>>36715584Every battle in the entire anime is basically asspulls since the only criteria for victory is the opponent getting dizzy eyes. There is no quantifiable way to judge how a fight is going until one of their eyes changes.
We only ever know which direction a fight is going due to music changes or character commentary, there is rarely a moment after gen 2 when the characters are seen netting the key to victory, and the only reason it happened back then was to explain game mechanics and set up the episode lesson. Casey comes to mind