>>39772740Notice how every Pokémon eligible for sky battling's sprite's airborne in the newer games. Gastly and Haunter's are, for instance. Guessing they either thought flying Gengar looked retarded or felt it more important to have him correspond with previous grounded sprites. Either way, Levitate was the mechanics rationale for non-flying types being in, so they replaced it.
>>39772771Right ? Guessing that's the point at which the extent of "we want to make each game feel new" ends comes :^)