According to the rules the process of casting creature cards (or any other non-land cards) consists of the following stages: you put a creature card on the stack, define its total casting cost and it locks in, then you get a chance to activate mana abilities (but only if the total cost requires mana), and, finally, you pay the cost
Hitmonchan is weak to Psychic, but Wigglytuff resists it, and while Wigglytuff is weak to Fighting, Dodrio resists it
They dont leave the battlefield when they flip, so all counters (and auras and equipment) stay on the card
Ishihara served as producer on the original Pokmon Red and Green video games, as well as later instalments Yellow, Gold and Silver, as well as contributing to the development of spin-off titles including Pokmon Snap, Stadium and Pinball
When sacrificing something as a cost, this cost could no longer be prevented and needed to be paid at the same time as the mana used to cast the spell