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Hi Bill, my slowbro keeps insiting to go mega when it wants to get comfy or go to sleep, the shellder looks somewhat fustrated with this, any advice if this is surpose to happen/ normal behaviour?

To be perfectly honest, anonymous, it actually isn’t normal behavior, but it’s also not particularly worrying. You see, your slowbro is in want of the security of being wrapped up in a cocoon of sorts. So one way you can form a compromise between its shellder’s relative freedom and its need for security would be to wrap it up tightly at night with its tail left out. Give it extra bedding or create a sand pit it can partially bury itself in. Anything that covers its body firmly should do.

Best of luck!

Hey Bill, I just hatched a baby Cubone. He’s happy and healthy, and my Umbreon has decided that she is his mother. Here’s the thing, though: he has a skull helmet and a bone club, and I have no idea where they came from. His father belongs to a friend of mine and is alive, and his mother is my Ditto, who is also fine. So where did these bones come from? Thanks.

Ah, yes. The age-old question.

You see, the bit about a cubone’s skull and club coming from its deceased mother is actually quite misleading: this only occurs with certain wild cubone, particularly those native to notorious grave sites or extreme environments (which is to say, most wild cubone habitats). In these cases, it’s nearly guaranteed that the mother will die shortly after evolving, mating, and giving birth to a single young, as male marowak are typically solitary, and the environment is often too harsh for a mother to defend on her own. The young, meanwhile, may have a chance to make it to maturity by not only toughening themselves through digging out their first armor and weapon but also by virtue of being small enough to take cover from their worst predators. (Note that I say first armor and weapon. We’ll get to that in a moment.) Even then, cubone are notoriously rare in the wild for exactly this reason.

On the other hand, tame and captive-bred cubone are an entirely different story. Naturally, human homes and breeding centers are far, far safer for a pokémon, and because of this, there’s virtually no reason for a cubone to dig out its own mother’s skull. For this reason, cubone that fail to acquire a helmet and club, if left alone long enough (typically overnight), will simply advance to what most wild cubone will do once they outgrow their “baby skulls,” as it were: calcify their own. That is to say, your cubone essentially made his own as quickly as he could by mixing a special substance he secretes from his head with pieces of his own eggshell, dirt, or other debris until it became a skull-like helmet.

As for his club, that’s a bit … less appealing, I’m afraid. It’s likely a stick or other long object, certainly, but in order to calcify it properly, your cubone very likely had to, well, regurgitate that same substance onto it. Luckily, you can replace these with ordinary bones or even rawhide as he grows so he doesn’t have to do that repeatedly.

Hey Bill, groups of Clefairy have started gathering in my neighborhood recently. Last night my Riolu was acting very anxious and didn’t want to go outside to do his business. I went out to check what was wrong, and a trio of Elgyem were eating fruit from my sitrus tree! I’ve never seen Elgyem around here before. Also, my friend swears he saw a whole bunch of Beheeyem flashing their lights over an empty field the other night when he was driving home. Should I be worried?

Sounds like a normal Monday to me, actually.

I mean, unless you don’t live near Mt. Moon. Then maybe it’s a cause for mild concern. And even then, you really don’t need to worry unless your town starts missing miltank.

I literally can’t tell whether or not you’re being flippant… —LH

For once, I’m not! —Bill

How much weight could an average Pidgeotto hold?

That depends. Normally, a pidgeotto can carry about ten to fifteen pounds maximum, depending on how they’re trained.

On the other hand, if they know Fly (a move that greatly enhances a flying-type’s wing strength using the same sort of physics that allows those same flying-types to generate hurricane-level gusts of wind), then they can carry the weight of a fully grown adult man.

Anon with the fear of fairy-types here; I ended up having a pretty long talk with my girlfriend, and she was actually really understanding? We decided to go see an earlier matinee, then got takeout for dinner and ate in the park while her clefable and my cubone got to know each other. Your suggestion about having him as a buffer was great; I’m still working up to a one-on-one meeting, but seeing how well our pokemon played together made me think things will work out.

Dreadfully belated reply, but this is excellent to hear! Keep working, anonymous, and may your relationship with both your girlfriend and her clefable be filled with happiness.

I impulsively caught an adorable hoothoot. We get along great but there’s one problem. Hoot’s a night owl and I’m, well, not. Any advice for taking care of a nocturnal pokemon when you’re a day person?

One of the great things about bonding with pokémon is that eventually, you adapt to one another. That is to say, tamed hoothoot will generally adapt on their own to fit their trainer’s lifestyle. It will simply take time, but once your hoothoot notices that you’re asleep when it’s awake (or, in some cases, notices that you’re active when it’s trying to sleep), you may find it going to sleep later and later each day until its own cycle inverts. Don’t worry—this is a perfectly normal process, which means you aren’t inconveniencing your hoothoot, nor is it unhealthy for it to do this. So long as your hoothoot is still getting plenty of rest at night, it will be fine.

Of course, there’s also the possibility that your hoothoot won’t change its sleep cycle. At that point, you could adapt to your hoothoot if necessary. If that’s not possible, however, simply make sure it has enough food, water, and enrichment to last itself through the night, and give it enough space and a sturdy enough enclosure to prevent it from experiencing cabin fever. I would still advise trying to stay up as long as possible and using at least one hour of the night (after your hoothoot is fully awake) to train, but otherwise, rest assured that they’re normally self-sufficient pokémon. Additionally, once it evolves, consider letting it out to fly. By then, it should know how to get home on its own and defend itself during night flights.

Best of luck!

Are there any tips for finding out if any ghost type pokemon have made residence in your home? I live pretty close to a graveyard and keep finding things in places I was pretty sure I didn’t leave them in (And food eaten that I’m pretty sure I didn’t eat yet…) but none of the usual signs that a critter got in…

You can typically tell whether or not you have a ghost-type on your hands if all of the following are true:

  • You experience hints of poltergeist activity (objects appearing where they shouldn’t be, objects moving or floating of their own accord, objects flying at you specifically, objects breaking).
  • You feel a chill in a room for no discernible reason.
  • You have a constant sense of being watched.
  • During the night, you sometimes wake up to see, in your half-asleep state, a shadow in your room (or you dream that you do).
  • You’ve been having trouble remembering your dreams lately, and when you wake up, you feel more exhausted than usual.
  • Your pokémon are constantly looking at empty space. (Some may also attack this empty space, but usually, tamed pokémon will simply stare.)
  • You find random scorch marks on your walls (either narrow as if lightning struck it or circular as if an orb hit it).
  • In the case of a gastly infestation, your smoke detector goes off for no apparent reason. (Note: If your carbon monoxide detector goes off, then this may also indicate gastly activity, but you should likely vacate the premises and call your gas company/landlord/other party anyway, just in case. Don’t assume you have a gastly infestation until you rule out a carbon monoxide leak!)
  • You hear pokémon cries that are so soft you’re not quite sure you actually heard them.
  • You set up a camera, and they in the recording. (In all seriousness, this is usually the most effective albeit probably the most expensive way to find out whether or not you have a ghost pokémon on your hands.)

If, however, the following happens (sometimes in addition to the above), then you do not have a ghost pokémon on your hands:

  • The walls bleed.
  • You hear human crying or human voices.
  • Your pokémon appear extremely agitated or are physically picked up and thrown.
  • Objects combust for no apparent reason.
  • You find objects, especially dolls, standing or sitting in places you most definitely did not leave them, and their eyes are always on you.
  • You find random scratch marks, usually in ominous messages, across your walls.
  • During the night, you wake up to find a presence looming over you. It’s humanlike, but you can’t make out a face.
  • You wake up with scratches or other injuries.
  • You can remember your dreams, but they’re always of you dying.
  • Your roommate seems unusually pleasant lately, although you can also hear them whisper things about Hell when you turn your back on them.
  • During the night, you wake up to find your roommate looming over you.

To clarify, the above points mean you actually have the other sort of ghost on your hands, and you may wish to call a priest.

Best of luck!

I have a very important question. I’ve been off the internet for a while but.. Have the Ribombee movie memes finally died? How about the memes of that one movie where a Garbodor living in a swamp and a Mudbray rescues a princess? What was the name of that movie again..?

I refuse to name that movie, as naming it will draw forth its curse (by which I mean countless upon countless of memes in the replies). As for your question about whether or not its memes or the ones concerning the Ribombee Movie have died … no. Unfortunately.

On the positive side, no one’s talking about Blizzard anymore. You could say we’ve [REDACTED]

Don’t you dare. —LH