How to make levitating mons sit in S/V?

Question

i am an avid Pokemon photographer, and having flying mons (Such as salamence, elektross, honchkrow and corviknight) standing would help a ton with more photo oppertunities. Unfortunately, I don't have the slightest clue how.

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If you press down the left control stick, your Pokémon will stay still. I think flying mons might still levitate. Not for sure.

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From testing so far, nothing seems to make the Pokemon stop levitating/flying, not even pressing the left control stick. I'm going to do some more testing though.

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So I found a consistent method to take pictures of grounded flying Pokemon:

Send out a flying Pokemon (with a standing animation available) using ZR. Then, press the left control stick to make them stand still. Slowly advance to your Pokemon while spamming the A button so that you can interact with them from as far away as possible (so you can ensure your Pokemon are in the picture). Interact with A to make it go into it's standing animation (if it doesn't go for it, press the left stick again, back away a bit and try again. If it lowers but doesn't get on the ground, just keep spamming A until it fully gets on the ground). While it's in the animation, spam the down arrow button (for just regular pictures) or the minus button (to go to the Pokedex, Profile, then Profile Picture) to pull up the camera app. From there, apply a filter or whatever (just don't turn on the music), and take your picture.

There are a couple flaws, most notably being:
-You can't move around in or after you exit the camera app or the Pokemon returns to its flying animation, meaning you can only really take front shots. This means you're also at a set distance to take pictures from.
-If you take too long, the Pokemon might fall asleep.
-Again, the music disrupts the standing animation.
-Some Pokemon (like Roaring Moon and his wide-ass wings) are near impossible to take solo pictures of because you're they'll be too close to the camera for them to show up on it.

Those were the main flaws I could find. If this is good enough for an answer let me know.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH, yes this works completely fine as an answer. I would add 2 more things tho
1. It flies away after like 30 seconds
2. it can emote

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What do you mean emote?

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they sometimes do an action while standing still, the same ones from the music.

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Ooh, interesting.

Answer 1

After many attempts and fails, I found a consistent method. The steps are:

1. Send out a flying Pokemon (with a standing animation available) using ZR.
2. Press the left control stick to make them stand still.
3. Slowly advance to your Pokemon while spamming the A button so that you can interact with them from as far away as possible (so you can ensure your Pokemon are in the picture).
4. Interact with A to make it go into it's standing animation (if it doesn't go for it, press the left stick again, back away a bit and try again. If it lowers but doesn't get on the ground, just keep spamming A until it fully gets on the ground).
5. While it's in the animation, spam the down arrow button (for just regular pictures) or the minus button (to go to the Pokedex, Profile, then Profile Picture) to pull up the camera app.
6. From there, apply a filter or whatever, and take your picture.

There are a couple flaws, most notably being:

• You can't move around in or after you exit the camera app or the Pokemon returns to its flying animation, meaning you can only really take front shots. This means you're also at a set distance to take pictures from.
• If you take too long, the Pokemon might fall asleep. Additionally, the Pokemon will return to flying after a while.
• Some Pokemon (like Roaring Moon and his wide-ass wings) are near impossible to take solo pictures of because they'll be too close to the camera for them to show up on it.
• Not necessarily a flaw, but as you mentioned in the comments, the Pokemon can emote. However, using the music to do so is a bit iffy, since sometimes it works and sometimes it makes them return to their flying animation.

Thanks to Anchor9 for reminding me of the left stick, thanks to Staraptor and Roaring Moon for helping me figure out step 4, and thanks to Bombirdier for sparking the idea of this.

If you manage to find an easier method to pull this off, then do share, but until then, I'm glad I could help!