Erika’s Clefairy · Gym Heroes (G1) #25

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   coolestman22

   (13 years ago)

   Moonwatching is an attack?

   Seems legit.

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     Foon-Gus Fringcoolestman22

     (3 years ago)

     LOR Clefairy and UNB Clefable also like to watch the moon.

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       AmbassadorFoon-Gus Fring

       (3 years ago)

       · This holds up w/r/t the JP edition of the TCG. The name of this Clefairy’s attack [おつきみ 𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐮 𝐤𝐢𝐦𝐢], can be found in the relevant attacks on those cards.

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   Ambassador

   (3 years ago)

   Comet Slap is an interesting, and almost certainly deliberate, attempt to be consistent with a translation quirk of the video games. The attack ‘Comet Punch’ in the original JP Pokémon RGBY was originally [れんぞくパンチ 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐨𝐤𝐮 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 – “consecutive punch”]; “Comet Punch” was probably due to character limits. This Clefairy’s second attack is [れんぞくビンタ 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐨𝐤𝐮 𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚 – “consecutive slap in the face”], so I’m left with the impression that WOTC rendering it as “Comet Slap” means they must’ve been comparing notes with NOA on some of this stuff. So it’s strange that they’d continue to go and do their own thing more often than not with other attacks, such as “Deflector” instead of “Reflect” on Erika’s Exeggcute, “Shadow Images” instead of “Double Team” on Rocket’s Scyther, and so on and so forth.

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