Pokemon who can't fight on land or water

[GoGoPokemom]

in the real battle against other trainer , I wonder how do certain water pokemon fight other trainer ?

Or pokemon that hate water , how exactly do you imagine they will fight unless they sprout wings to stay above water or fight along the water edge or shoreline .

 

[the_showstopper]

Er... Stand on your surfing pokemon while you swim???
Which reminds me- Using earthquake while battling in the sea will cause a Tidal Wave!!!

 

[Allison_Park]

or a Mini-Tsunami. YEah i never liked the way the collesium makes water pokemon fight. Its like why are the water pokemon floating. And if i was in the cartoon series who will i fight other trainers with my horsea?

 

[icemew]

Well, in reality it probably isn't possible to have water creatures fight on water or vice versa...but this is a video game! And yes, earthquake would cause a tidal wave or maybe not work at all.

 

[Evanji Axu]

Well, take the challenger to a nearby lake or ocean and you're set

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

Well, I think they get around that problem very well in the 3D games. The clever people (I know a lot of poeple do not like it though. Shame on them).

 

[octoboy]

The wierd thing is that fire type moves work under water. That's just bizarre!

Yeah, ground moves shouldn't work in the water... Of course if that were the case, ground types would be even more shafted than they are already (stupid levitate ability...)

 

[Yamato-san]

I feel that a Pokemon stadium should act for universal battling, much like in the games. I say this a lot, but even without hovering, water Pokemon could seem perfectly capable of moving around on land. If they're fish or similar aquatic creatures, they could hop on their bellies (in the first mini-movie, Kasumi's Tosakinto managed to do just that), or tails (Kingdra line), shells (Shellder, Parushen, Pearlu), etc. If they're extremely large, girthy Pokemon like Laplace or Whaleou, they drag themselves using their fins like a sea turtle. Some could also slither like a snake (Huntail, Sakurabyss, Milocaross... Gyarados also showed to do so in the anime, but I don't see the point when it's a Flying type that's based off an oriental dragon). Sure, their movement might seem greatly restricted compared to being in water, but at least they could move in any case (and really, they're no less worthy of participating in a land battle than a Tsubotsubo or a Foretos). If nothing else, they could stay in one place and fire projectile attacks.

 

[Charmanderz]

Its just a game, but you do have a good point... lol

 

[Leumas]

I wonder how you can surf and battle with the same Pokemon at the same time? Or be surfing on a Tentacruel and be battling with something like a Golem at the same time?

Leumas

 

[Claydol]

Thank you for paying attention to every little thing in the game.

 

[Seviper]

What about Digglett and Dugtrio they make a hole on Wailmer for example?

 

[jellsprout]

Little pixies pick them up and move them into the air, where they create an ever lasting rain cloud above themselfs to provide themselfs with water. When battling in water, the Pokémon are also picked up by the earlier metioned pixies and float above the water. When battling underwater, the pixies create air bubbles for the Pokémon to live in. The Fire attacks just evaporate the water within a one nanometer radius around it so it doesn't get soaked and with electricity it generates, the fire also breaks up the water into hydrogen and oxyden and feeds itself in such way.

You think that didn't make sence? What does in a world where the main character never speaks, eats, drinks, breaths or goes to the bathroom. Or where there actually aren't any bathrooms. A world where there are only two beds per region, where people stay on the same spot for all eternity and keep saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again. A world were a tiny little mouse, that gets nothing to eat except for an occasional berry, is able to create massive lightning without too much trouble.
The Pokémon world doesn't make sence. Know it, accept it, live with it and realise it's just a bloody videagame.

 

[The Benmeister]

Silly unknowing humans. Everyone knows that all Pokemon are equipped with all-purpose jetpacks to avoid fighting on land/water.

What, you all thought it was unattentive programming? *Sigh* The nerve of some people...

A world where there are only two beds per region

Care to list the beds? I count one in Kanto, one in Hoenn and none in Johto (excluding the bed in any of the main characters houses).

 

[jellsprout]

Care to list the beds? I count one in Kanto, one in Hoenn and none in Johto (excluding the bed in any of the main characters houses).

In Hoenn, you have a bed and your rival has a bed. In Kanto, I think it is the same. In Johto, I think it could be one. I could be wrong.

Let me refrase that: A maximum of two beds per region.

 

[Validus]

lol this is a silly thread, but i feel like adding to the sillyness. imagine a pokemon using Dig while over the ocean. they would have to dive to the ocean floor then swim all the way back up. this would look quite funny for digglet.

 

[Golde]

probably stand on rocks. Or there is a secret buoy that is never shown that fires float ion.

 

[◘Ins0mnIac◘]

*voice on the speaker* Your Onix may be used as a flotation device if there is an emergency.

 

[Yamato-san]

What about Digglett and Dugtrio they make a hole on Wailmer for example?

nah... it seems to me that with Digda and Dugtrio, that little dirt patch they have on the bottom is actually a part of the Pokemon itself. Notice in that filler at the end of the Orange Islands, when they come out of their Monster Balls, the dirt patch is seen glowing and materializing along with the Pokemon. Also, it seems apparent that there's not much else to the Pokemon besides its head (Digda's not considered one of the smallest Pokemon in existance for nothing, and again, on the OI filler, one of them could clearly fit in Jangou's hat). I'm personally under the theory that Digda and Dugtrio are actually slug-like with their dirt patches, and they have very tiny claws (possibly disguised as jagged pebbles in their dirt patches) for digging and scratching.

 

[ThunderGun]

For Kanto's beds, there are a ton in Silph Co.