>>48202098>because they look like aquatic animals while you're at it.that's a completely different thing though
magnemite literally flies just as well as starly does
you say it's not tied to actual game mechanics, but if there were boons like that applied to groups of pokemon, it WOULD be a game mechanic, and one that would make a lot of sense
in the same vein, yes, making a water resistant group of pokemon would also be a mechanic