I went to a wrestling show with my boyfriend as a birthday gift to him and like, they had some actual pokemon fighting humans for some of the matches and using Pokemon moves on them??? Like there was this one Pikachu in a cute wrestling costume using ELECTRICITY on this buff dude and he somehow didn’t die! I assume they trained the Pokes for the show to be not as lethal, right? Curious how that process works.

Absolutely. For any sport that involves humans and pokémon literally fighting each other, pokémon are either instructed to use only their strength, sans augmentation from their abilities, or they’re simply told to, well, make it look as real as possible. The latter is especially true for pokémon wrestling. It looks like a Thunderbolt, but it’s more light than actual, damaging electricity.

Lanette, remind me not to show Amanita this post. It would break her heart to know pokémon wrestling is fake. —Bill

On it. —LH