You may wish to consider spending a bit more time training each of them every day. For your vulpix, growlithe, and flareon, this is a great way to release pent-up aggression in a constructive manner, especially if you also train them to focus their negative energies into their attacks. You may also consider some team building exercises, such as double-battling or joint-training. This can be done either by pairing your other pokémon with your quilava (which will help him integrate into your team) or with each other (which will help reinforce what it means to be on a team in the first place). Finally, see if you can communicate how destructive behavior—including bullying and literally destroying your home with fire—is affecting not only your quilava but your family as a whole. It’s possible that if you speak clearly but firmly like a loving parent, your pokémon will understand.
If all else fails, training will of course help your quilava to get stronger, and it can learn the rock-type move Rollout naturally, just before evolution. Just as a thought.
Well, that depends. If your ralts had never met these trainers, she may be exhibiting her species’ signature shyness. If that’s the case, then it’s important to work with her and get her used to spending time around people other than you. Doing this involves a process similar to getting a pokémon acclimated to a new environment or a new teammate: start off gradually (perhaps by introducing her to only one or two friends) and work your way up until she can handle more.
If she seems disgruntled towards these trainers, however, or if this is a sudden change in behavior, then there are two possibilities for what might be going on. First, it’s possible that your ralts is experiencing jealousy. Members of the ralts family are some of the most loyal pokémon in existence, so they’re extremely protective and sometimes possessive of their trainers. It’s not unusual for a ralts to become aggressive towards other humans they feel are jeopardizing their relationship with their trainers. If this is the case, it’s important to explain to your ralts that your relationship with her isn’t going to change just because you’ve met new people. I would recommend increasing the amount of time you spend training her or giving her a bit more affection than usual to reinforce this.
The second option, meanwhile, is that there is something very wrong with the trainers you’ve befriended. Remember that members of the ralts line are talented empaths and can thus sense when someone is not being entirely truthful to you. If your ralts is reacting to specific friends or if she seems on edge as she teleports away, it’s important to communicate with her and try to determine what she’s detected. From there, you may be able to determine the best course of action, whether it’s reassuring your ralts that your new friends are trustworthy or taking action to distance yourself from potentially toxic people.
Whatever you do, anonymous, communication and observation are the keys. Pay attention not only to what your ralts is doing in general but also her body language and any other signal she may be sending you.
Regarding your lucario, keep in mind that the riolu line in general are very loyal and intense pokémon, so what you’re describing seems rather typical for his species. Granted, I’m not at all saying that it’s good; on the contrary, it’s rather something a trainer should always keep in mind. To counter it, you’ll need to persuade him that you’re healing. I would recommend asking your doctor for a helper chansey. These are “loaner” nurse chansey, not permanent service pokémon, and their primary function is to tend to you as a personal nurse, rather than as an assistant. (Some regions offer audino or wigglytuff instead, or you may be given a more patient and independent audino as opposed to a chansey, but for the purposes of this post, I’ll just refer to the far more common chansey.) This nurse chansey will be by your side 24/7 until it’s clear you’ve recovered enough and gone through enough physical therapy to be able to function basically on your own or with the assistance of a long-term service pokémon, depending on your needs. Most pokémon will understand the nature of a nurse chansey, and thus, her presence may help put your lucario’s mind at enough ease that he may listen to you when you tell him to take care of himself.
As for the gyarados, that’s a bit trickier, especially in your current state. Your best bet is to convince your husband to speak rationally with the trainer. You may even wish to wait until you’re well enough to handle going with him. It’s important to remind your husband that there is no such thing as an evil pokémon, regardless of what folklore and pokédex entries may have one believe, and if a trained pokémon gets particularly violent, it’s typically due to bad training, self-defense, or another very good, rational reason. Thus, it’s important for your husband to listen to gyarados’s trainer and try to understand why the attack happened in the first place while keeping in mind that what happened very likely is not completely gyarados’s fault. (This is not to say that you were at fault. It’s simply to say that what happened was an unfortunate circumstance and that euthanizing this gyarados is, most likely, far too extreme a punishment.)
Alternatively, also explain to him that what’s happened has already happened and that it’s no use to put down the gyarados on the off-chance that it may prevent another accident in the future. Responding to the accident by putting this gyarados down will not restore your leg or heal the other injuries you’ve endured. Likewise, if he was successful at putting the gyarados down, that means someone else suffers as a result. This is why it’s actually important for your husband to speak with the gyarados’s trainer: to understand what bond he’s hoping to break. Absolutely, it’s rather touching that your husband is that dedicated to you that he would fight for you, but it’s simply that his methodology will do far more harm than good in the long run, even if he thinks he may be protecting others from this gyarados.
Best of luck, both on this and your recovery, anonymous.
As always, it’s of vital importance to forge an understanding of your pokémon before proceeding. It’s entirely possible that your lycanroc’s behavior can be explained by his evolution and thus shift in personality. Midday lycanroc are indeed highly loyal pokémon, but they’re only loyal to those they perceive as being members of their pack. To anyone outside of that pack (as the cat-like torracat would be), they may become defensive or even territorial.
Alternatively, your lycanroc may be experiencing the beginnings of his maturity. That is to say, seeing as lycanroc and torracat are compatible with one another in terms of breeding, it’s possible that your lycanroc is attempting to drive away what he perceives to be an inadequate breeding partner, or he may be dealing with conflicting feelings about his former best friend.
On the other hand, it may also have nothing to do with your lycanroc’s evolution at all, and it may simply be a coincidence. It may be that your lycanroc and torracat are going through a personal quarrel or a misunderstanding that has less to do with your lycanroc’s evolution and more to do with how much food they receive, what toys they have, or something entirely different.
Thus, the first step is observation and communication. Observe your pokémon to see if you can determine a point of conflict, and if you can’t, simply ask them why they’ve started fighting. If you can determine the root cause of your pokémon’s arguments, you may be able to work from there to settle things once and for all.
In many cases, it’s in the order of which element describes a pokémon’s phenotype more. For example, salamence is very clearly a dragon, as it possesses highly draconic features. Noivern, by contrast, seems to be more related to a bat or bat-like pokémon, so it’s classified as a flying-type first.
Granted, this is not a system that applies to all pokémon, and this is particularly true with the flying type. Take the zubat line, for example. One would assume that by the above logic, zubat, being a bat-like pokémon, would be classified as flying/poison, rather than poison/flying, especially given its reliance on flying techniques to support that argument. However, it’s classified as poison/flying instead because back when it was first introduced to the National Dex, the term “flying” was vague and required modification. That is to say, calling a pokémon a flying-type could have meant a lot of things. (It could mean, for example, that the pokémon in question was pidgey-like, or it could mean that it’s more gyarados-like.) However, calling a pokémon a poison/flying-type clarified things more.
In some cases, it may come down to prior classification (for example, the jigglypuff line being classified as normal/fairy because it had once been classified as just normal) or even just the researcher’s preference (girafarig, for example, whose classifications are alphabetized because that’s just what Professor Elm would do). It really depends on the pokémon, but I must say that the higher up in National Dex number you go, the more likely the classification simply describes what element a pokémon is most like, followed by the second most fitting element.
Anonymous, it sounds like you’ll need to retrain your incineroar. Use positive reinforcement by offering him a toy or treat every time he looks at you when you don’t call him … Daddy. Then move on to giving him treats or toys whenever he responds to your voice, then to his proper name. It will be slow going, but with patience, you should be able to train that habit out of him.
Although a researcher’s descriptions of a pokémon’s disposition may be a general overview, there are always outliers. Just as humans aren’t all social, outgoing, and so forth, not all pokémon are a specific set of traits. Gyarados aren’t always violent and angry, chansey aren’t always altruistic, and jangmo-o aren’t always territorial.
That having been said, it sounds like you were rather lucky. A playful, puppy-like pokémon may be easier to bond with and thus train as it grows. Take this as an opportunity to start off on the right foot, so to speak. Just be sure that your jangmo-o integrates well with the rest of your team, and you’ll be fine, anonymous.
When I suggest bribery, you don’t say a word, but when I suggest switching to blinds, you do. I see how it is. —Bill
On a serious note, anonymous, consider giving both your mimikyu and your pikachu something more interesting to engage them. Specifically, mimikyu sometimes enjoy scratching posts, as this allows them to hone their claws while indulging in their more imp-like tendencies. Your pikachu may switch to this as well if you can get your mimikyu to prefer this to the curtains. Alternatively, old rags or even bubble wrap and old cardboard boxes can be effective distractions, although be sure to keep watch and avoid letting your pikachu chew on the bubble wrap.
Either way, I also highly recommend considering blinds as opposed to curtains.
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