6th Gen Only Rivals, the Champion and Evil team Leaders had sprites.

In generation six, trainer battle sprites/models were minimal. X/Y only had trainers sprites for your friends Shauna, Tierno, Trevor, Serena/Calem the Team Flare Admins, and Lysandre. OR/AS only had sprites for May/Brendan, Wally, Zinnia and Steven.

What did you think of this? I wasn't a fan of this transition.

Yeah I wasn't the biggest fan of this either, I guess it's cause they were still trying to figure out/minimise the amount of data going into the engine for the 3DS versions of the games, seeing as it was early days on the system? I could be wrong though! I didn't really like our pack of friends in XY either and wish we could have just had Serena instead, but that's a debate for another day haha.

I never noticed, so it didn't affect me. That saying, I am an gen six fan and nothing can change that! Heck i'm listening to ORAS music right now and PROUD!

I'm not sure but I don't think Diantha had one

Simply Dunsparce said:

I'm not sure but I don't think Diantha had one

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You know...come to think of it, she didn't. I'm gonna go edit the op.

I like the Battle Sprites and hope we get more.

Luna said:

Yeah I wasn't the biggest fan of this either, I guess it's cause they were still trying to figure out/minimise the amount of data going into the engine for the 3DS versions of the games, seeing as it was early days on the system? I could be wrong though! I didn't really like our pack of friends in XY either and wish we could have just had Serena instead, but that's a debate for another day haha.

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Eh, I really liked the friends, just wished they did more. Shauna and Serena were the only two that actually did anything.

Tbh, and I know it's a bit off topic, but I feel like I would have remember Shauna and gang having trainer sprites if they actually had more personality.

I never noticed this so I guess it's not a feature that really matters to me, but it's interesting to say the least!

Do you mean that only the people you listed had 3D models, and everyone else used flat sprites? That's what I recall it being like.
Anyways, I did notice it during gameplay and it was super jarring to me. Not a good look at all

Somehow I never noticed, but now I'm going to.

Xorn said:

Do you mean that only the people you listed had 3D models, and everyone else used flat sprites? That's what I recall it being like.
Anyways, I did notice it during gameplay and it was super jarring to me. Not a good look at all

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The people I listed had 3d sprites, but everyone else had art portraits instead, like this:

Yeah that always bothered me. Intrestingly enough, all the generic trainers in gen 7 (I.E Team Skull grunts, Lasses, Younsters,) Have pre-rendered intros despite having hi-poly (for the ds) models in game, which was always strange as that ment they had all the things ready just to have in real time, which looks like it could mean it was having load problems maybe? But anyways, yeah, all trainers should be always 3d modeled and its just lazy otherwise.

I think I noticed this halfway through my first playthrough. I thought it was cool idea and wanted to see more trainers have it. Which was exactly what happened in Gen VII.

Okay, so I misinterpreted the topic. So the topic was about how only rivals and villians get 3D in-battle models while everyone else only has a portrait. Okay... I wasn't too bothered by it, although yeah it was inconsistent. Good thing that was fixed in later gens.

What I thought the topic was about was how in gen6, the overworld trainer models and sprites were just so damn inaccurate. Heck, if you look closely, you can see that a lot of them actually reuse the same model, just with different colours to match the design. And nearly all of them look nothing like the in-battle portrait! With the first 4 generations, it was understandable, but we lasted a whole generation where the trainers actually looked like what they did in the overworld! Even if I liked gen6 overall, I could go on about the things that gen5 did better.