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Fighting for meaningless hyperfixations
🕑 Added 2025-11-07 03:50:36 +0000 UTCSup, I've been sick this week, so today I'll yap about some random issues probably only I care about.
I have mentioned it before a couple times, but Pokémon has a problem of having completely nonsensical measurements, think of any non legendary pokémon you think is a massive beast, and half the time they're smaller than a you, furthermore, 90% of pokémon are smaller than an elephant, and most of the ones that are taller than one, actually are serpentine.
There is little information about how pokémon are measured, as far I know the only official info is an old concept art book that shows serpentine pokémon being measured in full length and the other examples they use are from toe to head with both bipedal and quadruped pokémon.
While the measuring serpentine pokémon height match the way we actually do in real life with snakes and other serpentine animals, and the measuring bipedal match the way we measure ourselves, when it comes to quadrupeds, we usually don't measure from toes to head, we measure from toes to back.
What I thought would be a good example are horses, because we all know, more or less, how big a horse is supposed to be.
An adult horse should be around 1.5 to 1.7 meters tall or 4.9 to 5.7 in freedom units (looking the wikipedia in english for the measurements apparently "In English-speaking countries, the height of horses is often stated in units of hands and inches" is this shit true?").
So if we use the rules we use to measure horses in real life the horse pok'emon should look something like this:
Which make sense, although if we use the logic the pokémon apparently uses we would end with these ponies:
You might think this is a dumb attempt to misinterpret the info, but this here is an official render that you can easily find online:
So yeah...
And while pokémon heights make no sense unless you deform the info to make it fit, one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that the people of gamefreak knows nothing of how much a big animal actually weights, continuing with the example of the horses, an adult horse should weight something between 500 kilos to a ton (1K to 2K lb), meanwhile the horse pokémon beforementioned from lightest to heavier are 79, 80 and 95 kilos, not even a quarter the weight of a light horse.
Curiously, Mudsdale, the heaviest non legendary and 7th heaviest in general, weight is actually what a horse with their physique should have, but their height is another story.
Mudsdale, according to the pokedex is 2.5 meters (8.2 FU) tall, if we use the same real world logic that I used to give the other horse pokémon sensical sizes (toes to back) we end up with this goliath:
While if we assume the height is measured from toes to head we end up with something more sensical:
But this kind of strengthen my original point of the sizes and way of taking them gamefreak has been using makes absolutely no sense.
Where am I going with all this? I promise this is going somewhere.
You see, moving forward with a wide screen 1080p resolution, I end up having a lot of free space in the screen to work with, and with it the chance to better display a pokémon real size on screen
Absolutely good looking concept artThat way big pokémon will look huge, and small pokémon will look like the microscopic loveballs they are
Of course it wont be an exact one to one, otherwise the previously depicted mons would be literally 10 colored dots on screen, but with these two examples you can get a better sense of proportions, at least a bigger one that the one you get on the big majority of the official releases.
So I was thinking of taking the opportunity to adjust the size of some pokémon as I adapt them to the new build, right now the Lewd Virus dex has a total of 152 pokémon (although you can't get all of them yet), from which probably less than a half would need to be notoriously modified to do this, I see this as a feasible work, specially considering I won't be working from scratch, just modifying already existing pixel art.
One thing I also want to do, but I'm not so sure about, is the weight, I personally would double, triple and even twentyfold the weight of some pokémon, I'm not sure how much this change would break the moves that use weight to calculate damage, in a world where every pokémon weight what they should, grass knot would hit by max damage to basically every fully evolved pokémon.
And to finish, some other (randomly selected) pokémon that I find personally offended of how short they are.
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The orange T Very 90 days
i can only imagine the size of eternamax eternatus
BlackPolar
I hope you feel better soon, much love
