>>57285454Just give it a static position on the ground and when it attacks a simple flapping animation, you can play with this resource in different ways like in aerial battles using a static pixel art with the wings extended, and when the Pokemon is limited to the ground by some movement it stays in its static position, like the old paralysis animations.
This could be done since old games like Mario 3, remember the flying movements of the paragoombas or the flying bum bum?