What is this "footprint" sprite in Gen 3 games? [closed]

Question

I was looking through Pokemon gen 3 sprites in Spriters Resource and I found this (), what could it be?!

Comments

It's probably from the pokédex.

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It's an in-battle animation sprite, not a Pokédex footprint.

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It's probably used for kicking moves like stomp or jump kick.

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Every foot based move in gen3 seems to use the same foot sprite for it's animation, which isn't the one you found. What was the file name of the foot sprite?

Answer 1

Here are the sprite animations for every single kicking move in Generation III.

• Jump Kick
• High Jump Kick
• Double Kick
• Stomp
• Mega Kick
• Triple Kick
• Low Kick
• Blaze Kick
• Rolling Kick

Except Low Kick, all of the animations use a different, more canine footprint in their animation. I also tested some moves like Thrash and found nothing.

There is also a chance that it is just an unused file.