Why do some Pokemon have the same cries?

Question

Goldeen and Caterpie and Slowbro and Machamp technically have the same growl, why?

Comments

I noticed this too!

It's the same with Rhyhorn and Charizard... =S

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They have the exact same growl.

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I've noticed that too!  a bunch of pokemon have the same growls, and more have almst the same growls. how weird!

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Delibird and lugia too.

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Feel free to answer/comment

Answer 1

They just reused the sound for the move growl, they usually use their cry, but there's no particular reason.

Comments

I never voted you down, I voted you up!

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You mean the comment from the last question? that wasn't me, that was the user houndoom, it's been removed anyway.

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If you've noticed, it was only in the first generation of games. I think this was because of limited memory space, so they just reused the same cries.

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actually, there was enough room left in Gen 1 games to have a pokedex all the way up to torchic.