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Hi Bill! I have a Kangaskhan friend who’s child has grown into an adult kangaskhan and left her mother’s pouch to live her own life. She’s not had any new children since, and I’ve noticed that she’s feeling sadder and less motivated as of late. I’ve tried to be supportive, but what else can I do to help her? What other effects could there be on my friend’s health? Finally (out of medical curiosity), are there any differences in health if the baby is removed for an long time before it grows up?

To answer the first two questions at once, this is a common problem among kangaskhan, and could lead to a wide variety of health issues because it could progress into full-blown depression. Wild kangaskhan live in herds and thus circumvent this problem by taking care of younger mothers, so some trainers mimic this by adding younger kangaskhan or other young mother pokémon to their teams. Alternatively, kangaskhan can be given dolls to help alleviate the symptoms of empty pouch syndrome, but the herding technique is often a healthier option.

As for your last question, joeys can’t actually survive outside of their mother’s pouch for extended periods of time unless they’re close enough to independence anyway, so you could say so, yes. In less facetious terms, though, if a joey is close to old enough to live on its own but not yet old enough, it may be stunted in terms of growth and a little more aggressive (as it will have learned to fend for itself earlier), but other than that, there isn’t much of a difference between them and joeys that wait until complete maturity.

Hi! I recently received my first ever Pokémon, Ralts. I have been reading your posts already, but do you have any other tips or anything I should bear in mind when working with Ralts (and their evolutionary line) in particular? I don’t do anything extreme – I’m a research assistant at a local lab and I make soap as a hobby. Also if you have any recommendations for other Pokémon that my Ralts could live with I’d love to hear them! Sorry if this is a whole lot… Thank you for reading! ~Tiffany

Besides the basics (which are listed here, for those curious: http://bills-pokedex.tumblr.com/post/152002181001/how-to-take-care-of-a-ralts-please ), perhaps the most important advice I can offer is, strange as this might seem, always be aggressive about self-care. As in, care for yourself, rather than your ralts. Psychic-types can be quite difficult to work with, especially for those with negligible or latent psychic abilities (or perhaps none at all, if you don’t subscribe to the idea that we all have some baseline psychic ability). At first, a psychic pokémon may inadvertently use their abilities on their own trainers, which may be traumatic for a human with little experience in telepathic blocking. Moreover, as you grow closer to your pokémon and your pokémon grows more powerful, your psychic link will grow stronger as well. Not only does this mean psychic blocking will be imperative at that point, but also, if you don’t train yourself, your pokémon’s use of its powers may take a negative toll on your physical health. At best, that means you’ll feel exhausted after battles due to your partner literally drawing strength from your bond with it. At worst, it will mean chronic debilitating migraines or (rarely but possible) brain aneurisms. Or, well, battles become more dangerous because your emotional state may disrupt your pokémon’s concentration, thus increasing the risk that it will lose control of its abilities and seriously injure you or those around you. Either or, really.

Thus, it’s important that you build up psychic tolerance early. Train with your ralts frequently so you can get a sense of its telepathic signature (or the spiritual aura it emits when using its abilities). Meditate at least once a day to teach yourself how to ground your mind and clear your thoughts at a moment’s notice. Pick an idea or memory that makes you happy and learn to focus on it when you feel your pokémon entering your mind. Learn to build a psychic maze (that is, a series of thoughts designed to distract and confuse psychics) as further defense.

And above all else, take care of yourself. Always get a full night’s rest before a major battle, eat right, and keep your energy up by exercising daily. And of course, also be sure to train your ralts to control its powers and know when it is and isn’t appropriate to use its abilities on you. This all is particularly important for the ralts line, as its powers are more based on the reading and manipulation of others’ thoughts than most psychic pokémon, so I wish you the best of luck in training yourself.

As for other companion pokémon, strangely, dark-types are perhaps the best choices. These are immune to a lot of ralts’s abilities, which means ralts can associate with them without the stress of holding itself back. They also make for excellent sparring partners later on in a ralts’s life, especially if yours eventually becomes a gallade. Alternatively, other psychics can work together with your ralts (meaning training becomes far easier), and therapeutic pokémon (such as those that can use Sweet Scent, Aromatherapy, or Sing) can keep your ralts calm and in control, even in high-stress situations (such as urban environments).

Good luck, and congratulations on the new addition to your family!

The Treecko Line

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Treecko
The Wood Gecko Pokémon
Type: Grass
Official Registration #: 252
Entry: One of three pokémon traditionally offered to new trainers at the beginning of their journeys in Hoenn. This small gecko pokémon is famous for its calm disposition, which makes it an ideal partner for a beginning trainer. It is said that absolutely nothing shakes it, not even the rage of a forest fire. This, of course, is not entirely true. The calm demeanor it displays at all times actually hides abject panic and other extreme forms of emotion … which, given the fact that trainers routinely and happily face danger on a daily basis without so much as a frown, still makes treecko an ideal partner for a beginning trainer.

Grovyle
The Wood Gecko Pokémon
Type: Grass
Official Registration #: 253
Entry: The evolved form of treecko, by battle experience. Grovyle is noted for its nimbleness. Well-adapted to its native jungle environments, it can skitter up trees and jump from branch to branch with an unrivaled swiftness, making it difficult for pursuers to keep up with it. It should be noted that these pursuers, of course, may include trainers who mistake their calm demeanor during their treecko stage as consent to subject it to extreme stress.

Sceptile
The Forest Pokémon
Type: Grass
Official Registration #: 254
Entry: The evolved form of grovyle, by battle experience. In Hoennian lore, sceptile are traditionally seen as forest guardians. Not only are their jungle combat skills completely unrivaled in the pokémon world (due to both its surprising agility and the sharp leaf blades on its arms), but also, the bulbs on their backs contain seeds that they can plant in order to revitalize parts of their forest homes. It should also be noted that this image of sceptile as a jungle guardian is perhaps only helped by the fact that the aforementioned bulbs explode in order to release the seeds within, yet sceptile, much like its original treecko form, take the violent bursting of parts of their body without even flinching. Needless to say, the disinclination to fight a creature that refuses to show pain is something of a survival adaptation for the rest of the forest.

Mega Sceptile
The Forest Pokémon
Type: Grass/Dragon
Official Registration #: 254+
Entry: The advanced form of sceptile, via sceptilite. As mega sceptile, this pokémon is imbued with the ability to detach its lengthy tail as a form of self-defense. Actually, many lizard pokémon possess this ability; it’s just that mega sceptile is the only one for whom this also entails (forgive the pun) seizing the detached limb and stabbing its attacker with it.

Hello, everyone!

We’ve accidentally let the queue run out on a busy weekend for us. Sorry!

We’ll be back on Wednesday with double the daily entries to make up for it. Thanks for your patience!

—LH

The Torchic Line

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Torchic
The Chick Pokémon
Type: Fire
Official Registration #: 255
Entry: One of three pokémon traditionally offered to new trainers at the beginning of their journeys in Hoenn. A small, chick-like pokémon whose natural body temperature is so hot that the fireballs it launches during battle can reach temperatures in excess of 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, in Hoenn, it is said that torchic are very warm to cuddle, but given that these are the same people who live in a region that feature a desert, an active volcano, a dormant volcano, and a tropical jungle, outsiders should take torchic’s cuddliness with a grain of salt.

For your information, it is very cuddly, and someone who had the misfortune of being raised in a region where you don’t see sun for six months out of the year because of the constant rain should perhaps keep his opinions about Hoennians to himself. —LH

The reason why I poke fun at every other region but Hoenn, ladies and gentlemen. —Bill

Combusken
The Young Fowl Pokémon
Type: Fire/Fighting
Official Registration #: 256
Entry: The evolved form of torchic, by battle experience. A powerful and energetic pokémon, combusken is capable of delivering ten kicks per second, and each kick is capable of rending solid concrete in two. In Hoenn, this has made combusken a prized fighter ideal for taking on the rock- and steel-heavy Hoenn League. In Unova, however, combusken are noted for their muscular legs, which apparently taste wonderful to an Unovan when said legs are breaded, seasoned, and fried in whatever magical oils the local Floccesy Fried Chicken establishment uses.

Blaziken
The Blaze Pokémon
Type: Fire/Fighting
Official Registration #: 257
Entry: The evolved form of combusken, by battle experience. Upon evolution, blaziken gain the ability to jump thirty-story buildings, set their fists on fire via flame cuffs, breathe jets of flames, and endure hours of intense fighting. Upon mega evolution, it also gains the ability Speed Boost … because that’s exactly what you need a six-foot-tall chicken with fire powers and superhuman martial arts skills to do: gain speed boosts naturally.

Mega Blaziken
The Blaze Pokémon
Type: Fire/Fighting
Official Registration #: 257+
Entry: The advanced form of blaziken, via blazikenite. As noted in the entry for its base form, blaziken gains the ability Speed Boost upon mega evolution. This ability allows it to launch its notorious flurry of kicks with even greater speed than it would as an ordinary blaziken. It does not, contrary to popular belief, allow blaziken to become a “spicy fast boy,” as the internet puts it.

Scyther and Scizor

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Scyther
The Mantis Pokémon
Type: Bug/Flying
Official Registration #: 123
Entry: Contrary to popular belief, scyther are not inherently violent and easily enraged pokémon. They are, in actuality, extremely proud pokémon with a full range of emotions, including compassion. It just so happens that they have scythes for hands and the alien morality of an insectoid species, and these tend to get in the way of what human beings would define as “compassion.”

Scizor
The Pincer Pokémon
Type: Bug/Steel
Official Registration #: 212
Entry: The evolved form of scyther, via trading if the subject has had a metal coat applied to it. Upon evolution, scyther’s signature blades metamorphose into scizor’s pincers. One would think that an absence of a cutting edge along with the maturation induced by evolution would render scizor a safer pokémon to handle than its preevolved counterpart, but in actuality, it uses its pincers—now reinforced with a steel-like exoskeleton—to violently hammer anything into the ground, be it an enemy pokémon, a piece of machinery, or an innocently bystanding researcher who in no way provoked said scizor.

Mega Scizor
The Pincer Pokémon
Type: Bug/Steel
Official Registration #: 212+
Entry: The advanced form of scizor, via scizorite. Mega scizor is a subject of interest to scientists due to its fantastic levels of instability in combat. To pokémonologists, the fact that it is virtually incapable of holding a mega evolution for extended periods of time without doing damage to itself points to the idea that it may answer the age-old question of why some pokémon can mega evolve while others cannot. To sociologists, the fact that it is virtually incapable of holding a mega evolution for extended periods of time without doing damage to itself points to the idea that it may answer the age-old question of why some trainers are fantastically terrible people who insist on using mega scizor anyway.

(Non Character fortree eon asks. I have thought of Fanfic work, but mainly my experience comes from Roleplay and the times i’ve done Pokemon, I try to go for Realism, so i poke at your canon to see what answers i can get to Improve my own work.)

{Gotcha, but … would you prefer tips? ._. Bill’s responses aren’t always canon there, so.

(If yes to tips, feel free to ask away! Just please note I can’t give feedback on specific ideas—just on basic writing techniques and so forth. I’m a writer, not a beta. ^^;)}

Hey Bil, Eon CHick ask again. i’m at the Fortree Center. Officer Jenny thanked me for letting them know and has contacted the Rangers to watch for poachers until either the chicks parents return, or the chicks move on. As to the gardevoir, Nurse Joy said that she’s lucky i found her so fast. Poor girl’s resting now after some minor surgery. I want to know: Do gardevoir often hold life debts if saved? If So, is it alright if i send the gardevoir’s measurements to a kalos boutique to make a skirt?

{Not to offend, but since you ask very specific questions that kinda nudge at the canon of this blog and form your own story outside of it, have you thought about writing fanfic? Not of the blog but, like, general Pokémon fic. You may have more creative freedom that way.}

Good to hear the chicks have been taken care of. Excellent work, anonymous!

That said, no, they don’t hold life debts, but sometimes, a pokémon may wish to befriend you if you show it kindness (which saving its life would count as). If that’s the case with this gardevoir, then I encourage you to pursue a friendship and congratulate you on a new partner!

However, because her skirt is actually a set of skin flaps, you can’t really make a new skirt to sew to the remnants of her old one. She might appreciate one to wear like a human would, though. Ask her to see what she thinks first, of course.

Best of luck!

Hello! I was wondering which feline/cat Pokémon would be ideal for a pet? I also have a Ralts (female) and a female Rowlet if it factors in any. I work from home and have a pretty sizeable back garden. Oh! And I live in Kanto.

Pretty much all of them, short of perhaps Mew and Mewtwo (not that you would be able to keep one of either to begin with). However, if you want a local pokémon, meowth are easy to find in Kanto. I would warn you against evolving it considering your ralts, though. Persian can be rather fickle and rough, and ralts tend to be delicate.

If you can import pokémon, or if your local shelter hosts a wider variety of pokémon than usual, the best you can possibly get are members of the skitty and espurr lines, as these have more easy-going personalities, generally speaking. Furthermore, espurr and meowstic would make excellent training partners for both your psychic ralts and your (eventually) ghost rowlet. However, avoid litten and Alolan meowth, partly because they either evolve into or already are dark-types (meaning they won’t mesh well with your pokémon) and partly because Alolan meowth in particular tends to be higher maintenance than other felines.

You may also wish to avoid litleo in general, as you will likely not have a back yard if you keep one. Not because its evolved form would set it on fire but instead because it would be your pyroar’s garden, not yours.

Best of luck!