>>26582410>>26582728>>26582904These. The models are miles above Battle Revolution. Some of these models are actually fucking amazing in quality, they just aren't giving them good animations.
Salamence's model is not, by necessity, flying. It lands in Amie. They simply refuse to use that landed animation in battles for whatever reason (I blame Sky battles, fuck that battle mode)
I, too was a spritefag up until I really looked at some of those models. They are gorgeous, just oddly textured and poorly animated. The potential is there, GF just isn't acting on it.
The attack and damage animations they are using now should be the middle selection. The minimalist animation would just have everything removed for speed, while the detailed set would have longer, more detailed things, like Sableye's old damage animation, Honchcrow's faint animation, or whatever.
But hey. This isn't the first time GF has literally sat on something amazing for no good reason.