Something alot of people touched on the last time I did a Pokecomic...basically, don't trust a foot-tall, three-pound animal to carry you anywhere comfortably. I still don't know how something like Zubat can use Fly, either.
I know someone will ask, so: why Wartortle here? Besides the fact that Wartortle and Blastoise are easily the best and most elite ever, Piplup and its kin just seem extremely unhydrodynamic to me. I'm sorry. I really can't see them swimming.
LOL I had imagined similar such scenarios with trainers using their little pidgies or spearows to fly by what, holding on to their little tail feathers while the little bird pokemons flap their tiny wings off? lol pokemon logic = fail... but amusing