The Best and Worst of Pokemon Sprites and Models
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Published 2021-01-15
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All Comments (21)
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Tell me what your favorite and least favorite sprites and models are!
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Swellow gliding indefinitely in midair is pretty bad, but Xatu is just atrociously butchered by it. Kinda wish these indefinitely-gliding Pokémon go on the ground or at least start flapping
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Nothing will beat Ghetsis slamming his cane into the ground because he's wacko.
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An interesting thing about Falinks’ marching animation is that it marches to the beat of the Pokémon Center theme. I kept trying to match the marching to different tracks, and when I found the match, it made the troopers feel even more cute.
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gen 5 had the best sprites, nobody can change my mind
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Typhlosion family got done dirty
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The Cyndaquil line was massacred in the transition to 3D
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An easy solution to Pokemon like Typhlosion and Blaziken that have the blast-style flames where it would make sense they aren’t emanating them all the time is to just have them periodically “pulse” the flames every few seconds in their idle animations, enough to show off that cool design element and show they are tensed up and anticipating fighting more. 😎
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golbat's gen 1 design. i'm surprised you didnt talk about it in the video
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Fun fact: That window breaking was not caused by Hitmonlee, instead it was done by bigfoot who has finally caught JPR
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Gen 7 Pokemon have this interesting quirk. In Gen 6 Pokemon were coloured after their stock art. For Gen 7 the new Pokemon designs used very bright colours. When Gen 8 came around and gave every Pokemon more saturation to their base colour Gen 7 Pokemon became even better looking if you ask me. They straight up look magnificent in Gen 8. Shocking I know but seriously it really shows how amazing Gen 7's palette was and that it became even better the Gen after.
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typhlosion is literally just a bear when it’s idle now, super disappointing, if let’s go johto ever comes to fruition i really hope they revise the model
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'Devoid of personality' that's the big issue with the 3D models in general. Even masuda said he wanted to avoid them for that reason. Oh shoot not all of em are like that!! Epic!
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3:10 Eelektross' animated sprites really explains its Levitate ability.
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I've been playing Pokemon Diamond again recently, and some of the sprites hit so much better in the old style than the do in 3D. The Chimchar line, Shinx line and Buizel line to name a few off the top of my head just really miss the mark in 3D. They look too... Idk, smooth? It feels wrong to be seeing them like that.
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So... Arbok is the first pokemon with regional variations
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2:58 I would personally argue the opposite. 9/10 times in the anime, Eelektross is seen standing up and NOT floating about. Still, I COMPLETELY agree with you on his ruined design... It is the worst change in my opinion....... I love him!!!
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I like many of the flying animations, and it makes sense with the Ground immunity, but the gliding ones are pretty dumb.
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People talk a lot about Typhlosion, but they always forget about my bro Magcargo who suffered a similar fate
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One of the great injustices of X and Y is the need for Flying animations to be standard for Sky Battles
