Tag: Anonymous

How do you feel about the ethics of the master ball? What if that technology could be reproduced by criminals? Also, would they work on a pokemon that already belongs to someone? I’m scared for my little baby wailord. He’s fragile!

The master ball is just another poké ball, only with an increased capture rate. So if there was anything unethical about it, then there would be something unethical about poké balls in general, in my opinion. After all, you could catch a legendary pokémon with a poké ball just as you could with a master ball; it will simply take more of the former than the latter.

Ultimately, the tool isn’t the problem; it’s the intent. If you used a master ball on a pokémon because either they wanted you to catch them or because you fully intended on taking good care of them, that would be perfectly fine and ethical. However, if you were a criminal intending on using the master ball to poach pokémon or to use a pokémon for nefarious purposes, then that wouldn’t be right, but again, it’s not right because of what you intend to do, not how you go about achieving it. So yes, I would be bothered if Silph allowed the schematics of the master ball to fall into the hands of a criminal organization, but I highly doubt that would happen.

As for your final question, rest assured that poké balls in general—including the master ball—cannot work on pokémon that already have a trainer. This has to do with with the fact that a conflict of trainer’s IDs (that is, the act of attempting to apply a trainer’s ID to a pokémon that already has one without first deleting or editing the original through releasing or trading, respectively) actually decreases a ball’s effectiveness to a dramatic degree. This renders a normal poké ball completely ineffective (a pokémon will always break free, even if they’re not trying to do so) and a master ball practically so (a pokémon will break free if they will themselves to do so).

Alright so some noob trainer came to the Alola region and caught all of our island guardians. That’s cool and everything, I respect his bravery and strength but jesus christ there’s ultra beasts invading the region and no one can do anything so I’m hoping he sees this and I want to tell him to put them god damn back before we all die

There are Ultra Beasts in Alola right now?!

I’m contacting your older sister to get her to confiscate your passport, just so you know. —LH

Can I evolve both my rockruffs into the different forms of Lycanroc or will this make them fight? Would it be better if theybecame the same one?

Allow me to answer your second question first. It depends on the form. Midnight lycanroc are generally lone wolves (excuse the pun) and will fight anything within its line of sight, including other midnight lycanroc. Midday lycarnroc, on the other hand, are highly loyal, including and especially to other midday lycanroc and rockruff. Consequently, if you have two midday lycanroc in the same room, they will most likely form a pack and get along perfectly, even if they were originally from two completely different packs.

However, to answer your first question, things aren’t quite as simple as that. While the above is true for wild lycanroc, tame lycanroc typically respond to memories instilled in them as rockruff. That is to say, if two rockruff were raised by a single trainer, evolving into two different lycanroc will not make them fight—not normally, anyway. There may be some tension, and if the rockruff didn’t get along before evolving, that will continue after their evolution. But if your rockruff had gotten along quite well before evolution, they will indeed continue to get along, even if one is a midnight and the other is a midday.

Still, always be prepared to moderate any potential bickering over food, water, or sleeping locations. Just in case.

My parents divorced a few years ago and I ended up moving from Snowpoint City to Malie City. Long story short, the experience left me with some pretty bad anxiety and my mother got me an Alolan vulpix as an emotional support animal to help. He was the sweetest, most affectionate thing I’d ever…or at least that was the case until he evolved a few weeks ago. I can’t take him anywhere without him shooting ice beams at strangers or getting super protective of me! What do I do to combat this?

This is a rare but unfortunate possibility in dealing with service pokémon. All of them normally receive training to minimize negative personality shifts as a result of evolution, but in the cases of wilder pokémon, such as most fox-like ones, sometimes, the training doesn’t quite stick.

Now, the reason why I say this is because it’s just a matter of training. It’s entirely possible for a service pokémon to be retrained to heel. If you’ve done your vulpix’s initial service training yourself, you can also do the same with your ninetales. Simply repeat the process you used to teach your vulpix to heel in public situations. It may take just as long as it had with your vulpix to retrain your ninetales, but be patient.

Alternatively, if you weren’t the one to train your vulpix, take him back to the service trainer who had, or take him to a pokémon center and ask for a trainer who specializes in conditioning service pokémon. Be prepared to be involved with the retraining process even here; your ninetales will respond far better with you present than if you simply left him in the trainer’s care. If you do choose this option, rest assured that you can still take your ninetales home at the end of each session. Just remember to continue reinforcing your trainer’s work as you go out and about with your ninetales.

Best of luck, anonymous!

It’s scyther anon again, I’ve had flareon basically since he was born and I got him to sit down with my espeon and talk it out, and it turns out he was just really jealous because I haven’t added a new member to my team in a while and he’s a bit… clingy, to put it nicely. Thank you so much for your help, they get along a lot better now!

Ah, I should have guessed. Sometimes, eeveelutions can be a rather … loyal breed of pokémon.

In any case, I’m glad that it worked out well for you, anonymous! May they continue to bond with no complications!

Heya! So I’ve always taken good care of my salamence, but now he’s acting very odd. He won’t allow me into the Haina Desert, or even allow me to leave our tent at night. What’s up with that?

Well, that could be due to any number of things, anonymous. For example, Haina Desert is known for extreme weather (both extremely hot sun and fierce sandstorms), so it could be that your salamence is attempting to protect you. Alternatively, it may also be aware that it isn’t as adept at flying in extreme weather, so it may be hesitant to go wherever it knows it won’t be able to fight or defend you to the best of its abilities. Or perhaps it could have something to do with the fact that Haina Desert is supposedly home to one of the legendary tapu, as well as other fantastically strong pokémon.

Whatever the reason may be, try communicating with your salamence to see if you can pick up any hints. Perhaps it has less to do with the Haina Desert specifically and has more to do with a general want to protect you. Perhaps it’s even something else entirely. Attempting to communicate with your salamence (or at least reassuring him that he can share with you whatever his concerns are) will help you narrow down the possibilities of what’s bothering him so you can easily come up with a solution.

Best of luck, anonymous.

How does a pokemon’s nature affect its stats? Why does a pokemon with a jolly nature get an increase in speed, while its special attack? How about a sassy pokemon getting lowered speed, with an increase in special defense?

Well, that’s an odd way to refer to capabilities. I may have to use that; it’s a far less unwieldy term.

In any case, anonymous, while it might seem odd, a pokémon’s personality has a lot to do with its battle capabilities because of the distribution of will. Let’s take your traits for an example. Let’s assume that you have two pikachu. One of them is a generally jolly pikachu (“generally” because this is what trainers mean by “jolly,” as really, a pokémon’s personality is a complex set of interacting traits, the same as a human’s or animal’s), and the other is a generally sassy pikachu.

Now, where personality comes into play is in a pokémon’s preferences in self-training and development. If you have two human beings, one may prefer to build their strength and stamina, while another may prefer studying to develop themselves intellectually. In the same way, consider the jolly pikachu. Jolly pikachu tend to be highly energetic and perky, and as such, they prefer running about and getting things done quickly, as the constant exercise of speed for them is an adequate outlet for their naturally energetic personalities. Consequently, jolly pikachu tend to be faster than others, simply because they’ve preferred to train themselves to be faster. By contrast, they’re not so adept at using special (or distance) attacks, as they focus more on releasing their energies via running. It isn’t that they never have energy to use special techniques; it’s just that they don’t release as much energy via using techniques as other pikachu do. Eventually, their ability to do so is very much like a bookish human’s ability to lift weights. Even if you attempted to train them to do so, it will take quite a bit of time before they can reach the sorts of levels an athlete may have achieved. Hence, to an outside observer, a jolly pikachu is a fast one, but it’s not particularly a hard hitter.

Meanwhile, there is the sassy pikachu. Unlike jolly pikachu, sassy pikachu tend to be more self-defensive, due to the fact that they are, well, rather cheeky. In order to get away with the mischief they’re inclined to make, sassy pikachu train themselves to be able to handle a few hits. The reason why they focus so much on their special defense (as opposed to physical defense) is because sassy pikachu are usually more intelligent and realize that their species is generally faster than anything they may pester. As such, these pikachu also realize that they can simply run out of arm’s reach, but they can’t outrun an Earthquake. For this reason, they see no point in developing their agility or offensive capabilities; instead, they focus completely on their defensive capabilities.

Any so-called nature follows this same form of logic. While, yes, all pokémon can receive special training to build up certain stats (you can, for example, train a jolly pikachu to launch more powerful distance attacks than other jolly pikachu), by and large, the differences between each nature are the results of pokémon developing skills in their own times, according to what they think would be best for themselves.

I was thinking about geting a dragon type Pokemon, becuse dragon’s. Most likely goodra, or dragonite lines since I do know where to get one legally. I gess I’m looking for care tips for them or dragon types in general. And aslong as I could meet there needs would thire be any problems geting both?

Offering general tips on how to care for a particular type is a bit tricky, anonymous, and the reason why is because even within a type family, different species may require vastly different things. For example, you wouldn’t take care of a seviper the same way you would take care of a standard muk, even though they’re both purely poison-types. Or for a closer comparison, you wouldn’t care for a scyther the same way you would a vespiquen.

Similarly, dragon-types, while all draconic in nature (obviously speaking), all have slightly different variations in care requirements. For example, noivern are nocturnal, eat fruit, and require a perch; garchomp are diurnal, carnivorous, and require wide-open spaces they can burrow into. Axew and jangmo-o are both similar to take care of (as they are both primarily carnivorous dragon-types that dwell in mountains and caves, require a source of heat, and evolve into at least one aggressive stage), but haxorus has a completely different personality from kommo-o and thus requires a different sort of training and psychological support. Granted, this doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t get along at all—and in fact, haxorus gets along quite well with a number of different pokémon, not to mention kommo-o generally feel protective towards anything it considers to be part of its herd or team—but it’s worth keeping in mind.

Then you have pokémon like dragonite and goodra. Goodra, by necessity, needs to be kept moist at all times. Otherwise, the fluids coating and composing its body dry, resulting in cracked skin that may be open to infection—or worse, general tissue damage. Dragonite, meanwhile, don’t necessarily need water to survive (although dratini and dragonair, being lake and river pokémon, do), but as wild dragonite live in and around the ocean, a tame one would be happiest when given a large pool. Thus, these pokémon may be difficult to keep with the aforementioned dragons, but they do quite well with the likes of kingdra and dragalge.

Other than that, goodra are primarily vegetarian (and one of the few dragon-types that are, with noivern being the other), whereas dragonite is an omnivore. Dragonite, additionally, cannot be put onto a full vegan diet, as it needs protein from meat sources to fuel its fantastic draconic powers. Both don’t normally need toys or extensive bedding, but dragonite needs a large amount of space, as it’s both a marine pokémon and one that flies. Letting it out to stretch its wings (so to speak) for a few hours should be enough for it. Goodra, meanwhile, is a less active pokémon and will require very little beyond a normal training routine. It’s worth it to allow a goodra at least an hour to swim, however.

Finally, as both goodra and dragonite fill very similar roles on a team, they can actually train together rather well. It would be a good idea to allow them to work together as they grow and learn new moves, as one pokémon can easily help the other to adjust and perfect their techniques.

In other words, by and large, there are certain combinations of pokémon that may be difficult to raise together, but at the very least, dragonite and goodra are highly compatible. The only differences between them are diet and exercise, really, unlike other dragons that require environments and routines that differ vastly from the more aquatically-inclined dragonite or goodra. If you plan on collecting more dragons than these, it’s imperative to do basic research into the habitats of the dragons you’re considering, as their natural environments will tell you a lot about what you would need to know to raise them—such as, for example, whether or not you can house them in the same enclosures as either dragonite or goodra.

Best of luck, anonymous!