Wailord is the biggest Pokémon around, but its size seems to be a problem in Sword & Shield… and really, the entire Pokémon franchise.

It's no hush-hush that Wailord is the Pokémon version of a whale. And like well-nigh whales, Wailord is big. Huge even. Well, sometimes. It depends on what part of the massive Pokémon media empire that Wailord happens to exist showcased in.

Co-ordinate to the Pokédex (as seen in Bulbapedia), a fully grown Wailord is 14.v thousand (47 feet) long and 398 kg (877 lbs). By volume, that makes Wailord the largest Pokémon of all, but it's nonetheless roughly 150 lbs lighter than a Snorlax.

To put this into perspective, that makes Wailord roughly the size of a city motorbus. However, Wailord's displayed size often strays quite far from the Pokédex.

Wailord
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Starting with the anime, nosotros see that Wailord'due south size is more than like a large yacht than a coach, and indeed often substitutes for ocean-going vessels in the show. Those simply watching the drawing would certainly exist convinced that Wailord is as enormous equally its namesake.

Video games are more of a mixed pocketbook. In original Game Boy Advance games, Wailord doesn't appear whatsoever larger than near other Pokémon, but fast forward to more modernistic Pokémon titles with 3D graphics and you'll find Wailord to have grown to his true shape. Pokémon Battle Revolution and Pokémon GO both bear witness enormous Wailords that are roughly the size of buses, accurate to the Pokédex.

But that's non always the instance even in modernistic titles. Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness resize Wailord in guild to fit the battle surface area. Y'all'd recollect the Nintendo Switch could handle total-size Wailord, right? Sadly,Sword & Shield also shrink Wailord down so that it doesn't completely fill the screen during a fight.

However, with the release of theIsle of Armor DLC, Wailord tin can be spotted in the overworld at the huge size represented in the anime. Merely in another twist, when y'all have Wailord follow you effectually outside of its Pokéball, it seems to shrink downwards to a somewhat more convenient size (even if that size is still cumbersomely huge in comparison to most Pokémon).

The truth is that Wailord's size is completely arbitrary. It will be the size of an aircraft carrier in one game and the size of an inflatable pool toy in the side by side. At this point, the only mode to justify this variance is to retroactively say that Wailord has the ability to alter its volume at will depending on the surround it finds itself in.

Peradventure that'll be what new trainers read under Wailord in the side by side game's Pokédex.

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