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I use my gardevoir, roserade, and tsareena in Pokémon contests. While usually they get along fantastically, my tsareena and roserade and been getting in a lot of swabbles recently over routines. I keep telling them it doesn’t Matter who goes where but they keep arguing over it and we can’t get any work on our routine done. What should I do?

It may be prudent to draft a new routine if you can, one that takes into consideration both of your pokémon’s concerns or avoids putting them in such situations altogether. This may be the best option, as it seems that your pokémon get along except for this, meaning a compromise and creating a routine they both can agree on may be easier to accomplish than you might think.

Alternatively, if the squabbling is actually grave and affecting their relationship—or if it’s too late to draft a new routine—consider working on your pokémon’s cooperation via team building exercises. Require them to perform tasks together off the contest stage, and try using them in non-contest double battles. The more you can drive them to work together outside of the contest hall, the more they’ll be forced to put aside their differences or otherwise reconcile enough to complete each task.

Also, work with them off the battlefield as a mediator. Guide them into learning how to reach compromises and settle their arguments without spending considerable amounts of time squabbling.

It will most definitely take a lot of patience on your end, anonymous, but with a gentle but firm hand guiding them, you should be able to help them work something out.

Best of luck!

In term of wrestling, which is better: Hawlucha or Incineroar? They seem to be evenly matched

Surprisingly, they are evenly matched. I say “surprisingly” because for all intents and purposes, hawlucha has more of an edge. It’s smaller, faster, and more nimble, not to mention it possesses a type advantage against incineroar. Yet for reasons that are as of yet not well understood by researchers, incineroar often matches hawlucha move-for-move on the battlefield through the use of sheer size and brute force alone.

It’s even led some researchers to believe that the two merely stage matches, rather than go into them with the intent of actually fighting, but there is understandably quite a bit of debate about that point.

Can you talk about flying pokemon because it is the best type. Such an underrated type. Are there certain traits/habits that all or many flying type share?

It is indeed, anonymous!

Unfortunately, because the flying type consists of species such as butterfree, jumpluff, minior, pidgeot, charizard, and so on and so forth, the answer to your final question is…

…all of them can suspend their bodies in the air and can be taught, either naturally or through tutoring, flying-type techniques.

What tips do you have for raising flying type pokemon? Which pokemon would make good partners?

Offering tips for caring for an entire type class is a tricky subject, anonymous, because members of a type can vary wildly in terms of physiology. For example, any tip I have regarding caring for a butterfree absolutely cannot apply to charizard, mantine, or minior, and the kinds of concerns one may have for training a sigilyph or scyther aren’t the same as the concerns one may have for training a hoppip. Care comes to down to species, not to type, and that goes especially for a type affiliation that’s as diverse as flying is.

However, I can at least comment on which would make good partners. In truth, all of them would, but I presume you mean for someone who’s new to raising flying-types. In that case, the flying type consists of not only one starter (rowlet) but also many pokémon commonly found among “beginner” routes, such as pidgey, hoothoot, taillow, and so forth. All of these adapt well to human interaction, and they’re often loyal or otherwise receptive to instruction, making them easiest to train. For those interested in training for tournaments and the like, skarmory, hawlucha, and starly (or, more accurately, staraptor) tend to be popular choices, but zubat (or, more accurately, crobat) and wingull/pelipper are both fairly common choices. Finally, if you don’t mind raising a non-flying-type for a bit, there’s a lot that can be said about gyarados, salamence, dragonite, and charizard. (Yes, contrary to popular belief, training a magikarp is worthwhile. In my personal opinion, even if magikarp didn’t evolve into gyarados, they’re fascinating pokémon worthy of being trained, but that’s neither here nor there.)

So in short, it would perhaps be dependent on what you wish to do, anonymous, but there are plenty of good choices for flying-type partners … and plenty of different ways one could care for them.

Hi bill, I need some advice for my lopunny here. See, I just moved back to Alola, and my lopunny can’t take the heat. I’ve tried suggesting we trim excess fur off her ears and cuffs and ankles at a furfrou salon and maybe shape them in cute designs, but she’s TERRIFIED of blades to her sensitive lops (she even attacked the barber). I don’t wanna trade her away or box her, please help a trainer out!

That isn’t so surprising. Lopunny in general are very sensitive about their fur, and if their owners can avoid trimming them, that’s all the better.

Instead, try these steps:

  1. Always supply your lopunny with plenty of fresh, cool water. (You may wish to add ice cubes to her water bottle for added chill.) The more hydrated she is, the easier it will be for her to handle the heat.
  2. On that note, be sure she has plenty of vegetables, not simply kibble. Vegetables can be an added source of liquids, which will help to keep her hydrated.
  3. Allow her to rest indoors as much as possible. When it’s not possible, give her plenty of shade. A shelter lined with cool materials (such as ceramic tiles and frozen water bottles or ice packs) can be sufficient enough at home, while an umbrella may be helpful on the go.
  4. Consider adding a fan to her shelter and running it whenever possible.
  5. Mist her ears, rather than trim them. That is, use a spray bottle to gently moisten her ears. This is important because a lopunny’s ears are vital to maintaining one’s body temperature, so the added moisture to her ears will keep them cool. Be careful not to get any water in her ear canal or on the tufts at the ends of her ears, as this can lead to infection and molding, respectively.
  6. Brush her tufts and ears regularly to remove excess fur without needing to trim. Usually, lopunny can tolerate brushes better than razors, but be gentle either way.

Follow these steps vigorously at first, and your lopunny will find it easier to adjust to life in Alola. Granted, you should follow these steps regardless, but at the very least, making her comfortable by following the above will allow her to nurture a tolerance to heat in as stress-free a manner as possible.

Best of luck, anonymous!

my friends nidorina doesnt seem to like my mimikyu at all… whenever he comes over his nidorino guards him like the small mimikyu on my shoulder would jump off and attack. im not sure why my friends nidorino does this considering mimikyu has never hurt anyone, in fact she’s been nothing but a loving faithful companion who is very friendly with people who are interested in her. what can i do to calm my friends companion?

As with all team issues (even though your friend’s pokémon is technically not on your team), it’s important to communicate in order to determine the actual cause of negative behavior. In this case, your friend should be the one to take his nidorino (I believe? I apologize if it actually is a nidorina, as mentioned in the first line.) aside and determine the root cause of his behavior, then work with you in order to find a workable solution. There’s not much you can do on your own, as it sounds like your mimikyu is well-behaved as it is, which means the issue lies with your friend’s nidorino alone.

However, I can offer a bit of insight as to what may be causing the rift between your mimikyu and your friend’s nidorino. You see, as a ghost/fairy-type, mimikyu sit at a rather unique crossroads. Both types are notorious for their mischievousness, and as such, even other pokémon tend to be wary about them. It doesn’t help that mimikyu are often either shy or the vindictive sort of envious, so it’s honestly no wonder that your friend’s nidorino is especially cautious when he sees your mimikyu.

For this reason, it may be prudent for your friend to teach his nidorino that not all mimikyu aim to trick humans or attack them out of envy. Consider proposing exposure therapy, wherein you introduce both pokémon in a comfortable setting for short periods at a time and work your way up to a point where your friend’s nidorino can safely exist in a room with your mimikyu without attacking her. Either way, the process would be gradual, but it’s up to your friend to work with his pokémon.

Best of luck to the both of you!

Are there any ghost types that would be a good partner for a beginning trainer?

Phantump.

I hope you realize you’re a terrible person, even if you do give to youth-focused charities. —LH

Edit: First and foremost, I could have said dhelmise, but I did not.

In all seriousness, anonymous, short of the notoriously difficult to handle pokémon (namely spiritomb and dhelmise), practically any ghost-type may be an excellent partner for beginning trainers. The only thing about ghost-types is that quite a few of them require patience to raise. For example, both gastly and misdreavus are known for their mischievous sides, but if a trainer is constantly vigilant and establishes clear boundaries early on, handling either species isn’t outside the capacity for even a beginning trainer.

Moreover, some pokémon—such as litwick and honedge—can be quite dangerous if handled improperly. (Never touch either a litwick’s flame or a honedge’s hilt, even if the litwick or honedge themselves are friendly with you.) However, so long as you know the physical dangers of a pokémon, it’s fairly easy to avoid them. And in any case, the truth is that ghost-types are no more dangerous than fire-types, so by all means, never let this warning scare you away from the type.

If we must narrow it down, yamask tend to be the most responsive to human commands, although training yamask can be a bit of a taboo to certain cultures (given the fact that some people believe yamask are human spirits incarnated into pokémon form). Alternatively, duskull is generally docile; it’s not known for either the mischievous streak or the possessiveness (no pun intended) of some other members of the ghost type. Pumpkaboo likewise is relatively easy to train, as are frillish and golett. But above all, gastly tends to be the most popular, in part due to its ready availability and in part because they’re quite affectionate and eager to please once one gets past their prankster sides.

And of course, there’s also phantump, but these carry even more ethical questions than yamask, even if they are possibly the easiest to train ghost-types one can catch.

Finally, should anyone ask, dhelmise itself is not that difficult to train either. It’s just that it’s a seaweed pokémon that prefers wrapping itself around anchors meant for cruise liners, and thus, they are quite literally difficult to handle. For comparison’s sake, starting your journey with a dhelmise would be very much like starting your journey with an onix: it’s not impossible, but quite frankly, you may wish to consider saving yourself (and Nurse Joy) a headache by starting with something smaller.

My Fennekin has this black stuff coming out of her ears. It looks like soot. What do I do?

Soot on any part of a fire-type’s body is an indicator that its body temperature is dropping. That, in turn, is typically caused by exhaustion, stress, or a mild cold. My advice would be to let your fennekin rest and perhaps take her to the pokémon center if she seems lethargic, her nose feels dry, or she’s having trouble eating.

Best of luck, anonymous!