>>51773262>Yes it was but it was still caught. Those hunters managed to get it down that much. Like I said battling a legendary but not being able to catch it used to be the fucking norm. A new trainer not being able to beat the hunters who managed to weaken a legendary was the fucking normIs it not okay for the norm to change, sometimes? Also, the anime has shown that not all legendaries are equally strong. My memory is admittedly a little fuzzy on this, but didn't Lugia overpower the three legendary Kanto birds in M2? And the legendary dogs are like the birds - they're certainly stronger than non-legendaries, but they probably don't measure up to Gen 2's "mascot" legendaries, Ho-Oh and Lugia.
At the end of the day, not even a legendary Pokemon is invincible. Throw enough attacks at it, and it's eventually going to be weakened to the point a Pokeball can hold it.
>This season is explicitly a sequel to all the others.Yeah, I meant more along the lines of a soft reboot where the rules that dictate how the anime universe works changes. Take Ash for example. He doesn't say anything to Goh about how he needs to battle a Pokemon to weaken it before he can catch it, aside from one time in episode 6, I believe, when a few of Goh's PoGo style catches fail. But to Ash, throwing a Pokeball and catching a Pokemon without battling it seems to be the norm to him despite this not being the case in the previous seasons. To Ash, this is how things have always worked/been. Hence, that particular rule in the anime universe was rewritten at the start of PM19. So from an in-universe perspective, Goh isn't OP - his style of catching is just as normal as battling Pokemon/asking them to come along.
Just so you know, I do see where you're coming from. I just think there's more than one way to look at these things.
