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- Ash got beat 6-2 by Paul in their battle at Lake Acuity. Kinda like the Tobias example mentioned below, this match is considered to be more of just a bad beat for a full battle. Losing 6-2 isn't a true curbstomp since Ash did at least defeat 2 of Paul's Pokémon here. Ash's Staraptor even defeated Paul's Weavile 1 on 1 here, even after taking Torterra's Stone Edge head-on.
- Earlier, Paul got flattened twice. First, in a six-on-six with Cynthia, Paul lost four in a row, then quit when it became clear his Pokémon didn't have a chance. The second such loss was to Brandon, and again, Paul lost without ever scoring a KO.
- Ash's first round in the Indigo League was a total washout in Ash's favor using Krabby (who evolved into Kingler mid-fight) alone. This was also Krabby's first direct fight under Ash's command.
- In the Hoenn arc, Gym Leader Wattson was completely owned by an accidentally supercharged Pikachu who flattened each of his 'mons in one move, something only Plot Wall Tobias is implied to have done, probably as an up yours to everyone moaning about Pikachu not constantly getting stronger by showing how boring it would be. Ash rightfully wanted to give the badge back afterward — while en route to Petalberg to challenge Norman, they have a friendly one on one rematch with Wattson winning.
- Crasher Wake was beaten by Ash 3-0.
- Any time Ash fights any League official of Elite rank or higher, he is going to get wiped almost without exception. The exception being his second battle with Diantha, the Kalos Champion. It starts out looking just like you'd expect, but Ash is able to turn the tables on Diantha. They never finish the battle, but Ash very clearly had the upper hand by the end.
- Ash's battle against Tobias, which was another 6-2 loss for Ash. In all fairness, he was facing a Darkrai and Latios, and Ash was the only one to actually K.O. both of them. Everyone else failed to beat the Darkrai.
- Team Rocket obviously fall victim to this a lot, especially if Meowth is involved. Perhaps most notable is his first attempted official faceoff against Pikachu in Who Gets To Keep Togepi, the battle is opened with an epic staredown between the two along with an emotional soliloquy from Meowth how he will fight with all his strength to earn ownership of Togepi, before Pikachu pokes him almost mockingly with the tip of his tail and thundershocks him into a smoking wreck. One hit KO.
- In the 12th movie, Arceus takes on Dialga, Palkia and Giratina. At the same time. Without breaking a sweat.
- In Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions, Zoroark, during a Roaring Rampage of Revenge trying to get her beloved son back, happens to find Goon, The Dragon and one of the men behind her son's kidnapping, fighting Dawn and Brock (who are being seriously overwhelmed). His two Scizor charge her and promptly get KO'd with one Night Slash each and then Goon and all his Ninjask are wiped out with a single attack. To be fair, he was up against an Action Mom in full Mama Bear mode.
- Ash dished one out in an early Johto episode as he faced then-new trainer Casey's fledgling team of Pidgey, Rattata, and Chikorita with CHARIZARD. Charizard didn't even have to use any real Pokemon attacks to beat the first two, it simply blew on Pidgey to knock it out, and knocked Rattata down with a chest-bump. And it beat Chikorita by blowing a very small flame at it. Ash had told Charizard to hold back to give Casey the in-universe equivalent of Level Grinding, but Charizard was just so much stronger that it still didn't matter.
- Ash dished out several in the Hoenn episode in North Petalburg. Crazy Norman fans were angry that he wanted to challenge the Petalburg Gym. They kept challenging him hoping to teach him a lesson that he wasn't good enough, and it backfired spectacularly each time, with Ash winning each challenge in one or two hits.
- Ash's three-on-three battle against Sawyer the episode after his Laverre Gym battle. He curbstomped Sawyer each round and won 3-0, not to mention he gave him great advice while doing it.
- The triple tag battle in the XY series started off heavily in Tierno, Shauna, and Trevor's favor, blocking the main group's attacks and landing their own, even knocking out Serena's Fennekin. However, once Pikachu gained his momentum, he quickly knocked them all out with one Electric-type move apiece.
- Ash gave another one of these to Trevor at the start of XY episode 85. His Fletchinder took barely if any damage and beat Trevor's Charmeleon pretty quickly.
- Ash handed one to Mirror Serena in the Mirror World episode when he battled her to prove he was from a different world. Her Fennekin failed to land any hits, thanks to Froakie's Double Team, and Froakie knocked it right out with Bubble.
- The battle with Burgh got two — one for each trainer. On one hand, Burgh beat Tepig with Dwebble (mostly by spamming Protect) about three minutes into the battle... but on the other hand, once Pikachu got free of String Shot, Leavanny didn't stand a ghost of a chance, despite the fact that nobody had a type advantage.
- The second round of Ash's battle with Clay, when Ash sent in Snivy to battle Clay's Palpitoad. Ash immediately started by having Snivy use Attract, which rendered Palpitoad virtually helpless. After that, Snivy knocked out Palpitoad with just a few Grass-type moves one right after another and thanks to Attract, Palpitoad couldn't stop those moves or attack back.
- Cilan gave one of these to Burgundy when she challenged him at the Striaton Gym, and gave her another one when she challenged him to a rematch. Dwebble defeated her Dewott without getting a scratch, and Pansage was toying with her Sawsbuck before finishing it off with a Solar Beam.
- Bianca experienced one of these at the hands of Elesa, who plowed through all three of her Pokemon with her Zebstrika. Pignite was the only one of Bianca's Pokémon that put up a somewhat decent fight.
- In the Best Wishes series, Ash finally meets Giovanni... and Persian kicks Pikachu's ass with one attack. Well it hit Pikachu and knocked it back letting him and Ash get captured, but Pikachu didn't faint or anything.
- In Pokémon: Kyurem vs. The Sword of Justice, Keldeo gets curb stomped his first time fighting Kyurem. Once he learns to use his sword, he still loses (and in fact surrenders), but not as badly.
- In the Best Wishes episode in which Ash's Charizard returned, it battled against Iris's Dragonite. Not only did Dragonite's attacks barely scratch it, even Dragon Rush, Charizard dealt it some pretty heavy damage, especially when it used a super-effective Dragon Tail and knocked it right out of the sky. The battle ended up being called off, but Charizard was clearly on the verge of victory.
- An early episode of the Pokemon saga "The Path to the Pokémon League" has this trope done...TWICE
- Ash takes on a minor character named AJ and his Sandshrew. Despite his Pidgeotto and Butterfree having a type advantage over Sandshrew (Flying types are immune to Ground types and Bug types are resistant), Sandshrew wastes no time in beating down both Pokemon and winning the fight.
- Later on, after Team Rocket insults his Pokémon, AJ challenges them to a Pokemon Battle. Same Sandshrew, different opponents (Koffing, Ekans and even Meowth). Only this time, Sandshrew has the type advantage and manages to lay waste to them, wrapping the fight up with a Fissure. That was more than enough for the 3 challenging Pokemon to forfeit the fight.
- Quite possibly the magnum opus of all Curb Stomp Battles in Pokémon is none other than Trevor's hopeless battle against Alain.
From the moment his Mega Charizard Y is OHKO'd by Alain's Mega Charizard X, it's made clear that Trevor never stood a chance. - Ash vs. Whitney started as one for Ash — Cyndaquil managed to defeat Nidorina and Clefairy rather easily, but then Whitney sent out her Miltank... Luckily, when Ash rematches Whitney, Whitney's having her Miltank use Rollout again allows Ash to utilize the strategy he used against the Team Rocket Barrel-Bot to win.
- Bea's Hawlucha and Grapploct effortlessly gives Ash's Farfetch'd and Riolu one, and like Paul's curbstomping it stays on Ash's mindset for a while until he's able to battle her to a draw in their next bout a few episodes later and win the third match outright.
- Sabrina utterly obliterates Ash in their battle in "Abra and the Psychic Showdown"; Ash's Pikachu doesn't even get a hit on Kadabra.
- Calling Ash, Gary, Goh and Horace's raid battle against Articuno an actual battle would be generous - it was a borderline mass execution. Despite having the numbers advantage of a team of 12 packing super-effective moves and typing, the Freeze Pokémon shows just why it's known as a Legendary (which in the games, it is a Legendary, but it has weak stats for one) as it wipes out the first line of defense with a single Blizzard (including Gary's Tyranitar who can solo Articuno in the games), shrugs off any and all super-effective moves thrown at it, and even assist moves like Heal Pulse, Reflect and Light Screen do very little, if anything, to stop Articuno from simply one-shotting every team member sent out against it. In the end, all 12 'mons were utterly destroyed, and Articuno was barely even hurt.
- Right before the Master's Tournament begins, Ash's Pikachu battles Hop's Wooloo, and knocks it out with a single Iron Tail. Even Ash and Pikachu themselves were surprised it ended so quickly!
- In ''Enter Pikachu!", a Nidoking attacks a Mew after it wanders into his territory. The battle consists of Nidoking using Earth Power, Sludge Wave and Fire Blast, Mew dodging each attack and then using said attack back at Nidoking with the Fire Blast being enough to knock him out.
- Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! has several, the most notable being Mitsumi's beatdown of Hareta after she was forced to rejoin Team Galactic. Luckily, Hareta gets through to Mitsumi and turns things around into a victory.
- Let’s Play The Pokémon Card Game:
- Anytime Mega Evolution is involved, it usually results in this. There are some exceptions, though.
- In the Sun/Moon arc, there is the Solgaleo vs Lunala battle and the Tapu Koko-GX vs Tapu Lele-GX battle.
- In one chapter of the Sun/Moon arc, Sin and Makoto have a Mewtwo-GX and a Bewear battling each other. Sin has Bewear use its Tantrum move, which in turn confuses Bewear and costs Sin the battle after it hurts itself in its confusion. Sin throws the card in anger, when their mother (dressed up as Lusamine) arrives and, after explaining about the Shining Legends set, battles Makoto using said Bewear and ends up drawing a Comfey. She then reveals that Comfey’s ability will do Bewear more good, as the ability allows Pokémon with Fairy energy attached to not have status conditions. With this strategy, she has Bewear defeat Makoto's Pokémon (Mewtwo-GX included) with Tantrum being used every time without having Bewear confuse itself.
- During Chapter 11 of the Sun/Moon arc, Guzmaru, the teacher, challenges the students to a battle for a full-art Lusamine card. The main problem is that he has a Silvally-GX, which proceeds to trash each and every student who has a GX Ultra Beast (and even takes out a Marshadow) by having Silvally-GX's types being switched. When Makoto's turn comes, he also has a Silvally-GX, which results in a clash against both Silvally-GX...and then Guzmaru's Silvally-GX ends up being beaten due to Makoto's Silvally-GX using Rebel GX, causing Makoto to get the full-art card.
