Stock Move Animations?

[PokeDot517]

Do you think that the XY saga will keep using the same repetitive stock footage for moves like the BW?

Like how Pikachu only had 2 Thunderbolt animations & only 1 for Iron Tail.

Also Team Rocket has been using the same animation for their motto. Although its a new animation they keep using it over & over again like how they did during the Decolora islands arc.

The animation quality overall is a step up from past sagas (probably more expensive too) so I can see this being more common although I wouldn't consider that a good thing.

 

[SlimeStack]

A major difference between BW and XY is they change the background to match where the Pokémon is, so while the Pokémon physically moves the same way every time, you notice it way less.

As for Team Rocket, it took me by surprise in XY004 when I saw XY001's animation again. I'm kind of hoping that they're very deliberately going 100% stock with the motto in order to put more time and money in other areas. It's a good animation so I don't mind if that's the case. I'm pretty used to them varying up the motto though, at least early on.

 

[ii kanji]

I do find the recycling of the motto to be grating to say the least (it was bad enough in DP where a few mottoes were reused a few times over the course of the series ) BUT if it's the price to pay in order to maintain otherwise consistently good animation in the rest of the episode then I'll take it!