a win for once.
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exactly, and that was one of the reasons the Yamabuki Contest was so fucking horrid: Harley, who had shown himself a capable opponent several times prior despite losing, really could've used a win at that point. And Ariados really would've creamed the fucking crybaby, but then the tiny blue Mary Sue that might as well have been a self-insert by a bad fanfic writer but is sadly official (and jammed down our throats on top of it -_-) suddenly uses its Deus Ex move (that it just conveniently pulled out of its ass in the previous episode) at the last minute, defeating Ariados in a Deus Ex fashion that has so many things wrong with it it's not fucking funny (recoil comes up just that one time and never again thus giving no real side-effects to such a powerful and cheaply-gained attack, Ice Beam apparently hit the entire web structure despite firing in a straight line, Zenigame can jump 20 feet onto the frozen webbing, Ariados suddenly can't fight back despite countering Bubble very easily earlier, and some other things). What a load of bullshit that it gets out of that scenario with BOTH a win and a powerful new move, even though it was just starting out (and absolutely no attempts were made to rectify this later) and was even more of a pussy at the time than Haruka's Fushigidane in its first contest (which it lost). Meanwhile Gonbe got a shitload of build-up, going on ever since Houen, and he ends up with his ass kicked, thus that battle was the complete opposite of Yamabuki. ^^

And just because I'm in a good old-fashioned anti-Z.E.N.I. mood (been a while since I've had one of these ^^)...

-Starly- said:
May VS Drew at Kanto GF : The single fact that Squirtle was owned made my day. Plus Combusken vs Absol was epic.
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I'd agree with you that Zenigame getting fucking pwned by Absol was one of the greatest things ever (and subsequently, Absol is easily my favorite of Shuu's Pokemon because of it ^^). However, this is somewhat countered by the fact that Zenigame had just previously taken out a fucking Flygon, who was just oh-so-conveniently standing still in the middle of a battle field like a stoned douschebag, not even putting up a fight or an attempt to evade (and thus proving Scott's previous theory that the piece of shit was being built up to defeat Flygon the whole time -_-). It's almost as bad as Z.E.N.I. redeeming its first true (and very much deserved) loss at the end of the Red Lightning episode, except the GF scenario deserves much more credit because, while Shuu's Flygon seemed like a fucking powerful opponent (likely moreso than a random little girl's Hassamu by a hundredfold), the turtle was at least pwned almost immediately, and with Wakashamo getting spotlight for the rest of the episode, there was little room to praise Zenigame and for the writers to whore it out even further than they already did.

Still, I'm left to wonder if we'll ever get a scenario where the fucker gets pwned for keeps (no, the Windie episode doesn't count as a true loss... the little bitch went running off the battlefield crying before any actual pwning could take place). In a perfect world, Haruka would return with Zenigame suffering a serious loss (preferably several losses... one could even be against a rookie's Beedle, Cocoon, Koiking, Himanuts, Korobooshi, etc. just for extreme lols XD), shortly before evolving and starting anew as a loveable and more believably strong Kameil. Sadly, chances are she'll come back with it still unevolved, and staying unevolved so they could continue to whore it to death, or the better (and therefor less likely despite being more likely than what I find to be ideal) scenario: she comes back with Kameil already evolved and unfortunately bypassing any Zenigame-pwnage opportunities.
 
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Um...I loved when Glalie took out a Charizard in Evergrande.

Yeah.

And basically the whole Kaede battle.
 
There are a lot of good battles over the series, but the ones that come to mind for me right now would be...

Ash v Tucker
Ash v Kaede
Ash v Drake
Ash v Macey
Ash v Jeanette
Drew v Grace
 
Hmm, only a few come to mind currently.

Ash v Blaine: That comes to mind as one of the coolest battles. I looked forward to it all week long (form the commercials)

Movie 3 battles: Some of the best battles from Brock and Misty ever. Ash also did amazing against Entei. Charizard vs Entei rocked!

Redlightening vs Ash: That was a cool battle with the two using the air currents to fly-ish.

I didn't see many Frontier Battles...

Shinji vs Hyota: OWN! Then when Ash failed in front of Shinji after he waited for him, (God Ash, THINK!) was cool. Shinji was so disappointed.

Naetle vs Ramparados: Only for the fact that the leaf camoflage was a good strategy.

I know that there are more, but those are the ones that currently come to mind.
 
Ok there are a lot but....
-Any battle of May's when she uses Munchlax or Cumbustken
-Any battle of Ashes when using donphan or Glalie. And a few others... snorlax rox!
-Ash vs Drake of the Orange League.
-All of the Hoenn League Tourney except against Morrison.
-Almost all of battle frontier. Especcially final at Pyramid
-Almost all contests in general.
-All Johto League especcailly Gary and Harrison.
-Many more.
 
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