T34/38 said: Yeah it's odd. Since in the anime weight is equal to power...
That sounds like a nice mechanic Gamefreak can use to keep the battles fresh. Perhaps in Pokemon Grey comes out(Made that up) they might start making pokemon weight matter. Such as having moves benifit from having low weight or high weight. Something like swift could have more power for agility based pokemon and such. while all the rock types benifit from Body slam and headbutt and such.
Tetsamaru said: That sounds like a nice mechanic Gamefreak can use to keep the battles fresh. Perhaps in Pokemon Grey comes out(Made that up) they might start making pokemon weight matter. Such as having moves benifit from having low weight or high weight. Something like swift could have more power for agility based pokemon and such. while all the rock types benifit from Body slam and headbutt and such.
There are already moves that inflict damage based on weight. Those moves are Low Kick and Grass Knot.
Losenucius said: There are already moves that inflict damage based on weight. Those moves are Low Kick and Grass Knot.
Touche' you got me there. I guess maybe they should start adding more moves affect my weight then. As some of them certainly should but arent. And might i add, that Grass Knot does not particulary sound like a very "Wrestling" type of move that would factor in weight.
True said: Wasn't it made more in the sense of tripping them up, the whole "the bigger they are the harder they fall" thing?... Then again, how it works on pokemon without feet, I'll never know...
Diglett was the first thing that popped in my head
Mr_GT said: Light Metal - Cuts user's weight in half
There's an item you can get from one of the towns in Black and White(The town with the 8th gym, I think) that cuts your pokemon's weight in half if they hold it... the Float Stone, I think.
Knuckx117 said: There's an item you can get from one of the towns in Black and White(The town with the 8th gym, I think) that cuts your pokemon's weight in half if they hold it... the Float Stone, I think.
I'm fairly sure those are the same item, seeing as his post is 7 months old (when the games were still in Japanese).
'Light Metal' is an ability (dubbed PokeBody) owned by some of the Metal-specie Pokemon, which effect is 'Half body Weight'-thus useful to minimize the effect the move 'Low Kick', a Fighting-based move which gains more power the heavier the pokemon is. Combined with Float Stone, it cuts the effect even further. 'Nice seeing you' tag anyone?
Tetsamaru said: That sounds like a nice mechanic Gamefreak can use to keep the battles fresh. Perhaps in Pokemon Grey comes out(Made that up) they might start making pokemon weight matter. Such as having moves benifit from having low weight or high weight. Something like swift could have more power for agility based pokemon and such. while all the rock types benifit from Body slam and headbutt and such.
In Black/White, Pignite can learn Heat Crash, a weight-based fire attack that makes higher damage the lighter the opponent. It makes this move a very useful move against the flying type when Pignite became Emboar, since most flying type are light-weighted, and Emboar is a fire/fight.
Wailord isn't that heavy and isn't that strong. It'd be like being thwomped by a hot air balloon. It'd hurt, but it wouldn't kill (pokermans.)
Wailord is heavy, but its mass compared to its size gives it a density lower than that of air. Now you know why Wailord is called the Float Whale Pokémon.