Doesn't Wailord still hold that record of size/weight ratio? Because it's 47' 07'' and weighs 877.4lbs. Which...yea...is heavier than Dondozo but Wailord is also bigger in height/length.
So, sure, maybe it wouldn't literally fly away, but a stiff breeze might sincerely mess it up. And, beyond that, this IS a creature that supposedly lives in the water. For example, that block of wood that he showed at the beginning of the episode floating mostly out of the water? That was probably something with a density around 500 kg/m^3. That's over 200x the density of a wailord. The amount of force that would be required for that thing to submerge even halfway would be absurd. In its natural state, it wouldn't be IN the water, it'd be ON TOP OF the water, waggling around, trying to gulp down enough of it to get more than a couple of inches of itself beneath the surface. In order to fully submerge, it would have to fill something like 90% or more of its volume with water. We'd see great swaths of wailord bobbing along on the surface like they were Arceus's kid himself, rolled wildly about by stiff gusts of wind that would change the air pressure above them enough to catch airtime.
@@VannyBeumer Kind of? We see it half submerged in the water, chilling. I don't think you fully grasp the severity of the issue here...Google a picture of a basketball into the water. Look at how it floats almost entirely out of the water, just the very bottom bit being wet. A Basketball's density is 90 kg/m3. Even that is 40 times more dense than the Wailord. It's more like an air-filled balloon.
The problem with the "will float away into space" aspect is that his interior might be largely hallow which would increase his density. But regardless it wouldn't be able to ever submurge into water
# 0001 If they made Wailord about as heavy as its real life counterpart. He would be so busted with the move Heavy Slam. Especially if it's a Steel Tera. Granted Grass Knot would be the counter but still!
Air has lots of weight, and you "bench press" it every day. If you were to find yourself on an atmosphere-less planet with a gravity precisely equal to Earth's you'd still feel really light because there wouldn't be any air pressing on you.
Air does indeed have a weight, otherwise how would the atmosphere not just immediately be left behind in space? Also, how would helium float? Helium floating on air is similar to a regular balloon floating on water, it wouldn't happen if water didn't weigh anything either. Air is made up of gases, gases are made up of molecules and molecules have weight.
American public transport was killed off by the automotive industry as they bought the companies and torn down the transportation, so if you wonder why almost all Americans drive, it’s cause most are decent public transport was removed
Kinda chuckled when Patterz heard the real blue whale weight. Not understanding the Squared-Cubed Law, and then not two minutes later "Air has weight?!" Not understanding Air Pressure. Rather Silly. Lol
I still think the pokémon world has different core physics and stuff that makes these things plausible. Copium, I know, but I just don't see how real-world physics can still be assumed to apply to pokémon. I mean, it was made by a god llama that made dragon and fae children, so that's already very different to however our world may or may not have been created. Whatever caused our world to exist, it wasn't a llama with superpowers. So the base conditions are already drastically different.
It mostly feels like pokemon's height and weights (somewhat) make sense until you compare it to other pokemon. Ofc there are absolute exceptions, for most popular exceptions, Charizard, Nido's and Lucario heights.
Not fully sure but think MatPat may be using pixel measurements to determine Wailords length? The Pokédex only list one “hight” (14.5 m) which is actually its height (top of its head to its belly) as opposed to its length (head to tail). Kinda odd they don’t list the length like most fish Pokémon
What the Pokédex lists does refer to Wailord's length (MatPat addresses this in the video), the 'dex just always says "height" for all Pokémon even if that's not what it's measuring. The problem is you can't calculate volume with just length, you need other measurements, like width and height.
So while it may not float, due to it's relative buoyancy in air, someone in the pokemon universe probably could bench-press a Wailord. If you can bench press ~165 kg, you could bench press the average Wailord. Current Ben Press WR is 612.5kg, so more than3.5 Wailords
It feels weird knowing that I am slightly taller than a Charizard despite it has always been depicted as being able to ride on comfortably when flying.
4:00 My guess is they couldn't put enough digits in the old school pokedex entries without it looking weird in the UI so the dropped several significant figures off.
sorry to be the fun police or a nerd but I don’t think air has a weight, nor if it does it’s really minuscule. However it has a density and anything less dense than air could technically fly, Hense helium makes balloon flies. Btw when you said you can’t benchpress air? You can, it’s called cardio :D
Of course air has weight. Have you ever filled a balloon with air? It just falls. But with helium? It floats, because helium is lighter than air. Not to mention, if air had no weight, you probably wouldn’t even feel it. Hurricanes wouldn’t be a big deal.
