Board Thread:VS Debates/@comment-31816534-20171108003312/@comment-25620113-20171108191319

^ That battle got a lot of things wrong. Mewtwo doesn't use mind hax in his fights preferring to just simply overpower his opponent and Shadow actually does have resistance to mind hax as shown when black Doom tried to control him and failed. Even still that mind hax takes at least a few seconds so it would be impractical to use against a Super Form which moves at FTL speeds making it difficult to get a hit on it.

If M2 could simply erase minds in the midst of battle, why doesn't he? The only time he used this power was to prevent Ash and co. from knowing who he is at the end of the film and even then he only erased the memories of the past few days. Could he go further? Likely but even erasing memories of the past few days took seconds to complete so its likely that doing what he did in the battle would take far longer. And if Mewtwo is so smart to use this power why doesn't he use it every time he fights someoe that is proving troublesome like the Red Genesect or Mew or pesky trainers that attack him with their Charizards? I'm not saying M2 doesn't win that battle (the manga might've given him feats that allow him to surpass a Super Form) but he does not win that battle for the reasons used.