I just caught an abra and I was wondering about its teleportation abilities. Like, is there any risk of us getting jumbled together into a human-abra hybrid if we teleport too far or while distracted or something? Or is that just a silly urban myth?

Ah, abra! One of the most challenging pokémon to train but also one of the most rewarding!

Luckily, anonymous, the idea that pokémon teleportation of any kind will result in human-pokémon hybrids is a complete myth. In truth, Teleport is one of the safest ways to travel by pokémon—even safer than using Fly. Your only real risk is having your abra misjudge the landing, resulting in it sitting on the edge of a cliff and you standing just off it. However, I can reassure you that this rarely happens … unless you and your abra or kadabra have a disagreement of some sort, anyway. For example, there was an incident when a trainer (who shall remain nameless) had a disagreement with his kadabra concerning which way Vermilion City was from Cerulean, and the next thing he knew, his kadabra had teleported him to an abandoned lighthouse on a rather lovely cliff. Or, rather, the kadabra teleported there. The trainer, who had been right beside the kadabra just before teleporting, was a few inches away from the cliff, and needless to say, he found the cliff and its lighthouse lovely enough to move there.

Er, the point is, never have an argument prior to teleporting with a pokémon. That’s basically the only way you can really be in danger when asking a pokémon to use Teleport.

Artificial teleportation via a teleporter or teleport tile, however, is an entirely different matter, but we won’t get into that.