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What’s the best kind of Pokémon partner to use at a salon where you wash and trim and pretty up someone’s Pokémon?

This depends on what you need them to do specifically. If you’d simply looking for a pokémon capable of making precision cuts under strict guidance, the aipom family, kricketune, ninjask, the elemental monkeys, leavanny, the oshawott line, the pawniard family, sylveon, and scizor are all excellent choices. (Note: Contrary to popular belief, scyther is not recommended in such circumstances, due to its naturally aggressive nature. They may be better suited to gardening and topiary work, however.)

If you’d like a pokémon that can assist you with washing hair and fur, practically anything that can use Water Gun would be advisable, although the oshawott and panpour lines are both also capable of Cut to precise degrees.

Finally, if you’re looking for a pokémon that may offer some fashionable input, jynx, leavanny, and most fairy-types—particularly aromatisse and sylveon—quite frankly have the best tastes, objectively speaking.

Also, as a note, for assistance with dying pokémon fur or hair, never use a smeargle. Smeargle tend to take artistic liberties with their work, so they may do more harm than good. Instead, try jynx, as jynx are both careful and able to see color the way a human would.

Best of luck, anonymous!

Genetically is there a reason some shinies are less conspicuous than others? A shiny eevee has less ability to hide from predators due to silver coloring but a Pokémon like gabite does not change much when altered forms are involved. Moreover is the reason shinies are so rare due to their lack of ability to hide or hunt due to their coloring make them more of a target? I gave a hiding example with eevee but for hunting a shiny sharpedo is more likely to be spotted by prey, giving warning by hue

Actually, the reason why shinies are rarer than standard pokémon is because shininess is a genetic mutation. It’s very much the same as albinism in humans. Just as albinism is possible but extremely rare in humans (and is often tied to health problems and is, thus, not an ideal condition), shininess is likewise possible, rare, and may lead to issues for the individual. (In some cases, those issues may even be the same—that is, the issues may actually be tied to health problems in certain pokémon species, not simply conspicuousness.)

Granted, yes, in some cases, shiny populations of some species are low because the conspicuousness of a shiny-variant pokémon makes it difficult for individuals to hunt or hide from predators, but really, it’s just that shiny populations are low to begin with purely because shininess is a mutation.

it started snowing really hard where i live, and after about 3 days a snorunt came to my door! its currently in my house playing with my houndoom. is this okay? why did the snorunt come here?

By nature, snorunt are nomadic. Typically, they travel in packs, but this doesn’t mean that coming across a single wandering snorunt is unusual. In fact, in Hoennian folklore, it’s said that being visited by a single snorunt will bless a household with prosperity, indicating that this was not a strange occurrence to Hoennian natives (although, yes, packs of snorunt are far more common).

As for why they wander, it tends to be for a number of reasons. Some snorunt clans actually claim vast amounts of territory—sometimes even entire mountains—which means that the wandering behavior may simply be that a snorunt is traveling from one nest site to another within a sizable claim. Alternatively, a snorunt that’s completely nomadic (in that it hasn’t claimed a territory at all) may be hunting for a suitable nest site before it begins its search for a mate, or perhaps a snorunt is looking for a new food source. Very, very occasionally, a snorunt may be attracted to the food stores and warmth of a human home, which is very likely why the ancient Hoennians noticed snorunt arriving at their doorsteps. The latter may be the case with your new visitor, although if it leaves again, it may also be that it simply stopped to rest for a bit before pursuing a much larger goal (such as locating a suitable place to build a nest).

As for whether or not it’s okay to treat it, while normally, it’s a bad idea to feed and offer water and a safe home to a wild pokémon, as snorunt stays tend to be brief (assuming the intent for their journeys is something other than to find food or water), it’s fine to offer this one temporary shelter, especially if the weather outside is less than ideal. Additionally, so long as your houndoom knows not to attack or use its fire abilities so close to snorunt, allowing the two to play is perfectly fine as well.

Enjoy your visitor, anonymous!

Heya bill, big fan! I had a question about a Lillipup I got as a rescue from a mill. She’s really shy and loving, but every now and again she’ll have something akin to an anxious breakdown. Can Pokémon have PTSD? How can I help her without triggering her by accident? There’s only one other Pokémon in the house (Starly) and they typically don’t interact beyond the occasional play session. I don’t know what’s setting lillipup off, but I want her to be comfortable for the rest of her days.

Thank you!

To answer your first question, it depends on the species (some pokémon, such as the slowpoke line, never seem to be affected by anything, including events that would logically induce extreme trauma and stress), but with dog-like pokémon, absolutely.

The most important thing to do when you’re taking care of a rescue—and not simply one with PTSD, but absolutely this as well—is make them feel safe. Provide them with a comfortable home. Give them plenty of food, water, and soft toys. Show them affection, but be slow and speak with a soft, easy tone when you’re around them. Remove anything that might seem threatening, and avoid raising your voice, even if your anger or frustration isn’t even directed at them.

Additionally, establish routines with them. Pokémon with PTSD see routines as safe, as maintaining regular habits gives them a sense of control. They know when they’ll be fed, walked, groomed, and so forth, so it’s easier for them to understand what’s going on at all times and to anticipate what you’ll do next. Thus, always be sure to fill your pokémon’s food and water bowls at the exact same time every day (with kibble high in Omega 3 and other nutrients that can boost serotonin), take them out for walks at a specific time and for a specific duration, and so on and so forth. And on that note, be sure to exercise your pokémon, but don’t engage in battles with them until it’s clear they can handle them. Play-fighting with other pokémon may help you gauge when yours is ready.

General notes out of the way, it’s difficult to say what might be causing your lillipup’s distress unless you’ve followed the above notes to a T. In her case, she may benefit from a calming collar (a special collar treated with pheromones or flower oils to give off a calming scent), herbal supplements, or actual drug therapy, depending on the severity of her episodes and the actual diagnosis Nurse Joy helps you reach. (Yes, you may need to take your lillipup to a pokémon center as well, especially if her episodes are particularly severe.)

Alternatively—or perhaps in addition to the above—observe her carefully. Very rarely does a pokémon do something for no reason, so there may be a source you haven’t noticed yet. Keep your eyes peeled especially for subtle movement or sound around your lillipup whenever she has an episode. Don’t forget to pay attention to what’s going on outside as well, as she may also be alerting you to an intruder.

But really, start by taking her to a pokémon center to determine whether or not she does have PTSD and then work from there (although the above-mentioned tips certainly wouldn’t hurt either).

Best of luck, anonymous!

I use my gardevoir, roserade, and tsareena in Pokémon contests. While usually they get along fantastically, my tsareena and roserade and been getting in a lot of swabbles recently over routines. I keep telling them it doesn’t Matter who goes where but they keep arguing over it and we can’t get any work on our routine done. What should I do?

It may be prudent to draft a new routine if you can, one that takes into consideration both of your pokémon’s concerns or avoids putting them in such situations altogether. This may be the best option, as it seems that your pokémon get along except for this, meaning a compromise and creating a routine they both can agree on may be easier to accomplish than you might think.

Alternatively, if the squabbling is actually grave and affecting their relationship—or if it’s too late to draft a new routine—consider working on your pokémon’s cooperation via team building exercises. Require them to perform tasks together off the contest stage, and try using them in non-contest double battles. The more you can drive them to work together outside of the contest hall, the more they’ll be forced to put aside their differences or otherwise reconcile enough to complete each task.

Also, work with them off the battlefield as a mediator. Guide them into learning how to reach compromises and settle their arguments without spending considerable amounts of time squabbling.

It will most definitely take a lot of patience on your end, anonymous, but with a gentle but firm hand guiding them, you should be able to help them work something out.

Best of luck!

In term of wrestling, which is better: Hawlucha or Incineroar? They seem to be evenly matched

Surprisingly, they are evenly matched. I say “surprisingly” because for all intents and purposes, hawlucha has more of an edge. It’s smaller, faster, and more nimble, not to mention it possesses a type advantage against incineroar. Yet for reasons that are as of yet not well understood by researchers, incineroar often matches hawlucha move-for-move on the battlefield through the use of sheer size and brute force alone.

It’s even led some researchers to believe that the two merely stage matches, rather than go into them with the intent of actually fighting, but there is understandably quite a bit of debate about that point.

Can you talk about flying pokemon because it is the best type. Such an underrated type. Are there certain traits/habits that all or many flying type share?

It is indeed, anonymous!

Unfortunately, because the flying type consists of species such as butterfree, jumpluff, minior, pidgeot, charizard, and so on and so forth, the answer to your final question is…

…all of them can suspend their bodies in the air and can be taught, either naturally or through tutoring, flying-type techniques.

What tips do you have for raising flying type pokemon? Which pokemon would make good partners?

Offering tips for caring for an entire type class is a tricky subject, anonymous, because members of a type can vary wildly in terms of physiology. For example, any tip I have regarding caring for a butterfree absolutely cannot apply to charizard, mantine, or minior, and the kinds of concerns one may have for training a sigilyph or scyther aren’t the same as the concerns one may have for training a hoppip. Care comes to down to species, not to type, and that goes especially for a type affiliation that’s as diverse as flying is.

However, I can at least comment on which would make good partners. In truth, all of them would, but I presume you mean for someone who’s new to raising flying-types. In that case, the flying type consists of not only one starter (rowlet) but also many pokémon commonly found among “beginner” routes, such as pidgey, hoothoot, taillow, and so forth. All of these adapt well to human interaction, and they’re often loyal or otherwise receptive to instruction, making them easiest to train. For those interested in training for tournaments and the like, skarmory, hawlucha, and starly (or, more accurately, staraptor) tend to be popular choices, but zubat (or, more accurately, crobat) and wingull/pelipper are both fairly common choices. Finally, if you don’t mind raising a non-flying-type for a bit, there’s a lot that can be said about gyarados, salamence, dragonite, and charizard. (Yes, contrary to popular belief, training a magikarp is worthwhile. In my personal opinion, even if magikarp didn’t evolve into gyarados, they’re fascinating pokémon worthy of being trained, but that’s neither here nor there.)

So in short, it would perhaps be dependent on what you wish to do, anonymous, but there are plenty of good choices for flying-type partners … and plenty of different ways one could care for them.