Pokemon Stadium Mega Kick Animations

[@TheOfficalAndI]

You could say that Pokemon Stadium is still kicking after 20 years.

[@WeavileLady]

&I I got my Pokémon stadium 2, still has replay value.

[@Hydra_X9K_Music]

@@WeavileLady i got both. Awesome games

[@toblerone1729]

Stadium and Stadium 2 look so appealing now that you think about it

[@Hydra_X9K_Music]

@@toblerone1729 they were always appealing

[@hungryim8643]

You know something is done right when people still want to play the game again that was made 20 years ago. And you know something is done wrong when people are unwilling to play the newly made game even before the release.

[@edgargaebolg9307]

Not only they bothered giving a specific animation for most Pokémon, they even added a sound for Kabutops' claws stabbing the ground

[@slaplist8377]

Edgar Gaebolg I love how he just falls and dies after that kick

[@Electroudon06]

Kabutops = 4:41

[@theredeft5319]

His is my favorite of these. I love that he sticks his scythe arms in the ground to ground himself and give his torso some extra momentum for the kick. So much in fact he falls over haha

[@Mackinz92]

@@slaplist8377 specific animation? Hardly. They took generic animations and added some sort of timer for the Mega Kick effect. Some of these kicks are hilarious, like how Wigglytuff is just jumping and hitting the ground somehow equals a Mega Kick.

[@jordanwilson2834]

@@Mackinz92 pokemon that used metronome for megakick would use their generic metronome animation when using mega kick

[@mattypaul87]

Kabutops alone shows the effort that was put into the animations in this game. I never knew how many Pokemon got kicking animations until now. Hypno does a friggin spinning back kick like it's Hitmonlee and Snorlax does a dropkick for crying out loud.

[@Daviloss]

Yeah, I absolutely agree with you. I love this game

[@muichirotokitou2615]

Matty Paul lol

[@Seraph1Lost]

Matty Paul the First time i Saw Kabutops doing a megakick i Just needed to stick with It.. despite Slash being 10x better.

[@Mario-wx2so]

No developer nowadays would put that level of detail in a new pokemon stadium game. As of generation 7 and with pokebank and virtual console players may sometimes be able to have a Snorlax with mega kick or not depending on its game of origin and that would happen with all of the 700+ existing pokemon and the 700+ moves. No developer would undergo that challenge. Pokemon stadium will always hold a place in the hall of fame of nintendo games.

[@PsyrikAntz967831]

Right smh nowadays the effort ain’t even there anymore, the new Pokémon Sword and Shield better have twice the effort, but I’m not expecting much from them cause GameFreak is playing with us 🙄

[@squivvo]

I love how a game from 20 years ago had better kicking animations

[@Daviloss]

sadly

[@Harbluia]

Some of them aren't even kicking :/

[@pastel_witch-j9m]

@@Harbluia Yea! I'm glad with the help of 20 years of technological advancements, we have cool kicking animations like Pokémon slightly moving up and down without moving at all.

[@sylbiee]

@@Harbluia At least they had an actual animation, lol

[@squivvo]

Harbluia Still better than moving an inch on the Y-axis and a png of a foot appearing on the opposing Pokémon, lol

[@iamhighlydisappointed9942]

The knockback when they're hurt actually looks like they felt it too.

[@kingcobra50x53]

Mean wile in sword and shield they look like they were hit with a blanket

[@justsomeplant3305]

Forget blankets. They look like they were hit with air

[@jellifish9389]

If you like these, look at the animations for Pokémon colosseum; it’s gorgeous

[@renatoramos8834]

@Why are you always crying? idiot.

[@redking36]

Ριяαинα Ρlαит •ᎦᎦᏰᏌ• I’m sure air would hurt much more than blankets.

[@N13TheGeneral]

Never saw Kaputops mega kick before. Thought ya'll were exaggerating but lol that was epic

[@BuddingResearcher]

Now I’m visualizing it happening in the anime.

[@StephonZeno]

Wow, for an N64 game, Pokemon Stadium's graphics aged pretty well. The animations really give the Pokemon so much personality.

[@ohwhy5998]

Very true.

[@Ampharosite]

The models only really look dated where they shamelessly reused them in the GameCube titles and Battle Revolution; they stand out clearly from the other high quality models. (moreso in the latter though)

[@Momo_Games_Youtube]

If only GameFreak did the same.

[@heavylobster4339]

I remember when I was a kid in the late 90s and was absolutely blown away by Pokemon Stadium's graphics.

[@Gamexpertvids]

@@Ampharosite It's only on the GCN games that it shares the Stadium models. Battle Revolution uses higher poly count and improved textures.

[@PedroPenaforte]

Kangaskhan one is amazing. The baby drops from its pouch. Mama prepares to kick. While it kicks the baby lowers itself to the ground, to avoid being hit by the mama's kick. While mama is finishing her kick and falls on the ground, the baby gets up.

[@ChaosSolak]

That's the attention to detail Pokémon games truly deserve.

[@pastel_witch-j9m]

You know what would be better? If the baby didn't get off the pouch and Kangaskhan just moved up and down slightly without the model moving at all! That would be perfect! Lol.

[@kenshiiro]

Lol.

[@harrisonmoore3841]

You know what else would be good? If the Pokémon calls were never synced with their lip movement. Lol

[@Keybug55]

4:41 Kabutops is so over the top I love it

[@iss2075]

I've been playing this game for over 15 years and have never seen that Kabutops animation before! I've never seen that Jynx animation either. They probably only use it for Mega Kick I guess.

[@assistirickemorty300vezes5]

kkkkkkkkkkkkk god

[@Anonie324]

It and the sushi minigame were the two things I remembered through all these years about that game before I started seeing speedruns.

[@freddy007____9]

Off the ropes XD

[@PassTheSnails]

‘cept for omastar, im loling

[@JWinterFoxYT]

*_You know exactly why KZbin recommended this to you ;)_*

[@Enclavefakesoldier]

Yes I do....

[@DivineZenkai]

Why?

[@sketch-eee4165]

@@DivineZenkai Probably because a lot of people are angry that Game Freak took out most mons, said that it was for animation purposes and everyone proceeded to go 🤔 ironically after they revealed one of Scorbunny's moves (double kick) having the bare minimum of animation. Meanwhile an n64 pokemon game is still flexing and kicking on Sw&Sh for having more animated moves for a lot of pokemon. Or more than likely it's just 'cause KZbin's random like that.

[@WingItMan217]

Indeed I do

[@MelloriNoMori]

Actually, I came here from Doduo's flying animation from the same game.

[@Alon456]

KZbin Recommendation: "Here's a two years old video about Pokemon attack animation just to add more fire to Pokemon SwSh"

[@NameNotNeeded]

90's: OMG IMAGINE HOW GOOD IT'D LOOK 20 YEARS LATER

[@azerohiro]

Same texture, worst/nil animation. Quite the improvement in 20 years. 😂

[@imasummertreemilk5150]

That hurts

[@jeffcarroll1990shock]

20 years later: boy have I got some disappointing news for you!

[@M3rtyville]

There is also a video on this channel with animations about Mega Punch

[@CreatorsHubCreates]

Piers Mearns our animations somehow got worse

[@vicmonteir0]

These kick animations are better than the "orange foot" Double Kick in Sword and Shield LMAO

[@italosoares1613]

Exactly

[@fernando38r42]

Yes.

[@Gazing-09]

Indeed

[@lauchlinyurchuk1301]

Yeah, that ONE animation.

[@Echoesoftimelover]

Lauchlin Yurchuk Yeah, and hydro pump, sludge bomb, drill, idle animations, ANIMATIONS! So, every single one.

[@TheChildofAuraReborn]

Everybody always says "Stop using Double/Mega Kick as the primary example for the animation supposedly downgrading", but it's not just those moves. Every move is now a flashy background while the Pokemon just jumps in place with a default animation. EVERY. MOVE.

[@ChaosSolak]

Please, sometimes they "shout" while using the move. Like Drednaw using Liquidation! Shout, camera switches to the other pokémon (since Drednaw isn't actually doing anything), flashy sprite, pokémon barely flinching, job done! 2019 quality right there!

[@bma9556]

Except for the legendarys or starters because the're "special".

[@Ampharosite]

I mean... you're not wrong, but dealing with 151 Pokémon vs. dealing with 700+ of them. I will say they could definitely give each Pokémon a few different animations for physical/special, absolutely. It's not the same as what Stadium/Colo/XD/BattleRev had but it would be a start.

[@ChaosSolak]

@@Ampharosite That's the thing. This is NOT about doing 800+ pokémon all at once. It's a gradual work. The first 400 or something were done, upgrade them and tadaa! It's done for half of them! Now to animate the other half. Once that's done, they'd only have 100-ish to animate every new gen. SwiSh's been in dev since 2016 at least! Well enough time to animate all of them. And if not? HIRE MORE PEOPLE!! They have the money for that!

[@alinepiroutek8932]

@@Ampharosite Are you saying it is easier to deal with 151 in the N64 era than 800 Pokémon in Switch era? I would be happy enough if there were only 300 Pokémon in SS with beautiful new models and animations but that's not the case.

[@kid14346]

Pokemon Sword and Shield: Excludes pokemon due to 'high quality animations' Pokémon Stadium: Has better animation on old hardware

[@Hamanuna]

they're just lazy

[@beta511ee4]

Italo Caycho Torres Eh, I think it’s skewed priorities.

[@DigimonVids]

Skeeter Mania not an excuse

[@beta511ee4]

DigimonVids Or at least no real reason to focus more on a side project than a multi-billion dollar franchise.

[@DigimonVids]

Skeeter Mania ur nonsensical

[@UnStorm]

Everyone else: Use their feet to do the mega-kick Jigglypuff: *_uses their mouth_*

[@newaccount5024]

air bullet from Kirby

[@IrrelevantOaf]

The mouth is the feet... *mind blown*

[@thepuppet4321]

Drowzee: *Uses their TrUnK*

[@doggypi1532]

Clearly Jiggs has a foot for a tongue lol~

[@token1a2b3c]

Jigglypuff breath is kicking!

[@TheOfficalAndI]

Kabutops scythes even make a metallic sound when he stands on them :D

[@palharaldrindal4871]

The animator making that worked for his yen

[@Nonikt]

@@palharaldrindal4871 and he Made something truly special that is still being viewed by fans, old and new, 20 years later and hasnt been dethroned as the standard for true Quality 3d animation

[@ElectricCueball]

I don't even understand what's going on in Jynx's animation. Can't deny, though, Kabutops' animation looked pretty badass.

[@arcanist1]

She throws her blacky girly foot to the oponent (without leg, like rayman), like a front push kick. Not being racist, note! Just explaining why is hard to see, look for a foot with the same colour of her face. In fact is awsome, is like karate kids crane kick if you watch the arms.

[@mythosinfinite6736]

She launches her foot like a projectile. ...I don't know why or how either.

[@cosmictraveler1146]

Luis Armando Parra Yeah she doesn’t even have feet, in the 3D under her dress is a damn void.

[@MrTerminator3010]

I am amazed by Kabutops and disturbed by Jynx

[@SwerveStarEx]

Back in these days I think the angle they were going for was that Jynx's face was supposed to be some kind of void, which is why it just turns into hair on its defeat. Note that it doesn't use that animation starting with gen 3.

[@IronDino]

I love the fact that they coded in at least four variations of kicking; a front kick, a spinning roundhouse kick, a dropkick, and a flying double back kick. Not to mention unique animations for Kabutops and Kangaskhan.

[@ProfessorUFC]

You watch the UFC don’t you

[@VelvetSkyye]

@@ProfessorUFC because only fighting that ever occurs EVER is in your favorite sport.

[@senorlechuga8832]

Damn Kangaskhan even leaves the baby on the ground to do the kick. This is top tier quality right there. Meanwhile Sword and Shield don't have any animation. And with animation I mean in the model. It just bounces.

[@lauchlinyurchuk1301]

Bouncing is movement, that is animation. I think you meant to say better animation than

[@senorlechuga8832]

@@lauchlinyurchuk1301 Didn't know that. So just by just shaking the model it's animated?

[@lauchlinyurchuk1301]

@@senorlechuga8832 Technically yes, animation is the illusion of movement and it wasn't just shaking the feet and arms were moving

[@senorlechuga8832]

@@lauchlinyurchuk1301 I mean when it just bounces

[@sasir2013]

@@lauchlinyurchuk1301 my cousin the magician makes better illusions

[@ricardokong261]

20 years ago: pokemon launch themselves at each other Now: pokemon breathe to fight

[@KaiHyouookami]

PROGRESS!

[@tikalthewhimsicott2736]

Ricardo Kong so pokemon are hamon users?

[@thefrongier3406]

@@tikalthewhimsicott2736 AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAUAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAUAYAYAYAYAYAYAUAUAUAYAYAUAUAYUAUAUAUAUUAUAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYA AWAKEN MY MASTERS! SANTANA, WAMMU, KARS AND THE OTHER ONE I DONT REMEMBER ARE HAMON USER

[@ayindephulgence4950]

STANDO POWAH

[@Saiol1000TheCrossover]

@@tikalthewhimsicott2736 Well, there ARE Thunder-type moves, like Thunder Punch... 😏

[@starlosa]

Gamefreak: .... Nah Just displace the model vertically while we put a human foot mark on the Pokémon.

[@azerohiro]

CreatureCanyon lol they should’ve just stayed with 2D graphics if they aren’t gonna bother putting in the effort of actually rigging the moves (which isn’t even that hard, considering the size of GameFreaks staff.)

[@cursedex80]

@@azerohiro Funny enough, making the 3D models was a cost saving move, as the models could be reused through the generations with a simple retexture, while the sprites would have needed to be redone when a higher quality console kicks in.

[@thatdankguy5140]

@Magnus Von Braun They still had to redo the back sprites tho

[@ijustbevibin0425]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHu8lp13paxojM0

[@edwardhebert7333]

Anyone else feel like these animations are waaaay more detailed than what sword and shield is offering? Sad lol

[@dizzel115]

Not feel, they are. The new pokemon games might be more polished, but they lack personality and animations.

[@ksoundkaiju9256]

Edward Hebert "Quality Animation"

[@XYGamingRemedyG]

because they chose not to animate all 1000+ pokemon, much less include them

[@evilerroryt8448]

These animations are wayyyyy better it has more expession and ambition.

[@Gazing-09]

Did they had more time to do it?

[@renatoramos8834]

Snorlax uses mega kick, then earthquake as a bonus.

[@NaythonCross]

Imagine the combo

[@FirstLastname604]

See guys, SwSh animations got so much better since E3, they even added voice acti- Wait what?

[@KikonSketches]

Man imagine if they cared enough to bring back the void acting during gym battles

[@thefrongier3406]

VOICE ACTING? MY DREAM AS COME TRUE!

[@MajinZarak]

@@KikonSketches Many people despised the narrator in the Stadium games. That was unironically one of my favorite features in the game.

[@KikonSketches]

@MajinZarak I don't get why. I mean to each their own. But I loved it, made it feel like a curated battle, really helped with the world building despite the game being just a battle simulator

[@LookingForTheTop]

I wish they put this much effort in animations in the newer pokemon games. The new animation pool is so limited, even if the games now are in 3D.

[@ppfailure3]

I wish that too, but this game had only 151 Pokémon, while the new games has almost a thousand. That would´ve been too much to animate every attack on the game to each 806 Pokémon.

[@HidamariNuko]

Let's Go keeps the shitty non-animations with only 151 pokemon. Game Freak confirmed for lazy.

[@CrickettoSantalune]

It doesn't matter. They could make the game heavier or delay the release date and make the animations better.

[@iss2075]

UrgotHasCancer, they don't have to animate every attack in the game. In the Stadium games each Pokemon has about a dozen animations (stuff like Ditto, Caterpie, Kakuna, etc. seem to only have about 3), and then they program each attack to each animation. So, for example, a lot of the Mega Kick animations you see here might also be used for Double Kick, (Hi) Jump Kick, Rolling Kick, Low Kick, maybe even moves like Counter or Stomp if the game designers think they fit. They don't make an individual animation for each move. Aerodactyl, for example, uses the same animation for both Wing Attack and Earthquake. Kangaskhan uses the same animation for both Surf and Thunder, Gastly uses the same animation for Lick, Psychic, Mega Drain, Thunderbolt, Self-Destruct and Confuse Ray iirc. Also, some of the moves don't even have animations, like some Pokemon when using stuff like Bind, Fly (charing turn), Hypnosis, Psychic, Sing, Night Shade, etc, just use their idle animations if they game designers think it fits. So it's not that difficult. It would be a challenge, sure, but it could be done. They just need to make even just 10 animations for each Pokemon, then it would be like "Projectile moves use animation 1, kicking moves use animation 2, punching moves use animation 3, running moves use animation 4, biting moves use animation 5, stat increase moves use animation 6", and so on (I'm over-simplifying it, in reality they did it individually for each Pokemon, so yeah, they might have to employ someone to spend a week deciding what animation goes best with each move on each Pokemon, but who cares, they spend months making these games and they have lots of money). I actually think it would probably be EASIER to do now! The improvements in technology over the past 20 years probably more than makes up for the increase in Pokemon and moves.

[@PsyrikAntz967831]

Even in the Pokémon Sword and Shield animations I’m noticing they’re not putting any effort, and it’s a Switch game... A SWITCH GAME!

[@EHarp]

"We are gonna make the pokemon look more expressive" Yea that motionless wingull hovering in the grass has me shook.

[@breaking963]

Yup. It looks like a security drone.

[@M3rtyville]

I wonder how many pokemon will be T-Posing in that game besides Wingull

[@Jollofmuncher2000]

@@M3rtyville none actually. luckily nobody cares about wingull so a stupid wingull animation should be the least of our problems

[@MopsyDoo]

Nifty thing is in all previous 3d games wingull glides like that. A lot of it’s dex entries even used to mention how it normally doesn’t flap its wings it’s just glides on the air. So it’s not lazy animations or anything it’s literally how that Pokémon normally flies.

[@MrGullisYT]

"it didn't do much dmg" Loses half hp bar

[@M4NuX2000]

1:09 pokemon animations nowadays

[@MrLachapell]

This is miles better that the one we saw in Sword/Shield (double kick )

[@soulwarsnerd]

Not even hahahXD it's almost better 20 years ago

[@Glockenspheal]

nah, you can see clefable lean back a bit.

[@ShokudaikiriMitsutada]

Nice. lmao

[@aaron-gz]

That’s just Lord Helix being unfazed

[@mjmelo9203]

Cutting Pokemon because of the EfFoRtS they are putting in the new game, but this game has better animations

[@Daviloss]

I agree

[@carlitosbautista6400]

Blame Town, The Anime, and The TCG as some of the few reasons swsh is the way it is now

[@ayindephulgence4950]

@@carlitosbautista6400 SwSh has been in development since 2016 there is no excuse

[@carlitosbautista6400]

@@ayindephulgence4950 i didnt say that they were the only reasons that swsh is bad right now, i agree that there is no excuse for those lazy animations and recycled models when the switch can handle hundreds of pokemon at once and have those terrible graphical errors, they could have changed the game before launch or delayed if the anime and tcg was dependent on it and maybe they wouldnt have had to delay at all if they didnt split their workforce instead of having everyone focused on swsh

[@carlitosbautista6400]

TL;DR: I am not making excuses for gamefreak. I agree with you and everyones complaints about the games. Gamefreak needs to get their shit together

[@SmashMan108]

Pokemon sword & shield double kick: Every pokemon twitches lightly and you see 2 orange feet Pokemon stadium:

[@tomnuke9122]

Hypno is a straight up gangster.

[@Daviloss]

Hypno was the reason I made the video, I was casually playing a cup when I suddenly see one making that animation. I thought ohhh thats cool, I wonder what other animations different pokemon might have.

[@tomnuke9122]

LoSs A good motive my dude.

[@muichirotokitou2615]

Tom Noko ikr

[@ksoundkaiju9256]

Tom Noko it took karate XD

[@joseortega7815]

Roadhouse

[@FloridusMan]

With Jigglypuff, its not even a kick at all it just copied Kirby's air bullet attack!

[@Aurorosthebest]

tbf this game was developed by Hal. If you were them, would you not?

[@MrPenetroso]

It's also why jigglypuff is in smash.

[@joseortega7815]

Drowzee used its trunk. Lol

[@Swag_K1RBY]

Jonathan Penetra I know it’s a joke but it’s because jigglypuff was stupidly popular in Japan in the 90s

[@MrPenetroso]

@@Swag_K1RBY Really? That is interesting.

[@kyledean1966]

It's sad when a game made 20 years ago has more effort in its animation than LGPE.

[@zedek6709]

Hey man gamefreak its obviously an small indie company

[@Mariostern1]

@@zedek6709 Why are they still a small indie company, when they make so much fucking money

[@Acacius1992]

@@Mariostern1 i thing it was mean sarcastic

[@user-io9hj9ip2d]

well Pokemon Stadium was developed by Nintendo themselves not Game Freak so it's really not that suprising at all.

[@user-io9hj9ip2d]

@Hash Frowns it had minigames, gym leader castle, GB towers, a photo mode etc. "just battles" is incredibly misleading and grossly over simplyfying the game

[@GameAlicornLuna]

I kinda love how its either. 'I lift my foot!' 'Here's a kick.' 'Spin kick!' 'FLYING DOUBLE DROP KICK!!'

[@Swordbreakercl]

4:50 watch this Masuda, Snorlax put more effort with this move being lazy, than game freak with scorbunny animation.

[@lauchlinyurchuk1301]

You do realize Masuda didn't animate the move right? He's just the director....He's mostly a music composer

[@Echoesoftimelover]

Lauchlin Yurchuk Yeah and?

[@lauchlinyurchuk1301]

@@myfellowsonicfans7131 Okay, why don't YOU direct game with the strict release schedule of the Pokemon Franchise, which has been imposed by the higher ups of TCPi in order to keep the series active and therefore have to make sure the game releases on time along with multiple other projects they have to work on .

[@redrock733]

Lauchlin Yurchuk I’d like you to go watch DistantKingdom’s most recent video. Most notably around 4:45.

[@c.q.32]

@@lauchlinyurchuk1301 That just further proves that it's a rushed mess of a game that shouldn't be worth 60 dollars then.

[@liviekumori]

When a 20 years old game has better Animations than a switch game And they all have unique Animations, just look at Kabutops

[@ijustbevibin0425]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHu8lp13paxojM0

[@ijustbevibin0425]

Omg kabutops 😲😂😂 it wasn’t that good bro

[@HanaNoMachi]

This popped into everyone’s recommended all of a sudden. *I wonder why.*

[@nintendolife25]

I love the fact some of them even perform a drop kick. It’s really sad a game nearly two decades ago have more expressive animations compared to Sword and Shield...as of E3 at least.

[@blitz4779]

Snorlax's drop kick would crater a mountain

[@ijustbevibin0425]

Sword and shield is at least better than the legends and scarlet games😂

[@ijustbevibin0425]

Some Pokémon have moves just for themselves that goes for mega maxing some Pokémon get specific mega max moves

[@nintendolife25]

@@ijustbevibin0425 Which is sad, in all honesty since they are far better games. Pokémon seems to go backwards in taking advantage in powerful hardware.

[@Wryler8]

Crazy that they coded all these separate animations onto a 64 cartridge. Really makes you think of how far we’ve come

[@AyuNico]

The fucking attention paid to detail. Kangaskhan drops her baby before doing the kick since she knows she will fall on her belly... Holy shit. Meanwhile, Gamefreak in 2019 gives us the minimum effort.

[@seemeslegit3765]

And this came out in 1998 playing on a console thats outpeformed by a modern calculator

[@leonardoalvarado3204]

Gamefreak is a small indie company. Please understand. Copying animations from 6 year-old 3ds games is hard

[@ironheel4566]

​@@leonardoalvarado3204 They have in their hands the most fructific franchise of videogames of all times. This right here is a shithead mentality.

[@FlundereezeNuts]

@@ironheel4566 j o k e

[@Luckysquirrel1256]

@@ironheel4566 whoooosh

[@dandiotterzone450]

i love how much the characters in the console games move, you can REALLY feel the impact on some of them, I hope this comes to the Switch eventually

[@AffyMoon]

Ahh, this aged like, actually this aged so badly I can't compare it to anything

[@AlexxxMYLSince2013]

Maybe in gen 10 or 11 xD

[@loboz2323]

Freaking Snorlax does a Rey Mysterio kick 4:50

[@musa4574]

It’s a dropkick

[@mattkastle]

61fat 😂😂😂

[@nyoron39]

I never realized as a kid that they actually made an effort for the animations to fit with the attacks. E.g., the Jynx and Kabutops animations are really cool but I don't know if they use them for another attack. Pretty impressive, I like it.

[@iss2075]

I don't think they do. I've never seen those two animations, so they're probably only for Mega Kick. It could be interesting to hack illegal moves like Double Kick onto them, they might use those animations for those moves. Most of the animations are used for a number of moves. Aerodactyl using Earthquake has the craziest animation in this game though! They changed it for Stadium 2.

[@myfellowsonicfans7131]

You don’t notice good animations as much as you notice shit ones, or lack thereof.

[@artstrange3230]

4:41 Probably the best one of the bunch.

[@residentfacehead3465]

I prefer nidoqueens roundhouse

[@laurachistellrosetemar2009]

my friend Art 😘

[@laurachistellrosetemar2009]

i love you 🌷

[@alexistramirez]

Kabutops learned that he become an Acrobat in The Circus

[@mattkastle]

Snorlax was good too

[@matthewmcmullen9099]

Chanseys Attack Is So Low It Can’t Even One Shot Krabby That’s 50 Levels Lower Than It XD

[@iss2075]

That made me lol. It didn't even do half.

[@WihlyBT]

@Damian 2000 Stab AND 120 base power lol

[@wingedmirage4226]

At least it looked cool doing it. A for effort Chansey

[@takkoy8658]

But Krabby's highest stat is his defense, and Chansey was never meant to attack with power-based moves. Give her a break. ;w;

[@luizfelipevbf5567]

@@takkoy8658 5 base attack. That's lower than Magikarp

[@muichirotokitou2615]

Licktung is surprisingly awesome

[@Shog64]

I remember thanks to the vid why I loved Mega Kick Kabutops, Snorlax and LIckitung back in the day. Surprised how cool Hypno is, too.

[@d-w-b-c]

"I bet that working only with the 151, LGPE can do a lot of cool stuff impossible with a full dex." *creates Elite Trainers instead*

[@ephraimallen234]

I remember when I was 12 I was so shocked to see Snorlax do a drop kick but Kabutops has the sickest animation in my opinion

[@SwerveStarEx]

So many of these Pokemon likely don't have other kicking moves, so it's incredible that so many of them have an animation JUST for Mega Kick.

[@anabessa8193]

Jigglypuff use mega kick! Jigglypuff proceeds to throw beam through mouth Jigglypuff: y e s

[@calebwright8786]

Kirby air bullets

[@alphacuremother1019]

Dude 4:41 😍 can we seriously appreciate this for a second

[@saincx0m9]

plot twist: Pokemon SwSh Were rushed because they are making another stadium game , and there is every pokemon there

[@IronDino]

Now that's a plot twist I'd love to see.

[@tikalthewhimsicott2736]

Chris Smith as do I

[@ayindephulgence4950]

all would be forgiven

[@murillok913]

Yeah it’s called town, they’ve left Pokémon in the trash. GameF doesn’t care anymore.

[@Zooty13]

Or: Plot twist Game freak is lazy and only cares about making that sweet cash

I get animating moves can be hard and not that important, but it would be nice to see Pokemon actually having special animations for punch, kick, fang, tail and slash moves, as well as sound, bullet or psychic moves on the special side, and maybe even dance and protect animations. Seeing a Pokemon running to attack the foe and not just do the animation in the same spot is also a nice detail we've only had in very few games. Again, I know it's really hard to pull all of them for every Pokemon, but it would definitively be a really appreciated detail.

[@murdokdracul]

I think we've only had the running-up in one game. I wouldn't go as far as you suggest with the special and status moves. One is probably enough for all those to share. Punch/scratch, kick and tackle should be bare minimum, though.

[@laurachistellrosetemar2009]

my friend Francisco 😁

[@laurachistellrosetemar2009]

i love you 🌷

[@hopper8514]

Yeah, that’s the thing. At this point, there’s just way too many pokemon to try and do this sort of stuff with, but I think they could be done for just a few mons that would have an interesting animation idea. It also takes some time, and we know how much nintendo hates time…

[@YoshiWare]

Damn HAL Laboratory can do better attack animations than GameFreak.

[@Daviloss]

Those animations were quite good for 1998

[@Hamanuna]

@@Daviloss REALLY GOOD

[@Reoko77]

Actually, game freak dosen't do animations. The sub company Creatures Inc. does.

[@lukamegru1537]

This game has so much more effort and love put in it than sword and shield.look at when slowpoke gets hit,there is a delay to when it gets hit which referencing it's Pokedex description

[@junosoft]

That is amazing levels of attention detail by today's standards

[@quanthinh3487]

Who come here after Sword and Shield animations??

[@lunatic0verlord10]

Me.

[@laurachristellrosetemar8673]

yes ♥️😃😃😃

[@laurachristellrosetemar8673]

happy 😃😃♥️♥️♥️

[@Lucario7280]

There are people who are defending sword and shield's animations when this exists. Game freak has no excuses.

[@Lucario7280]

You can't make this shit up

[@videosalpaso5323]

Kangaskhan even left her baby on the ground to kick or Kabutops using its scythes to impulse.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

And neither do the apologists.

[@valentineover9000]

There are over 800 new Pokemon, several hundred new moves, Compared to 151 pokemon and far fewer moves. Making animations specific to each pokemon for a particular move would be would incredibly difficult nowadays. On top of that they have to design and build a much bigger region/overworld compared to this game which is basically limited to just a stadium. I'm no one of those who think Gamefreak is immune to criticism, I just think that we should at least be realistic

[@fionavar6607]

@@valentineover9000 Except that they dont intend to include 800 pokemon into Sword/Shield.. if that were the case it might be understandable.. but they will prob only add 150-200ish mons.. so really there IS NO EXCUSE

[@AlmightyKing143]

Lmao came to this video to look at the comments about sword and shield, I was NOT disappointed... But now I wanna play Pokemon Stadium.

[@murdokdracul]

Right now I'm really happy that I kept my N64

[@AlmightyKing143]

@@murdokdracul I still have mines as well, I just don't feel like plugging it up when I can download an emulator and rom lol

[@Wispii]

pokemon stadium: *has pokemon do a kick animation, while firing an effect to represent the kick, giving live to the combat* Pokemon sword and shield: We don't do that here

[@NameName2.0]

People defending Gamefreak: But I don't want a well made game!

[@honor2425]

But I don't want a- Nani?!

[@02superspeed]

i love how much effort they put into the mega kick animations. all the spin kicks and drop kick ones from random pokes were especially cool. and then the unique ones like kangaskhan and kabutops are even more epic

[@christiancinnabars1402]

I love how Wartortle’s kick is like “eh,” then it turns into Blastoise and it becomes “EGH!” You guys are complaining about the animations now in SnS, but you all should have been complaining since Gen 7. Maybe even in Gen 6 when ORAS came out.

[@murdokdracul]

True but I think people were passively excusing it back then because the games were on 3DS. We should have taken it as a warning sign, I agree.

[@Dexuz]

XY has ten times more effort than Sun and Moon, because they had to use a whole new engine and new 3D models. In fact, XY has more effort than SwSh because they just reused the models and animations from previous games.

[@myvh773]

There are two differences with generation VIII: it’s on a different hardware, so better visuals are expected (including animations), and Game Freak said that the dexit was needed to add high-quality animations.

[@EmmaSenshi]

And to think GameFreak said they're limiting the Pokémon in Galar because of "balancing" and wanting to provide more "fluid" animations when Scorbunny's double kick was just sad compared to this.

[@pey5571]

I know right? Pokemon is literally the highest grossing media franchise. They can EASILY afford better animations, or at least meet the bare-minimum requirement of having all the Pokemon in the game. It's ridiculous.

[@soulwarsnerd]

Scorbunny looked like fucking Emerald animation

[@ZudeXbox360]

@@soulwarsnerd Except the Gen 3 animations were awesome... for what they were. Like, consider Superpower for instance. In Gen 3, it was like the Pokemon was causing earthquakes to gather enough energy to fire it upon a poor fool.

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

@Oldman Isaaac except most Emerald animations were good

[@soulwarsnerd]

@@ZudeXbox360 that's what I'm saying like wtf that game is old AF and they look the same! Ofc emerald was great for being on the Gameboy, but this shit is on the switch and the animation literally is the same thing just slight displacement of the pkmn model. Actually BS I'm done with PKMN till proven other wise.

[@jasconius7627]

KZbin recommended me this and you have no idea how much I wanted to see this.

[@nyoron39]

I've saw this before but I hadn't noted Kangaskhan animation is sick as all fuck. Damn, her baby even goes off the pouch for her to do the kick, that's amazing.

[@bobbobbo168]

Notice how, even if a pokemon did not have a specific animation for the kick, they at least showed the special effect at a time appropriate for the animation they had- rather than just bouncing in place. Besides that, it's crazy how they went out of their way to show pokemon ACTUALLY USING THEIR LIMBS to coincide with the attack name. Nowadays, you have Scorbunny using his feet to Fire Punch, Wooloo headbutting with it's legs... ridiculous

[@ijustbevibin0425]

It’s crazy how anybody could enjoy Pokémon black and white when the animations are horrible😂literally exactly what you said just bouncing in place with lame effects

[@renatoramos8834]

0:35 Blastoise, you should get that checked.

[@sarah18497]

4:21 Whoa Thank you for sharing this with us!!!!

[@dju164]

4:20 wow, never thought I was gonna see Jynx foot someday. Those animations are incredible, seriously, Pokémon Stadium games are so awesome

[@mateobonavento3939]

4:49 I admit, I didn't expect him to ever be that agile when food wasn't involved.

[@scrombelloportabello7471]

2:42 YO Machamp literally does a fucking dropkick

[@proffy8778]

At first before clicking the video, I thought this was gonna be dumb. But Actually found it entertaining mainly because of the annoucer. I actually though Primape's looked the best

[@IronDino]

I'm guessing that you missed Kabutops.

[@wingedmirage4226]

Shoutout to that Raichu oneshotting an Aerodactyl with a Mega Kick critical hit XD Also was not expecting such awesome animations from Poliwhirl and Kabutops

[@Xalotha]

4:04 - Omg I thought the Kangaskhan would launch the baby O.O

[@Minish4rk360]

Wth lol

[@solidzack]

That would be the funniest shit ever. Imagine you are in an intense fight and then a kangaroo yeets her baby at you

[@AffyMoon]

KickTheBaby.mp3

[@Sheikah_Architect]

We'll be lucky if the Pokémon even LIFT THEIR FOOT in Sword and Shield...

[@MrTerminator3010]

Wait, Jynx has legs?!? I always thought the "dress" was just a solid mass, like a slug or something!!!

[@what.5693]

MrTerminator3010 why did you say that That thought is going to haunt me

[@charcoal200]

I dont think anyone knows what the deal with Jynx is at this point. In at least one Stadium game, knocking Jynx out resulted in her body disappearing into her hair, which then fell to the ground. As if its body is just a mass of darkness emitted from its hair. The anime has shown it with feet before. And its 3d model now has it with spikes coming out of its dress for some reason. What even is Jynx?

[@NurseValentineSG]

Sometimes the kicks don't make alot of sense... but still, weird animation is better than absolutely none while an orange foot appears. The foot isn't even shaped like the foot despite the fact that footprints are always in the pokedex!

[@GamerGuy249]

Hey guys, I just woke up from a coma. If pokemon animations where like this back then, I sure can't wait for my copy of the newest game to arrive in the mail to see how great the new animations must be.

[@user-rf5px3gh3p]

0:51 nidoqueen went into full Jackie Chan mode

[@mcj88]

Everyone talking about Kabutops, but y'all are sleeping on Snorlax at 4:48 - the Thousand-Pound Dropkick!

[@EdmacZ]

Nintendo 64 1999: I can handle many different Pokémon models and unique animations for those models. Nintendo Switch 2019: Can’t do that bro. Well rather I can, but I don’t want to.

[@welton9748]

The reasons why this is impressive and the devs deserve respect: 1. They bothered making animations for almost every Pokémon who could learn this move. 2 - Most gen 1 Pokémon only had this single move as the one who would do this animation and they still cared. 3 - Many players wouldn't even see them due to Mega Kick being a bad move and easily replaced by most reliable ones BUT they still cared. 4 - It was this move that taught us Jynx had feet, and they are uglier than Oprah's feet. 5 - They even added a "double mega kick" for the Pokémon who used both legs.

[@supersmashbro596]

jigglypuff: *spits on opponent* announcer: AWESOME MEGA KICK.

[@severafan9262]

"BUT BUT BUT THEYLL FIX IT IT WAS JUST EARLY FOOTAGE" - A naive fan

[@ness7144]

2:53 SLOWBRO used MEGA JUMP!

[@nobodybw1962]

Anyone else notice how Doduo raises its finger and wags it, like "Nah, I'm not done yet."

[@forgettablename6436]

Hey wait a second, this isn't pokemon! The pokemon have good animations! That can't be!

[@Nocturne22]

The Jigglypuff one is ridiculously cute the way it expands like a balloon and floats up..

[@crazymulatto8981]

Nidoqueen with the Spinning Hook Kick 😮

[@Radnick0024]

Came here to see my man Kabutops’ kick, looks like I’m not the only one! 🔥

[@mistashadow]

3:39 It's nice to see that even Hitmonchan kicks. Wait...

[@leonides1527]

Hitmonlee: I have several questions

[@ProctorDorkchop]

*A savage attack!!* *A savage hit!!* *In the weak spot!!* *A savage attack!!* *How's that!?* *Ah!!* *A savage hit!!* *Ah!!* *There is goes!!* *A savage hit!!* *How's that!?* *A savage attack!!* *There it goes!!* *A savage hit!!* *How's that!?* *A savage hit!!* Never gets old...

[@Freefork]

*Whats the matter, trainer?*

[@MontezBoydStarks504]

Stadium: expressive kicks that have force behind them, and unique animations for each Pokemon Sword/Shield: *boing*

[@womble901]

Some of them missed the memo that this is mega *kick* but it's still better than modern Pokemon animations.

[@techimonkey3257]

I knew there was a reason why I keep weirdly wanting to play Battle Revolution when I could just play Pokemon on my switch instead.

[@IanDavid-k9q]

0:00 Nobody talks about how well charmander kicks

[@jorges.1120]

Poliwrath and Machamp doing drop kicks is perfect.

[@myfellowsonicfans7131]

When I was watching Werster runs of the Stadium games it didn’t take me long to appreciate the fact the animations are all far better than anything we’ve received on the 3DS and now the Shitch