>>51191220>The ability to be able to directly absorb the attack and use it to charge yourself up, even in a fantasy setting, has to make sense with the rules already established by the PokémonYou're forgetting that these are still attacks they're taking, it is always a risky tactic with a chance of failure and isn't doable in a lot of instances. Your point of mons being hit by attacks of their type and not absorbing them is not taking into consideration the mons not trying to or knowing that they can do that, because they may just not have the stamina to pull it off.
>With Torracat it just did it, with no precedent of its own, shocking and confusing everyone, and then suddenly it became this unstoppable PokémonNo, it became overwhelmed and had to return to let it get used to the power-up.
>He could’ve just used Thunderbolt, there was literally no reason for Pikachu to go for Iron Tail insteadI'll agree that it was a sub-optimal call, objectively speaking, but it was at least backed up by him thinking that he was in the lead and got carried away.
>It was just an excuse for Pikachu to go downBut it didn't, it was only switched out.
>Reiji pointed this out TWICEAnd? My point was that Ash didn't randomly forget about the tail attacks and deliberately made moves to counter them.
>When Infernape fell he looked shocked and was pleading for it to get upHe literally didn't, he said nothing after Infernape fell, other than pic related when it's Balze triggered proving that he was keeping it in mind the whole time.
