If you watched the death battle Royale between Venasaur, Blastoise, and Charizard, do you think their analysis was just? If you didn’t watch it, should be on youtube, just search death battle pokemon battle royale.

Do I have to?  Oh, all right; let’s see…

Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUSRT7CFPs

I suppose I would question the usefulness of the conditions they’re analysing.  I mean… a wild Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise randomly meeting up in the wilderness for a free-for-all?  Why would that ever happen?  In practice Pokémon trainers normally care about the role a Pokémon can play within a team, typically for a single battle format.  I’m not especially surprised by the result – as they say, it’s very difficult for an untrained Venusaur to come up with anything that will stop a Charizard because of the double type advantage, while Blastoise is in a very strong position against the other two by having natural access to weather manipulation, which seriously weakens Charizard and blocks out Venusaur’s Synthesis and Solarbeam attacks.  However, I think I would find the analysis more convincing if they didn’t gloss over exactly how they came up with their results in about 30 seconds towards the end.