The Great Warden Melli

Welcome to my first analysis post!

Seriously though, I have extensively tested the height mechanics in that game, and they are completely broken/do not accurately reflect the true heights of people, Pokemon and objects. Pokemon and character models have been scaled down/up in a lot of cases for what I can only assume to be logistical and technical reasons, and likely for visual harmony on screen. We have canon heights for every pokemon, and from comparing their in game models to each other we can see that the game isn’t accurate for scale, and therefore it’s one of those times that in-game assets cannot be used to determine true intended scale. One thing we can look to as being a lot more accurate is offical canon heights and artwork, and we just so happen to have some of that available to us to play around with.

In the pokemon legends Arceus guide book we have this image Which gives us a canon night for Volo at 190cm, which in feet equals 6’2.8. This image also has Akari for scale, so if we throw the two of them into a chart we get this

(Please note that I am measuring from the top of the head, as that what the designers did in the above image)

Akari is absolutely tiny! Alright, lets keep going!

In the same book we also have this artwork of Adaman standing next to Akari, so using the image of Akari for scale we can add Adaman to the chart.

Adaman is about 5’9 in heels. Okay work (6’3 if you count the hair. Which we don’t 👀)

Okay, moving on

Now again in the same book we have this image of Adaman and Melli next to one another. Now using Adaman for scale if we add Melli to the chart then we get… 😳

Our boy is BIG! Please note that Melli’s legs are bent in the artwork, and therefore a few inches can likely be added to his height on the chart. Melli is in the 7 foot range easily.

Now is this completely accurate? Likely no. While I tried my best to line the images up I did just eyeball them, but the actual results wouldn’t be too far off of this chart. I actually think that this is a much more accurate way of determining intended scale opposed to the in-game assets, as we know that the scaling has been adjusted in those games, and that they do not accurately reflect the canon heights of people and pokemon that are available to us. The images seen here are all offical, and feature characters drawn by the designers with their intended scales to one another, again proving that the in-game models are likely to be inaccurate. Melli is one of the (if not THE) tallest characters in PLA.