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In every generation, they make totally new battle animation for the moves. What moves do you want to see revamped and what do you want them to look like?

Personally, I hated hyper beam in generation IV. It was a big red beam that spread out at the end and didn't look cool at all. I have high hopes for this move in the next generation.

One move I hope they don't change too much is outrage. The first time I saw that in Platinum I was amazed. Outrage has my favorite animation of any move.

From the battle sequence video that was released, we know what water pulse, flamethrower, and leaf storm look like. They didn't change much but that was only three moves. From what I saw I liked though.
 
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Fire Blast. I don't like how the fire makes a circle like Flame Wheel, then the fire stick figure is released. I would like the animation to just release the fire stick figure really fast :XD2:
 
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That's a good one. It really doesn't make sense how they animated it before. I hope they just show your opponent erupting into fire with taht "fire stick" thing in front of them.
 
Aeroblast needs to reclaim its Coolest Move Ever status from Gen II. All other reincarnations have been dead boring.
 
Yea, that would be awesome hehe....another one I would like to see a change to is Psychic. They could make your pokemon take control of your opponent and show them moving in the air helplessly.
 
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weechi1987 said:
Yea, that would be awesome hehe....another one I would like to see a change to is Psychic. They could make your pokemon take control of your opponent and show them moving in the air helplessly.
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Unfortunately, I owned pokemon gold so I never saw what aeroblast looked like. I think i'll try to find it on youtube.

Anyways, now that the sprites actually move around in battle, it would be really cool if moves like psycic actually affected their movements.
 
Anyways, now that the sprites actually move around in battle, it would be really cool if moves like psycic actually affected their movements.[/QUOTE]

YES. THIS.
 
If they simply update the Gen II animations visually then I would be very happy.

Though a bit more realistically, SolarBeam. I liked what they tried to do with the animation this generation but it isn't that easy on the eyes compared to other moves.
 
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I jsut watched a vidoe with aeroblast. That was amazing. One thing that bugs me about the generation two games is that a lot of them were so similar looking (ex. aurora beam, hyper beam, solar beam, aeroblast) Overall they were pretty cool though. I didn't really like the gen IV solarbeam. It was cool it just didn't look like solar beam which in every other season was an actual beam that came from the pokemon using it.

Another thing i thought was interesting in gen II was sludge bomb, toxic and sludge. Sludge looks like generation III toxic, toxic looks like sludge bomb, and sludge bomb looks like sludge. I've just always found that wierd.
 
On the topic of fire blast, the stick figure is the japanese symbol for fire.

Anyways, I didn't really like night slash's animation in this gen. All these black lines. It'd make more sense if the screen got dark and a single sudden slash appeared, maybe with a purple aura.
 
Ice beam needs to go back be thicker, more like gen III. The beam they shoot in gen IV seemd only 5 cm thick. I don't mind if they make it more like in Colosseum either.
 
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On the topic of fire blast, the stick figure is the japanese symbol for fire.

Anyways, I didn't really like night slash's animation in this gen. All these black lines. It'd make more sense if the screen got dark and a single sudden slash appeared, maybe with a purple aura.
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I didn't like night slash either. That makes much more sense.

And I knew that the fire blast thing was some japanese symbol but i wasn't sure what. Thank you for sharing.

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Ice beam needs to go back be thicker, more like gen III. The beam they shoot in gen IV seemd only 5 cm thick. I don't mind if they make it more like in Colosseum either.
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Oh I hated Ice Beam in Gen IV. It looked really cool in Gen III and in colosseum. If they make it look like either one I'd be happy.
 
Bubblebeam.

In gen. I it actually looked like it would do some damage, I was so dissapointed when they changed the anim. All it looks like is Bubble with more bubbles.
 
I guess the moves that affect movement. After all, the battle sprites will be constantly moving. If we could get revamps for moves like Psychic, it would be awesome! We could see the sprites actually being dizzy. That would make the battles that much more awesome to watch.
 
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One thing that bugs me about the generation two games is that a lot of them were so similar looking (ex. aurora beam, hyper beam, solar beam, aeroblast)
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I think that is why I liked them actually. They all seemed to have similarities to fit in with being a 'beam' move. Plus the sounds they made.

I didn't really like the gen IV solarbeam. It was cool it just didn't look like solar beam which in every other season was an actual beam that came from the pokemon using it.
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I didn't mind that it came from above the screen but it is so low quality that you can see the a few of the pixels themelves at the sides. Thunder looks okay and it comes from above, so that doesn't help either.
 
Silver Wind is depressing.
it has a cool name but it's only lines moving around... and glitter.
 
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Persnally, I hated hyper beam in generation IV. It was a big red beam that spread out at the end and didn't look cool at all. I have high hopes for this move in the next generation.
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WHAT?! I loved GenIV's Hyper Beam! IMO, it was epic, especially with the sound effects. I hope they keep Hyper Beam something similar to GenIV's. Well, to each his own.

But yeah, I agree with rvamping Pshychic to affect the Pokemon's movement.
 
Iteru said:
I think that is why I liked them actually. They all seemed to have similarities to fit in with being a 'beam' move. Plus the sounds they made.



I didn't mind that it came from above the screen but it is so low quality that you can see the a few of the pixels themelves at the sides. Thunder looks okay and it comes from above, so that doesn't help either.
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Oh I love thunder especially in Gen IV. That sort of makes sense because I've always thought thunder should be they shoot lightnig into the sky and it cmes back down stronger. Just solar beam is just charged with solar energy, not actually from the sun. It looks all right, it's just not my favorite.

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Silver Wind is depressing.
it has a cool name but it's only lines moving around... and glitter.
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Ugh, yes. I think silver wind should look just like in the anime.
 
Another one now that I have just used the move, Double Team. I'd love to see a few more shadows during the animation then two. Maybe even have them lingering as turns go by.
 
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