>>38112255The easy answer is “GameFreak is a bunch of lazy cunts and know people will buy their games no matter what”
The actual answer is because they made the floating animations for a dumb gimmick they never used again and based all the attack animations off of that gimmick and used standing animations for Amie and didn’t base anything but affection animations off of them. They COULD use the standing animations as a base for new attack animations, but we all know they won’t
