>>54766460In the games a especially weak fish pokemon know splash at an early level to symbolize this uselessness in battle.
Other "stronger" fish pokemon like goldeen or finneon can use their horns for peck or throw their body weight with pound. As they grow their ability to materialize water does as well. Yet all variations of their own movesets at this point are just variations of throwing their weight around or spitting up water.
So even with all this training the best a seaking can hope for is to poke someone's eye out or for a lumineon to knock someone out with a really big hop.
They fucking suck. Nobody uses these pokemon for a reason and they are meant to suck because fish pokemon suck at battling outside of water.
But what about inside water? Shouldn't they have something to represent them getting stronger in water?
Well they do! Both seaking and lumineon have swift swim as normal abilities.
So there you go. That is why you only see wild fish pokemon in the ocean and why only fishermen who are near coastlines and rivers use fish pokemon
