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I recently received an Alolan Muk as a present from an old friend of mine… but I live in Sinnoh. How can I help her adjust to the colder climate?

Ah, your friend chose well. While it’s true that Alolan muk must be acclimated to cold temperatures (due to the fact that their bodies are primarily composed of actual liquid), they’re among the easiest pokémon to introduce to cold weather.

To do this, begin by keeping your muk indoors. If you live anywhere else but Snowpoint and if it isn’t winter, you can actually allow your muk to spend time outside for any length of time she can tolerate. Try to encourage her to increase the amount of time she spends outside little by little until she adjusts. If it is winter or if you do live in Snowpoint, however, the acclimation process should start by allowing her to wander about your home for any length of time she can tolerate, then withdrawing her into her poké ball to rest. Once she adjusts to your home, then she can move outside. Always watch for signs of freezing, however, such as spots on her body that seem a little stiff or the formation of frost. If you see any sign that she’s freezing over, immediately bring her inside and allow her to thaw by a heater or beneath a set of blankets.

Best of luck, anonymous!

How long do pokemon live for? Do some pokemon like rattata, have longer life expectancy than their animal counterparts?

Excellent question.

Yes, for the most part, all pokémon have longer lifespans than their animal “counterparts.” Therefore, yes, a wild rat may live for about one to two years, but a wild rattata may live for up to ten years—sometimes even fifteen if allowed to evolve and if taken care of well.

On that note, evolution can generally extend a pokémon’s life span, but it should also be noted that a pokémon may live twice as long if in captivity, rather than in the wild. For example, whereas a pichu may live for four years in the wild, they live for eight years in captivity. Captive pikachu may live for about fifteen years (same as raticate), and captive raichu may live for over twenty.

Keep in mind that all of these are estimates, of course. There have certainly been records of pikachu outliving some raichu (that is, a pikachu may live for over twenty years), and of course, just because you find a four-year-old pichu in the wild doesn’t mean it’s near death. It all depends on a variety of factors, including and especially the quality of life.

And yes, there are also pokémon who live for so long we’re not entirely sure what their lifespans are. This is especially true for the legendary pokémon, but dragon-types are equally notorious for this. For example, some families in Johto have passed down the same dragonite from parent to child for generations, and that dragonite may not look a day over whatever young age it had reached when it evolved.

when i was a child I went camping in the mountains with my family and met a drampa who guided me back to the camp and has never left my side since. well, he has suddenly started trying to return to the mountains and bring me with him. I have woken up on multiple occasions to being on his back on the way up Mount Lanakila. why is he doing this?

I’m afraid it’s part of a drampa’s natural instincts, anonymous. When they find a child they particularly like, they make every effort to bond with them. Then, after a period of a few years (admittedly, no one is quite sure how long or what determines the length of this period, as it seems to vary wildly from drampa to drampa), each drampa whisks its chosen child away and begins flying back to the peak of Mount Lanakila, where it’s said that the entrance to the drampa homelands is hiding.

(I also realize this sounds as if I’ve made that up, but I assure you, there is, in fact, very vague records of a hidden valley the drampa call their homeland. Whether or not those records are true is an entirely different matter.)

That having been said, there are ways to curb your drampa’s urges. The easiest is simply to capture him if you haven’t already. If you have, order him to stay with you. While this may be a bit difficult for your drampa—as all tests of willpower are—there have been very few cases of a drampa disobeying a direct order to refrain from starting for the drampa homeland.

The somewhat more difficult method involves becoming less virtuous, as drampa prefer playing with or whisking away innocent, gentle children. How you interpret “virtuous” depends on you and the specific personality of your own drampa, but suffice to say, the less virtuous you are, the more likely your drampa’s interest in whisking you away will wane. Unfortunately, this is also a risk because your drampa may become interested in someone else, and in any case, it’s still not a guarantee that he will give up on you.

Best of luck, anonymous!

my hakamo-o is fighting with all my other pokemon! my pyukumuku was sleeping near the pool and all of a sudden hakamo-o comes up and wakes him up and then attacks him! my mimikyu usually stops him before anything really bad happens but he keeps doing this no matter what i do. he wasnt like this as a jangmo-o, why is he doing this?

Unfortunately, as a partial fighting-type that, in the wild, spars with other hakamo-o to hone their skills, your hakamo-o is responding to the instinctual drive to better himself through fighting. It just so happens that your pyukumuku, being a pokémon that doesn’t normally move on his own, is an easy target in your hakamo-o’s eyes.

I would highly suggest increasing the amount of time you train your hakamo-o. Allow him to spar with your other pokémon if you don’t already, and increase the amount of time he spends sparring if you do. Also consider allowing him to battle against other trainers’ pokémon. The goal here is to satisfy his daily need to spar—basically, his daily need to let off steam. The more active he is, the easier this will be.

Luckily, when he evolves once more, he may calm a bit more. Kommo-o are territorial and prone to intimidating others, yes, but they prefer to intimidate over engaging in battles with just anyone.

Best of luck, anonymous!

I live in alola and have really bad depression and go to the beach every night. On one particularly bad night a brionne came up on shore as i was crying and started doing tricks and trying to make me smile… every night since the brionne will come on shore to meet me and do tricks. I bring it food and toys and play with it, but when i leave it looks really sad and makes noises. Would it be a good idea to catch it?

If it looks rather downtrodden every time you leave it, that may be a good indication that it wishes to go with you. I would bring the idea up with this brionne. Offer to allow her to live with you and present her with a poké ball. Explain what it is and see how she responds. If she seems excited by the prospect of being with you full-time, then yes, catch her. If, however, she attempts to pull you towards the ocean or otherwise moves towards the water, then I would suggest seeing if you can visit her more often.

If you do adopt her, it seems you already know the basics of keeping a brionne. Just be sure that she has plenty of water in addition to the food and toys you already give her, and she should be fine on shore.

Best of luck, anonymous!

Do injuries on pokemon carry over to their evolutions? Like if a Bulbasaur had a scar/wound on its face (or anywhere), would the injury still be on the Ivysaur it evolves into? What would happen with something more serious, like a broken leg? And what about when pokemon lose body parts upon evolving, such as Kadabra’s tail, or Servine’s legs?

Yes, actually. While evolution seems to resolve minor injuries such as the scratches and bumps caused by battling, permanent or serious injuries—such as missing limbs, scars, and even status ailments—carry over to a pokémon’s new form. In cases in which a pokémon naturally lacks certain limbs in their evolved form (as in the cases of kadabra or servine, as you’ve noted), they may still carry scars roughly where the body part would have been. For example, if a kadabra loses its tail, it will carry a scar on its lower back and pelvis as an alakazam.

Why is a whole different subject. Evolution is a complete metamorphosis; a pokémon’s physical attributes are basically rewritten based on what’s dictated by their genetic code. By all accounts, you would think their evolved forms would become whole and fully healed, but for whatever reason, that’s not the case. Researchers have tried since practically the advent of pokémonology, but it’s still a mystery to this day.

If i were to give my mimikyu another costume do you think she would wear it? her current disguise has become rather worn, and so i want to pop to the store and get her some fabric to make another costume. I am happy to make another pikachu costune, but do mimikyus feel comfortable wearing a disguise of another type of pokemon? on the subject, would mimikyus appreciate customization? such as putting a bow on their costume.

It actually depends on the mimikyu, anonymous. Some are extremely proud of their costumes and will refuse to exchange it for any reason. Others see a human’s enthusiasm for helping with their costume as a potential bonding moment and will readily allow you to customize, help repair, or even create an entirely new costume for them. It doesn’t hurt to ask your mimikyu if you can help them with their costume. You could even take yours fabric shopping to better communicate your desire with her. Look for any sign that she’s interested in your opinion, including presenting fabrics for you to touch or allowing you to pick eye materials or customizations. If she goes directly to whatever she wants and blocks you from offering any input, then it should be clear that she wishes to create her costume herself, at which point it would be recommended that you allow her to do so.

If, however, you two do end up working on a costume together, remember that when it comes time for her to try her new costume on, you’ll need to avert your eyes until she’s finished. The last thing you’ll want to do is to undo all the hard work you put in bonding with her by accidentally looking at her true form.

Good luck, anonymous!

I think I attract cutiefly! Whenever i go out cutiefly swarm to me and sometimes nestle in my hair, shoulders, and lap, especially when i sit or stand in one place for more than a few seconds. Why is this? they’re not attacking me or anything, just being friendly.

Are you sure you aren’t a fomantis, anonymous?

Bill. —LH

Edit: In all seriousness, it’s very likely that you smell appealing to them. Sometimes, even subtle, floral soaps can draw attention from cutiefly.

Or alternatively, you’re secretly an animated princess.

Bill. —LH

I have two brother rockruffs and after discussing evolution with them I found out that one wants to become the midday form and the other midnight. I have done research and discovered that the midday likes to be alone, and the midnight form tends to provoke others into fights. They are well trained, but like typical brothers they tend to get into mild fights, I was just wondering how big of a problem I’m going to have when they evolve.

When it comes to two wild rockruff, the answer to this question would be rather complicated, but luckily, what we have here instead are a pair of tame rockruff. This means that your rockruff grew up feeling safe and secure, under the guidance of a trainer who very clearly cares about them. Thus, even though you may have heard things about either lycanroc’s aggressive nature, those facts are a bit more applicable to wild lycanroc, especially with regards to the midnight form. If you, as a trainer, manage to raise a midnight form lycanroc from its final, more rebellious days as a rockruff, that lycanroc will remember that you did this, so he’ll be more inclined to listen to you when you tell him to stop fighting his brother. (Midday lycanroc are very given to obeying orders from the outset, regardless of who trained them or how they were trained.)

At the same time, I also feel it’s highly important to note the nature of siblings. Speaking from personal experience, when you have two siblings who evolve (or, well, in the case of the example I’m thinking of, grow up) to be two completely different beings with polar opposite personalities, you may think that they would never get along. It’s true that fights are inevitable, as you’re correct in saying these are simply part of the experience of being a sibling. However, if the fights are never truly bitter or violent, then it’s very likely that a sort of undercurrent of familial love exists between them. That is to say, while it’s in the nature of two siblings to fight, it’s also in the nature of two siblings give their left arms for each other. Or in other words, siblings may bicker, but they will very rarely actually want to hurt each other, no matter how tense their relationship with one another may be.

Or to answer your question simply, I doubt those two will be a problem, anonymous. As always, keep close watch on them shortly after evolution and perhaps encourage them to take their fighting outside (just in case), but if I’m correct about their relationship, then the most trouble you may see would be some mild sparring with each other.