Onix

Started by Rothometapratis November 14th, 2013 12:55 PM
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Yeah, there are a few phenomenons like that. I think the most commonly referenced one is that Wailord is technically less dense than air :p
I think it's best to dismiss these things as just plain wrong and get on with our lives. Well, unless I see a Wailord using Fly sometime soon. And never coming back down.
Woah holy moly this boi's got a funky old signature

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I remember having a Pokemon Annual years ago, when GSC was released, and it had a typo saying Cloyster was 1132kg, rather than 132kg.

For years I was captivated by the "heaviest Pokemon" being Cloyster, and wondering how that even worked.

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Well, there's a variety of rocks out there; some are pretty heavy, and some are light. Maybe Onix's body is made out of the lighter ones? Even if it isn't, I wouldn't be too worried about it. There's a lot of other Pokémon whose weight doesn't make much sense, either. Gourgeist would be a good example. Gourgeist are pretty big, and an averaged-sized one weigh only about twenty-seven pounds. Larger Gourgeist weigh around thirty. Goodra and Emboar would be good examples as well. These two are extremely big and bulky, but their weights? Only three-thirty. d:

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Much like Perdition Haze, I've always imagined that Onix was made out of volcanic rock or something, which is very much lighter than other types of rocks. And while Steelix nearly doubles this weight, you could assume that its body is just metal-coated, rather than solid metal.

Trying to come up with reasons why Pokemon like Wailord are as light as they are is a little more difficult though. I can only assume it was assigned its height/weight long after being designed, and not a whole lot of thought was put into the process. This would also explain the unrealistic height/weight proportions of many other Pokemon, too.

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For Wailord, maybe, when Wailmer evolves, he inflates, so his insides are mostly air and he's like A GIANT WHALE BALLOON! Thant's the only possibility I can think of.
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^ Wailmer does look like a whale balloon... And Wailord looks like one of those balloons that hasn't been tied into an animal yet so you may be onto something there.

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Yes, yes! Thanks! But that does not answer the weight issue of onix...
All About Dan! (at the moment, at least)
Deep Thoughts...
The people of the Pokémon world aren't too creative. They named Pokémon after what sound they make. If we were like them, a cow would be called a "moo".

I'm Reading...
Just finished a volume of Soul Eater, volume 14. At this point, it has become very different compared to the anime, and I kind of like it. Some of the characters have gotten a lot more fleshed out (specifically the meister team of Ox, Kilik, and Kim), and things are happening quite differently. An exciting read.

I'm Playing...
The iPod music game, Cytus. While I may not know very many of the songs, I really like its music, and the gameplay is easy to pick up yet takes quite a while to master. A friend has seen me play it and he says I make it look easy, but I am still having a fun and challenging time. Definitely worth the price.

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Yeah, Onix is considerably light. But in one of it's Pokédex entries, at states that it moves at an incredible rate underground, so it would kinda make sense for it to be light, therefore it can move faster underground. Onix is GIANT in spin-offs/anime so it would make sense if it was heavy, but I have no idea what Gamefreak was thinking there...
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