Pokemon - Giratina and the Sky Warrior

***SPOILER ALERT***

I've always enjoyed when a Pokemon movie tries to tie the video game into it's plot.  Thus is the case with "Giratina and the Sky Warrior," the second in generation four's time and space trilogy.


Although called the Distortion World in Pokemon Platinum, this film follows Ash and friends into the Reverse World where they encounter Giratina in it's origin forme.  I definitely  feel that the whole "Pokemon Platinum Version The Movie" idea was a great idea for this film.  The distortion world is awesome as is Giratina.  Shaymin is another legendary Pokemon introduced in this film.  The main con to this movie is that Shaymin was quite cocky at the beginning.  Regigigas even made a brief appearance toward the end of the film.

The villain of this film, Zero, tries to take control of the Reverse World but is challenged when Giratina is troubled.  A matter that even causes Giratina to bring Dialga into the Reverse World at the beginning of the film.  As is to be expected, the Reverse World is saved thanks to Shaymin and it's super awesome sky-forme, known by fans of the game as Skymin.

When measured up against the other Pokemon films, "Giratina and the Sky Warrior" is definitely an awesome addition to the series.

Competitive Moment

I've never trained a Giratina before in either of it's formes.  It's dragon- and ghost-typing seems really awesome.   I don't see it too often so it's definitely not a popular pick amongst competitive battlers but I'm sure it can hold it's own.


I covered Dialga in my review for "The Rise of Darkrai" so I'll skip right to Shaymin.  Shaymin's real threat is its sky forme.  If not  for any other reason than it's dangerous in even a novice trainer's hands.  It does have a 4x weakness to ice which totally sucks because it'll die if you even throw an ice cube at it but not before it gets a hit in.  Of course ice shard can put an end to that strategy.

Regigigas sucks.  I'm not going to waste too much time on it.  It's stupid ability Slow Start halves it's power and speed for the first five turns so unless you can suppress it's ability or make it a special attacker or wall don't waste your time.  Even if you succeed at making it work good luck dealing with it's speed.