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How do I approach to an eevee that I recently saved from an abusive trainer?

Cautiously, anonymous.

The most important thing to remember about eevee abuse is that it normally stems from the unfortunate but not entirely uncommon thought among extreme eevee otaku that eevee are collectible objects, rather than living, breathing beings that have basic needs for survival. Sometimes, “affection” given to an abused eevee may come in the form of dressing it up, violating its personal space, and, yes, even violence, especially if the eevee in question had been bred or obtained specifically for the contest circuit. Of course, while knowing exactly how your eevee was abused helps, this doesn’t change the fact that even if yours had received an entirely different form of abuse (such as, for example, physical abuse, which can be common among house eevee), the process is by and large the same.

Start off by making sure your home is comfortable. Provide all the basic necessities—the higher the quality, the better. Make sure your eevee has a comfortable place to sleep, with a nice bed and the thermostat adjusted for its personal optimal temperature. (If your eevee is shivering or looks overheated, change the temperature accordingly as soon as possible.) Also be sure to stock your eevee’s area with plenty of fresh food and water, as well as a clean place for relieving itself, and also provide it with plenty of toys and distractions.

Once you’ve provided its basic needs, here is where the difficult part comes into play. You need to give your eevee plenty of space—literally, I mean. Don’t handle your eevee too much or too roughly for the first few days and gauge from its body language whether or not it’s comfortable with you. Try to assume non-threatening poses whenever you’re around it, and only touch it when it’s relaxed and ready to receive affection. Allow your eevee to come to you whenever possible, but always speak softly and reassuringly to it in order to establish that it can feel comfortable around you.

What may also help is asking the shelter, center, or breeder your eevee had come from about their routines. Feeding, cleaning, exercising, and putting your eevee to bed at the same time they had every day will help ease the transition from the shelter to your home, which in turn will reduce the stress your eevee goes through and allow it to open up to you more readily. The more you can mimic the first humans who were kind to it, the easier it will be for your eevee to begin to trust you.

Above all else, though, have patience. Take care of your eevee as best as you can and do everything you can to maintain a low-stress environment and day for it. Don’t begin battling or pokémon training right away. (You may train your eevee, but stick to the basics, such as paper training and training it to trust you and adjust to its environment.) Work up to that slowly until it feels comfortable enough with you and its new home to engage in aggressive physical activity. And always keep in mind that it’s very difficult for fresh psychological wounds to heal. It may take your eevee a month or few to begin trusting you, and that’s perfectly normal. Just keep showering it with kindness and being open to it, and eventually, it will be able to grow and love once more.

Best of luck, anonymous!

Why is the flygon line not bug type?

The trapinch line, despite their insectoid appearances, do not actually exhibit any affinity for the bug element naturally, anonymous. (Or, well, vibrava is capable of learning Bug Buzz without assistance, but other than that, I mean.) Rather, the entire line exhibits a strong alignment with the ground-type at first, then with the dragon-type as it grows into its advanced stages. This goes for both its offensive and defensive capabilities. It’s not only true that members of the trapinch line are incapable of learning bug-type moves, but it’s also true that none of them display any of the weaknesses or resistances of a bug-type.

Remember, anonymous, a pokémon does not simply receive an elemental classification according to its physical appearance. What matters more is that pokémon are both capable of controlling a certain element and respond to other elements in a certain way.

I love Bill.

I love Bill too. —LH

What? —Bill

I love him like the brother I never had and also never asked for because he will one day either kill himself or kill us all through mad science, so I have to watch him and ensure he doesn’t break the space-time continuum again, which is occasionally annoying, but he’s somewhat charming, so I don’t necessarily hate doing it. —LH

Oh, okay. Business as usual then. —Bill

Does kangakhans baby need a separate pokeball?

No. As strange and uncomfortable as it may seem, think of a baby kangaskhan as a living hold item. Because of how close (physically speaking) a baby kangaskhan is to its mother and because of the near genetic match, a poké ball is capable of storing both mother and child in the same poké ball at the same time.

And before anyone asks, no, this does not result in the fusion of the two, nor does transporting this poké ball. Fusion occurs due to entirely different circumstances, none of which I will happily talk about on a public blog, regardless of what certain individuals may have you believe.

My venusaurs flower is a yellow color. He’s not sluggish or anything and is as happy as ever. Is it normal for venusaurs to have different colored flowers?

Well, it’s a complicated sort of normal, anonymous. It seems you were lucky enough to come across the shiny variation of venusaur, so while it’s perfectly fine to have a yellow one, it’s extremely rare.

Unless, of course, the leaves are drooping or the flower is brown along the edges. If that’s the case, then please water your venusaur; he’s wilting.

What’s your opinion on mewtwos creation? Also do you buy into ditto being failed clones of mew? They do have the same colors (shiny and otherwise), the transform ability, and weight class…

Regarding Mewtwo’s creation, in terms of what, anonymous? Granted, keep in mind that I’m technically not supposed to know anything at all about that event, nor do I actually know the intimate details beyond those shared among the members of the Symposium. So if you were referring to something specific about the process of its creation, I’m afraid I’m not privy to enough information to form an opinion.

However, the concept of a man-made pokémon—even a legendary—is an interesting matter of ethics. On the one hand, we already have perfectly sentient examples that no one really questions. (See voltorb, porygon, and so forth.) Likewise, being able to create manmade legends may give us the keys to understanding the actual, wild legendary pokémon—and thus, the primordial forces that influenced the shape of our world. On the other hand, however, one must ask if it’s at all right to play God and create life for the sake of science, especially if the aforementioned primordial forces of the universe are involved.

Therein lies the main issue with Mewtwo. Although we Symposium members only know as much as Professor Oak and his team have been able to gather, we do know that Mewtwo was the result of rather unethical experiments—ones that were less concerned with the subject’s well-being and more concerned with the effects of genetic engineering. Considering that, my personal opinion is that I feel rather sorry for Mewtwo, and if I ever came across it, I would most certainly like to befriend it.

As for ditto, I’m aware of that theory, yes, and I admit, it’s a rather compelling one. Even more than that, ditto isn’t a pokémon we have extensive historical records of—which is to say, researchers only knew about its existence recently, thus making the possibility of it having been created recently rather feasible.

Don’t you think it’s weird all Pokemon breed with eggs? It strikes me as bizarre to imagine a Rapidash lay an egg large enough to contain a foal. How does a foal emerge from a tiny egg? I would think it made more sense for the egg to be incubated and hatched inside the body, going through a gestation period before it is birthed. Perhaps the ‘egg’ rule differs for certain Pokemon? Thoughts?

To be fair, the platypus exists.

In all seriousness, anonymous, all of these are good questions, but it’s worth it to note that eggs work very similarly to poké balls. For example, a ponyta can emerge from a small egg because it exists as a half-solid, half-energy form until it hatches. This is why you often see a burst of light as the pokémon emerges: because upon hatching, it shifts into a completely solid form (or … you know what I mean, when it comes to pokémon such as gastly). Some pokémon tech researchers even theorize that poké balls were inspired by this process, as ancient poké ball craftsmen witnessed pokémon hatching and used apricorns and other devices to trigger a pokémon’s reversion back to this energy-based state.

Ultimately, however, which reproductive method an organism uses depends a lot on energy efficiency, and live birth is, in general, a very costly thing. That’s why pokémon lay eggs instead: as creatures whose lives focus on battling (another high-energy activity), it’s just easier for them to lay eggs than it is to undergo pregnancy. So I must say I respectfully disagree with your proposal, although it’s certainly an interesting thought nonetheless.

Why is snorunt always shivering even tho it’s an ice type?

Consider the dolphin for a moment. Dolphins are aquatic mammals. They’re adapted to live in the water in practically every way. They have fins, mouths perfect for catching fish, a thick layer of blubber to insulate them against the cold of the ocean … but just about the only thing they do not have is gills. As such, although the ocean is their habitat—their element, if you will—a dolphin must surface now and then in order to breathe. Thus, one might even say that it’s odd that a dolphin would live in the water, despite the fact that it can’t breathe it.

In much the same way, you have snorunt, which are adapted to be able to control ice and live in arctic temperatures. Yet they’re still warm-blooded, largely furless pokémon with barely any insulation against their surroundings, let alone the ice-type energy they harbor within themselves.

In other words, snorunt make themselves shiver constantly because they’re frequently controlling an element that literally makes them feel cold, and this makes about as much sense as dolphins needing to surface for air because they’re air-breathing animals that for some reason live in the ocean.

My friend and I are in university and we are allowed to have one Pokémon with us depending on class size. Well my friends dunsparce keeps trying to tackle my mimikyu… but as a normal type move against a ghost it has no effect… but he just keeps on attacking her… with nothing happening…why does my friends dunsparce keep doing this?

Dunsparce are normally cave-dwelling pokémon, and as such, their eyesight is not typically exceptional, while their other senses are. It’s likely that your friend’s dunsparce is mistaking your mimikyu for an actual pikachu, but because she likely doesn’t smell like one, she’s likely confusing and thus scaring your friend’s dunsparce. If this is indeed the case, your friend may wish to sit down with their dunsparce and try their best to teach him what a mimikyu is and how yours isn’t a threat to him.