Tag: Anonymous

Hey there Mr. Bill! I’m a student who’s been abroad in Hoenn for some time now. I’ll be moving back to Sinnoh in just a little bit, but not before making a quick trip through Kalos. My question is that I caught one of those neat little Baltoys that hang around old ruins here. Is there anything I should know before bringing the little fella along on my travels or before I settle back in Sinnoh again?

Luckily, baltoy are actually fairly easy to care for. As artificial pokémon, they don’t need food, water, or the like, although they may enjoy eating now and then. That is to say, it’s okay to give them poké beans, poké puffs, kibble, or so forth, but they won’t die if you forget to do so.

Beyond that, simply give your baltoy a level, solid surface to rest on as well as toys to amuse itself with (baltoy have no specific preference, so experiment with yours to determine what it seems to like), and it will be perfectly happy.

In terms of things to be aware of, be sure to include meditative training when honing your baltoy’s abilities. Its strongest techniques rely heavily on its telekinesis, so the more you strengthen that ability, the better your baltoy’s handle on its moves will be.

Additionally, try to avoid allowing your baltoy to come across another member of its species. Baltoy get along well enough with most pokémon, but for reasons we researchers haven’t fully figured out, when it spots another baltoy, the two will congregate together and begin vocalizing. The resulting noise tends to be ungodly.

Best of luck, anonymous!

Bill. You remember the Ultra Beast attack in Alola right? I volunteered to leave Unova with my Pokemon partners and other volunteers, and go to Alola to help with fixing the damage caused by Ultra Beasts. While there we lost a team of volunteers in Poni Island, and I was sent to look for them, and I stumbled upon what I think is an Ultra Wormhole. Do you think they are in the portal? What I see in the portal is a different looking Alola region. What should I do? Should I go in?

I can’t say for certain if they’ve gone through the portal, and I doubt it would be possible to know for certain unless you go through yourself. Even psychics don’t quite have the reach to tap into minds on different planes of existence. (Don’t ask me how I know this.)

However, I wouldn’t recommend going through yourself. That’s a dangerous move; after all, who knows what could be on the other side? It could indeed be a mirror of our own universe, or it could be a place full of dangerous and powerful pokémon. Dimensional travel isn’t always straightforward either, and you don’t know for certain whether or not the portal is stable enough to support a return trip.

I would recommend contacting the rest of your team and formulating a plan together. Best of luck, anonymous.

It’s my birthday and I walked out of my room to see feathers everywhere then a very dead starly on the floor with my very please looking Litten who nudged it to me. Why did he do this? It’s the first time ever and cleaning up dead bird isn’t exactly how I wanted to spend my morning

Litten often believe humans are very large, strange-looking, extremely incompetent litten. As such, they will often present their trainers with “gifts” in the form of dead animals, as an effort to teach us how to hunt. So with that in mind, your litten is doing one of two things:

  1. Giving you a birthday present by way of assuming you wish to have something extra special for your birthday.
  2. Operating under the assumption that you’re old enough to know how to hunt while at the same time finding it odd that you don’t.

In short, your litten is just trying to help. By telling you that you can’t hunt, and this is a shame.

so i took a trip to unova and caught a very sweet sandile who i named Zoro, who is now a krookodile. now, ive gotten all the necessary paperwork to take him to my home reigon of Hoenn, but i know how humid hoenn can be (i live just a bit away from fallarbor town). are there any precautions i should take before bringing Zoro home?

Not particularly. Unlike quite a few ground-types, krookodile can fare just as well in humid environments as in arid ones, so long as it has a sand pit to bury itself in during particularly humid days. Additionally, be sure to give yours a dry place to rest whenever it rains, and try to wait for a few hours after a rainstorm (for conditions to dry up) before sending him back outside again.

How do moves like Metronome work?

In my experience, quite well.

Edit: I have just been informed by my editor that I’m only allowed to make that joke once on this blog before “it stops being funny,” and therefore, I’m to offer an actual response to this question.

The truth of the matter is no one’s quite sure. The going theory is that those who use Metronome tap into some ancient gene (passed down from Mew, supposedly) that allows a pokémon to use any move in existence. This theory hinges on the idea that most elements and techniques are actually hard-coded into a pokémon’s DNA; it’s just that pokémon can’t use just any move in existence due to the physical limitations they’ve gained through adaptation and the slow, progressive sort of evolution. However, Metronome allows a pokémon to override these blocks and call upon elements and techniques just once, at random.

The other theory, which is slightly less popular (although it makes somewhat more sense to me, personally), is that the pokémon doesn’t call upon a random technique but rather the move itself does. That is, the user merely conjures an untamed sort of energy that manifests into a random move, occasionally even puppeteering its own user in order to do so. This explains why a pokémon is often incapable of remembering how to use whatever came out of Metronome until they attempt the Metronome technique again (and sometimes not even then).

My shiny Swellow recently laid a clutch of 4 eggs, and they hatched a couple of days ago. One of the Taillow actually hatched shiny too and it appears she’s paying more attention to this chick than the rest. Is this because of its colour being the same as hers or could there perhaps be another reason?

Not so much because the chick’s color is the same as hers, anonymous, as it is because shiny pokémon have a decreased likelihood to survive. Most shinies are easier to spot than their standard-colored counterparts, as their coloration stands out as something new and different, rather than something a predator might have seen more than a few times. (Alternatively, yes, some colors can stand out in that they render a pokémon incapable of blending in with their environment, and this is true for a shiny taillow as well.) As such, your swellow is likely grooming her shiny chick a little more than the others to ensure its survival outside the nest. It’s really only worrisome if the mother is completely ignoring the rest of her brood altogether.