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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOuP6jppdJs&t=3m21s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOuP6jppdJs&t=3m21s)

> だけど  
>  戦闘で使うのは  
>  バンギラスとか  
>  (Tyranitar)  
>  ちょっと（笑）

There are so many sites that list the endless meanings of ちょっと. My guess out
of 100 other theories is that maybe it's equivalent to saying 〜と思います. Or it
just a feminine ending that really has no significance. I could go on and on
but I just don't know for sure.
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Does ちょっと（笑）have some kind of meaning when said at end of a sentence?
I think the speech is cut abruptly in a way that doesn't let the listener know
what she was going to say. Or maybe the ちょっと was her way of hesitating to say
something. In other words, just a filler. She was basically saying "I like
these cute pokemons but in battles I rather use Bangirasu [and other pokemons
like that] [because...]". What came next is just a matter of guessing for us
listeners.

She seems to say a few more words (which can be seen by the movement of her
mouth) in the next one second or two, but we can't hear that because the audio
is taken over by the narrator.

I would say this would have felt unnatural and incomplete if it was part of a
normal conversation. If someone does that, the listener would say "...and?".

ちょっと as a polite refusal is possible in other context, but I don't think so in
this context.
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