I’m a trainer working at a Foster Center, (We help abandoned/unadopted Pokemon find people who will care for them) and its my job to tend to Pokemon we receive. Recently, a very timid Abra appeared at our Center, and I’ve been helping take care of it for a while. It’s very sweet, but anytime anything unpredictable happens- I drop something, a new Pokemon shows up, etc- it teleports to me. Even when I’m not at work. I was hoping you might have some advice, so I could help it get comfortable.

When it comes to new pokémon, as a separate tip, you may wish to introduce this abra to them in the same way you would with any skittish pokémon: slowly, in a comfortable environment, and individually or alongside pokémon she’s already comfortable with. You may also wish to introduce her to the other handlers in the same manner, for that matter, as that may help minimize her tendency to make such a jump to you, as opposed to anyone else in the immediate area.

Beyond that, you’ll need to work on her confidence. That is to say … train her. It may be challenging due to the fact that most abra start off knowing only Teleport, but if you’re creative with using just that, you may help her gain enough battle experience to accept moves taught to her via the TM/HM system, move tutoring system, or even by herself after evolution. The stronger you can get her, the more confident in herself and her abilities she may become, which in turn will help her feel less scared of her surroundings.

However, that’s not enough. If you only do that, you’ll simply arm a scared pokémon, rather than teach her how to be comfortable with everything around her as well as herself. If her surroundings aren’t comfortable enough for her, you’ll need to figure out what could be improved. Perhaps it’s not the right temperature, or maybe she doesn’t have enough bedding. Maybe she needs a few adjustments to her diet.

Once you figure out the right balance for her surroundings, train her to be comfortable. If it helps, try this method: have her touch your hand, either with her nose or her psychic abilities. Then, feed her a treat. Do this a few times until she understands that touching things leads to a treat…

…and then introduce the rest of the shelter in this method.

Now, when I say “the rest of the shelter,” I actually do mean that, so this may be a time-consuming thing that can’t be done in a single day. Start with your coworkers and inanimate objects (cleaning supplies, dishes, anything that could be dropped or that might make a startling noise). Have her touch or interact with each, and when she does so in a positive way, give her a treat. When she feels comfortable with that, move on to the other pokémon in the shelter. Do this even if she feels comfortable with them already. Eventually, she should begin to associate each person, object, and pokémon in her immediate surroundings with a positive experience, and that, in conjunction with the confidence fostered by the battling, should help her grow less scared of her surroundings and thus less likely to be startled by them. Once that happens, you should notice a sharp decrease in teleportations.

Best of luck!

The Abra Line

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Abra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 63
Entry: A small, fox-like pokémon of the psychic-type. Due to its incredible psychic power, it requires at least eighteen hours of sleep per day. However, it also has the power to read minds, so when it senses danger or when it is summoned for battle, it is still capable of “reading” its surroundings and using its other moves to protect itself. Unfortunately, the only move it learns naturally is Teleport, and as teaching a pokémon moves via HM or TM requires them to be fully conscious, training an abra may pose difficult for the beginning trainer. On the positive side, it provides many life lessons to trainers who are just starting out from Goldenrod City, which is flanked by two major abra habitats. One of these lessons is, of course, never go out to capture your first pokémon without reading the pokédex first.

Kadabra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 64
Entry: The evolved form of abra, by battle experience. After evolution, a kadabra’s psychic powers grow in strength, and its mastery over its psychic abilities increases, allowing it to learn more techniques and stay awake for longer periods of time. Unfortunately, its powers also cause it to unconsciously emit alpha waves at all times. These alpha waves increase when a kadabra is excited and have a tendency to irrevocably damage sensitive equipment, as well as induce headaches in a nearby human. Because of the latter, it is said that only those with a strong psyche may handle this pokémon … which would be a compliment if the author was a little more prepared for poké puff-related migraines.

Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65
Entry: The evolved form of kadabra, via trading. Upon evolution, a kadabra’s abilities and intelligence grow exponentially, to the point where the average alakazam is said to possess a brain powerful enough to rival a supercomputer. On the downside, because its head grows too heavy for its body to support, an alakazam is constantly exerting its telekinetic powers, which in turn means it is, more than ever, exuding psi energy. Additionally, due to its unusual evolutionary requirements, most trainers will never get to own an alakazam, let alone observe these telekinetic abilities … which on the one hand is a shame but on the other hand is also a blessing for both the author’s research equipment and his head.

Mega Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65+
Entry: The advanced form of alakazam, via alakazite. The array of spoon-like objects it gains upon mega evolution are psychic amplifiers that greatly enhance its telekinetic abilities. They are not, as the internet claims, for consuming vanillite ~~although some mega alakazam use them for this too~~.

I just caught an abra and I was wondering about its teleportation abilities. Like, is there any risk of us getting jumbled together into a human-abra hybrid if we teleport too far or while distracted or something? Or is that just a silly urban myth?

Ah, abra! One of the most challenging pokémon to train but also one of the most rewarding!

Luckily, anonymous, the idea that pokémon teleportation of any kind will result in human-pokémon hybrids is a complete myth. In truth, Teleport is one of the safest ways to travel by pokémon—even safer than using Fly. Your only real risk is having your abra misjudge the landing, resulting in it sitting on the edge of a cliff and you standing just off it. However, I can reassure you that this rarely happens … unless you and your abra or kadabra have a disagreement of some sort, anyway. For example, there was an incident when a trainer (who shall remain nameless) had a disagreement with his kadabra concerning which way Vermilion City was from Cerulean, and the next thing he knew, his kadabra had teleported him to an abandoned lighthouse on a rather lovely cliff. Or, rather, the kadabra teleported there. The trainer, who had been right beside the kadabra just before teleporting, was a few inches away from the cliff, and needless to say, he found the cliff and its lighthouse lovely enough to move there.

Er, the point is, never have an argument prior to teleporting with a pokémon. That’s basically the only way you can really be in danger when asking a pokémon to use Teleport.

Artificial teleportation via a teleporter or teleport tile, however, is an entirely different matter, but we won’t get into that.

The Abra Line

Abra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 63
Entry: A small, fox-like pokémon of the psychic-type. Due to its incredible psychic power, it requires at least eighteen hours of sleep per day. However, it also has the power to read minds, so when it senses danger or when it is summoned for battle, it is still capable of “reading” its surroundings and using its other moves to protect itself. Unfortunately, the only move it learns naturally is Teleport, and as teaching a pokémon moves via HM or TM requires them to be fully conscious, training an abra may pose difficult for the beginning trainer. On the positive side, it provides many life lessons to trainers who are just starting out from Goldenrod City, which is flanked by two major abra habitats. One of these lessons is, of course, never go out to capture your first pokémon without reading the pokédex first.

Kadabra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 64
Entry: The evolved form of abra, by battle experience. After evolution, a kadabra’s psychic powers grow in strength, and its mastery over its psychic abilities increases, allowing it to learn more techniques and stay awake for longer periods of time. Unfortunately, its powers also cause it to unconsciously emit alpha waves at all times. These alpha waves increase when a kadabra is excited and have a tendency to irrevocably damage sensitive equipment, as well as induce headaches in a nearby human. Because of the latter, it is said that only those with a strong psyche may handle this pokémon … which would be a compliment if the author was a little more prepared for poké puff-related migraines.

Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65
Entry: The evolved form of kadabra, via trading. Upon evolution, a kadabra’s abilities and intelligence grow exponentially, to the point where the average alakazam is said to possess a brain powerful enough to rival a supercomputer. On the downside, because its head grows too heavy for its body to support, an alakazam is constantly exerting its telekinetic powers, which in turn means it is, more than ever, exuding psi energy. Additionally, due to its unusual evolutionary requirements, most trainers will never get to own an alakazam, let alone observe these telekinetic abilities … which on the one hand is a shame but on the other hand is also a blessing for both the author’s research equipment and his head.