[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

On the subject of Vitality amounts, I noticed two strange trend that was quite prevalent throughout the Pokedex : All snake-like Pokémon have abnormally large HP pools, and that the heavier the 'mon is, the more base HP they will have . Ekans, Onyx, Dragonair Servipor, Garaydos, Miltonic, Steelix, Serperior, Drampa.... all these Pokémon have rather high base HP, compared to other Pokémon. Heavier Pokémon have huge HP pools, but usually have high disobedience to balance out things. Dhelmise has 12 HP, which is pretty dang high for a mono evo Pokémon!

Yeah, the writers decided to base HP values on the size (and partially weight, I guess) of the pokemon rather than in-game stats.  The Attributes are where the stats are mostly reflected.  There's still odd things like Blissey only having 2 Vitality at max, though...I get that it's frail physically in the games, and is rather average in size, but you'd expect it to take more than 2 or 3 hits since it's known for being such a defensive beast in the games...