Hello Bill, how often do fully aquatic Pokemon such as Seaking and Lumineon come onto land? Can wild fish Pokemon float in the air when they come onto land the way fish Pokemon owned by humans do? I’ve always been curious about how aquatic Pokemon move and battle on land.

Fully aquatic pokémon don’t often come onto land, no, and the reason why is because they don’t often need to. Their nests and primary food sources are in the water, and it’s far easier for them to travel while fully submerged. It just expends far too much energy to come up on land, especially when there’s very little payoff (in that there’s nothing much to eat).

On that note, tamed fish pokémon only “float” by way of a battlefield mod that may be extended by a trainer shortly before the battle. This is what happens if that mod is not applied. That’s also just about what a wild aquatic pokémon would look like when on land—although tamed specimens generally stay in one place and only moved when ordered, whereas wild aquatic pokémon are always hopping about in a frantic attempt to get at whatever they came ashore to obtain before heading back into the water as quickly as they can.