gill-lungs

That's bullshit.

Pokemon's not meant to make sense :P
How do you think Pikachu survives in the wild? XD Its bright yellow!

I don't want to hear any of this.

fine with me *shrug*

or a pikachu breaking a rydon for that matter

LOL XD maybe both

Because he's MAGIC! Plus he DOES have psychic powers...remember?

I don't consider psychic powers as magic.

I know. But psychic powers CAN do various mysterious things.

That's no answer for me.

i know he has a gill like converter for his lungs when he gos into water =

....thats a very good question....

Both, possibly. Lungfish have both gills and rudimentary lungs.

Besides, it's a freaking Pokemon. It isn't even like it has to follow any form of terrestrial biology. If you start applying logic to a fantasy setting, you'll really need to explain Porygon and Porygon 2.0 first.

And you remembered me what I forgot to add to the description.

I don't want to hear about other shit going on in Pokemon.

Fair enough. *hug* Save the angst for the art. You're very talented. But you must admit that my comment about lungfish has some validity towards answering your question...

Actually, I didn't want any answers. I wanted to present this as it is. If you get my drift.

Here's a great idea. Let's just enjoy the picture for the simple purpose of Broken pointing out a plot hole. I know I enjoy it, particularly Lugia's pose. He looks quite adorable.

There's probably some kind of complex scientific explanation for it - perhaps Lugia doesn't actually require a whole lot of oxygen, and instead of having gills, he just absorbs oxygen from the water through his 'skin' due to differences in water potential or salt concentration with the sea water. The oxygen probably diffuses through pores in his skin and is taken up directly by the haemoglobin in his blood cells to be immediately transported to nearby muscles for respiration.

Or, they didn't think about it at all. ;)

Ah, the wonder of cartoon and video game characters.

Well, he could have quite a huge lung capacity, where it allows them to hold their breath for extrodinary long periods of time, maybe going into a state where they don't need to use quite that much. Just my assumption, though I usually don't question the logic of pokemon. XD they are cute or/and awesome. thats all i usually add to them

The same way that supposedly some dragons breathe on land and in water... while still using lungs. The reasoning for this?
"Rocks fall, everyone dies". The end.

I say lungs, because he's a bird according to <i>the game</i> but I call him a dragon.

If you want to drown Lugia, you might as well coat the blue things on his back with something that can block water and oxygen. They might play a role in breathing under water. ^'===='^

The simple answer is: Because he can.

Possibly breathing through skin in water, like amphibians?
But that's not sufficent to allow survival, I think.

Another thing is that the skin must be really thin and delicate, to allow gas exchange..

Caves. Yes, that's it. He has an underwater cave. So simple, yet ingenious.

I'll settle for lungs. Nice thinking. I wasn't expecting an usable answer here.

Nice to meet someone who is familiar with such cool creature.

i suppose when u take away suspension of disbelief, there are literally BILLIONS of questions unanswered (not just about the pokemon universe mind u ^-^)

Very nice chair!