Talk:Pokémon Battle Royale/@comment-24486792-20140405171222/@comment-24281142-20140405184156

Just because he's lying on the ground doesn't mean he's dead. This is Ben Singer were talking about, I doubt he'd let this slipup actually be shown. There are 2 other possibilities. 1. Venusaur used Sleep Powder and put Blastoise to sleep, or 2. Considering how the pokedex entries give Blastoise a sort of "wise leader" personality, he could have figured that one of the other guys was going to die after the beam struggle, so he's using Iron Defense/Withdraw to increase his defense and thus stand a better chance.