Why, in "Nerves of Steelix", does Pikachu endure the Thunder Wave, to then launch a Thunderbolt on Steelix?

Question

And, for that matter, why does Jasmine make Steelix do the same thing?

Comments

The Pokemon tv show almost never makes sense. Don't question it.

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Because its the Pokemon Anime.
The world where Arbok evolved into Seviper and pretty much every legendary Pokemon has telepathy someway or another, and a magical place where kids stay 10 :]

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What the heck, Arbok evolved into Seviper?

"Wait, Logic, what are you doing? Hey, get off of that… NO, DON'T JUMP!"
^ Logic died today.

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It was a dubbing mistake :O

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Also Logic in Pokemon died since the first day of its release :

February 27, 1996
RIP Logic

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it didn't literally evolve into Seviper, it was one of the many trivia challenge errors (and the most infamous at that) in the dub

Answer 1

Since your anime questions will almost never get a good logical answer, I'll take the one some random guy said, and paste it here. He explains it the best.

The only real answer here is:

Unlogical logic (also known anime logic)

Its the same reason that electric types are good against ground types, or that ash and co. somehow meet legendary Pokemon at least once a month. It makes for better stories.

Comments

anime logic is even worse than gamefreak logic.