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Are there any commercial uses for various pokemon’s poisons?

 Well, ironically, the biggest use for pokémon poison (or venom) is … in medicine.

Hold on. I don’t mean that kind of medicine. I mean pokémon venom can be used to synthesize medications meant to treat a wide variety of diseases. For example, ekans venom has a variety of medicinal uses, including as a cancer treatment (as it can be used to attack cancer cells), a treatment for parasitic conditions (as, again, it can attack parasites found in the blood, most notably the ones that cause malaria), a treatment for high blood pressure, an anticoagulant, and even as a painkiller. Likewise, there are a few experimental medications for neurological disorders (particularly epilepsy) that have been synthesized from ekans venom, purely because, well, ekans venom is a powerful neurotoxin. (Currently, most medications for neurological disorders are synthesized from either gastly gas or Poison Powder, if they’re not wholly chemical in nature, but there’s research out there that suggests ekans venom would be more potent. Arbok venom even more so, but … baby steps, as they say.)

And of course, outside of ekans venom or the above-mentioned medications, venom is often used to create antivenom. Most hospitals will carry stock antivenom for each possible species of poison pokémon; this is because each specific antivenom is custom-created from antibodies harvested from certain lab pokémon and rabbits. (It sounds barbaric, but it’s actually done in a perfectly ethical manner … and also, it’s pretty much the only way this can be done without being inhumane to people.) For those curious, trainer-grade antidote (that is, the stuff sold in pokémarts) is actually synthesized from standard muk venom, as this is the most potent available.

Outside of the medical industry, some poisons—particularly those derived from acid-based attacks (such as, well, Acid)—is sometimes incorporated into potent cleaning supplies, as such substances are capable of eating through rust, calcified build-up, and other forms of age and decay that are extremely difficult to remove with soap and a bit of effort. In its purest form, this acid may also be used in manufacturing as a means of cleaning and sterilizing not only equipment but also products in production as well.

In short, pokémon venom is primarily used for medicinal purposes and secondarily as industrial cleaning solutions. That’s just about it, really.

Legally speaking, anyway.

Why do Alolan persian look so different to regular persian? Especially since the meowth look the same…

I know several meowth maniacs who would be delighted to hear you say that last part.

In all seriousness, it’s just because you can control quite a bit when breeding, and Alolan meowth were bred specifically to produce a persian with those specific characteristics. The meowth stage looks similar to the standard meowth, however, simply because most Alolan breeders still think it’s cute and wanted to maintain that house cat-like cuteness through to its persian stage.

Hi Bill! I was wondering if there are any benefits to the pokemon by catchaing them different pokeballs for different pokemon. As in using a duskball for pokemon who come out at night, or heavyballs for heavier pokemon, in contrast to a normal pokeball. Are they more comfortable in pokeballs more suited to them?

In some cases, yes, and this is how those poké balls are as effective as they are. For example, net balls are constructed to be more pleasurable to water- and bug-types. Basically, it operates on the same principle as wallpapers for the PC: inside a net ball, pokémon experience an artificial, digitally created wetland environment, which is simply more pleasurable and desirable of a habitat to very specific pokémon. The same can be said for dusk balls (which simulate darker environments), dive balls (which simulate underwater environments), and luxury balls (which simulate high-end, luxury hotel accommodations … which is perhaps why it doesn’t really increase the chances of you catching a pokémon, to be fair).

In other cases, the ball itself is constructed to better contain pokémon. This is true for apricorn poké balls, such as heavy balls (made with an apricorn capable of generating a capture field strong enough to keep massive pokémon in stasis), moon balls (which possess a faint energy signature extremely similar to moon stones, which is why they’re highly desirable to pokémon that evolve by it), and fast balls (which activate faster in order to counter quicker attempts at breaking out).

Otherwise, for the most part, poké balls just have capture nets of varying strengths. That is, an ultra ball is more potent than a poké ball because it literally is more powerful from a mechanical perspective.

Why do flaaffy lose their fluff when they become ampharos, and then get it back when they Mega Evolve?

It’s actually because the mareep line’s skin grows thicker and more rubbery as they advance from one stage to the next. By the time they reach their ampharos stage, their entire body becomes covered in a thick, rubbery hide that’s perfect for insulating their internal organs from their own potent electrical powers.

As for why mega ampharos grows hair back … it’s because mega ampharos’s power is too great to be contained.

To clarify, its hair grows back to serve as electrical storage, not because it’s “too powerful.” There are scientific explanations behind this; this isn’t a shounen anime. —LH

You’re absolutely correct. We’re more of a monster collecting RPG with a shounen anime adaptation. —Bill

…what. —LH

What’s the function of the back light on lanturn?

The light on a lanturn’s back bulb is brighter than the one on its front, and thus, it serves only one purpose. To put it a little more clearly, the front bulb is used for a variety of purposes, including navigation and attracting a mate. However, it’s most famous for being used to lure in prey. When a lanturn’s prey grows close enough, the lanturn uses its back bulb to blind and stun its prey, then uses that moment of distraction to go in for the kill.

In short, hunting.

How come charizard look like dragons but are not dragon type?

For the same reason gligar and gliscor look like poison-types but are ground/flying, why the chansey line and audino’s base form aren’t fairies despite being pink and cute but the snubbull line is, why no member of the porygon line is electric despite being digital in nature, why azurill is normal/fairy instead of water/fairy like its evolutions, why trapinch and vibrava aren’t bug-types, why altaria is a dragon-type, why stunfisk is partially a ground-type and not a water-type despite being a fish, and so on and so forth.

It’s because typing is dependent on what element a pokémon aligns with, not on what it looks like.

@ the anon whose nidorino wants an ear piercing: you could try getting him some of those temporary stick-on earrings designed for kids! you can get a big sheet of them for pretty cheap. since nidorino have dry, smooth skin, they should stick pretty well. alternatively, nidorino have thin enough ears that clip-on earrings are an option! they cost a bit more and he might find them uncomfortable, but you could test it out and see what he thinks!

Posting, as these are excellent suggestions as well. Thank you!