How many times did Iris's Axew use outrage?

Question

I realized that the only time Axew used Outrage was in the episode it learned it in the first place.
Did I miss something or did the writers forget it knew outrage.

Answer 1

Yeah you're right.

>So far, this is the only episode where Axew uses Outrage.

That's from [Bulbapedia's Page on Episode 42 BW][1]

As to why?
There's been a discussion on this before on [SerebiiForums][2]
>It was so Iris could move on, nothing more.

>Because it is strictly a finishing move, meaning that Kibago can't use it unless it absolutely has to. Seeing as it falls asleep right after using it you can see why Iris might not be commanding him to use it can't u. Although I could see a training g episode where Kibago gets over falling asleep afterwards lol.

I think the reason Axew hasn't used Outrage is simply because it can't.

>It's called lazyness. From beginning, Axew has been nothing but a punching bag always being kidnapped. Now it learns Outrage. So now what? Axew isn't going to ever use it again until there is a Langley or another near death episode? Why can't Axew train to get better at it?

>Originally Axew used Outrage in an extremely high pressure situation. It was the semi-finals. It's trainer Iris had a lot riding on this match and it was all up to him. Axew dosen't want to let anyone down. It had received a pretty thorough beat down from Gollet thus far and was standing on it's last legs.

Saying "The writers forgot" would be a bit of an overstatement
I seems popular opinion is that they intentionally neglected it for reasons we can only speculate - whether it was just a one-off move for the purposes of the single episode, or it was laziness etc.
[1]: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/BW042
[2]: http://www.serebiiforums.com/archive/index.php/t-550555.html

Answer 2

No, he did use it only that one time. Other people have commented on this on Serebii forums here.

It is probably because Axew falls asleep after he uses it(as one person commented) so it isn't really smart to use it when it isn't the right time.

Comments

So what about Emergencys or to just use it for the final hit?

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Good for cleaning things up I guess. But actually there is no way to prove he falls asleep every time because he has only used it once.

Answer 3

Iris' Axew used Outrge just once, in that tournament, as the developers possibly saw no other way to have Iris to win that round.
That's wha I think anyways, it is after all the most powerful physical dragon move, and they wanted to end it with a bang.

Somewhat of a source
Hope I helped!

Comments

So they just like forgot it knew outrage in the next episode