Is it realistic for each pokemon to have a unique animation for every move they can learn even though Nintendo being a large company? Based on my lowballing calculations that would be around 50,000ish unique animations. And that’s just attack animations.

>>57918422 (OP)
That's extremely unrealistic, anon. Why would you need that anyway?

>>57918422 (OP)
It WOULD be theoretically possible. They have partners they outsource works, assets or even entire remakes to.

BUT and this is the most important part, WHY should they invest that much time into it when their bare minimum already prints so many sold units?

>>57918422 (OP)
if they ever did it then they would end up recycling them for every new game forever

>>57918422 (OP)
That would require them to cover every possibility beyond what the average player would experience, like moves called from Metronome, every move Smeargle can Sketch, moves used by a disguised Zoroark, etc.

>>57918422 (OP)
>unique animation for every move they can learn
This isn't even needed. Even just 4 or 5 different animations for different kinds of moves would be great. Like with how Stadium has a few unique animations for kick and punch attacks.

Contact move
Ranged move
Support move
Extra animation to fill in some gaps, add variety, or for psuedo-signature moves

>>57918444
Honestly, sounds like a fun collaborative project for people to design animations for every pokemon using every single move. Diglet using fly is just it raising an entire mountain out of the ground beneath it.

>>57918677

Agree. Have template animations for different types of moves and a few unique cases for signature moves or anything that's noteworthy.

>>57918677
that's generally how it works

https://www.pkparaiso.com/espada_escudo/sprites_pokemon.php?cid=22&order=#sprites

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>>57918431
it's what the players want.