>>47610943>What I'm getting at, is that a child lacks the strength to properly wield a sledgehammer given how heavy it is. And it's easy to dislocate your shoulder if you don't have enough grip, so giving a 10-year-old child a sledgehammer is a bad idea.The player character is 11 at the youngest, and 17ish at oldest. They can easily lift some of the sledgehammers and pickaxes on the market considering kids are mining diamonds in third world countries. A small sledgehammer weighs 4 lbs. Even the heavy duty ones only weigh 20 lbs with bigger general use ones being 10 lbs. We could even say they'd use a pickaxe instead, but the point is they're light enough to be used by the player characters. When I was a teenager I was working in a warehouse and was regularly lifting stuff heavier than sledgehammers and I'm not a very big guy. Yes, the trainers smashing the rocks with a sledgehammer in a couple hitd isn't realistic but nothing about Pokémon is. Hell, Pokémon smashing the rocks with their fists isn't any more realistic because that level of force would cause severe damage to opposing Pokémon like broken bones. That's also disregarding all the literally impossible stuff the Pokédex says about Pokémon like Slugma and Magcargo being as hot as the surface of the sun, and the fsct that Wailord is less dense than air.
>>47611488Except y'know Surf, Fly, Dive in Hoenn, Rock Climb in Sinnoh, and arguably Strength and Rock Smash since the former is used a lot towards the end of the games and in optional dungeons, and the latter is used in a lot of caves. Flash, Cut, Whirlpool, and Defog are the only HMs that don't see frequent use outside of optional areas.
