>>39605348Anon, fuck off. The problem is with the writing. The way whoever wrote this episode handled the situation did a really poor job and it unnecessarily shit on Hau.
We’ve had the “two Pokémon clash and struggle to get up afterwards” moment happen dozens of times, but it was always either one Pokémon gets up and calls for the other to get up to continue the match or they both get up and one collapses at the last second. Here, Rowlet fell asleep, so Decidueye got up, Nanu made the call, and Hau was declared the victor. Regardless if sleeping doesn’t count as a KO, the call was made for both Pokémon to stand to continue the battle by the announcer and the only one who got up was Decidueye.
Nanu didn’t make a bad call and in-universe no one said he did either, Rowlet was supposed to get up and he didn’t so he was declared the loser. Even Snorlax who sleeps all the time has never had a situation like that. Nanu called Ash out for causing such a disrupt, and Hau was clearly pissed as well, so for all of that to happen and Ash still ends up winning in the end is pretty fucking shitty.
They could’ve showed Rowlet just roll over to reveal he was sleeping before Nanu finished calling the winner. It was incredibly unnecessary to show Nanu declaring Hau the winner, Hau, the judge, and the crowd celebrating, and the scoreboard showing Hau win, only to turn back on it because “lmao comedy relief xD”.
tl;dr this episode is terrible and deserves all the hate it’s getting
