I noticed this game seems more lenient when you're hit with most items instead of losing all momentum you're kind of physics bounced and like sometimes you can trick off it a bit by jumping.
Honestly Pokémon suffers from having to rush development as a multimedia franchise but like everything I've seen behind the scenes seems to display some sense of pride and care in their craft
"Oh man this is worse than the time I had to babysit H.P. Lovecraft's cat!"
*cut to Peter in a black neighborhood*
"So, uh, I'm looking for this cat I kind of lost..."