The horn
>>59273109it has arm
>>59273109Goddamit wental
>>59273114Brick Break explicitly uses the hands though>>59273117Have you seen how tiny those things are?
>>59273127Heracross can fly so they likely do dive chops
>>59273109how does a fish close combat you? At least Heracross has limbs.
>>59273171Which fish ?Also CC just implies close quarters
>>59273173Barraskewdaand it doesn matter how close the quarters our, what the fuck is a fish going to with with its fins?
>>59273127>Have you seen how tiny those things are?that does not matter because haracross is a fighting type. the boi was born to throw hands.
>>59273180Biting, headbutting etc.>>59273195Hmm I guess.
its because in gen 4 they started moving away from being a monster catching rpg to being more vgc focused so learnsets started making less sense for the sake of having big numbers, in heracross's case its especially bad because he gets brick break at such a low level.in gen 2 a low level heracross (any wild one) would use horn attack, which makes sense for the single horn pokemon, back then they prioritized world building and realism.gen 4 onwards is when they really ramped up the nonsense movebloatif you want an actually canonical idea of how a pokemon fights, look at its gen 1 or 2 learnset, sometimes even 3.heracross learns brick break by levelup in gen 4, which means a wild heracross, instead of using its natural weapon, the HUGE HORN, it uses its scrawny arms as its most powerful attackinb4 "megahorn doe!!" thats at level 55, which no wild heracross is. meaning only a well trained and domesticated heracross ACTUALLY USES ITS HORN AS A WEAPON.a regular player playing the game will opt to use brick break over horn attack for heracross, it makes no sense.they started doing retarded shit that makes no sense just because "its good", like giving pinsir x-scissor, how tf does pinsir slash in an X? can his horns bend like arms now? this is what i think bred this new generation of retarded pokemon fans who dont think about consistent world building and just want stab on everything because it gives a higher numberbroo what if pinsir could learn x scissor because..... because uh... ITS STRONG BIG NUMBERS YEAH!nevermind that its primary weapon is its huge horns no bro it should attack with 80bp using its tiny ass arms.every move description of x-scissor specifically lists it has claws or scythes, not horns. until nugens added "and the like" to cover their asses so they are free to make any bullshit learnsets they want
>>59273314Extremely based post, something in Pokemon died when they started prioritizing competitive viability over the Pokemon being monsters. Gen 4's powercreep was a giant mistake
>>59273314In Brick Break's case, it says 'fist etc' in gen 4 which implies that while fists are the most frequent part to usevthe move with, any body part could hypothetically be used, like Cubone's bone or Farfetch'd's leek
>>59273314Tell me you know nothing about Pokémon game development without telling me
>>59273127How does Wooper use Ice Punch?
>>59273348That one's stupid honestly, but probably the tail.
>>59273334even then it just requires such suspense of disbelief that i dont have to deal with at all if i just play gen 1/2/3, nevermind the fact that the animation shows a flat hand chop, which, im aware they cant make custom animations for every move for every pokemon, thats not what im saying, im saying they shouldve just not given that move to heracross>>59273345i dont have to, gamefreak showed me perfectly how its done in the 90s, back when tajiri was director, someone who actually understands pokemon
>>59273314I don't hate it like you seem to but I totally get it, I'm with you that it loses some charm in favor of big number. Like how nearly every water mon gets flip turn, liquidation, and hydro pump now.
>>59273358The development system stayed mostly the same until Gen 6 due to the jump to 3D. This can be found through interviews and the tera leak.
>>59273314>can his horns bend like arms nowold cards showed they have a lot of range more than what the 3d games will communicate nowadays.i get what you mean in regards to genericifying moves because that's especially gotten worse ever since they started cutting them though
wtf my bricks
>>59273407Don't worry, I'll buy more
With his cock
>>59273504Best post
