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So, something I noticed in Pokémon's mainline anime canon is that people consider Ash casually carrying Cosmoem (who is 2,204 pounds, by the way) to be his strongest lifting feat... and completely overlook something absolutely insane that happens in Pokémon Ranger & The Temple of the Sea, which takes place between the Season 9 episodes Aipom and Circumstance and Strategy Tomorrow - Comedy Tonight. I'm not going to be the best at calculating this, so feel free to correct me on everything if I'm wrong about it, but I'll try as best as I can with what I have.
OK, so pictured above is the sea temple in question - Samiya. During the events of the movie, it is shown as being south of Cherrygrove City in the Johto Region, making Pokémon Ranger & The Temple of the Sea the only Pokémon film in the Hoenn Region tetralogy to take place in Johto. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Now, starting with the measurements of both the outside and inside of the temple. From what I've calculated, this temple is 20 feet in both length & diameter, with a 10 foot radius to boot. It is 8.5 feet tall and 36.96 feet wide, having an area of 314.16 cubic feet and a volume of 6283.2 cubic feet. That much cubic feet of space means that when Samiya was sinking, it was taking on a total of 46,980 gallons of water. Again, this is just me taking my best guess at this feat for Ash, so it's not going to be set in stone.
Up next is the temple's density. We're not exactly sure what the temple was made of, since Shep only really explained about how Samiya started drifting across the oceans of the Pokémon world, but since this movie has Samiya (along with other things in it) based on things in Italy such as ancient Rome, let's say Samiya was made with concrete. It definitely looks like it was made with concrete judging from the interior shots we see in the film, so let's go with concrete. That would mean the density of the concrete chunks that were falling while Samiya was sinking would be 150 pounds per cubic foot.
Last up is the mass of Samiya. If we multiply the density of those concrete chunks (150 lbs per cubic foot) by the volume of the temple itself (6283.2 cubic feet of space), that would mean the mass of Samiya would be a grand total of... 942,480 POUNDS. Equivalent to 427,501.737 kilograms. Absolutely. Bananas. And this does not include the crystals for the Sea Crown either.
And after Ash puts the last crystal that Phantom took from the crown back in, he becomes the King of the Sea (pictured above), a power-up that's so busted that the transformation lifts Samiya back up to sea level while simultaneously saving Pikachu, May and Manaphy. This makes the Cosmoem feat look like yard work in comparison.
I must emphasize, I don't believe this scaling is perfect, so if anyone wants to improve this scaling, feel free. This was just my attempt at calculating the feat in Movie 9. Have fun!
-PsychoSSF2
OK, so pictured above is the sea temple in question - Samiya. During the events of the movie, it is shown as being south of Cherrygrove City in the Johto Region, making Pokémon Ranger & The Temple of the Sea the only Pokémon film in the Hoenn Region tetralogy to take place in Johto. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Now, starting with the measurements of both the outside and inside of the temple. From what I've calculated, this temple is 20 feet in both length & diameter, with a 10 foot radius to boot. It is 8.5 feet tall and 36.96 feet wide, having an area of 314.16 cubic feet and a volume of 6283.2 cubic feet. That much cubic feet of space means that when Samiya was sinking, it was taking on a total of 46,980 gallons of water. Again, this is just me taking my best guess at this feat for Ash, so it's not going to be set in stone.
Up next is the temple's density. We're not exactly sure what the temple was made of, since Shep only really explained about how Samiya started drifting across the oceans of the Pokémon world, but since this movie has Samiya (along with other things in it) based on things in Italy such as ancient Rome, let's say Samiya was made with concrete. It definitely looks like it was made with concrete judging from the interior shots we see in the film, so let's go with concrete. That would mean the density of the concrete chunks that were falling while Samiya was sinking would be 150 pounds per cubic foot.
Last up is the mass of Samiya. If we multiply the density of those concrete chunks (150 lbs per cubic foot) by the volume of the temple itself (6283.2 cubic feet of space), that would mean the mass of Samiya would be a grand total of... 942,480 POUNDS. Equivalent to 427,501.737 kilograms. Absolutely. Bananas. And this does not include the crystals for the Sea Crown either.
And after Ash puts the last crystal that Phantom took from the crown back in, he becomes the King of the Sea (pictured above), a power-up that's so busted that the transformation lifts Samiya back up to sea level while simultaneously saving Pikachu, May and Manaphy. This makes the Cosmoem feat look like yard work in comparison.
I must emphasize, I don't believe this scaling is perfect, so if anyone wants to improve this scaling, feel free. This was just my attempt at calculating the feat in Movie 9. Have fun!
-PsychoSSF2
