>>44509093>between needing to carry around a drum at all and having giant rockstar hair, it’s so awkward and clunky right down to how it moves ingame- it just grows its sticks on its hands and such.It doesn't have a stereotypical rocker personality though. It's not a loud angry punk, it's a gorilla who keeps harmony in the area it calls home. I think his hair is fine as well, though the cowlick is a bit silly (and I'm pretty sure it was put there for the "no pokemon can be too cool" reason they gave a while back).
Honestly I think it's the majority of it's animations in-game are good: it's constantly rocking back and forth like it's keeping a beat going in it's head, which is a good idle animation for a musical pokemon, and his hand movements whenever he puts out the drum seem to imply that he actually keeps the sticks in his leafy sleeves; which both makes sense and gives that part of his design a purpose. The only reason they pop in is because GF didn't know how to make them smoothly slide in so they took a more choppy alternative. And I can believe them shafting him on that front since they kinda shafted both Grookey and Sobble's lines.
>>44509108Apes and Monkeys are known for using tools so they probably got the idea from that.
>>44509120>Instead of just punching foes' faces in like a badass it sits over a silly drumTo be fair, that's more or less just a limitation from his animations, since he pretty clearly has moves where he pummels people. He probably uses Wood Hammer by just grabbing the stump and bashing the opponent upside the head with it.
Some of his attack animations could use work but aside from that I think he's honestly pretty golden. I don't even think his current attack animations are that bad. I'll admit it's a matter of preference or taste, but I think Rillaboom is a solid mon and he's personally one of my favorite pokemon of all times.
