Really? Personally I think Draco Meteor was meh. I was expecting meteors summoned from the sky just like the traditional Meteor spell in FF games.
Now, Hydro Cannon is just terrible. I mean what the heck is that? A giant blue ball of... something. Glowing water, maybe? I was expecting a powerful blue water beam just like in the games.
So, not all attacks in the anime look good. :/
I thought
Draco Meteor Meteoric Swarm (sounds more mysterious) looked awesome in the anime. A black vortex forming in front of you, then raining down fiery rocks on the foe...
But I agree about
Hydro Cannon being a failure in the anime. In the games, it's basically a more flashy version of Hydro Pump. A glowing water ball makes it even worse, and you'd think that a highly pressurized stream of water could deal way more massive damage than a simple water ball ever could...
I grew up watching the anime before learning that the games devised the original Pokemon concept, so I always thought whenever I get a Squirtle I'd teach it
Water Gun. Kind of disappointing when you learn it's on par with Ember and Thundershock rather than Flamethrower and Thunderbolt, as well as being outclassed by the Water move Surf in the games (yet Surf
rarely appears on the TV show as the tsunami-like attack it is depicted as gamewise)
And another thing: why does
Magma Storm suck in the anime as well? According to the picture I saw of Heatran, in the anime Magma Storm is just a bigger version of Fire Spin (which is essentially a rotating Flamethrower, which is not much of a difference in itself IMO). I know it's a variant of Fire Spin, but more than the size should be different, at least. The game screenshot I saw led me to believe that spiraling columns of fire should be
descending on the foe from the sky, thus trapping the enemy in a damaging flaming vortex. Now
that is a
major step up from a Pokemon simply shooting out a stream of fire from the mouth... Furthermore, the game variant of Magma Storm sets up the precedent for what Legendary Pokemon should be capable of...