The XY era of the anime saw Team Rocket with some major technological upgrades, which made them much more of a threat than they had been.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Team Rocket are the eternal adversaries in the Pokémon anime, but it's only in the XY era that Team Rocket actually felt like a real threat, and it's all thanks to the enhanced technology that they had at their disposal.
Team Rocket, of course, spend most of their time in the Pokémon anime trying to steal Pikachu, along with various other Pokémon on occasion. In earlier eras of the anime, Team Rocket relied on rather simplistic disguises and traps, such as their long-time favorite, the pit trap, which had a pathetically low rate of success even at a moment-by-moment basis.
Team Rocket's XY Technology Is An Impressive Array of Capture Tools Starting in the second episode of XY, Team Rocket had new means of trying to steal Pokémon. They first deploy a control collar on a Garchomp living at Professor Sycamore's lab, causing it to go on a massive rampage that destroys a good chunk of Lumiose City. In later episodes, they have collapsible cages with electrified bars, as well as energy nets which spontaneously generate after being thrown.
Of course, Team Rocket is still as incompetent as ever, so even these high-tech devices aren't quite enough to actually get away with Pikachu, or the other Pokémon they try to steal early in XY. Jessie and James do seem to appreciate the value that new technology brings to them, though, and even have the foresight to turn Ash's new tinkerer companion, Clemont, against him by tricking him into working on their own machines.
While Team Rocket is never really meant to be a serious threat, the tech at their disposal in Kalos was noteworthy largely because in someone else's hands, it may well have been able to actually steal Pikachu. It's more the kind of technology that one would expect Pokémon thieves to use, rather than absurd disguises or obvious traps.
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