Weirdest Move Animations?

[CoolMan6001]

Retaliate was apparently some generic attack in gen 5:

Gen 6 and beyond made it so much more unique:

 

[Pikachu315111]

Retaliate was apparently some generic attack in gen 5:

Gen 6 and beyond made it so much more unique:

"You have... fainted my ally... the only retribution is... your fainting!" *Lips move a bit more after speaking*

 

[DrPumpkinz]

This is just a little one that has always bugged me.

Bulbapedia images have been acting weird lately, so if that isn't showing up for anyone, it's gen 3's animation for Silver Wind.

What's with the one sparkle that bounces off the ground?

 

[Blue glass]

The japanese only Pokémon Stadium has weird animations for everybody (Starmie is sooo stretchy) but Snorlax using Fire Blast is one of the worst.

About Silver Wind I think the sparkles are there to represent the silver dust/ powder/ scales mentioned in the attack description.

 

[DrPumpkinz]

About Silver Wind I think the sparkles are there to represent the silver dust/ powder/ scales mentioned in the attack description.

I get that. I'm mostly just annoyed at the one sparkle that bounces.

 

[CoolMan6001]

but Snorlax using Fire Blast is one of the worst.

Snorlax is simply just barfing all the hot sauce it endulged, Nothing to be seen here.

But yeah. I know this is the moves anim thread instead of the mon anim thread, but those mon anims look wrong.

 

[Blue glass]

DrPumpkinz I had to watch a video to understand what you were talking about and I have no idea what that one sparkle is doing. Maybe to have one particle's behavior be different from the others and give some flair to the animation in the process? I'm annoyed by it now too.

CoolMan6001 I was unsure in which thread to post as the other thread was about sprites and I didn't find one about mons animations but since Snorlax was performing a move, I decided to post it here.

 

[Pikachu315111]

This is just a little one that has always bugged me.

Bulbapedia images have been acting weird lately, so if that isn't showing up for anyone, it's gen 3's animation for Silver Wind.

What's with the one sparkle that bounces off the ground?

Watching it carefully, it's not the only one that changes it's direction. The ones on the on the top and middle curve upward just before going off screen (and some have a wobbly effect to them). I think the idea is that they're all particles in the wind. The one of the bottom, for one reason or another, was decided to arc earlier then the ones above it.

CoolMan6001 I was unsure in which thread to post as the other thread was about sprites and I didn't find one about mons animations but since Snorlax was performing a move, I decided to post it here.

It's alright, it's tangentially related so still counts.

 

[Sonikku A]

The japanese only Pokémon Stadium has weird animations for everybody (Starmie is sooo stretchy) but Snorlax using Fire Blast is one of the worst.

About Silver Wind I think the sparkles are there to represent the silver dust/ powder/ scales mentioned in the attack description.

Not everyone (Alakazam, Exegg, etc), and Snorlax's and the "weird" ones model was changed
Though Starmie's wasn't....despite being completely reanimated

 

[CoolMan6001]

Sleep Powder in Stadium is this bright blue color. Nothing weird here considering it usually appears bluish-green:

Now the Stadium 2 animation is:

Oh...

That's the color Stun Spore usually appears with so how does that look?:

Oh.

For reference, Stun Spore looked like this in Stadium:

Perhaps they accidentally assigned the Stun Spore and Sleep Powder anims to the wrong moves?

 

[Sonikku A]

Probably. They did have to port 151 mons AND redo all particle effects for moves

 

[Blue glass]

Yes, I was being hyperbolic but thank you for the excuse to post Alakazam using Seismic Toss.

 

[Sonikku A]

I love that one. The head nod man

 

[pokemon4eva]

A bit out of topic but I remember a friend was watching me play White and when my Conkeldurr went for Superpower he thought the attack consisted of shooting a million arrows to the opponent (that was before Thousand arrows was a thing).

I personally prefered the gen 3 animation, it is literally a Hadouken!!!

 

[Bull Of Heaven]

Just now, I used Rock Tomb in a double battle in Pearl. I targeted the opponent on my right, but the animation looked like it hit the opponent on my left. Are other moves like this in that game?

 

[Deleted User 465389]

the gen 6 animation for rototiller, a move we all remember

Like I get why it’s like this, because of how tractors work, but where did the tractors come from? This doesn’t damage pokemon, do they just step out of the way of the tractors? When are we getting a move where forklifts come in and it’s the opposite of gravity?