>>27814295What on earth? May going shopping literally only happened in the very first 15 episodes of Hoenn. before she even got into Contests.
As for the Contests, most of the battles and contest appeals back then were pretty simple. Aside from a few creative ones from Harley, the writers didn't do complex appeals back in Hoenn.
As for Assist, yes the Dusclops win was awful, but Skitty using Assist and it failing multiple times until she got flamethrower to defeat the Jynx with it worked. As for Munchlax's metronome, Munchlax never won a single contest battle, so I don't see why that would remotely matter. Its win in the Grand Festival was when it used Focus Punch on Wigglytuff's stomach.
They could have shown her training a bit more, but other than that I don't see the problem, nor see why you would think that's awful.
