Mathematically Proving which Pokémon Should Learn Surf 

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What if Rhydon’s Rock-Type skin is made of the igneous rock pumice, or some similar magical and somehow durable rock / mineral which allows it to float like pumice on the water’s surface?

It’s just because the height and radius he chose meant m/(h*r^2) = p So because the formula for the volume contains pi, by chance (not a very low chance mind you) he happened to select heights and radiuses a couple of times such that the density of the pokemon multiplied by pi equals the density of water. This also means the ratio is exactly pi.

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"Mathematically proving which Pokémon should learn Cut"

I would edge a bulbasaur

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Brb calculating the tensile strength of Bulbasaur vines

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Clampearl is also shown to not be neutrally buoyant in New Pokémon Snap. It can only swim actively and in the same manner as real-life clams (which, oddly enough, can swim).

Also in Legends Arceus, you often find Shellos and Gastrodon on little islands out in the water, but never IN the water.

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For real, they have Pokémon made of solid metal weighing less than my dog

When the whale-sized pokemon is so light that it (under a cylindrical approximation) doubles as a blimp*, but somehow Ash can carry a hippopotas on his head...despite the fact that it weighs more than him. But he can punt telegraph pole sized logs, so that boy can LIFT *Game Theory proved that it actually can't, using the 3D model from the games and a CAD program - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z9MP-Wh_Ips.html

One of the most accurate, yet outlandishly high seeming weights in pokemon is Mudsdale who neighs in at 920 kilograms, This sounds stupidly high but Clydesdale horses (the obvious namer and inspiration) can weigh between 771 and 998 kilos according to a quick google search. So if pokemon were ranked by how far they weigh from how far they SHOULD weigh, Mudsdale would be accurate. I only learnt this because of a romhack where a gym leader gimmick is that in their battle the speed is based on weight.

I remember one scene where Brock/Takeshi was able to lob a Forretress with _one arm_ Forretress weighs 126 kilograms.

​@@ovrsurge4689does the pokedex use kg's i thought it was pounds... maybe just misremembering

And in the Hoopa Movie

well horsea is a seahorse and eevee does a doggypaddle i think, tatsugiri iirc has the lil inflatable swim bladder sac

A key to Surf is also that they’re large enough for you to ride ontop of them.

Granted horsea SHOULD just grab onto wires, plants, wiglett necks, beer bottles, & etc They wouldn't move around a lot at all

I skimmed this and thought you were saying you subscribed at 500k and I thought “I wish I found him that early” He really feels like a big RU-vidr

nope, he ignored way too many factors. takes 4 times damage from water attacks, but can literally swim in that element without taking damage... checks out same problem with charmander and its entire evolution line. just because its not very dense and bipedal doesnt mean it can swim. if the flame on its tail gets extinguished, it DIES!!! other fire pokemon like magmar have a similar problem, and pokemon like mekargo are hotter than the sun. so they would evaporate water till they run out of energy and die. so no swimming there. other pokemon, like that sandcastle ghost would just dissolve... same with some ice types. if they get thrown in water, they would melt cause water is an excellent conductor of heat. and some lightning types cant control their electricity. so if they are in a conductive material, they would be depleted of energy and die. then there is pokemon like zubat and golbat. just cause they arent dense doesnt mean they can navigate in water, so if they are face up, they are stuck there and cant escape. if they are face down, they just drown....

@@dervakommtvonhinten517 too long didn't read, video is good though

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⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@dervakommtvonhinten517so…everything you talked about literally doesn’t matter. This is a video on if a Pokemon can theoretically swim without diving into the logic on how they do. He also addresses the water thing, saying that he believes it wouldn’t matter. It is thus safe to assume he is applying this logic to everything else. For the charmander line, You do have a point here, except for the fact that we’re talking about theoretically being able to float. The pokemon that are supposedly hotter than/as hot as the sun would melt through the earth before they got anywhere near water, but because we’re not taking that stuff into consideration…and the fact that the planet is still existing… The sandcastle wouldn’t actually desolve considering it’s ability would make it more packed together. It’s also a ghost. So y’know. Oh, and ice isn’t weak to water. It used to resist it in fact. If that was an issue, no ice type would learn surf. Conclusion, you’re not fun. Pokemon is supposed to be. We’re posing a joke question and applying a legitimate solution to it. The minutiae doesn’t matter when you have Pokemon who float despite having zero means to do so.

I have seen a youtuber (United Play) using the Sword and Shield pokemon models. Matpat on Game Theory also did that for his video on Wailord (he found it can't fly)

Game Theory did this in a video and found that Wailord could NOT float in air. The approximations of volume to the cylinder or a cylinder with two hemispherical caps, etc are, apparently, very impactful to approximate calculations' results.

and both ash and lilly carry it around like nothing, kinda is a point for the ash's coma idea, as in a dream everything can happen:D

​@@ElysiaWhitemoonOmegaI mean the thing also floats so it's more like carrying a levitating object sooo

@@MetronaJ true about that

I think something similar could be going on with Dondozo. Maybe theres just a lot of empty space in its mouth?

Steel/Flying Ball Mode (TM) Steelix form next game please Gamefreak

yep

also, we need a rock smash list

Yeah....the pokedex weight data makes no sense at all. An everage rhino should weigh at least 3,080 lbs or ~1,400 kg. Looking at Rhydon, he looks like he'd weigh more than even the average rhino, but the pokedex writer knows like nothing about the real world so the weight data should be taken with a grain if salt.

Agreed. Came for Pokémon, stayed for good humor and educational content.

If a Pokémon can swim forward and "surf" it can swim downwards and "dive" As long is dense enough to be able to counteract its own buoyancy

I like the idea that when Kyogre goes Primal, it IMMEDIATELY rockets to the surface and is dragged into the air, screaming as it undergoes rapid decompression, while Rayquaza looks over and shakes its head.

Well in wishiwashi case, the school is filled with water or air. I imagine he only floats in air if the space between the whishiwashis is vacuum.

What is your profile picture from? Did you make it?

P.S. Strength next?

Yes that would've been a lot of work plus the shapes that make up the sprites would need to be estimated anyways so it's better to just make one blanket estimation for all of them

It would have been too much work, but it would have been 20 times more accurate as that shows Wailord is actually NOT lighter than air

​@@wheniamaloneatnightisneakd4088that may be true but the current approximations are often very innacurate. Wailord is not lighter than air if you use the model ibstead of a cylinder

The models are actually already scaled to Pokédex height, they're only rescaled by the game itself.

Walk on? Which games imply this specific part of your comment?

Huh? Did i miss something in the last few gens?

All models since X and Y have been true to size actually (if you get the data in the correct units), they're just rescaled in-game (with different scales for different situations).