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Hufen iâ September 24th, 2013 12:35 PM

Favorite Attack Animation?
 
So what was your Favorite Attack Animation?

For me it was Mud Shot, I just really like the circles going up and down it a wave it looks really cool :)

Hiatus September 24th, 2013 3:30 PM

In generation three, Thunderbolt had one of my favorite attack animations. It hit your opponent with a few strokes of lightning, which was able to leave them paralyzed. Flamethrower had a nice-looking animation as well. It was simple, yet effective. It was able to signify how Pokémon were tossing flames out of their mouth just perfectly. (:

Guardian September 25th, 2013 12:55 AM

Thunder! Shock wave was pretty cool too.

Synerjee September 25th, 2013 8:11 AM

Thunder, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Fire Blast, Psybeam, Aurora Beam, Discharge, Shock Wave, Dragon Pulse. <3 All of them have very pretty animations and are mostly really powerful attacks too. I'm sure there are many others, but these are the ones at the top of my head.

Bobith September 25th, 2013 10:50 AM

Sky uppercut was so sick, same with seismic toss.

Aeroblast September 26th, 2013 9:39 AM

It's doom desire, clearly. Nobody really knows about it, though.


Sirfetch’d September 26th, 2013 10:56 PM

I really liked the animations of both Blaze Kick and Leaf Blade. This is probably because they were unique to Blaziken and Sceptile respectively, but I just found them to be awesome. They really had that appearance of a powerful attack which I found really cool.

AluminiumOxide September 28th, 2013 2:37 AM

in 3 gen

Thunder

Volt tackle

Doom desire

Moonlight

Orifiel September 28th, 2013 3:39 AM

Good Question, Ice Beam & Hail!

Ari Niko September 28th, 2013 9:37 PM

Muddy Water http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ec20fb7f.gif

The dark surf animation >>>>>>>>

Meteor Mash was also dope http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ec20fb7f.gif

Precious Tears September 30th, 2013 4:21 AM

I love Aerial Ace, it looks incredible speedy and simple, yet sleek and decent.

Ari Niko October 5th, 2013 6:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fiery Dash (Post 7855693)
I love Aerial Ace, it looks incredible speedy and simple, yet sleek and decent.

+ its best animation was in Gen III

mrpokemonxy October 20th, 2013 5:01 PM

Thunder, it's just so damn cool. All that lightning coming down shocking them.

Murkrow October 21st, 2013 1:21 AM

they finally got surf right.

but on the other hand they totally ruined aeroblast awesomeness in gen2

Mystify October 21st, 2013 8:15 PM

Thunder looked amazing, easily my favorite.

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c0/Thunder_III.png

Totodilemaster October 22nd, 2013 9:45 AM

Mauddy water ! The brown surf :D !

ShockBlaze October 22nd, 2013 4:32 PM

Thunder, Sky Uppercut, and Flamethrower. Solar Beam is cool too.

Brendino October 22nd, 2013 11:20 PM

The two favorite attack animations that I can remember off the top of my head were Thunder, and the one I was surprised to see a few people mention- Muddy Water. Thunder's easily awesome as you can tell by Purple-Hued Vulture's .gif, and Muddy Water was the first time I'd seen the new Surf animation in the 3rd gen, except it wasn't boring and transparent like Surf was.

Kikaito plush October 23rd, 2013 9:54 AM

the only one I can remember liking is shockwave.

Slytherin October 23rd, 2013 10:03 AM

Solar Beam was amazing :D

Dreg October 23rd, 2013 11:07 AM

I really liked the animations of Shockwave, Ice Beam and Moonlight. Out of these three, Moonlight had the best animation.

RoboMan2010 November 9th, 2013 8:54 PM

Cool attack animations and overall a good Pokemon to use.

Pike Queen November 13th, 2013 10:58 AM

Thunder and Solar Beam looked pretty awesome. I was a little disappointed with Hyper Beam, though.

garchomp47 November 22nd, 2013 6:29 AM

flamethower has a cool animation. Also ice beam is cool.

Memoric November 22nd, 2013 11:37 PM

For some reason, I like Surf. Water in the screen? YES.

Trainer 781 November 23rd, 2013 2:00 AM

superpower is totally badass. meteor mash too. leaf blade is cool

Lesqx November 24th, 2013 8:09 AM

Hmmmm... I like thunderbolt, moonlight, leaf blade and solarbeam. Looks really cool and sweet ^^

Cryptonix November 24th, 2013 9:21 AM

Hydro Pump.
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/e/e7/Hydro_Pump_III.png

Sheep November 25th, 2013 7:13 PM

Surf and Thunderbolt! Something about them was really satisfying to watch. Maybe it's because they annihilated almost anything in the third generation for me, aha. xD;;

Altair November 25th, 2013 7:45 PM

I was really impressed with Thunder's animation when I first saw it used in a contest I was participating in. I also like Leaf Blade, looks awesome, slice n' dice!

Typhlosion13 November 25th, 2013 11:30 PM

For Me I Like Psychic It is Very Simple :3

Sopheria November 26th, 2013 7:40 AM

I like brick break. I love the way it shows the reflect/light screen breaking.

SmashinSwellow November 26th, 2013 8:25 PM

I think that tri attack was cool because they nailed the animation on all three parts of the attack

Knor November 27th, 2013 12:31 AM

A lot of people are saying Thunder, and I have to agree. You legitimately felt like a champion using that move, and it looked extremely powerful, too.

I'm actually also going to say Brick Break, too. Like zomgitscathy said a few posts above me, I loved see it actually breaking through the screen. It always made me feel like, "Ha, you're not strong enough to defend against me!"

goldengyarados November 27th, 2013 5:21 AM

Rollout. Need I say more?

PlatinumDude November 29th, 2013 8:44 AM

I like the animations of Ice Beam, Thunderbolt and Flamethrower because they look so dynamic. For nostalgia, it's Mud Shot, from spamming it all the time.

Apollo November 30th, 2013 4:47 AM

As long as it has circles, yeah. Bubble, Bubblebeam, Mud Shot and the like. One of my favorites without circles include Ice Beam, Surf, Muddy Water, Flamethrower, Petal Dance, Sweet Scent and Moonlight (I think it still counts as a circle)

MylittlePlusle November 30th, 2013 6:16 AM

I LOVE toxic... It's amazing, the sound effect is also nice, solarbeam is also a good one.

Sopheria November 30th, 2013 8:45 AM

Oh, I just remembered, Cosmic Power! That was the coolest attack ever!

Shizzable November 30th, 2013 1:53 PM

Frenzy Plant, Blast Burn, Hydro Cannon, and Thunder were always really cool to me because of how it made the opponent's Pokemon go into negative color for a moment. That's why Tri Attack is so cool as well. It combines Fire Blast, Blizzard, and Thunder with that cool negative effect.

Some other awesome ones are Rollout, Brick Break, Fly, Superpower, and Giga Drain.

Alexander Nicholi December 1st, 2013 12:40 AM

Definitely Blast Burn and Dragon Rage. Can't help but love flames shooting up from the ground!

ryemck December 4th, 2013 8:11 AM

Eruption on Groudon or Metronome :D

LegendaryBulbasaur December 4th, 2013 9:13 PM

Hyperbeam
Thunder
Solarbeam
Volt Tackle

Crabbit December 5th, 2013 8:02 PM

Thunder followed closely by Magikarp's splash.

GlaciaTaso December 10th, 2013 3:20 AM

Thunder,Volt tackle ...cool

AluminiumOxide December 14th, 2013 5:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LegendaryBulbasaur (Post 7970904)
Hyperbeam
Thunder
Solarbeam
Volt Tackle

As i think many people like Volt tackle its really great animated Move. I also like Thunder and Volt tackle as i already said in a post. But i see many people writing Volt tackle. That's great. I Like Volt tackle, Thunder, Thunderbolt.

masoncasey1 January 6th, 2014 9:25 AM

I loved the shock wave animation.

ObnoxiousOboe January 10th, 2014 9:12 PM

Leaf Blade. It feels good having Sceptile on my team!!!

Evening January 11th, 2014 3:19 AM

Thunder, Thunderbolt, Shock Wave, Hydro Pump, Mud Shot, Solar Beam, Overheat, Eruption, Blizzard, Fissure, Ice Beam, Hydro Cannon, Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant and Extreme Speed.

They're all cool!

Sniper January 11th, 2014 5:25 PM

Thunder bolt and Ice beam, these beautiful attacks! <3 I wanna add sing..

Talon January 11th, 2014 7:59 PM

Probably Dragon Claw and Doom Desire were my favorites by far. Some runner ups were Leaf Blade, Blaze Kick, Surf, Dragonbreath, Crunch, and Fire Blast.

AluminiumOxide January 13th, 2014 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lowvyr (Post 8034987)
Probably Dragon Claw and Doom Desire were my favorites by far. Some runner ups were Leaf Blade, Blaze Kick, Surf, Dragonbreath, Crunch, and Fire Blast.

I also like Doom desire !!! Yeah blaze kick and Dragonbreath,Crucnh & Surf are also my favorite. But i like thunder also.

akihiko123 January 21st, 2014 12:34 AM

Thunder, Blizzard, Aurora Beam is the best :D

AluminiumOxide January 21st, 2014 2:33 AM

Auora beam is a great animated Move (I almost forgot about it ) And Tell me more about why you like them ?

Astraea January 24th, 2014 6:52 AM

I like Surf and Thunder in FRLF. And aurora beam in pokemon Stadium!

lsmash January 27th, 2014 10:09 AM

Extremespeed. It's so cool to see Rayquaza disappear and beat the other pokemon down (with the moving background), then reappear.

Varion Bluefire January 27th, 2014 2:46 PM

Thunder.
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/c/c0/Thunder_III.png
^ Needs apng extension on chrome to view properly
It's just, the inversion.

HNNGH!

AluminiumOxide January 27th, 2014 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lsmash (Post 8062443)
Extremespeed. It's so cool to see Rayquaza disappear and beat the other pokemon down (with the moving background), then reappear.

Yeah Extreme speed really had a good animation though. By the way Thunder is also amazing,

Astraea January 30th, 2014 5:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AnsirentRhythm (Post 8063702)
Yeah Extreme speed really had a good animation though. By the way Thunder is also amazing,

You're Right Thunder is Amazing! The Clouds come, it gets dark and then BOOM BOOM, Two jolt of electricity hits the Foe! Cooooool

AluminiumOxide February 5th, 2014 2:46 AM

Yeah.... I really like when the dark cloud come out. And when the thunder hits the foe ! gosh too cool. And Doom desire come with a great name. But i only used doom desire once as it only can be teach to legendaries if i'm right.

oshawottlover13 March 4th, 2014 1:29 PM

i loved leaf blade, muddy water, auaura beam, and tri attack. but leaf blade would have to be my favorite. the way they all moved the same direction and really quick too. it was awesome. and the slash that showed after it, that was really cool

Keiran March 4th, 2014 2:56 PM

Cosmic Power is my favorite 3rd gen animation, but for actual attacks - definitely Thunder. *-* It looks incredible.

11jphillipps March 10th, 2014 10:37 AM

i think the coolest is dizzy punch, FLY LITTLE BIRDIES FLY!!!

Zorogami March 11th, 2014 6:46 AM

I really like the animation for thunder, since its all dark and quiet and then BAAM!!

pyx March 12th, 2014 9:49 AM

Sky uppercut, its animation is just so awesome!

orangeralts21 March 12th, 2014 1:13 PM

I am a big fan of Ice Beam's animation. I love how you can see the crystals.

jpnm92 March 12th, 2014 2:10 PM

Flamethrower, thunder, extreme speed, Fire blast, Surf, sky uppercut, hyper beam, hydro pump are the ones that come to my head.

If i head to choose only one:
Flamethrower Burn baby Burn (i love fire)

Danny0317 March 20th, 2014 7:07 PM

Volt Tackle, and thunderbolt.
They look super badass, but I like thunderbolt better.

Puddle March 20th, 2014 7:12 PM

I thought Fire Blast was awesome, especially in Pokemon Stadium (I know that's not Gen III.

Another great one was Aurora beam! It looked so pretty :3

Skystrike March 20th, 2014 8:31 PM

I agree with anyone who said Aurora Beam. It was so pretty in Gen 3 :3

AoTora March 29th, 2014 9:53 AM

Leaf Blade, Thunder, Thunderbolt and Muddy Water are my favourite ones :3

RemixinROMulus April 4th, 2014 2:40 PM

For the handheld games, I really like Thunder. The look of those clouds swirling, and then the huge lighning strike is amazing.

In Pokemon Colosseum, basically all of the attacks looked awesome, but I'd have to say flamethrower looked sick! The Pokemon charges up and releases this huge beam of flaming napalm. The moves looked a lot more wimpy in XD. I don't know why GameFreak changed them, but I do like XD's Ice Beam. It's this giant spiky rod of ice that grows and shoots towards the foe.

Flamethrower (Colosseum)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGWPA5KrAHo&feature=player_detailpage#t=357

Ice Beam (XD: Gale of Darkness)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvpj_htRLdU&feature=player_detailpage#t=392
http://www.serebii.net/Toolbar/xd2.jpghttp://

Tetra April 6th, 2014 11:47 AM

Thunderbolt always looked amazing to me. As a kid, and even now. I don't know why, but it just looked so powerful!
You always expect it to do a ton of damage to Water-Types, and it does. (Even to bulky Pokémon like Walrein!)

Another favorite of mine was Aurora Beam. It had it's own background, and the beam was very beautiful indeed! I can't say if they looked better in the further generations because I don't quite remember how they look like :o

Boured April 14th, 2014 7:49 AM

I bet many people agree with me super power

Zaakeil April 14th, 2014 10:40 PM

Fire Blast, Recover, and Hyper Beam were all really cool for me, at least. In future generations, the Hyper Beam didn't have the multicolored particles, which I really liked. A similar instance of that was Ice Beam, where they changed it from the crystal particles to a straight beam. Disappointing...

With the Recover orbs, I could always feel that sense of "Gahhhhhh" everytime someone used it. And that rising sound effect just was icing on the already awesome cake.

And Fire Blast has always been amazing. Having a giant Kanji symbol that says "FIRE" when you use it is just wicked.

Elaitenstile April 15th, 2014 4:59 AM

Leaf Blade's animation is pretty epic. Always loved it. The blades slashing up and down was always fascinating. Close second is Steel Wing. I liked how they combined Wing Attack with a Steel type move's sheen.

imas234 July 1st, 2014 3:40 PM

hand down dragonbreath and thunder. Shock wave is pretty cool too. I also felt like dragon breath looked more like flamethrower than flamethrower did [just throwing that out there].

Itcheeee July 1st, 2014 5:30 PM

Thunder or Muddy Water. Though I haven't seen every move to fairly judge :P

Pepperton July 2nd, 2014 8:14 PM

Gosh this is tough, they're all so nice and a huge upgrade from the second generation. I guess I always really admired the artwork in Sheer Cold, so that's definitely one of my top picks. Psychic and Thunder are up there as well, and to round out the top five I'll throw in Solar Beam and Tri Attack! n__n;

Viscacha July 9th, 2014 6:22 AM

I loved the animation of Superpower because it look so cool when it seemed like your pokemon was lifting the earth!

xOkazaki July 9th, 2014 12:28 PM

My favourite was Leaf Blade for sure, Sceptile slicing everything to death. I often found myself copying the animation with my arms in the air... don't do this in public.

dresden_88 July 31st, 2014 2:48 AM

i think my favourite attack animation is a toss-up between volt tackle and fire blast. the overall quality of the animation has substantially improved from the days of red/blue. fire blast actually looks really freaking awesome in gen 3 to be honest.

The Serious Table August 1st, 2014 9:54 AM

Ice beam baby.. I'm so sorry...

Pendraflare August 1st, 2014 6:18 PM

Aside from the aforementioned Superpower, I really liked Hydro Pump's animation in Gen III. Those twin shots of water look boss together, and I actually like it more than its animations in the later generations.

Hikamaru August 6th, 2014 11:47 PM

Water Pulse, Hydro Pump and Surf pretty much had my fave attack animations of 3rd Gen. Shows how cool Water moves looked in a region that's full of it. Oh, and Water Gun involving a water droplet thrown onto the opponent was kinda funny especially compared to the later animations of the move.

orangeralts21 August 7th, 2014 7:41 AM

I also realize that Icy Wind looks really damn cool. *heh "cool"


http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/1/19/Icy_Wind_III.png
From Bulbapedia

Paranormal Zaktivity August 19th, 2014 6:14 PM

Blast burn for me, i spammed it on my Charizard, even if he had to recharge after :p

Altairis August 19th, 2014 6:51 PM

Leaf Blade was definitely my favorite, I clearly remember transferring one of my Sceptiles and using it in Generation 4 and being very disappointed by the animation change. I really loved how a lot of animations were pretty simple in Gen 3, like Signal Beam and Ice Beam.

Hiatus August 19th, 2014 7:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepperton (Post 8327923)
Gosh this is tough, they're all so nice and a huge upgrade from the second generation. I guess I always really admired the artwork in Sheer Cold, so that's definitely one of my top picks. Psychic and Thunder are up there as well, and to round out the top five I'll throw in Solar Beam and Tri Attack! n__n;

Yeah, Tri-Attack was actually a pretty cool one. I loved how those triangle-shaped figures would spin into your opponent, and eventually strike them with thunder, fire, and ice. It sucks that they wound up replacing it in later games, though. Only thing they probably should have done, I believe, is to perhaps just changes its texture, so that it'd be more suitable for the updated graphics and whatnot.

Hiatus August 19th, 2014 7:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepperton (Post 8327923)
Gosh this is tough, they're all so nice and a huge upgrade from the second generation. I guess I always really admired the artwork in Sheer Cold, so that's definitely one of my top picks. Psychic and Thunder are up there as well, and to round out the top five I'll throw in Solar Beam and Tri Attack! n__n;

Yeah, Tri-Attack was actually a pretty cool one. I loved how those triangle-shaped figures would spin into your opponent, and eventually strike them with thunder, fire, and ice. It sucks that they wound up replacing it in later games, though. Only thing they probably should have done, I believe, is to perhaps just changes its texture, so that it'd be more suitable for the updated graphics and whatnot.

Khoshi August 19th, 2014 8:52 PM

I really liked Outrage. It looks just like what the move's called - an outrage. Complete with crazy circling and fire sprites. n_n

Aether★ August 19th, 2014 11:04 PM

I don't know why, but Blast Burn honestly looked sick for me, also good ol' ones like Flamethrower, Ice Beam or Surf look pretty cool.

DraconianWing August 20th, 2014 10:31 AM

To me, Eruption had the coolest animation of Gen 3; it was very fun to watch my Camerupt rain destruction down on my opponents >:D the background turning red and the screen shaking greatly added to the visual effect of the move as well

Lost Lore August 22nd, 2014 9:16 AM

Thunder is my personal favourite, although Tri Attack, Sheer Cold and Blast Burn were all particularly memorable as well.

Oh, and I like how Return's animation changed depending on how close your Pokemon was to you. The screen darkening and the multiple hits becoming stronger and stronger really gave you a sense that you'd raised that Pokemon right.

Alfieri August 22nd, 2014 11:32 AM

My favorite attack animation was definitely Brick Break. It looked really cool when Hitmonlee used it. I hate how they made it looked in 4th Gen and on.

Dying Light August 22nd, 2014 9:04 PM

Call me strange, but... Will-O-Wisp. Sorry. It's just... really funny to watch. My second pick would be Ice Beam tho. It's sound effect was pretty HM02 as well. :p


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