Pokemon Fans Are Dissecting Just How Little Sense Some Pokedex Entries Make

Pokemon Fans Are Dissecting Just How Little Sense Some Pokedex Entries Make

From TheGamer (Written by Sam Woods) on | OpenCritic

Pokemon's Pokedex entries regularly come under scrutiny. More often than not, it's for the frankly horrifying descriptors that accompany certain Pokemon. Spoink dies if it stops bouncing, Yamask is the ghost of a dead human that carries a mask of its former face, and Froslass freezes the people it likes to take them back to its lair as decorations. This is a kids' game, remember.

Perhaps then, that's why Game Freak didn't pay much heed to the heights and weights of some Pokemon in its games, because many of them are utter nonsense. Fans are now calling that nonsense out.

Many Pokemon are presented as giant, hulking monsters. Their Pokedex entries, however, couldn't be further from that, though, and players have come together to debate which ones make the least sense.

Lucario was the discussion starter. In a thread started by Apprehensive_Ring_39, they said, "I cannot believe Lucario is only 3'11, like I always thought he was, at the bare minimum, 5 feet tall, but he is stupidly short." And they aren't wrong, 3'11 is exceptionally short.

3'11 is roughly the height of a 6 or 7-year-old child. It's a Steely fighting machine, which can fire Aura Spheres...

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