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Anonymous No.58270413 >>58270415 >>58270440 >>58270532 >>58271913 >>58272012 >>58272903 >>58273793 >>58273814
ITT: Pokémon that aren’t the size you imagined they were.

I used to think that Meganium was one of the largest starters because it’s based on a Sauropod, but it’s actually a bit of a monlet. It’s funny seeing how dwarfed it is by Lapras.
Anonymous No.58270415
>>58270413 (OP)
Nidoking. The guy's like 4'8. I always imagined him as being building sized as a kid.
Anonymous No.58270433 >>58270447 >>58271462 >>58272903
What are some mons that ended up LARGER than you thought? The eeveelutions come to mind for me.
Anonymous No.58270440
>>58270413 (OP)
Anonymous No.58270447 >>58270535 >>58271924
>>58270433
Anonymous No.58270532 >>58272017
>>58270413 (OP)
Appletun being the size of an actual apple pie makes him really lame, I expected him to be at least cow sized first time I saw him
Anonymous No.58270535
>>58270447
Gastly is a lot bigger than one would expect too
Anonymous No.58271462
>>58270433
Knowing Sylveons are malamute-sized makes me want one. Absolute good boy material.

People also underestimate the size of Togekiss, but that's one I was always aware of, so I personally am not surprised by it.
Anonymous No.58271476 >>58271971
For some reason Wailord is 20ft bigger than the biggest blue whale ever recorded.
Anonymous No.58271913 >>58272089
>>58270413 (OP)
>a 10 year old Japanese boy
>being 5'10"
Anonymous No.58271924 >>58272899
>>58270447
>Gengar is slightly smaller
>gets little sausage arms instead of awesome Rayman hands
>in current gens loses Levitate too
If I was a haunter, I'd be as stubborn about not evolving as Ash's pikachu.
Anonymous No.58271971 >>58275391
>>58271476
wtf are you talking about?
Anonymous No.58271990 >>58272275
>this tiny lizard apparently has the power to reshape the geography of the earth
Anonymous No.58272012
>>58270413 (OP)
Explains its stats a lot.
Anonymous No.58272016 >>58272050
Are Pokémon with the quadruped body shape measured head to tail? Because it’s really hard for me to picture Venusaur being so massive, even including its flower, that it would reach 6’7” tall. LGPE seems to agree, as he’s a lot smaller than many of the other Pokémon when they follow you. I like him a lot more at this size, I think he’s cuter.
Anonymous No.58272017 >>58272118
>>58270532
Appletun is a hefty dragon, bigger than cake
Anonymous No.58272050 >>58272065 >>58273037
>>58272016
It's woefully inconsistent.
Bipeds are measured to the tip of their ears
Quadrupeds are sometimes measured vertically to shoulder, and sometimes horizontally from nose to tail tip
Snakes are straight up measured in length
Something like Gastly, it's unclear if the fog around it counts.
And something like Primarina... I don't fucking know.
Anonymous No.58272065
>>58272050
Primarina is standing height when on its back flippers, so length technically
Anonymous No.58272089
>>58271913
This is the most unbelievable thing about the Pokemon franchise
Anonymous No.58272118
>>58272017
Appletun is supposed to be 1'4", which is absolutely tiny to the point that it's kinda ridiculous
That plushie got it wrong but the design does look way better at that size
Anonymous No.58272140
I imagined emboar to be much bigger than the average trainer. But as it turns out, it's actually shorter on average.
Anonymous No.58272224 >>58272555 >>58276568
https://pastebin.com/dqrti2cS
Anonymous No.58272275 >>58272426 >>58272903
>>58271990
I'm sticking with the old anime's vision.
Anonymous No.58272426 >>58272484 >>58272507 >>58276538
>>58272275
though I do think there's a bit of jackassery with the precision.
How the fuck does one know how big that anime groudon is to the inch?

I bet whoever made that (a redditfag apparently) grabbed a random frame from an episode with groudon in it, that showed them and the trainers roughly together, and counted pixels.
Knowing how scales in the anime work, doing this would only be valid, to only within a few feet of precision mind you, for that one specific scene (probably just that one specific frame even), and no more.
For another similar scene, you would get different results that vary wildly, depending on how big the animator wanted to make the pokemon and the trainers for that frame.
Also, if you're using a trainer as a benchmark, you need to know how tall they are, which is its own separate can of worms.

For many anime scenes, its pretty much impossible to tell with a higher accuracy how big they are, other than "bigger than normal by a lot" or whatever, because its not a sure thing, its a continuum. Claiming otherwise is retarded.

There are exceptions to this, such as pic related (based on some charts from the teraleak that explicitly say what they are, so I have high confidence in it), but they're few and far between.
Anonymous No.58272484 >>58272491
>>58272426
Use Pikachu as a reference for scale
Anonymous No.58272491 >>58275739
>>58272484
Oh no, Babidi has possessed him!
Anonymous No.58272507 >>58273026 >>58276568
>>58272426
I'm pretty sure that 120 cm wasn't even the only height they used for Ash in those documents. I remember one that was in the 130s.
Anonymous No.58272555 >>58272585 >>58272593 >>58272609
>>58272224
is this from the teraleak or something? why isn't there a source listed?
Anonymous No.58272585
>>58272555
yes it is.
and now I have to go find the path to it because I forgot.

okay its
gf-docs.7z/ポケモン監修用資料_/ポケモン情報一覧/参考資料/1025_pokemon_height(社内共有用)_20160215.xlsx
Anonymous No.58272593 >>58272597
>>58272555
Yes it is,
its at
ポケモン監修用資料/各ポケモン情報一覧/参考資料/1025_pokemon_height(社内共有用)_20160215.xlsx
Anonymous No.58272597
>>58272593
well I guess /vp/ doesn't like unicode emojis, which is a bit shit because this filepath has them.
I'll insert the path into the doc itself
Anonymous No.58272609
>>58272555
sorry for the spam
It -is- a thing from the teraleak, and I inserted the path into the doc itself since apparently the path gets mangled in posts.
Anonymous No.58272899
>>58271924
>gf ensured that evolving haunter into gengar would only be done by people who didn't care about his or her mons
Thank you based gamefreak
Anonymous No.58272903 >>58272931 >>58273013 >>58273063
>>58270433
Silvally is 7'07 for some reason, which is really weird because most art of it and Gladion together have it large dog-sized like you'd expect
>>58272275
Groudon is probably the most inconsistently-sized Pokemon of them all
>>58270413 (OP)
I actually made this a few days ago. I know they probably want exact size measurements for animators, but this makes much more sense to me
Anonymous No.58272931 >>58273043
>>58272903
Intraspecific variation would make your scale very reasonable, I think it would be perfectly fine. Though for some reason IRL animals are given bizarrely specific measurements too. Why do we know that jaguars are
>a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb),
taken from wikipedia. Why 6'1"? Are we so sure that there are no jags an inch longer? why SPECIFICALLY 158/348? Shouldn't it say it's the high end of the measured range, not "They weigh up to EXACTLY this much"?
So, I dunno. People are retarded.
Anonymous No.58273013 >>58273039
>>58272903
>shocked glalie and bronzor are that heavy
imagine being this stupid online
Anonymous No.58273026
>>58272507
I didn't see that one, you have a link?
Anonymous No.58273037 >>58275377
>>58272050
Pokemon is not consistent, period. They are drawn to the size which is needed for whatever given scene/medium
Anonymous No.58273039 >>58275829
>>58273013
Why would glalie be that heavy? Isn't it made out of ice? ice is fairly light because it has a lower density than its liquid state.
Anonymous No.58273043 >>58273123
>>58272931
>Why do we know that jaguars are a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb), taken from wikipedia. Why 6'1"?
Because that’s the largest size we found, obviously. If we find a bigger one, we’ll increase the number.
Anonymous No.58273063
>>58272903
This system is nice, but it would have needed to be implemented in like gen 4 at worst sadly
Anonymous No.58273123
>>58273043
You don't understand, the language used is vague and imprecise, which is very frustrating. It should say
>Jaguars have been measured with a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb)
instead of what it says right now. VERY important distinction that takes very little effort but is somehow omitted. It's frankly embarrassing every time I hear it because anything about zoology should be treated as a rigorous scientific endeavor, but it often isn't. Like this.
also yeah before you say it, autism, I know. I'm still right though.
Anonymous No.58273155
Charizard and Salamence's sizes in the games massively disappoint me. I much prefer their anime sizes.
Anonymous No.58273793 >>58273797 >>58273799 >>58273814
>>58270413 (OP)
It’s the tiniest of the sauropod/pleiosaur Pokémon, though Tropius is surprisingly small as well. None of them come close to the reality.
Anonymous No.58273797
>>58273793
It would make more sense if these were actually shoulder heights
Anonymous No.58273799
>>58273793
tropius really needs to be the middle stage of a 3-stage line...
Anonymous No.58273814
>>58273793
>>58270413 (OP)
Cute portable Dino!
Anonymous No.58274931
Bump
Anonymous No.58275377
>>58273037
That's because all Pokemon innately possess the ability to control both their size and weight, hence they can shrink and expand to any size as necessary.
Anonymous No.58275391 >>58275720
>>58271971
The sheer size of blue whales is pretty terrifying even though I know they're not aggressive creatures. I saw a life-size model of one, and I felt a very primal fear being near it, which I don't usually experience. Something very odd about seeing life at that scale.
Anonymous No.58275720
>>58275391
They're the largest animal to ever exist on the Earth, as far as we know. No dinosaur was larger.
Anonymous No.58275739
>>58272491
bibidi babidi buu
Anonymous No.58275760 >>58275773 >>58275940
i wish they stuck with the idea that pokemon could be affected by gigantism and become colossal but its extremely rare
Anonymous No.58275773 >>58275847
>>58275760
Wasn't there a giant Tentacruel at one point? Also a giant Gengar and Jigglypuff?
Anonymous No.58275829 >>58277483
>>58273039
Because it’s still a giant ball of ice
Anonymous No.58275847
>>58275773
>Tentacruel
It was the episode Misty got Horsea

>Gengar and Jigglypuff
Alazakazam too.
Anonymous No.58275940
>>58275760
>i wish they stuck with the idea that pokemon could be affected by gigantism and become colossal
Every Pokemon can do that naturally, size alteration is canonically something all of them can do.
Anonymous No.58276124 >>58276128 >>58276418
Is this a good representation of Golurk’s listed height of 9’2” in terms of the anime?
Anonymous No.58276128
>>58276124
that could be almost anything
Anonymous No.58276418
>>58276124
Meloetta saw the Golurkenis/Golurkussy.
Anonymous No.58276538 >>58276568
>>58272426
the birds always get me. I always mentally thought of them as around the size of a bald eagle or a condor so when I see them portrayed as fuckhuge it always gets me even when I'm aware of it.
Anonymous No.58276568
>>58276538
I guess its worth noting that, as >>58272507 implies, this is a lower bound, so they could very well be even bigger than that.
Though, the Lugia actually lines up decently well with its description in >>58272224 that says Lugia is measured from beak to tail - that would make them look about as big as they are in that chart.
Though I did see a shitload of posts from awhile back claiming ash was 140cm, which I also did, and I guess is a decent upper bound?
I guess it depends on what you like.
Anonymous No.58277483
>>58275829
did the calcs and the weight was like half of what it should be, lmao, guess I just don't deal with ice enough