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I've been thinkin about pokemon moves lately and I thought how are some of these done sure theres a description but it doesnt tell how they do it like Last Resort or Trump Card or Avalanche and why is a move like Magnet Bomb is physical. Explain to me WHY??
 
Magnet Bomb- You throw chunks of Ferrous metal at you foe, and they find it no matter what

Trump Card- Fires some sort of energy blast(or something...I don't know what the attack looks like...) that becomes more powerful as you become more desperate

Last Resort- A last-ditch tackle attack usable only when you are most desperate

avalanche- You knock a wall of snow on top of your opponent; IE, you run into/hit a wall, with snow hanging over top, thus making it fall.
 
Yes, there is no description for many moves because many of the pokemon using them have wildly varying physical descriptions. Exactly how many of these moves are accomplished is different for each Pokemon, the end result is the important part.
 
If you have PBR, you can see the moves better.

Trump Card: The Pokemon strikes the opponent with a bunch of cards.

Avalanche: The Pokemon calls forth a shower of large ice boulders.
 
One thing that bugs me about PBR's move renditions is that, like in the handheld games, failed moves don't have any sort of animation. It would be nice if a Normal vs. Ghost move (or vice versa) failed by having the attack pass right through the ghost or something, rather than the announcer getting all excited, the pokemon standing perfectly still, and then announcing that the attack missed. And so on. Staravia avoided the attack! No it didn't, it's just sitting there!
 
Almost nothing about pokemon makes any sense, actually.
The move animations in the "staidum" type games really need more detail to them.
 
the sad thing is, the portrayal of attacks is just too fucking inconsistent throughout the whole franchise (and saying "they work differently for different Pokemon" is not an excuse. Projectiles should more or less look the same, and even with physical hits, I think the basic idea of using a mouth or a limb of some sort to execute it is universal enough). And its gotten so bad within the anime that on a few occasions, they actually showed an attack, and then show it being used differently about two episodes later. It also doesn't help that several of these portrayals act absolutely nothing like they do in the games. I'm sure we could overlook some minor details, such as Psychic having a small chance of causing a stat downgrade and just focus on it causing large amounts of damage, but what about Swords Dance? Earlier on in the franchise, it was constantly portrayed as some kind of spinning offensive attack, even in Special (Erika's Raflessia), as opposed to a power-up (a power-up which I can imagine involves the sharpening of claws or whatever in the midst of dancing movements. It's really not so hard to picture).
 
Some things in Pokemon just don't make sense. I still don't get where the cards in Trump Card come from! This topic is being turned into a When Moves Miss topic! Please, let's get back on topic.
 
Please get back to the subject of moves like Yamato-san and Shiny Suicune oh yeah and has any one seen the episode where croagunk is seen he uses poison sting once and its needles then they use it again and its a glowing fist smash! WTF
 
Mistranslation. That was actually Poison Jab. One of those Arbok/Ekans things from Mystery Dungeon. Now, what bugs me the most is how they portray attacks glowing in the anime. Aipom uses Focus Punch, its fist glows. Metal Tail? Pikachu's tail glows. Wing Attack?! Staravia's wings glow! Even Meowth, never able to do anything non-physical, has had his claws glow recently. Back before Advanced Generation, everything looked normal. A Wing Attack was just a slap with the wings, a Cut attack was a slash with a body part, and a Tail Whip was a worthless little wag to drop the opponent's guard before you attacked. The only glowing there ever was came from evolution. Of course, since in a metaphorical sense "life imitates art", we have the stadium games with glowing for every attack. I'll be very annoyed if Head Smash ends up being the Super Saiyan attack it is in the anime on PBR.
 
Head Smash was awesome in the Anime. 0.o

And Iron Tail becoming a glowing tail makes sense to me, since it shows the metallic side of it.

However...the fact Trump Card involves throwing cards is just cool.
 
Hmmm...I guess they just let them glow to show that they're doing something. But how do they throw stuff from out of nowhere?

Still, how come the trainers are oblivious to ALL of the attacks? Moves like Earthquake and Surf would hit all pokemon easily and yet the trainer stands there, doesn't move an inch and BOOM! knockout for pokemon, trainer remains.

And Hidden Power is just like that too.
 
What annoys me is how many explosions there are in the anime.
"Cyndaquil! Use tackle!"
"You two, Sentret!"
KABOOOOOOOM!!!!! (smoke everywhere)

Ok, maybe not exactly like that, but two many attacks cause explosions. Razor leaf? Focus punch? Iron tail? I see no dynamite in any of those words, thank you very much.
 
Pokemon exists in a videogame world, thus everything explodes.

I will say it bugs me immensely in the Stadium games when you see an incredible move like Surf flow extreme over the field (looking to even drown the trainers in PBR :p ) and then miss the target and have the opposing pokemon stare at you with a blank look with the crowd thinking you just got owned.
 
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In general pokemon moves should not be looked at as completely identical and to have a standard formation and performance.

An abra's flash is different than a voltorb's one, and the same can be said about situation.

Plus, everything is completely open to separate interpretation for each individual circumstance.
 
Yeah or they would have VERY boring attacks. Maybe the writers will let the pokemon learn moves on their own. It would be interesting to see them try to impress their trainers, or other pokemon (I'm a Lagamorphshipper), in my opinion.

But what ticks me off is the move Hidden Power in the video games. It's description says it varies with the type of pokemon, but when it happens in a battle, my super-effective water type, against my opponent's weak fire type, loses because it uses Hidden Power and the attack said it was not effective.

What's up with that?
 
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It varies depending on IVs.

It can be extremely useful if you get it right.
 
Hmmm....

Thanks!

Now to do my extreme thinking......Done!*

*Yes, I have a scheduled thinking time.
 
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