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Big Struggle with the Powerful Opponent Venusaur!! (Japanese: 強敵フシギバナに大苦戦！！ Big Struggle with the Powerful Opponent !!) is the tenth chapter of the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga.

Plot
,, and were on a boat on their way to Saffron City. Green and his Charmander come by and for some unknown reason, Charmander burned Red's boat and he, Clefairy and Pikachu were stuck on an island. On the island, the trio go in a house where they rest up for the night until it was interrupted by Erika and her who accuse the trio of being part of Team Rocket. Venusaur took on Clefairy and started with which was deflected by Pikachu waving around a fan. Pikachu used an electric attack on Venusaur which was ineffective. Venusaur then insulted Pikachu about his electricity being weak.

Clefairy defeated Venusaur when Red reminded him to use Barrier to deflect and it worked. After the battle, Erika shared her boat with Red and Pikachu. Clefairy went on her flying ship as he could not go on the boat. At first, he had trouble controlling it since it took him around the world quickly.

Major events

 * defeats Erika

Humans

 * Erika

Humans

 * Erika
 * Erika
 * Erika

Pokémon

 * (Red's)
 * (Erika's)
 * (Erika's)
 * (Erika's)

Trivia
Kapitel 10 (Pokémon Pocket Monsters) PPM010