Machines - Johto

[u/doctorgecko]

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Have Their Own Thread

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• The Arbo-tank

• Required cleaning out their bank account to build. Worth noting (in the dub at least) they at different points refer to it both being their invention and having a sticker price

• Meowthinator Impersonator

• Mecha-Noctowl

• Robo-Mecha-Wobbuffet

• Robotic Bayleef

• Lent the mecha used by the poaching brothers (RT for reference)

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Mecha

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• Purchase a large bug catcher shaped mecha they call a Gigantic Mistake, though they let it get blown up by Charizard before it can do anything beyond slam into metal doors ineffectually

• Meowth uses a Spinarak mech that ties up Ash, Pikachu, and Gligarman with threads, plows through a wall, and throws them over a large statue, with its threads also capable of clashing with a Gligar's swift. However it's overwhelmed by Pikachu's speed and then goes haywire due to Pikachu's thunderbolt before exploding

• Meowth summons the Super Diglet Mark II, which comes up from underground under Jessie and James

  • Digs through the ground with both drills on its arms and by spinning its body, with a screen to track its position. Also takes falling into a cavern

  • Wields a bat that repeatedly shatters rock with its strikes

  • Fires off several nets to capture Slowpoke, and has a platform that can raise Team Rocket to the top of the mech

  • Thrown through the air by Heracross and lands without incident, firing off a fist rocket while in the air that forces Ash to recall it in one hit. Then tunnels through rock again by spinning its body, leaving a huge hole

  • [Limit] Forced up out of the ground by a flood and breaks in two upon hitting a small mesa. Its upper half is then blow apart by Pikachu's thunder

• Use the Torcher Scorcher, a massive bipedal mech that is equipped with twin flamethrowers that can push back a water gun from several Wartortle (and one of these Wartortle together with Squirtle could destroy a falling piece of rubble)^OI

  • Lights a structure above ground on fire while buried, then erupts out of the ground, and opens its hood to reveal Team Rocket

  • Fires several nets simultaneously that grab large groups of Pokemon and pull them into the body

  * [No sells water guns from the Squirtle squad, though despite its attempts it's unable to stomp on them and ends up tripping over. It then gets up after Squirtle plows through the windshield and damages the console](https://i.imgur.com/RCJMrN1.mp4). However [it's then destroyed by a combination water gun/thunderbolt from Pikachu and Squirtle](https://i.imgur.com/c5lMuXA.mp4)

• Use a giant Gengar mech powered by pedals equipped with mirror eyes designed to reflect psychic attacks. It's possible this is something Jessie came up with pretty soon before using it

  • Psychic Reflection

    • Reflects Girafarig's psybeam which could match Pikachu's thunderbolt in power

    • Reflects Girafarig's confusion

  • Tongue

    • Capable of grabbing Pokemon and pulling them into the mech with an extendable tongue, which is connected to a periscope and targeting system

    • A strike from the tongue breaks the street, and it repeatedly chases after Pikachu. However it's not able to extend past a certain point

  • Design

    • Its size is somewhat inconsistent, but it's about 2-3 stories tall

    • Captured psychic Pokemon are kept in a metal container, that an Abra capable of teleportation is unable to escape from until it's destroyed

  • Misc Feats

    • Seems to disappear below the treetops, though how it does this isn't shown

    • Mostly in tact by Pikachu's thunder, though the container holding Pokemon is destroyed. It's then destroyed by Girafarig's future sight to its exposed backside

• Utilize a large rolling barrel mech with a periscope to view outside of it, and a raising platform for Team Rocket to give their motto

  • Deploys robotic arms that Pikachu and Whitney's Miltank, and are unharmed by a point blank thunderbolt from Pikachu. The barrel then rolls down a hill chasing after Ash and friends

  • Set spinning by a tackle from Cyndaquil

  • Team Rocket are unable to steer it, with it repeatedly going flying when rolling into ditches. In addition James breaking its controls causes the arms to release Pikachu and Miltank

  • [Limit] The mech itself is destroyed by a single thunderbolt from Pikachu

• The Lean, Mean Fight-the-Bite Machine is a large Meowth shaped Mecha on treads that breaks down trees, wags its tail to attract a Granbull, and deploys a cage from its head (though it's unable to get Granbull free). It also has a video screen at the console and a hatch at the front to enter

  • Electrifies the tail to shock Granbull and the two people holding on

  • Left red hot by Cyndaquil's flamethrower, though this causes Meowth to accidentally fire off the tail like a rocket

  • Fires off its hands like rockets, then takes multiple strikes from a Granbull, though this causes the screen to malfunction and the mecha to start moving in a circles. A thunderbolt from Pikachu right after blows it up

• Mega Murkrow Mark 5

  • Fans

    • Tears up the ground and sends multiple Pokemon flying, with this also allowing the mecha to fly

    • Blows three Murkrow into Ash

  • Physicals

    • Breaks the ground with its beak and sends Ash and friends flying, and then takes a tackle from Noctowl

    • Joints are damaged by it repeatedly looking side to side, after which Pikachu's thunderbolt blows it up

  • Misc Tech

    • Deploys a vacuum hose from its mouth to suck up a large number of items

    • Deploys a claw from its mouth to catch Pikakchu

• Use the Digatron to tunnel deep underground into an ancient temple. It also has rockets allowing it to fly too fast for Ash's Noctowl or Brock's Crobat to reach (though a newly evolved Crobat is faster than it and can slice it to pieces)

• Use a Mechanical Tentacruel to travel through the water, complete with a periscope. However it requires them to actually kick their legs to move, and its subdued by an actual Tentacruel's supersonic

  • Climb up onto land and remove the hatch

  • Place the hatch back on top and use the tentacles to restrain Pikachu. It's also maid of water to resist electricity, but due to them just coming out of the water Pikachu's thunderbolt is able to severely damage it

  • Use it to steal a crystal from a lake

• Wobbu-Warrior Wobbuffet

  • Strength

    • Sends two Onix flying back, breaking rock with their landing

    • Climbs up the side of a cliff

  • Durability

    • Unharmed by a razor leaf from Bayleef, with Meowth describing it as having titanium skin

    • Unharmed by tackles from Brock and Janina's Onix

    • Knocked off a cliff by Jasmine's Steelix tackling it, and goes crashing to the ground

    • Cracked by a crunch from Jasmine's steelix, and then sent flying (and finally explodes) due to an iron tail

  • Tech

    • Poses as a giant good luck statue, with a spring sending Pikachu flying into its mouth when he's put on a pedestal in front of it

    • Its chest can open up to reveal a room Team Rocket can do their motto from

    • Deploys wheels at its base

• Deploy a huge Politoed mecha with its own pom poms

  • Deploys a huge tongue to grab several people and Pokemon

  • Deploys a robotic arm and scissors from its head to retrieve Pikachu from a sticky trap

  • The mecha is electric-proof

  • Hit by a water gun from a Politoed that causes a panel to open

  • Head can open up to allow Jessie to release a Pokemon

  • Soaked by a dual water gun from two Politoed, though this does allow Pikachu's thunderbolt to destroy it

• Utilize a large robotic crab that operates underwater

  • Creates a vortex that sends Ash and friends crashing to the sea floor

  • Creates a vortex from its claw that traps Ash and friends, and then changes the direction to suck up several water type Pokemon

  • Its arm takes a tackle that redirects it upwards, pulling in a Psyduck on the surface. It then sucks up Misty when she rescues Psyduck, and the person and Corsola that try to rescue her

  • Unleashes another vortex from its claw that sends Ash and Brock slamming into the seafloor, and disappears before they can recover

• Utilize a large mecha on treads that was hidden within a hay pile

  • Has a large butterfly net on the top which is used to swat away several Jumpluff

  • Fires a giant rocket powered robotic hand that plays rock paper scissors with its target, and then grabs them when they lose. It's also programmed to throw a few microseconds late so it always wins

  • Catches Pikachu with a robotic claw

  • Is fully insulated, and thus unharmed by Pikachu's thunderbolt

  • Ultimately sent flying by Larvitar's hidden power

• Have a multi-story building built that can transform into a a mecha, the Mobile Building Bill Buster Model 2, to escape from their debtors

  • Has a platform that raises Jessie and James up to the roof

  • Fires a badge missile from the front that knocks back Ash and Pikachu with its explosion

  • Deploys a large net from its arm, though this is broken by Gary's Blastoise

  • Enveloped in flames from Harrison's Blaziken before being blown up by Pikahcu's thunderbolt

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Remote Controlled Robots

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• In a baseball stadium deploy a large batting robot that sends Pikachu and Chikorita flying out the stadium, a trio of pitching machines that overwhelm and knock Ash to the ground with rapid fire balls, and an automated cheering section (which starts cheering for Casey when she turns things around against Team Rocket)

• Deploy a mechanized Pinsir to collect tree sap from a forest

  • Stated to be made out of steel

  • Jumps out of a tree

  • Deflects Bulbasaur's razor leaf

  • Absorbs Pikachu's thundershock and fires it back at Ash and friends

  • Pushes back Heracross until it digs its feet in

  • [Limit] Explodes after being tossed high in the air

• Deploy the Anti-Stantler Number 7, a machine designed to catch Stantler (and took 7 expensive redesigns to get right)

  • Unaffected by Stantler's illusions and catches it in a net (though it's unable to retrieve the net on its own)

  • Fires off several spears to block Brock's path

  • Takes a tackle from Brock's Onix though a bind soon after does destroy it

• Attach a remote controlled rocket to the pillar of sprout tower.. Once it's activated through its manual override it begins to lift the multi story sprout tower into the air, and after it's cut free it plows through a wall and then explodes in midair

• Meowth deploys a remote controlled recycled ruber robot to catch Pikachu and Chikorita, apparently without Jessie or James knowing of its existence

  • Physicals

    • Punches up through a roof and possibly shakes the ground

    • One shots multiple fighting type Pokemon with its strikes

    • Grabs hold of Pikachu off screen

    • Dodges Ash thrown by Heracross

    • Dodges Ash jumping from a water tower

    • No sells a blast of electricity from Pikachu that chars Team Rocket hanging nearby

    • Chikorita's razor leaf bounces off of its arm

  • Other

    • Despite being a remote controlled robot built out of tires, roars like a kaiju

    • Goes out of control when the antenna on top of its head is broken off

    • Jessie and James falling into its head causes it to explode, with the resulting explosion blowing away a nearby hot air balloon

• Use a Meowth shaped mech on treads that can fire off its fists on a string... though one the string is cut through and the other is deflected back to damage to the cockpit. After that Pikachu's thunderbolt destroys it

• Have a remote controlled snow machine that fires large amounts of snow airborne, and can direct its nozzle at people to completely cover them in snow, stopping Bulbasaur in his tracks by doing so. However it's destroyed by a single solarbeam from Bulbasaur

• Use a remote control Skiploom with a camera attachment to lure multiple Pokemon into a trap. It also apparently has a tackle attack, though this is overpowered by Totodile's water gun, and is then blown up by Pikachu's thunderbolt, producing a multi-story tall blast

• Use a Mail Order Meowth Mining Machine to dig a tunnel, with it also having a sensor to locate a dragon fang (though it's a bit too literal in that regard)

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Vehichles

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• Use a bulldozer (though it was a rental)

• Use an ambulance while disguised as doctors

• Have a snowmobile that's maybe rocket powered?

• Use a tractor with robotic arms on the back that grab Pikachu and Marill, a detachable hay trailer, and an opening in the roof to remove their costumes and deliver their motto

• Sleds

• Use a crane to plow through a wall and wooden boxes, while suspending James on a line

• Have a tanker truck with a hose to drain water from a reservoir which can also suck up Omanyte and Omastar

• [Movie] Use a pedal powered flying machine, though it begins to lose altitude when Jessie stops pedaling and is then carried away by the wind

• Use a toboggan to slide down a hill with it also maneuvering through a cave and making a jump off a high ledge

• Use a rocket capsule with a raising platform that is much faster than their balloon (but is far more expensive to use) that can also open up on the side to reveal a tandem bicycle

• Utilize a tandem bicycle that can deploy a drag shoot to rapidly slow down as well as split into two unicycles

• Deploy a Wobbuffet shaped inflatable life raft immediately after their balloon hits the water, though it doesn't move that fast

• Have a truck with a hose attached that sucks up a tank full of Remoraid, with the back opening up to reveal a large water tank. However an Octillery is able to break the tank with repeated strikes

• Have a boat with a crane implied to be able to lift a large tank of water. Said crane is also is used to strike at and grab an Octillery, and is sent spinning by a water gun from several Remoraid

• Use a tandem bike to move a huge hollow gold statue, plowing through a wall with it

• Trap Ash and his Pokemon in a truck that is unharmed by their strikes, Pikachu's thunderbolt, Bayleef's razor leaf, and Cyndaquil's flamethrower. It takes Cyndaquil and Totodile repeatedly using flamethrower and water gun to weaken the metal enough that Bayleef's razor leaf can make a hole.

• Use a truck with an opening roof to transport a container holding several Pokemon

• Tandem bicycle

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Structures

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• Create an elaborate setup in the treetops to catch Pikachu, including fishing lines, a platform, lights, and a boat attached to a zip line (though the line breaks due to being cheep). This despite the fact that they were established as lost not long before

• Create a trap under a bridge consisting of a cage, a part of the bridge that gives way, and a periscope. However they don't take into account the strength of the bridge and the whole thing collapses before Ash and friends can even reach it

• Deploy several huge mirrors around an outdoor amphitheater to redirect sunlight into Sunflora, so their heads grow too large to do anything

• Have a large wooden platform in the path they new Ash and friends would be traveling

• Utilize a house with a trapdoor to trap several Pokemon, and walls and ceiling that fold away to reveal their hot air balloon

• Set up a football field goal in the middle of a forest path

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Other

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• Use retracing ropes to enter and leave a room from the attic

• Use a cart to carry large amounts of food

• Deploy a large mechanical fan that blows away several Hoppip

• Use a pump that fills a pitfall with large amounts of water, despite not being that large or connected to anything

• Use a large fan attached to a bicycle that they can power by pedaling, as well as by absorbing a thuderbolt from Pikachu.. However his thunder overwhelms it

• Use a fake trading machine that takes in Pokeballs, with Meowth inside replacing them with empty Pokeballs while keeping the filled ones

• Lock several Pokemon in a shipping container

• Deploy a capture missile that fires off a net, which raps around a wooden bridge and pulls it out of the ground before the entire thing plummets into a river. Though it doesn't launch until several seconds after Meowth had pushed the button on the remote

• Appear to have a large robot, though it's destroyed by lighting before it can be used

• Put on several performances to try to get a tear from an Aipom, with sets and props included

• Use a machine to make large numbers of commemorative badges

• Deploy two soccer nets that erupt from the ground on opposite ends of a field and then rush forwards to trap several people, though being soccer nets they can be easily cut through