Dragonite is smaller than Dragonair?!

DragonairDragoniteAren’t Pokemon meant to get bigger when they evolve?

Is that Dragonite special in anyway?

I realise there are a few questions in there but I couldn’t be bothered to do 3-4 separate questions.

Thanks in advance!

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Edit: Original answer was awful, so I re-wrote this.

Dragonite is smaller than Dragonair according to the Pokedex because the Pokedex measures length, not standing height. Dragonair is “longer” than Dragonite.

As for the giant Dragonite from the anime,here’s a Twitter thread from Dr. Lava on the topic. The head writer of the anime at the time, Takeshi Shudo, said it “might be a rare mutated form of Dragonite”.

Dr. Lava also notes that the writers tend to “make it up as they go along”. You should not use the anime as a reference point for the games (and vice versa). They exist in separate canons.

That dragonite I the anime was special ,it was said it was a legendary and wasn’t compared to the averege dragonite

It makes sense that a Pokemon would grow as it evolves - in order to become stronger; it just seems that Dragonite’s grew width ways and not length. In fact mass from the tail/ body of Dragonair went into making Dragonite wider also. This makes sense as it would make Dragonite more bulky - increasing it’s stats in HP, Special Defence and Defence - as well as putting more weight behind it’s hits - increasing it’s Attack stat - and, by growing wings, Dragonite has become faster due to an increase in manoeuvrability. It’s Special Attack stat may have increase through an increase in spirital power an self-belief obtained through evolving - Dragonite realises it has become more powerful.

TheGiant Dragoniteis not fake but a giant of the Pokemon world. There have been others likeGiant TentacruelandGiant Slacking

In fact, Pokemon sizes in the anime vary much like in real life:

This is not the case in the games as the programming for stat differences between the same Pokemon would take a lot of time an not add to the gaming experience that much - therefore it was largely unnecessary. Although, Game Freak are striving with Pokemon nowadays and Gourgeist has the first evolutionary line of Pokemon with varying sizes.

A lot of Pokemon sizes and weights are illogical though and there are many YouTube videos on the matter…

… Wailord can fly.