If your Flying Pokemon can carry you all throughout the region, it can carry you past a small tree, or rock, or a waterfall. I really don’t get it.
Some games have need the HM Waterfall to progress to the end, but can’t your Pokemon just fly you to the top? There’s no need to trudge through one.
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You can only fly to places you have been before.
I am not sure what the actual reason for that limitation is, but presumably the pokemon needs to be trained to fly/land at a certain location. There may be certain criteria which makes certain places easier for this training, as Pokemon centers seem to be the easiest.
Pokemon are incredibly, amazingly stupid.
A Pidgeott, which is a bird that can fly, can’t learn how to fly into something really hard unless you give it a special CD rom. And then it has to forget how to run into things really hard in order to learn that.
Pokemon can’t even know how to do more than 4 things. No more.
Flying pokemon can’t be trusted to fly to places you haven’t been to, because they’re just that stupid. You can’t just go “see that mountain? Fly me up it!” They’ll stare at you without any comprehension. Trying to fly them to anywhere that isn’t a fly point is probably like trying to operate a bad GPS with no connection.
These stupid idiots know basically nothing outside of beating the crap out of each other, and posing on a stage for talent shows. You want them to fly over a rock? Sorry, they only know “fly to city you’ve been to” or “fly real hard into someone”, not “fly over rock.”
So the the head-canon I created in like 2002 was that they can always fly, but don’t have the temperance to let a whole ass person ride them. I assume HM’s are a compartmentalized training. Sorta like how you can’t just throw a saddle on any horse and start riding, but through training you can.
You also have to consider energy consumption. Why get a (a lot of the time) tiny ass bird to carry me over something my boy machop could punch for shits and gigs. waterfall? my boy gyrados basically just has to straighten out and we’re at the top.
The reason for only going to places you’ve been to is because the main character is the closest thing to gps it has. They’re also a stupid ten year old, who can probably only tell you where they’ve been, not necessarily where they’re going. They don’t know that where they’re going is at the top of the waterfall, so why waste my pokémon’s energy when they may need to fly directly to a poke center. not to mention most of these obstacles are in caves.
in the end of the day it’s a gameplay mechanic, and doesn’t have an effect on PP so there probably isn’t a ‘good answer’ but that’s the one i came up with when i was like 7 and it’s held up long enough for me not to think about it too much.
They can’t carry you that far because the have to land 1 turn later