Thread 58162779

how the fuck is it controlling its vine? It's not even connected to its body anymore.

i dont care

>>58162779 (OP)
It's connected to its leaf, and the leaf is part of its body

>>58162779 (OP)
Who cares? You’re buying it anyway

>>58162857
Fuck you

>>58162779 (OP)
it never was, it was always floating behind it

>>58162779 (OP)
Regular 29 year old Victreebel doesn't have vine conected to its body either

>>58162779 (OP)
It was never connected to its body.

>>58162779 (OP)
so /vp/ was crying and shitting themselves because Mega Victreebel supposedly didn't have its fangs anymore, but turns out it still has them?

>>58162906
>>58162919
>>58163042
It's growing out the leaf covering its mouth. You're all morons talking out of your asses.

>>58163064
This thing was always meant to become inflation fetish auto asphyxiation garbage you just don't get it.

>>58163064
The leaf and the vine were never connected.

>>58162779 (OP)
Small Indie Company pls understand

>>58163084
>Real-world model connects connects the lid and the lips at the back
>Weepinbell has a stem that could have easily been used as the starting point, but doesn't
Weird-ass plant that wasn't designed for being looked at from other angles.

>>58163103
>Weird-ass plant that wasn't designed for being looked at from other angles.
Well, yeah. Gen 1's Pokemon were sprites first, and drawings later.

>>58163084
except it literally is
and it looks like that in the real life inspiration

>>58163109
>Frogs love to snuggle up in the Nepenthes pitchers but don’t worry, they don’t get eaten! They can easily climb in and out of the pitchers.
Thank god. I was concerned for that frog's safety.

>>58163152
Some pitcher plants have sweet-smelling acid to attract prey. Others will act as shelter for rats, frogs, or bats because the animals will leave poop behind, which fertilizes them.

>>58162779 (OP)
>it's literally just a fat victreebel
how is it a form change like at all

>>58162779 (OP)
exactly how floating hands work

>>58162779 (OP)
not that uncommon. find something else to complain about.

>>58162779 (OP)
Looks like a goddam laboured existence. Always having to choke your own neck shut so you don't kill anyone within half a mile.

>>58162779 (OP)
Meme magic

>>58163109
Lol no matter what you say on here someone will immediately try to prove you wrong while being blatantly wrong themselves

>>58163109
The "vine" on the pitcher plant grows out of the bottom, it's not connected to the "leaf" on the top.

>>58163335
It's not so Victreebel CAN'T hurt others, it's so it won't just spill over. Regular Victreebel emits a sweet scent and waits for prey to come to it, while Mega Victreebel can't because it has to restrain itself, so it instead actively hunts prey, dousing them in lethal acid before devouring them.

Fucking horrible way to go.

>>58163084
>proceeds to post a sprite where it's connected

>>58163309
>not that uncommon
post a single example that's not a psychic type or extradimensional alien

>>58162857
Fpbp

>>58163078
>inflation fetish
Not everything is a fetish you weird freak.

>>58163109
It literally isn't connected. It never was

>>58162857
You do care or you wouldn't have replied

>>58163372
but the leaf IS connected to the vine in victreebel's case
>>58163413
is literally connected in the picrel

>>58163448
You are wrong bro it's time to give up

>>58163376
Captured and trained Pokemon do not hurt other humans so your point is pretty moot. Is it just going to mosey into Lumoise City and let rip? No. It has to choke itself.

>>58163474
>Captured and trained Pokemon do not hurt other humans so your point is pretty moot
The Mega Victreebel in the reveal trainer attacked two other people while it rampaged in that abandoned building until its trainer finally calmed it down, canceling the mega evolution. It's dangerous.

>>58163532
This isn't normal behaviour for a trained Pokemon, otherwise you'd see anarchy whenever you went to a new town in the games. Again, your situational points prove fuck all.

And the main point was that it's a shit existence anyway

>>58163455
its just an error with the model. this is gamefreak we're talking about lol

>>58163532
Rewatch the video. It didn't really try to attack them. It just playfully jumped around them.

>>58163579
Game Freak doesn't make the models.

>>58163599
It bursts through a wall, sprays acid everywhere (including at them), then crashed down in front of them and started to lunge toward them before its trainer caught up. Even its description on the official site elaborates on this.

>The energy of Mega Evolution has produced such a large amount of acid within Mega Victreebel’s body that it has to wrap up its own throat to prevent the acid from spilling out. As a result, it doesn’t keep its mouth open while waiting for prey like Victreebel does. Instead, it actively goes after prey to take it down in a distinctively aggressive style. Its massive body can deliver tackles that are packed with destructive force!
>When all that acid has matured, it smells sweet enough to make others dizzy. Mega Victreebel waves the leaves on top of its head to waft the scent toward opponents, immobilizing them and giving it an edge in battle. The acid’s melting capabilities are also powered up. It can even melt through concrete or steel, so Trainers who use Mega Victreebel in battle will need to keep that in mind.

>>58163579
>I-it's just an error they accidentally did it wrong....
I hope you're just trolling because this amount of copium is not healthy

>>58163627
One again, rewatch it.
It started spitting acid everywhere when it broke through the wall before it even turned to see them, didn't open its throat up again after they went downstairs and it was bouncing around them, and it let them just leave before its trainer even made his way downstairs to tell it to knock it off.

>>58163653
this one is actually explained
it's using a thin stem connected to the flower like stage magicians use wires or strings to make stuff "levitate"

>>58163653
explained by the pokedex that it’s using a thin stem, doesn’t count

>>58163674
is a ghost, doesn’t count

>>58163606
is using electromagnetism, doesn’t count

>>58163624
is an artificial computer program, doesn’t count

>>58163579
proof that the people whining about mega victreebel never cared about victreebel to begin with

>>58163455
>in stadium it's connected

>>58163706
fuck you, people who like victreebel remember what it used to look like >>58163718

>>58163726
they retconned it decades ago

>>58163692
using futuristic extradimensional technology, doesn’t count

>>58163710
using thinly connected feathers, doesn’t count

>>58163725
using magnetism, doesn’t count

>>58163395
>post a single example that's not a psychic type or extradimensional alien
Magnemite line, Claydol, Probopass, Klink line. Onix line. Stonjourner. Naclstack. Regidrago. Shedinja. Cryogonal. Honedge line. Bramblin line. Poltchageist. Pecharunt. It's psychic but I'm fairly certain Hoopa isn't using telepathy to move its arms because TK moved things glow in the anime. G-max Corviknight. Falink doesn't actually have arms the shield just float. Does Tandemaus count? Is Iron Hands extradimensional?

>>58163732
weird how all these cool pokemon just started looking retarded and canon noncompliant at one specific point of time

>>58163763
1996?

>>58163718
>stadium
Not a real Pokemon game. The announcer couldn't even pronounce most of the names.

>>58163773
>the english VA couldn't pronounce the names so the japanese made models are noncanon

>>58163763
Back in the day when you played the games everybody knew what every pokemon was supposed to look like and when you engaged in a battle youd use your imagination. Nowadays you have these big 3D shit houses that you can't use your imagination any more.

>>58163779
Correct.

Isn't plant control pretty much a standard-issue power for Grass-types anyway?

>Retarded nigger being a retarded nigger
>The tread

>>58163758
>Onix
What? The only one with a separate floating part is Mega Steelix. Onix and Steelix have a single segmented body.

>>58163758
>Claydol
psychic, doesn't count
>Probopass
magnetic, doesn't count
>Klink
magnetic, doesn't count
>Onix line
magnetic, doesn't count
>Naclstack
isn't separated, doesn't count
>Shedinja
ghost, doesn't count
>Cryogonal
uses thinly connected chains, doesn't count
>Honedge line
ghost, doesn't count
>Bramblin line
ghost, doesn't count
>Poltchageist
ghost, doesn't count
>Pecharunt
ghost, doesn't count
>G-max Corviknight
projectiles, doesn't count

>>58163980
You missed one

Kill everyone in this thread

>>58163961
look at the model. there's nothing actually connecting the boulders. they just float there spinning.

>>58163980
>>Onix line
>magnetic, doesn't count
Steelix gets magnet rise, but Onix is not magnetic.

also, what about sonjourner, falinks, and regidrago?

>>58164189
yeah he had me with tandemaus. no arguing that one.

>>58164280
>Onix has a magnet in its brain. It acts as a compass so that this Pokémon does not lose direction while it is tunneling. As it grows older, its body becomes increasingly rounder and smoother.
I am a different person that argues Onix is like a snake instead of simply several disconnected rocks, but the Pokedex does support the later interpretation.

>>58164293
It categorically is a snake, but it's a snake made of floating boulder.

Revavroom and carkol's wheels also just float.

>>58164307
Where does the soil go when it eats?

>>58163710
This one is obviously not connected because GF cant code and making them all connected when moving it would destroy the framerate even more that usual

>>58164293
having a small sliver of magnitite in your brain for direction like a bird or fish does not mean you levitate your nonmagnetic limbs around with magnetism.

It explains why onix takes to a metal coat so well perhaps, but it doesn't explain the levitation.

>>58164309
an excellent question. How does magnemite eat pokepuffs/beans without a mouth? There is a list of pokemon that cannot eat pokepuffs, they're all pupal forms of insects, plus cosmoem which is still kind of a cocoon. Magnemite? Not on the ban list. Unown too.
Porygon Z can eat too, and its head isn't even attached to its shoulders.

No one knows. Personal best guess? We know pokemon are beings made of what amounts to elementally flavored magical energy. I don't think pokemon actually have internal organs. It's why the stump of dracovish's tail looks like that and why it can survive at all.

>>58164353
some of them must have SOME organs, because they leave fossils (ergo have bones) and a decent chunk of dex entries mentions brains including onix's.

And jolteon's mentions lungs, and gulpin's mentions heart and stomach, and poliwag's effectively mention intestines, though not strictly by name it just says innards.

I'm so glad y'all are having this discussion I've been wondering about this even before Mega Victreebel was even revealed

>>58164435
I feel like I thought something was weird about Victreebel once, but never actually thought about why until this thread.

>>58164466
That ended up mangled.
Should be felt something was weird, but never thought about why.

>>58164189
>doesn't count
>doesn't count
>doesn't count
ok but it is kinda true that they don't really count if they're robots/psychic/magnetic/digital/ghosts or whatever even if it sounds like a copout. But that just means it IS weird that victreebel's vine is separated. Is there any other organic mon that does this? Another plant mon maybe?

>>58165634
Tangela is a black sphere. The vines are a separate parasitic organism.

>>58165717
Proofs?

>>58165734
I made it up.

>thin stem
>thinly connected feathers
>thinly connected chains
What's so wrong with these explanations? Victreebel's vine is connected to its body by a thin stem. Case closed.

>>58165746
cus it's wrong or whatever