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I’ve noticed that in some asks about a pokemon’s behaviour, sometimes you recommend and in others you don’t bring this up at all and instead suggest allowing them to breed. Is this because certain pokemon cannot be neutered? Which ones?

Actually, I don’t often bring up the subject of breeding because not all behaviors have to do with sex, contrary to what Freud may have you believe.

Joking aside, whether or not it would be prudent to have a pokémon breed depends on completely on circumstances. If a pokémon is depressed, then companionship may be the best solution, as many pokémon are actually social in nature. However, aggression is a sign of unchecked sexual frustration, and sometimes, neutering can allow a pokémon to gain control of their temper by reducing their hormone levels to a manageable state. Likewise, if it’s clear that the owner doesn’t wish to raise young or if the pokémon wanders off to mate with a large amount of wild pokémon (or pokémon owned by other trainers), neutering may help to reduce a pokémon’s urges, which in turn will help control the population of unwanted hatchlings.

In other words, whether a pokémon should breed or should be neutered depends entirely on circumstances. In some cases, one is simply a far better option than another. Likewise, it’s also worth it to note that although I was largely kidding in my first line of this response, it’s true that not all instances of aggression or wandering have to do with a pokémon’s libido. Sometimes, they’re simply signs of stress, lack of sleep, or something far, far simpler than sexual frustration.

Its not possible for a pokemon to impregnate a human, right? For context, have this. I run a hot spring and there are alot of volbeat and illumise that fly overhead at night, and since they are classified as ‘human like’ breeding wise, please, please tell me that none of my clients are at risk?

It is indeed impossible for two reasons. First, volbeat and illumise are genetically incompatible with human beings, and thus, they can’t crossbreed (regardless of what early Sinnohan myth may say). Second, one would assume that “please do not engage in intercourse with wild pokémon in the hot spring” would be among your policies because of sanitation issues.

I know it isn’t AMA month anymore, but since you guys already answered which villain team you would join if you had to, would you both be willing to answer which of those teams you most disagree with?

BILL
Without a doubt, Team Rocket. While many of the other organizations at least feign having benevolent intentions (except Team Skull, I suppose, but I question whether or not they count), Team Rocket is very explicit in its goals. Those goals, of course, are the usage of pokémon as tools to further their attempts at power and money. I suppose at the very least, they’re honest about what they want, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they only see living, breathing, thinking creatures as objects to be used for their own selfish wants. It’s quite disgusting, honestly.

On that note, I’d also like to mention Team Plasma as well, which did more or less the same, except it disguised it as a bid for pokémon rights and welfare. The only reason why I don’t think Team Plasma is as disgusting as Team Rocket is because at the very least, some of their followers genuinely do care passionately about the well-being of the pokémon they actually are trying to rescue. It’s just that their reasoning is a bit misguided.

LH
While Bill has a point concerning both Rocket and Plasma, my vote would be with Teams Aqua and Magma. Rocket is simply corrupt, and Plasma is either corrupt or misguided in a comparatively benign way, depending on whom you ask. Aqua and Magma, meanwhile, take their stupidity to a whole new level. Honestly, both of their leaders are fantastic minds, yet neither of them thought for an iota of a second that maybe their plans to “expand the earth” or “increase the oceans” by raising one of the Ancient Ones was, perhaps, a bad idea? Why is it that the younger and more academically brilliant a man is, the more inclined he is to break the world for “the betterment of humanity and all pokémon”?

…I’ll just be over here. —Bill

my favorite kind of pokemon are steel types, are there any that could adapt well to living in an apartment? it wouldn’t be for battling or anything so it’s okay if i can’t evolve it

Quite a few, actually! The most popular tend to be lucario and members of the pawniard line, as these tend to be calmer and more personable than other steel-type pokémon (even though pawniard and bisharp are more social and aggressive than lucario). Togedemaru is also rather popular due to its cuteness and relative ease in care, and the next most popular after these species would be mawile, which is cute but rather mischievous and difficult at times. Rounding out the most popular choices is klefki, which is popular not only for their inability to evolve (meaning they will always be small and easy to manage) but also their ease of care and their ability to hold onto your apartment keys no matter where you go.

Of course, the more obscure choices fare just as well as apartment pets. For example, some people like to collect bronzor or honedge, not only because they’re not at all difficult to take care of (they need very little besides exercise and a place to rest) but also because they tend to double as fantastic apartment decor. (They don’t even seem to mind all that much. Bronzor in particular prefer to literally hang about an apartment and will be perfectly happy being a conversational piece.) The only danger in keeping these two is that they must never evolve. Bronzong, for one, are large and heavy, which causes trouble in small apartments. Doublade and aegislash, meanwhile, aren’t that much larger than a person, but they can be rather aggressive towards anyone who isn’t their trainer. If you live alone, you might still be able to keep a doublade or aegislash, especially if you’re rather introverted, as they make excellent watch pokémon. However, I would not recommend keeping them otherwise.

Aron, meanwhile, are very much like armored puppies, but unlike honedge and bronzor, they can’t simply lie about the apartment. Rather, they must be cared for like any other active pokémon, with food, water, frequent shining, and exercise. Still, if you can manage this list, then they’re wonderful companions … so long as they never evolve, either. lairon and aggron are even worse apartment pets than bronzong, doublade, and aegislash and should never be kept in any home that doesn’t have enough room for a literal tank. Shieldon is much in the same, except it’s extremely difficult to obtain one, so it’s less popular a choice than aron.

Finally, there’s durant. Durant are manageable, but they come with two setbacks. First, durant are highly social pokémon and fare best when placed in a nest with other durant. Unless you’re willing to raise a full team of six durant, it may be difficult to maintain the psychological health of one. Second and more importantly, they have a tendency to utterly destroy wood, so if your apartment has wooden floors or walls (or furniture), durant is extremely difficult to control.

The others, unfortunately, are often too big, too unwieldy (in the case of ferroseed), or possess strong magnetic abilities that may interfere with your neighbors’ electronics (klink, beldum, and magnemite), so they aren’t pokémon I would particularly recommend for small, shared spaces.

About banette size. since it’s an animated doll dose the size of the toy matter. Like one of those comically big ten foot bears, would that make a ten foot banette. And would it look diffrent from the standard.

It does indeed! While the size mentioned in the pokédex is often the average size, based on some of the most popular lines of teddy bears and plush teddiursa throughout history, banette actually adapt to the size of the toy they had been. This results in, yes, giant banette.

On the positive side, this very rarely happens, as children (from what I understand) bond more with smaller, child-sized toys than things far too big to play with.

Meanwhile, no, banette generally don’t vary in appearance from toy to toy. Occasionally, one may feel different if their source material had been different (plush banette will feel like plush dolls, while banette that had been porcelain dolls will be porcelain, and so forth), but their actual physical appearance is more dependent on genetics than source.

I got both Ninetales, regular and the alola kind, they are male and female so if I breed them would they be mix breeds, or they be same as one of their parents and could use some of their other parents typing?

Ah, as I’ve said in another ask (which I admit is in queue as of this writing), it depends on the environment in which the egg is laid and whether or not either parent is holding an everstone. If the egg is laid in Alola, then the specific environmental conditions unique to Alola will cause the genes inherited from the Alolan parent to express themselves, resulting in an Alolan vulpix, whereas if the couple lays an egg anywhere else, the standard-form parent’s genes will be expressed instead, which will result in a standard-form vulpix. However, if one parent holds an everstone, then the genes of that parent will express themselves over the ones inherited from the other parent, regardless of where the nest is located. For example, if you give a standard-form ninetales an everstone and allow your pokémon to mate in Alola, then the resulting hatchling will be a fire-type, rather than an ice-type.

Incidentally, should anyone be curious, this phenomenon does not occur if both parents are of the same variation, likely due to the lack of variant genetics in the combination. For example, if both of a trainer’s ninetales are of the Alolan breed, then the resulting hatchling will be an Alolan vulpix, even if the nest is located in Kanto.

What age do pokemon reach maturity? Are they like humans and reach maturity in their teens or more like animals and much earlier?

It really depends on the pokémon and your definition of “maturity,” anonymous. Assuming you mean “adulthood” or “age at which pokémon are ready to breed,” some pokémon, such as caterpie, can reach this point within months after birth. Others, such as members of the dratini family, may take years to reach that point, and rock-types such as geodude may take decades. Still others—namely the traditionally classed “baby” pokémon—never reach that point at all unless they undergo evolution first.

Generally speaking, though, the shorter the life span, the quicker a pokémon matures, and only a handful really reach maturity in their teens like humans do.