Tag: Anonymous

two of my pokemon, both male and same species, somehow has an egg between them. I checked and it looks like it’s the same species with them which is weird because there is no female around where I’m at. they’re making a nest for it. do I need to take it to the lost and found or, what do I do???

First, perform these steps:

1. Look about for a female, a trainer, or a breeder who may be searching for an egg. Humans are typically easier to find; as eggs are valuable to one’s team, a trainer who had lost an egg will usually be searching frantically for it. Wild pokémon are typically harder, as new mothers will shy away from human contact to avoid attracting attention and thus drawing predators to herself or the rest of her clutch. However, you can look around your neighborhood for any sign of a new nest. If you can find any identifying marks on your egg (patterns, for example), try to match that pattern with eggs you find in the wild. You can also look online to determine what the species of the egg is by searching for its pattern.

2. If you can’t find anyone on your own, assess the situation a little more closely. If one or both of your pokémon seem aggressive when you approach the egg, you may wish to consider keeping it and allowing him and his partner to complete their nest. It’s likely that the egg may be a rescue or may actually belong to one of your pokémon. Depending on your place of residence, one of your pokémon may have encountered a wild ditto or a stray female, or one partner may actually have been a ditto in a long-term Transform. Whatever the situation, it’s still a possibility that your pokémon have acquired the egg via perfectly natural means, if they haven’t simply adopted it themselves.

3. If your pokémon seem rather ambivalent to the egg and are simply constructing a nest because it’s the natural thing to do, consider taking the egg to your nearest pokémon center or breeding center—or at least inform either that you found an egg. If no one comes to claim the egg, allow your pokémon to take care of it and try to figure out based on the egg pattern what hatchling you should prepare for.

Best of luck, anonymous!

Maybe “Tapu Buti” would be subtle enough to not be heresy

I invite anyone to try.

Also, congratulations, anonymous!

Your ask has allowed us to make the thousandth post.

I feel like it means something that such a milestone post on this blog is a butt joke. —LH

It means we are a mature, responsible crowd, Lanette. We are mature, responsible people with refined senses of humor. —Bill

Is it unethical to name one of the Island Guardians “Tapu Butt?”

It depends on the tapu, anonymous. Tapu Bulu might not care, Tapu Fini might find it hilarious, and if you try to name either Tapu Koko or Tapu Lele this, I highly commend you for not dying in the process.

Granted, either way, it may be prudent to avoid mentioning to Alolan locals that you’ve named an island guardian Tapu Butt, but even then, I’m told that it really depends on which local you inform.

Can Pokémon see in the dark?

Some do, but this number isn’t exactly the majority. Basically speaking, most pokémon that resemble vertebrate animals possess a tapetum lucidum, or a thin layer of reflective tissue that bounces light back to the photoreceptors of the eye. (In other words, it allows some pokémon and animals to see in low-light settings.) However, humanoid pokémon, insectoid pokémon, and a number of non-animal pokémon lack this reflective tissue and therefore either rely on other means or lack the ability to see in the dark altogether.

Insectoid pokémon in particular rely primarily on their senses of smell and touch to navigate their world either way; they don’t actually have excellent senses of vision. Even venonat, which is noted for its radar-like sight, only really sees the world as vague shapes moving about on a blob-filled background. It’s just that they’re very talented at discerning one shape from another.

As for the others, humanoid psychics are capable of navigating the dark through their psychic abilities. For example, gothitelle predicts where objects are, gardevoir uses telepathy to see through a more capable pokémon’s eyes, and medicham pushes outward with telekinesis and dodges objects that it “feels” through this method. Non-psychic humanoids, however, navigate darkness just about as well as a human would, unfortunately.

Additionally, some pokémon don’t really navigate using sight, smell, or psychic abilities but rather echolocation instead. All bat-like pokémon are particularly known for this, but it’s a hallmark of clefairy as well. This is why clefairy often chant as they move. They’re simply using echolocation in combination with their naturally sensitive hearing to detect objects ahead.

Finally, you have the pokémon that don’t fit the above classifications, which may navigate their world using some combination of the above. For example, geodude navigate by feeling the vibrations beneath it, whereas roggenrola use echolocation. Voltorb and magnemite emit soft bursts of light to illuminate their way, and porygon often come with built-in radar systems that enable them to “see.”

Ultimately, the point is, only a fraction of pokémon can truly see in the dark. The rest of them actually rely on a number of other, vastly different means.

Hello, I was wondering if there is anyway to keep Mimikyu away from me. They scare both me and my Pokemon, but I dont have the heart to be direct because I love all Pokemon, even if they give me more goosebumps than meeting Giritina would.

Because mimikyu are rare pokémon native only to a very specific island in Alola, this might actually be easier than you think, anonymous. Unless you live on Ula’ula Island, all you need to do is inform whoever is raising those mimikyu that as much as you love pokémon, you don’t feel comfortable around them. If you do live on Ula’ula Island, rest assured that mimikyu detest sunlight, and for that reason, they only make their home in one specific spot. The likelihood of you being bothered by mimikyu, even if you live on the correct island, is actually rather low.

If, for some reason, you are suffering through an infestation of feral mimikyu, you may wish to consider contacting your local pokémon center. They should be able to dispatch trainers to your location to collect the mimikyu for rehoming or training. If you can’t reach your local pokémon center or if you live in an area without one, you may also consider acquiring a volcarona or other pokémon capable of using Sunny Day to deter the feral mimikyu from getting too close to your property.

I have an espeon and a umbreon, they are both male and they really like each other and is looking after this egg I received from the professor. I think they are telling me they want a egg on their own but how can I tell them that it’s biologically impossible?

You might not need to tell them at all, anonymous, especially if their problem is less about the fact that they don’t know they can’t procreate and more about the fact that they want young and are willing to do whatever it takes to fulfill that need. That having been said, if letting them take care of your professor’s egg and resulting hatchling over a longer period of time is out of the question, then oftentimes, breeders end up with abandoned eggs, or a trainer decides they can’t take care of a hatchling. Either would be perfectly acceptable avenues for securing the egg or hatchling your pokémon want. Ideally, you may want to adopt an egg in order to give your espeon and umbreon the full experience of pokémon parenthood (short of laying the egg, of course), but if that’s not an option, allowing them to raise a hatchling together after it’s born works just as well.

Alternatively, you could use a surrogate ditto lay an egg or few for them so that the hatchling will at least be biologically one of the parents. Some trainers opt for that option, as it’s easier for the parents to bond with the egg, which is really the important thing. Your espeon and umbreon may not see the egg as theirs because it’s technically yours, as far as they’re concerned. If you, quite literally, give them an egg of their own, that should be sufficient to fulfill their wishes to be parents.

If, however, you’re referring to the possibility that they are mating with extreme vigor because they don’t understand that neither of them can lay an egg, then I would suggest explaining it to espeon first. Espeon, due to their psychic elemental, are more likely to understand human conversation than a dark-type umbreon, and in any case, it would be much easier to deal with the telepathic backlash from your espeon’s shock sooner, rather than later.

Best of luck, anonymous!

Hey Bill, If Pokémon could get pregnant instead of laying eggs, and if two Pokémon in the same gender could have a biological child together( I know it’s impossible but what if.) would the baby’s genetics be screwed up and have complications developing or die shortly after birth? I know that this is a strange question but I’m curious.

Not really, no. Once genetic material is removed from its cell, it doesn’t take into account the gender of the source. That is to say, if you removed DNA from eggs sourced from two genetically different beings, it won’t matter that they’re both organisms capable of producing eggs (as opposed to sperm). The genetic material will simply combine the same way it would if the material came from a sperm and egg. The only difference is that because both sources have the exact same type of sex chromosome, the offspring will always be the same gender as both parents. So for example, if both of the parents had a pair of X chromosomes, then the child will also have a pair of X chromosomes; there is no chance for it to have both an X and a Y.

While mutations are always a possibility (because no biological process is perfect), a child will only have a higher risk of being born with them if:

A. One of the parents is a carrier for a genetic condition anyway.

B. The parents are biologically related.

C. The parent carrying the child was exposed to environmental factors (such as cigarette smoke, high doses of radiation, and so forth).

The first scenario is self-explanatory, so I don’t feel the need to go into detail about that. The second, meanwhile, has a lot to do with the first, as parents who are biologically related also share more genetic material than two parents from completely different families. As a result, they also share markers for … less than desirable traits, including recessive genetic issues. Consequently, combining genetic material from two biological relatives results in those less desirable traits being expressed, which in turn leads to a wide variety of problems in the child.

The third, meanwhile, has less to do with the parents and more to do with the fact that mammalian fetal development is surprisingly a highly delicate thing.

In short, anonymous, no, two pokémon of the same gender would not produce a child with debilitating genetic disorders unless those two pokémon were also biologically related. Or, well, mating in Pripyat, but I highly doubt that to be the case.

Munnas pokedex entry says when it eats a food dream it expels pink mist, but what happens when it eats a bad dream? Or a weird dream? Or a whatever dream?

The mist takes on different colors, consistencies, and odors, anonymous. Particularly foul dreams create thick clouds of foul-smelling mist the color and odor of rancid garbage, for example. As for dreams that can’t quite be described as bad or good, those tend to be multi-colored and rather bland in terms of smell.