Wooper used ice butt!

celever · Nov 28th, 2012, 3:51:28 PM

Ok, this was inspired by the theorymon thread, but is in fact the complete opposite. What moves on some pokemon do you think shouldn't be on there - and why. Like Furret, the surfing Sentret (pretty self-explanatory that one) or the fact that half the birds can now create heat from their wings. Now obviously Pokemon isn't realistic, but when you see a Drowzee emitting poison gas you can't help but say "WTF!?"

Organization Member XIV · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:12:05 PM

Weezing getting Fire Blast. How does that work out?

Redjar · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:15:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat Organization Member XIV

Weezing getting Fire Blast. How does that work out?

Lighting the toxic gas he creates. It's not a great answer as I'm not sure he can make a spark or flame but it's a better answer than most other mons and their moves.

iiZqHD · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:20:31 PM

Genesect using Flamethrower
How does this happen .-.

inanimate blob · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:21:47 PM

Surfing Tauros, Bouffalant, Snorlax, Stoutland, etc...while the transport part I get (it's just swimming), in battle they obviously create a wall of water. Is GameFreak saying these Pokèmon are actually waterbenders?

Hulavuta · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:23:57 PM

Just to get this out of the way, all of the Pokemon that learn punching moves that have no arms.

ILoveGarchomp · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:35:56 PM

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Genesect using Flamethrower

Or ice beam for that matter...

My candidates are:
Superpower Marrill
Mean Look Smoochum
Ice Beam Rattata/Sentret
Thunderbolt Muk
Psychic Spinarak

Present · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:38:01 PM

Following my post in the theorymon thread, quite a lot of mons got roost despite not having feathers. This counts for most bugs, and a lot of legies like zekrom, reshiram, kyurem, latias, latios, (mew), and also hydreigon, gliscor etc. When looking at Japanese, roost is translated as feather rest. Which puts even more emphasis on the having or not having of feathers.

edit: bats got it too: zubat, golbat, crobat, woobat, swoobat. This list could go on for a while.

Bunnaby · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:45:21 PM

don't know bout the others, but surfing snorlax is something i can't help but love

Hulavuta · Nov 28th, 2012, 4:45:29 PM

Genesect's giant cannon was supposed to be an attachment made by Team Plasma when they revived it, so it doesn't seem too unreasonable that him using Flamethrower and Ice Beam (and Thunderbolt) is part of that.

M. Rock · Nov 28th, 2012, 5:01:31 PM

Well, this thread looks interesting enough. I'll get the big elephant in the room out of the way first:

Gastly w/Elemental Punches: dafuq?

Gyarados w/Fire Blast: I remember seeing this in Pokemon Stadium as a kid, and I was like "Whaaat? The computer's cheating!" It still makes no sense why he has this. I get that he's somewhat of a dragon, but....he's a water dragon. Like, wth?

Forretress w/Zap Cannon + Volt Switch: How does a metal bagworm generate electricity? Yeah I'm lost here.

iiZqHD · Nov 28th, 2012, 5:04:43 PM

I can kinda understand a snorlax surf. I mean if a lax belly flopped In a puddle it other watery area it would make a pretty big splash xD

**NixHex** · Nov 28th, 2012, 5:07:28 PM

Dugtrio gets Aerial Ace and that pretty much defies all logic, considering no one knows what its body looks like.

Come to think of it, it could be a bird, like this

brb creating art thread

iiZqHD · Nov 28th, 2012, 5:10:29 PM

How does any non psychic learn protect for that matter. I mean I can see a psychic type doing that, but a yanmega or politoad, no way.

Cobraroll · Nov 28th, 2012, 5:27:10 PM

Rhydon has had Surf in its movepool since Gen. I... In Gen. III, Aggron followed suit. There is a quite cool drawing by Bummer depicting a surfing Aggron.

Crasher Wake · Nov 28th, 2012, 6:04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat NixHex

Dugtrio gets Aerial Ace and that pretty much defies all logic, considering no one knows what its body looks like.

Come to think of it, it could be a bird, like this

brb creating art thread

Isn't Aerial Ace based on some form of Japanese sword technique? I think I remember reading that somewhere.

DHR-107 · Nov 28th, 2012, 6:04:08 PM

There is always that stupid random Zigzagoon with Surf on the beach south of Slateport that *always* catches me out.

rocky505 · Nov 28th, 2012, 6:31:59 PM

How can something as big as zekrom and reshiram not learn EQ but something as small as a ekans can?

**R_N** · Nov 28th, 2012, 6:34:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat M. Rock

Well, this thread looks interesting enough. I'll get the big elephant in the room out of the way first:

Gyarados w/Fire Blast: I remember seeing this in Pokemon Stadium as a kid, and I was like "Whaaat? The computer's cheating!" It still makes no sense why he has this. I get that he's somewhat of a dragon, but....he's a water dragon. Like, wth?

Gyarados breathing fire is fine
Producing electricity seems a bit more questionable

iiZqHD · Nov 28th, 2012, 6:40:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat R_N

Gyarados breathing fire is fine
Producing electricity seems a bit more questionable

Well how can water produce fire? LOL that sounds like a cool experiment xP

Just thought of this as well, How can pidgey or spearow fly you places. Thats got to look a bit weird to people under you.
(It makes sense that it learns fly, But im wondering how it flys You!)

**R_N** · Nov 28th, 2012, 6:46:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat iiZqHD

Well how can water produce fire? LOL that sounds like a cool experiment xP

It's not like it is made of water. Breathing fire is a "thing" with serpents and dragons and junk.
Just seems a bit....off for the flying (x4 weak to lightning) sea serpent to produce thousands of volts of electricity.
At least Starmie & Lapras get around it by oooOOOoo psychic powers OooOOOOo

Additional confusion: Why does Kyurem get Roost.
This thing

which has 0 feathers anywhere on the body. The wings don't even work as wings like with Zekrom; it's only ever shown jumping around.

vileman · Nov 28th, 2012, 6:47:54 PM

Im not sure if this belongs here but im REALLY mad at gyrados being flying and not dragon. I mean, look at it, being all big and learning all them dragon moves.
Also, lot of pokes seems to summon toxic out of nowhere. How blissey, the happinness pokemon, can make a pokemon get deeply poisoned?

Chou Toshio · Nov 28th, 2012, 7:11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat Present

Following my post in the theorymon thread, quite a lot of mons got roost despite not having feathers. This counts for most bugs, and a lot of legies like zekrom, reshiram, kyurem, latias, latios, (mew), and also hydreigon, gliscor etc. When looking at Japanese, roost is translated as feather rest. Which puts even more emphasis on the having or not having of feathers.

edit: bats got it too: zubat, golbat, crobat, woobat, swoobat. This list could go on for a while.

Mmmm... In Japanese, 羽 (hane) means "feather" but it also means "wing."

The words are not distinguished in Japanese. For instance, there is an airport in Japan called "Hane-da" (Wing Field), and you know airplanes don't have feathers. So planes, bats, birds, bugs, etc. all have "hane", meaning "wing" here.

Organization Member XIV · Nov 28th, 2012, 7:21:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat Crasher Wake

Isn't Aerial Ace based on some form of Japanese sword technique? I think I remember reading that somewhere.

Bulbapedia says the Japanese name is Swallow Return. Also, how the HELL does Snorlax get Shadow Ball?!

LucaroarkZ · Nov 28th, 2012, 7:26:01 PM

What I don't get about GameFreak is just one simple thing:

Snorlax gets Selfdestruct. Like seriously, can you imagine tiny bits of Snorlax just flying around everywhere? I can't.

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Present Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 334 By choice or chance, you cannot control what you are not aware of.	Following my post in the theorymon thread, quite a lot of mons got roost despite not having feathers. This counts for most bugs, and a lot of legies like zekrom, reshiram, kyurem, latias, latios, (mew), and also hydreigon, gliscor etc. When looking at Japanese, roost is translated as feather rest. Which puts even more emphasis on the having or not having of feathers. edit: bats got it too: zubat, golbat, crobat, woobat, swoobat. This list could go on for a while. __________________ Emerald Hard Scramble Brother's Platinum Scramble Last edited by Present; Nov 28th, 2012 at 4:48:16 PM.

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