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My tsareena has become a body guard for me when people and Pokémon get too close and doesn’t stand down until I let her know they’re friends. Why is this?

Because neither tsareena nor steenee are found in the wild, I’m going to assume that you caught yours as a bounsweet and raised her from there. If so, then the first thing to note is that the longer you’ve spent with a pokémon, the more it bonds with you. Additionally, for most pokémon, evolution is a rather big deal. For tamed pokémon, it represents the attainment of the highest amount of power they can possibly have, and because many pokémon strengthen their bonds with their human partners by fulfilling their evolutionary requirements (read: by battling), an evolution into a final stage—such as the evolution of a steenee to a tsareena—can sometimes be a symbol of the strongest possible bond between trainer and pokémon. In other words, your tsareena feels an especially strong bond with you, and as such, she wishes to express her loyalty.

The other thing to note is, of course, the fact that tsareena are regal by nature. As such, they take their duties extremely seriously and will fight to defend themselves and anyone under their care. This means that it’s actually perfectly natural for your tsareena to refuse to stand down when confronted by anything she doesn’t think is a friend right away and that it would actually mean something rather negative if she didn’t. That is to say, so long as your tsareena assumes the role of a bodyguard, this behavior means that she highly respects and values you and deems you worthy of protecting. If she chose to ignore you instead or didn’t take her relationship with you as seriously as she does, this would mean she considers you to be beneath her.

In short, this is a perfectly natural occurrence for tamed tsareena, in part because they tend to be with a trainer throughout their evolutionary process (and thus for a rather long time) and in part because it’s in their nature to defend their trainers with honor. I wouldn’t worry about your tsareena’s behavior until it gets in the way of your ability to perform day-to-day activities, such as interacting with people in your daily life (the postman, a barista, people at a grocery store, and so forth). If this happens, it would be prudent to train her to act only when there’s a clear and present threat to your well-being.

Dhelmise

Dhelmise
The Sea Creeper Pokémon
Type: Ghost/Grass
Official Registration #: 781
Entry: Contrary to popular belief, this pokémon is not anchor-like but rather seaweed-like. It is essentially a seaweed spirit that wraps around a large, heavy object (usually an anchor), which it uses as part of its battling technique. Once it latches onto its chosen anchor, it can swing this object with such force it can take out even a wailord in one hit. Because of this and its tendency to lash out viciously at anything that so much floats within its field of vision, dhelmise is considered to be one of the most destructive forces in the ocean. On a separate note, due to the shape of both its real body and the object it uses, it is a popular tattoo design among Unovans, particularly when paired with the words “I will not sink.” Because Unovans apparently have perfect understanding of how anchors and aggressively violent seaweed ghosts work.

funky-ufo replied to your post “Wimpod and Golisopod”

So is this blog like official Pokedex entries or cool entries based on your imagination and what you know about the Pokemon (hope that didn’t sound rude).

{Not rude at all!

This blog is an in-character/ask blog for Bill. The entries are 100% tongue-in-cheek pages from Bill’s personal pokédex, so they’re more or less snarky commentary on different pokémon, equally snarky commentary on the pokémon world, or stories involving Bill and pokémon that he barely gets into because he definitely did not piss off a bunch of pokémon while doing fieldwork, nope. The other posts are asks, and they’re often more serious but still in-character.

Hope that helps!}

Wimpod and Golisopod

Wimpod
The Turn Tail Pokémon
Type: Bug/Water
Official Registration #: 767
Entry: An isopod pokémon native to tropical beaches. Notorious for its cowardly nature, wimpod are most often seen scurrying along beaches … desperately trying to get away from anything that moves. The best method to catch them is the obvious: barreling straight for them atop a five-foot-tall, 195-pound tauros charging at top speed across unstable shorelines.

Golisopod
The Hard Scale Pokémon
Type: Bug/Water
Official Registration #: 768
Entry: The evolved form of wimpod, by battle experience. Upon evolution, wimpod don’t simply gain height and mass; they also gain a hard, armor-like shell that protects them from physical blows, as well as a set of six sharp claws. These gifts in combination give golisopod a highly intimidating appearance, and as such, most wild pokémon know not to approach it. However, golisopod will fiercely battle any pokémon who’s brave enough to face it anyway … until, of course, golisopod’s special ability—and the last remaining vestiges of its personality as a wimpod—activates, forcing it to flee the battle in terror after sustaining a certain amount of damage.

Comfey

Comfey
The Posy Picker Pokémon
Type: Fairy
Official Registration #: 764
Entry: A lei-like pokémon native to tropical regions. Comfey flits about lush forests, gathering up flowers that it attaches to its vine-like tail. Once attached to its body, these flowers become revitalized and give off a very soothing scent. Because of the healing properties of this scent, comfey has become a popular pokémon among wealthy humans and Nurse Joys, who use comfey flowers to make soothing teas and healing baths. One would think this hurts comfey, considering the fact that these flowers are attached to its tail, but strangely enough, it’s comfey who rips these blossoms out in the first place. The author suggests that you do not think too hard about the implications therein.

Do you know if it illegal to own legendary pokemon?

Not at all! In fact, for trainers, it’s (unfortunately) a status symbol. If you own a legendary, that broadcasts to others that you’re a strong trainer who may put up quite a bit of a challenge on the battlefield. For this reason, not only are there no laws in place stating you can’t capture a legendary, but also, the training community often encourages you to try.

Of course, “encourages you to try” is the key phrase there. It’s often difficult to capture a legendary, and many of them are innately linked to their respective elements—sometimes to the point where removing them from the wild may do catastrophic damage to the world at large. Luckily, many of these legendaries put up quite a fight, never mind the fact that they’re often extremely difficult to find in the first place.

It’s also worth it to note that, yes, in some cultures, it may also be considered taboo to do so. It will still technically be legal to capture a region’s legendaries, but the locals may not be so happy to see you do it. For example, nothing is stopping anyone from capturing Ho-oh, but to a Johtonian, attempting to do so would make you an incredibly arrogant human being unless Ho-oh itself has deemed you worthy enough to train it.

In other words, it’s not illegal, but the locals may not appreciate it, no.

Do growlithes or rockruffs make better travel companions ? What about service animals?

This is difficult to say, anonymous, because they both have fantastically similar dispositions. Both are extremely loyal, friendly, and easy to train, both require exactly the same kind of care, and both have excellent hearing and senses of smell, among other physical attributes.

As a traveling companion, it really depends on which region you’re starting in. For many regions, beginning with a fire-type is a bit more challenging than beginning with a rock-type. Additionally, in some regions, the fire stones growlithe need to evolve are rare to nonexistent, which only adds to the challenge. On the other hand, just because rockruff may pose less of a challenge when it comes to the gym circuit and evolution doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t be difficult to handle overall. While it’s true that lycanroc are generally more powerful than arcanine, they’re also generally more fragile as well, and rock-types have more weaknesses than fire-types. Likewise, the midnight form of lycanroc are notoriously rowdier but also slower than either its midday counterpart or arcanine.

As a service pokémon, it’s roughly even … but there’s a footnote to this. Growlithe is slightly easier to train than rockruff when it comes to getting them to heel and work, but rockruff have the ability to sense when their trainers are in need of emotional support, which makes rockruff slightly better as an emotional support pokémon than growlithe. However, growlithe are highly difficult to evolve, so they rarely need retraining because they’ll often remain growlithe for their entire lives. Rockruff, on the other hand, evolve by field experience, which means they can evolve at any time if they’re not wearing specialized collars equipped with everstones. This is dangerous because both of its evolutionary forms may pose a risk to their human partners. Obviously, midnight lycanroc are naturally hot-blooded and must be retrained to heel. Otherwise, they have a tendency to run off and challenge practically any pokémon that wanders into their line of sight. Midday lycanroc, meanwhile, are highly obedient and loyal and thus don’t actually need retraining … it’s just that their manes contain extremely sharp and long rocks that can damage property or anyone that touches them. If these manes are trimmed and smoothed down, then they’re actually fantastic choices for service pokémon, but it’s very rare to find a lycanroc who will sit through such a procedure.

Follow up question about the sexy custom since I feel like some rewording is needed now. Have you ever brought a sexy pokemon custom on purpose? Or has anyone that you know bought one for you? And if so what custom was it? #AMA

No, of course not.

Edit: My editor has reminded me that for this month, I’m obligated to answer these sorts of questions honestly, so for that reason, allow me to give you the full answer:

It was a “sexy magikarp” costume. I was young, stupid, and under the impression that it would be the best way to get Bebe to stop inviting me to her Halloween parties.

It didn’t work.