Wooper is an anomaly that will be discussed until Pokemon is forgotten in the public consciousness. My headcanon is that it spontaneously grows a limb that falls off once the move is over, a spin on how real-life axolotls are extremely good at regenerating body parts, though it honestly should not learn the move in the first place.
It uses its gills. It covers them in ice, thus protecting them, and then charges at the target, the force which breaks the ice thus the gill isn't frozen long enough to cause any harm.
This reminded me of something odd. Growlithe not learning Growl is a classic example of people not realizing that Pokemon have different names in different languages, and it's very easy to explain away the lack of the move that way. But if you take another step back, does that explanation really make sense? I mean, it's a dog. You'd expect a dog to be able to growl cutely. And yet, not only does Growlithe not learn Growl...
all but one canine Pokemon cannot learn Growl (through regular means, Sketch doesn't count) with Furfrou being the only learner.
In addition to what
Nokocchi pointed out, I would like to also mention that the move "Howl" is learned by a lot of dog-based Pokemon, so in that regard we do have a one dog noise-based move.
It gets me that Aerodactyl, a flying Dino, gets Bulldoze for TMs
You know....digging/excavating dirt hard?
Keep in mind the idea behind Bulldoze is that the user is stomping on the ground very hard to cause the ground to shuffle (and likely have pieces uplift and hit the target). So with that in mind Aerodactyl has feet and is likely heavy enough so just lands and starts stomping around.
No, the Pokemon which I question getting Bulldoze is:
- Slowpoke family, Shuckle (Do they look like angry stompers to you?)
- Hitmonchan (Sure it has feet, but it's the punching Pokemon)
- Gyarados, Lapras, Mantine, Milotic, Sharpedo, Relicanth (While some Pokemon I can see using their tail/long body if they don't have feet, and in some cases flippers for a few Water-types, it's these Water-types in particular I kind of have a hard time see doing any of that)
- Swalot, Gastrodon (It's essentially piles of slime, how do they stomp? Do they jump up and down with their aBinaclemorphous body?)
- Wailer family (Earthquake, sure. Bulldoze, I feel its a bit too large for that one (unless we're taking its lighter than air into account softening its flopping around))
- Lunatone, Solrock, Glalie, Minior (Like, I guess they could just hover, slam down, hover back up, etc. but that sounds like an awful lot of effort)
- Eon Duo (Similar to Hitmonlee, feels they would be more punching the ground)
- Binacle (Barbaracle is fine as it has feet, but why also it's prevo? Does it flip itself upside down to act like a makeshift pair of legs?)
- Phantump (Trevenent is fine, but Phantump is a ghost without legs. Does it headbang the ground?)
- Cursola (Being its a spirit hiding inside its former body, I have a feeling whats left of its body is kind of fragile already)
What non-Ground-types gets Bulldoze via TM feels a bit random sometimes. And note there's plenty of Ground-types I question how they get Bulldoze but overlook it cause its at least a Ground-type so has earth manipulation power.
Speaking of that, why doesn't Earthquake ignore Levitate whenever the Levitating mon is using Dig? I mean...it's in the ground, it's not levitating anymore, is it?
that feels like just a slip up when checking immunity. Probably since it's such an edgecase: there's only a handful of Flying type or Levitating pokemon get dig
Specifically (I started writing this before realizing
R_N responded so not to waste the effort):
Flying-type: Ledyba family, Gligar family, Ninjask, Archen family and Hawlucha (why does it learn Dig?)
Levitate User: Trapinch family, Baltoy family, & Vikavolt
Golduck is not a platypus
This is a platypus
You're right Golduck is not a platypus. We have no platypus Pokemon, I would know because my mom's favorite animal is a platypus and so I would have let her know if there was a platypus Pokemon. Psyduck is a combination of a duck and kappa.
Ludicolo is also not a platypus. It's actually a more accurate looking kappa combined with a Mexican mariachi because the lilypad looks like a sombrero.