Wailord is the biggest Pokemon of all time. He's a whopping 47 feet long, and much more voluminous than the other "longest" Pokemon like Steelix and Rayquaza. He weighs 877 pounds, which puts him in the top 10 heaviest, as well.
However, compared to the actual Blue Whale, Wailord's obvious inspiration, it's a featherweight. Blue Whales get up to 100 feet long, and can weigh 200 tons. Which means Wailord is half the size, and less than 1/200th of the weight. Holy freaking shit, I never realized how heavy Blue Whales are before, goddamn.
Anyway, it's a little odd to think that with all the craziness of Pokemon, they still haven't made anything bigger than what we actually have. But maybe that's for the best, because this isn't Digimon, after all. Trying to impress with scale alone often fails, and leads to a size creep. And only a Water creature could possible become that large.
But yeah, Wailord set out to be the biggest, and to be a big fat whale, and it is. mission accomplished.
Overall: 7/10
Rated 7/20, so it's actually not that good.
ReplyDeleteso you're going to rate out of 20 from now on?
ReplyDeleteI was going to edit it to 14/20, and say how Wailord is so big it needs a bigger scale, but I don't want to confuse myself when I go back to tally up the score.
ReplyDeleteThe smallest real-life creature is smaller than the smallest Pokémon. The biggest real-life creature is bigger than the biggest Pokémon. That's just how Pokémon is. A tight spectrum in sizes.
ReplyDeleteAlso, some corrections...
If the length ratio is 1 : 2, then the size (volume) ratio would be 1 : 8. The blue whale is actually 8 times the size of Wailord.
877 pounds is approximately 400 kilograms. That's 1 / 500th the weight of a blue whale. 1 / 200 is a vast underestimation. And well, Wailord is an airship Pokémon. It's not all flesh, so don't be too weirded out that the size and weight ratio doesn't match.