Thread 58121810

pokemon should always have a clear means of locomotion and not rely on cartoon physics to justify their existence

>>58121810 (OP)
it walks by sticking its lances into the ground

they just float okay?

>>58121810 (OP)
That's an issue most fishmons have outside of water (except Magikarp lol).

>>58121810 (OP)
>confirmed in the pokedex to be "flying around at high speed"
>base speed: 20
>doesn't have levitation
Is GF retarded?

>>58121816
AAAAAAA! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!

>>58122097
The anime explicitly avoids giving main characters fish Pokemon precisely because they're unusable on land

>>58122222
>quints
Your opinion is now truth but your post is a fuckin waste

>>58122106
>flies
>in a set of armor
Where are the wings?

>>58121816
IS this AI?

>>58121810 (OP)
It’s literally a steel type so it relies on magnetism to move

>>58122222
>noooo we can't have the fish pokemon float or something in the anime that would be weird ahaha
meanwhile, the CHAD pokemon games and fandom:

humans should always have a clear means of locomotion and not rely on cartoon physics to justify their existence

>>58122106
>Is GF retarded
Considering that the people who do the following don't communicate with each other, yes:
- design the Pokemon
- make the Pokemon's dex entries
- make the Pokemon's stats, movepool, typing, and abilities

Of all the nonsensical shit there is in this franchise and you focus on this.

>>58121810 (OP)
literally every single levitate pokemon

>>58122300
Not a human tho

>>58122324
Uh-oh! Retard alert!

>>58122324
Almost all of those make sense though
>psychics
>ghosts
>electrically charged things

>>58122298
Floating fish works in a game, but in an anime or a manga, it looks fucking retarded

https://youtu.be/HlD6j_idHuo?si=F1SS6tg6-2Jwfxrb&t=42

>>58122332
>>58122336
tell me how those aren't cartoon physics.
i'll wait.

>>58122392
>Flygon
Not an expert but it might be the fucking wings

>>58121816
useless undersea plaguerat

>>58122222
They stopped doing that a while back. XYZ season and onward had stuff like Sharpedo, Clawitzer, Dragalge etc. just flying around.

>>58122535
Iirc these examples were

>Sharpedo flying around in the sky both in and out of its mega form in the Magearna movie
>the XYZ green haired kid’s Clawitzer initially propping itself up with its tail on land, but in the rematch the animators decided they didn’t care and made it just levitate
>Dragalge being aquatic in early XY episodes, but just levitating in JN

>>58122423
There's another way to "fly" you know, but the tradeoff is (highly) limited mobility (if not complete immobility).

>>58122097
>except Magikarp lol
I think it'd actually be funnier if most fish Pokemon flopped on dry land like Magikarp does, but can still battle just fine.

>>58122109
>>58122287
Ocean Sunfish, the thing Alomomola is based on

>>58121810 (OP)
Yep. Which is why Samurott is a dogshit design. It has no clear means of locomotion while using its swords.

>>58121810 (OP)
This is what people mean when they complain about objectmons. It's why pokemon like magnemite and litwick are loved, and pokemon like vanillite and clefki are hated.

>>58122566
The Sharpedo was being telekinetically assisted by Alakazam

>>58121810 (OP)
All floating steel types use magnetism

>>58122106
I'm assuming the high speed is the top recorded speed. Or its Combat Speed vs Movement speed.

>>58122109
>>58122287
>Zoomies don't know what a sunfish is
grim.

>>58123190
Good thing it doesn’t need movement to use those swords then

Something that's sort of relevant here is Feraligatr's stance, its Pokédex entry says it struggles to walk on just its hind legs and prefers to walk on all fours, yet walking on its hind legs the only way we ever see it outside of water.
Thing is, that stance is the one alligators and crocodiles take when they are in water, so Feraligatr taking that stance that is fine, when it is in the water, it's just that it only takes that stance in the one situation where it should instead be on all fours, when it's on solid ground.

Other Pokémon do not have this problem, Decidueye for example will stand when on solid ground, but it will start flapping its wings when above water, instead of impersonating Jesus.

>>58122423
Not that anon but Flygon and pretty much every other dragon except for maybe Noivern have wings that are way too small and/or awkwardly shaped and seemingly lacking in any actual muscle attachments, it's just as ridiculous for them to be able to fly as it is for Escavalier to magically float.

>>58124972
>Good thing I don't need legs to move from one place to another then because I can just crawl like a drooling retard!!

>>58123472
But Sharpedo is a dark-type and should be immune to psychic

>>58121816
Fpbp

>>58121816
Based Ocean Sunfish enthusiast

>>58121816
>Ugly
>Barely mobile
>Huge
>It's entire defense mechanism rely on being big and large enough for predators to mistake you for a piece of drift wood or other shit.
>Even from humans point of view, it's meat is noted as extremely unappetizing and hidden behind thick, difficult to cut skin.
>Literally the only positive thing from existence of Ocean Sunfish is when it finally dies, falls on the bottom of the ocean for all the starved bottom dwellers to turn it into nutrients.

>>58123190
>while using its swords
or in general considering it's fucking legs are put on sideways. Samurott looks like it has 4 flippers. It's really funny because even Walrein doesn't make this mistake in its design

>>58122272
Animal Crossing, my beloved...

>>58125385
How is that thing not extinct.

why does a future pokemon like miraidon need thrusters to float and fly but this thing just flies?

>>58125533
Because they're successful. Almost nothing hunts them because it is literally more energy to hunt them then they can provide. They literally evolved to be undesirable because of how big, slow, and stupid they are.

>>58125397
>Walrein has a worse speed stat
Not helping your case lol

>>58122222
Misty's Goldeen was fine in the OG anime
She just hopped around on the ground.
The only real issue with those would be for for pokemon like Sharpedo that have a fin that goes vertically below them

>>58125598
Because paradox shit is garbage and most of their designs had zero thought process involved.

>>58125598
Because Miraidon is a robot vehicle while that is the lovechild of a Pokemon with a sexbot fetish

>>58121810 (OP)
I always liked the idea that he just kinda pivoted on the point on that shell and could balance on it and that was also why he's so slow, because he genuinely doesn't really have a means of locomotion. I disregaed pokedex entries 99% of the time anyway otherwise we'd be wanting to see more indian elephant representation or wonder when we get to visit Ayer's Rock.

>>58125628
>hated
>lives its life doing almost nothing, clueless of how hated it is
>persists nonetheless, extinction is almost impossible
yeah i'm thinking BASED