Everyone talks about how Flying Pokémon took a casualty during the transition to 3D, but less discussed are all the fish Pokémon that are also just sort of awkwardly suspended in the air. Even nowadays, when several land-dwelling 'mons have separate animations for swimming vs. being on land, why isn't the opposite as common?I mean, I get it, it'd be unbefitting for most of them to just be flopping around while on land like Magikarp, and for some 'mons like Mantine, Jellicent and Veluza, it actually makes sense for them to be floating. But many of them have fins that could support them on land, like what Tatsugiri does, I think that'd be interesting.I think by far the worst example is Chinchou, its anal fins literally look like little feet, what would be the issue with having it stand up on its "feet" while on land?
my child self was a bit obsessed with Chinchou and I don't know why
>>58818539Fish Pokemon have floated since the Stadium days. It's just easier to animate and looks less awkward. How would you depict something like Luvdisc on land?
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>>58818629This, aquatic water-types are inherently in an awkward spot, you can't say the same about flying-types
>>58818539>thing that has nothing to with 3D>3D CAUSED IT!!!!spritetards sure like to have mental breakdowns over the pokemon behaving like the pokemon
>>58818539All the fish Pokemon float in their gen 5 animations too, but I guess we're not going to notice that because we're not allowed to imply anything bad about gen 5 ever, right?
>>58818712I'm not laying the blame on 3D. If anything I'm saying it's an opportunity to course correct.>>58818717Side effect of them just taking the static Gen 4 sprites and tweening them.Stuff like Ferrothorn is more unforgivable because it was added in the same generation as the animated sprites.
>>58818717Technically they float in their still sprites too, have you ever seen a Pokemon in battle being depicted as being in water?
>>58818717>Gen 5 seethe out of nowhereFloating fish Pokemon existed ages before gen 5
>>58819088>ctrl + f: gen 5>first result: yougee it's almost like we don't want to have a game animation/chinchou thread devolve into the same fucking genwar thread we always have
>>58818539Fish Pokemon floating is an acceptable abstraction because there's no easy way to depict them acting on land without them arbitrarily floating. Imagine Archie sending out his Sharpedo only for it to just flop on its side awkwardly. Kind of an anticlimax.
>>58818539it'd be cool if they could somehow make it obvious the non-amphibious water pokemon were using hydrokinesis to levitate their bodies and breathe outside of a body of water but I can't think of a way to portray that without it looking stupid
it's just a gameplay concession. they'd look stupider if they didn't float and nobody wants them to only be usable on water arenas.
>>58819262>youLearn to tell people apart you giant autist.
>>58819435>same typing style on an anonymous image boarddon't know, don't care. If (you) share the same opinion then (you)'re the same person now
>>58819393Most Water type Pokémon can breathe air I think. The one exception that comes to mind is Dewpider, which canonically can only breathe water (hence the water bubble).
>>58818567Same honestly, it’s just a very cute designProbably helped that I pulled it a few times in the TCG, that influenced quite a lot of my early favorites
