I’d hate to say it, anonymous, but short of avoiding your friend for a while until his persian attaches itself to its trainer again (which normally takes a few days, as persian are very sensitive about perceived abandonment), it’s really more of an issue only your friend can solve. You could offer this advice, though: regaining the favor of a persian really only takes some pampering and feeding.
Best of luck!
If it’s a pokémon with a reasonable enough level of intelligence to consent to being tattooed, it’s actually fine, believe it or not. (Unfortunately, this means you can’t tattoo a slowpoke.)
As for your question concerning what happens, because it’s a permanent change to your machop’s body, it will actually shift to an analogous spot post-evolution. For example, if you tattooed a machop’s bicep, the tattoo will remain on its bicep when it evolves to a machoke. Keep in mind, though, that the tattoo might warp as your pokémon’s size shifts. This might not be a problem for a single tattoo that won’t suffer from a little stretching, but a sleeve tattoo on a machop might be an entirely different story.
Yes, actually. Although all moves that cause paralysis affect your maneuverability one way or another, how it happens depends entirely on the nature of the move involved. For example, a physical strike (Body Slam, Force Palm, and so on) is less about paralysis and more about either stunning (in the case of Force Palm) or, well, spraining (in the case of Body Slam). While a pokémon affected by these moves can still battle and move about, it just hurts to do so. In their cases, paralyze heal works by easing the pain enough to restore their ability to freely move (in the cases of Body Slam, Bounce, and other full-body moves) or by simply snapping them out of being stunned (in the case of Force Palm).
Then you have non-contact paralysis, such as Glare, Lick, or technically Psycho Shift. In the case of Glare, the target is far too intimidated to move for the most part, and paralysis medications work by essentially lighting a fire within them (slightly literally in the case of cheri berry, given its spiciness), thereby granting the afflicted pokémon enough courage to finish the battle. Lick and Psycho Shift, meanwhile, are supernatural in nature. Psycho Shift causes its victims to think they’re afflicted with paralysis while supernaturally curing the user of its own, while Lick locks a victim into ectoplasm-induced chills. For the former, paralysis medications work the same way as it would with Glare, while for the latter, it works by dispelling a ghost’s supernatural hold on its victim.
Finally, Stun Spore and all electrical-moves (including Freeze Shock and the electrical component of Tri Attack) are far more dangerous than the above. When it comes to electrical attacks, those target the interactions between a pokémon’s nervous and muscular systems, which in turn cause the status condition’s signature involuntary spasms and seizes. (This is because the interactions between these two systems are founded in electrical pulses: the natural electricity found in everyone’s nervous system is balanced just so, with a specific pattern. An electric shock can change the pattern of these pulses, which can cause a muscle to “think” it’s received a signal from the nervous system to seize when it shouldn’t.) It should be noted that in high doses, this can also affect the heart, triggering arrhythmia or even cardiac arrest, and thus, it’s absolutely imperative to take caution when training electric-types … and, well, teach your electric-types how to minimize the risk of accidentally doing permanent damage to a pokémon.
By contrast, Stun Spore is actually a poisonous spore spore. When inhaled or swallowed, which typically happens when a victim is doused in it, it triggers a reaction that causes a victim’s muscles to seize up, much like in electrical paralysis. (It can also cause a nasty skin rash, but that’s neither here nor there.) In fact, in high enough doses, it can paralyze the respiratory system and essentially prevent you from breathing. On the positive side, a Stun Spore-induced death is actually far easier to prevent than electric attacks, not only because the wind often spreads the attack thin (which also explains why it’s not always a reliable means of paralysis) but also because in order to produce the doses needed to kill someone, a pokémon would have to consciously do it. Pokémon that have Stun Spore in their arsenal can easily be trained to hold back on their spore production, and trainers themselves can take note to not “spam” this move. It’s also somewhat easier to treat, as Stun Spore paralysis responds well to paralyze heal, and it’s just a matter of getting your pokémon to a center and administering a general antivenom. By contrast, an overdose of electrical paralysis may require additional therapy to heal. Still, yes, whereas electric attacks run a risk of killing a pokémon rather quickly (it only takes a high enough shock to send a victim into cardiac arrest), death by Stun Spore is notoriously slow and painful.
Or in short, the answer to your question is … yes. Yes, there are different types of paralysis, and some are both more fascinating and more nightmarish than others.
A sign that you perhaps need to get more sleep, anonymous.
Ah. This seems to have been an ask meant for that period of time wherein people sent in stories about their pokémon using technology. Terribly sorry for missing it!
But I must say it’s wonderful to hear that technology bridges gaps between pokémon just as much as it does for people.
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Knowing him … yes. —LH
THANKS, LANETTE. —Bill
Well, every fully evolved one, certainly. While Professor Sycamore’s research is incomplete in the matter, I’d imagine that the ability to evolve to another stage would interfere with one’s ability to mega evolve, as the processes are very similar and likely use the same pathways, so to speak.
That having been said, yes, I do believe it’s possible. The pokémon known to mega evolve are just varied enough that it wouldn’t make sense otherwise. Why is a pidgeot capable of mega evolution but not a fearow or any other fully evolved bird pokémon, for example? Or what about slowbro but not slowking? Surely these pokémon are also capable; it’s likely we simply haven’t found their corresponding mega stones yet.
The destruction or the use of your computer? Regarding the former, unfortunately, that is true, as many of the beldum line’s powers stem from magnetism. The more excited and the further down the evolutionary line an individual is, the more likely it will release a magnetic burst that can interfere quite badly with computers. On the other hand, the further up the evolutionary line an individual is, the better control over itself it will have, so a metagross might be able to exercise enough self-restraint to avoid frying anything it comes in contact with.
Of course, this covers magnetic damage; it doesn’t cover physical. On that note, if you find that your keyboard is strangely worn or even completely destroyed by what seems to be a set of heavy claws … then yes, your metagross has been using your computer. If not, then you’re probably all right.
It’s certainly a fascinating subject, one I hope to someday have a chance to study closely myself.
Before my editor or perhaps some of my wittier readers can get a word in edgewise, allow me to answer your second question: I believe so. While it’s true that the only known examples of the bond phenomenon in action involve a greninja, there really isn’t anything to the process that should limit it to just that species—or, at least, nothing to my knowledge. Likewise, the requirements we do know about are fantastically vague: bond phenomenon, according to old Kalosean texts (and arguably the known examples themselves) only requires a uniquely powerful level of trust between a trainer and a pokémon, although supposedly it helps to have a pokémon with unique special talents hidden deep within them. Of course, as with all texts, what those talents are has never really been made clear, and the only modern-day research we have on the process (from one Professor Augustine Sycamore) has not yet uncovered what that means.
Quite honestly, though, I prefer to believe it means any pokémon can have the potential to achieve such a transformation. Or, rather, that bond phenomenon is not limited to species but rather to the individual pokémon and trainer themselves. A special trainer would be able to draw out the latent talents of any pokémon, and thus, so long as you have that bond between them, it’s possible that a transformation could happen with any species, from greninja to rattata.
First, stay calm and clean as much of the paint off your smeargle as possible. He may not like a bath, but you’ll need to make sure he doesn’t accidentally lick any of it off. You can encourage him to produce new pigments from his tail with a healthy diet later.
As you’re cleaning him, check around the mouth again, just to be sure he hasn’t eaten any. If you don’t see anything, you’re likely fine; unlike many other dog pokémon, smeargle are more interested in using paint than eating it outright.
Still, keep an eye on him for the next few hours. If he begins vomiting or displaying any other sign of digestive upset, take him to the pokémon center immediately or call your region’s pokémon poison control hotline—preferably the former, as a trained Nurse Joy will be able to handle his recovery from there.
Best of luck!
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