You ever notice...

That sometimes in the anime, powerful pokemon have more than four attacks available.

Case in point:

I was watching the Orange Island episode "Enter Dragonite" on Cartoon Network tonight; Drake's Dragonite had a total of eight attacks in its arsenal!

I counted them, in the order it used them: Water Gun, Ice Beam, Slam, Thunderbolt, Dragon Rage, Body Slam, Thunder, and Hyper Beam.

It also used its tail as a weapon several times.

(To make things worse, Water Gun isn't a move that the Dratini family can learn, and while they can learn Body Slam now - in Fr/Lg from a move tutor - they could not do so at the time this episode first premiered.)

Even if you argue that Slam and Body Slam weren't actual learned moves and were just forceful assaults, that's two attacks too many. Drake must be one helluva trainer!

This wasn't the first time that I remember this rule was broken. I remember that when Ash fought the Amazing Mandy in the Indigo League championship, when Krabby evolved into Kingler, it suddenly knew five moves - Water Gun, Vicegrip, Bubble, Crabhammer, and Hyper Beam

I don't like to nitpick, and know that it's the anime, not the game, but the anime exists in juxtaposition with the game, and it really should show more loyalty to it's source.

I get into this too much...

- Venusaur