Best and Worst Attack Animations

[Mustardear]

A tackle, not a "tilt forward and they take damage"

Unfortunately, making an animation of each and every sprite running towards the opponent and tackling them to the ground would require large amounts of disk space and time, and this would have to be done for every contact move, twice for every Pokemon (one for your Pokemon and one for the opponent's). And even then it would look sloppy.

 

[Tyranitar freak]

Favorites:
Gen IV Extremespeed. Kinda makes it look like they just go so fast they dissapear, then reappear and wipe out the opposing pokemon.
HG/SS Hyper beam. I like the whitish light in the background as the blast is fired.
Any Gen IV flame based attacks. Epicness.

Hated:
Gen III hyper beam. Always looks like they're firing skittles
Gen IV Crunch. Where'd the rocks come from?
Gen IV Ice beam. As strong as it is, it should do more damage.

 

[shadow_lugia]

I preferred the Gen. III Extremespeed because it seemed so much faster. The three little attack things in Gen. IV are so slow. In Gen. III it was like "Whe whe whe pew pew pew wawawawawawawaa." In Gen. IV it was like "Whe whe whe. Pew. Pew. Pew. Wawawawawawawaa."

 

[Cinders]

Doubleslap is one of the worst. Because it's a move that usually hits twice, and the animation shows a hand slapping twice for each hit.

Quadruple slap?

 

[1. Luftballon]

...it hits up to five times.

 

[Vipera Magnifica]

I'm pretty sure the game developers have a great time coming with things they don't think ten year olds will catch.

Like hyper beam on a dragonite?

 

[Mustardear]

Like hyper beam on a dragonite?

Yep, and Megahorn on DPPt Heracross.