User blog comment:Icey778/Rap Battles of Excellence Redux 8: Pokemon Type Royale/@comment-4920659-20160605014310

I have to be honest here, so I have to say that I didn't really enjoy this battle. This was way too long for me to keep interest in, and I felt like majority of the lines were forced references and just a bunch of words that were thrown in for rhyme scheme. Of course, some Pokemon used weren't really that good of a choice for the type casting, but the verses don't really show what the Pokemon are like and could have just been any other ones of the same type. Sometimes the lines didn't make sense either, like Metagross mentioning Iron Tail when he can't learn it, or Excadrill saying Pokemon designs have become lazy because of an orange dragon even tho that isn't unoriginal and Charizard is Gen I so it makes even less sense, and Hariyama mentioning Moleman (which I'm sure is just because of Legion's interest in him). The flow doesn't show here at changes nearly each time a new rapper comes in, or even in the same verse. A lot of the lines were much too short to rap well on and just felt like an awkward freestyle. Pikachu, which was Bobdave, did well on disses, but the lines were also too long in comparison. Also, pretty much every rapper singled out their previous opponents a lot and often didn't rhyme or used 3 rhymes instead of 2. Since nearly each one had 16 lines per verse, this whole battle is around 300 lines long, which is 6 times more than the longest ERBs made. Salamence getting 32 lines also feels really disproportional for being the last rapper.

If I had anything positive to say about the battle, it's that at times the lines could be clever, but it seemed more like a hit and miss on most of them. Toxicroak's verse was the only one I don't really have a problem with, so I'd say he won the whole thing, and a lot of others had good rhyme scheme.