Tag: asks

So I have s bulbasaur named Terry who is in his toddler stage, and he has some separation anxiety. Whenever I walk into a room Terry’s with me, whenever I go anywhere, he’s with me. Well today my boyfriend and I were trying to be -ahem- intimate and we locked the door and Terry was trying really hard to get in to the point he broke the door handle with his vines. I’m not really sure what to do about this, help??

These tip should be effective at resolving your, ah, issue, anonymous: http://bills-pokedex.tumblr.com/search/separation

Of course, it’s important to be patient while training your bulbasaur (according to the tips above). He is still a child, but with enough patience and care, you should be able to make the experience of being weaned off your constant presence a little less traumatic.

Best of luck!

Hey there Mr. Bill! I’m a student who’s been abroad in Hoenn for some time now. I’ll be moving back to Sinnoh in just a little bit, but not before making a quick trip through Kalos. My question is that I caught one of those neat little Baltoys that hang around old ruins here. Is there anything I should know before bringing the little fella along on my travels or before I settle back in Sinnoh again?

Luckily, baltoy are actually fairly easy to care for. As artificial pokémon, they don’t need food, water, or the like, although they may enjoy eating now and then. That is to say, it’s okay to give them poké beans, poké puffs, kibble, or so forth, but they won’t die if you forget to do so.

Beyond that, simply give your baltoy a level, solid surface to rest on as well as toys to amuse itself with (baltoy have no specific preference, so experiment with yours to determine what it seems to like), and it will be perfectly happy.

In terms of things to be aware of, be sure to include meditative training when honing your baltoy’s abilities. Its strongest techniques rely heavily on its telekinesis, so the more you strengthen that ability, the better your baltoy’s handle on its moves will be.

Additionally, try to avoid allowing your baltoy to come across another member of its species. Baltoy get along well enough with most pokémon, but for reasons we researchers haven’t fully figured out, when it spots another baltoy, the two will congregate together and begin vocalizing. The resulting noise tends to be ungodly.

Best of luck, anonymous!

Can I train my Stufful to not kill me when I touch or hug it? I realize it doesn’t like being touched but I have to at some point.

Well, one important thing to keep in mind is that your stufful knows best what is and isn’t a pleasant form of affection to it. If it dislikes being touched, it may be best to begin with rewarding it or showing your affection some other way until it gets comfortable with you. Consider feeding it treats it likes or playing with it using its favorite toys or simply sitting close by it. Any of these, as distant as they seem, may be mean the world to a pokémon that shies away from physical contact.

If your stufful ever wants to be touched, let it determine when that will be. For example, if it cuddles up to you or nudges your hand, then it’s okay to touch your stufful, and even then, start slowly. Pet it, find spots it particularly likes (to have scratched or rubbed), and then move on to letting it climb onto your lap or curl up next to you. Eventually, try a hug if and only if it seems comfortable to be picked up.

I know it can be rather difficult to not be able to show the sort of affection you want, dear reader, but the last thing you’d like to do is instill resentment, fear, or other forms of negativity by forcing your pokémon to do something they aren’t comfortable doing. That can lead to mental health issues for your pokémon … and, well, physical health issues for yourself (what with the fact that we’re talking about pokémon and all). So take things slowly and let your stufful decide when hugging would be appropriate.

In other words, it’s possible to train a stufful to accept a hug, but that training actually consists of giving stufful the forms of affection it already wants until it decides it would rather have more.

Bill. You remember the Ultra Beast attack in Alola right? I volunteered to leave Unova with my Pokemon partners and other volunteers, and go to Alola to help with fixing the damage caused by Ultra Beasts. While there we lost a team of volunteers in Poni Island, and I was sent to look for them, and I stumbled upon what I think is an Ultra Wormhole. Do you think they are in the portal? What I see in the portal is a different looking Alola region. What should I do? Should I go in?

I can’t say for certain if they’ve gone through the portal, and I doubt it would be possible to know for certain unless you go through yourself. Even psychics don’t quite have the reach to tap into minds on different planes of existence. (Don’t ask me how I know this.)

However, I wouldn’t recommend going through yourself. That’s a dangerous move; after all, who knows what could be on the other side? It could indeed be a mirror of our own universe, or it could be a place full of dangerous and powerful pokémon. Dimensional travel isn’t always straightforward either, and you don’t know for certain whether or not the portal is stable enough to support a return trip.

I would recommend contacting the rest of your team and formulating a plan together. Best of luck, anonymous.

It’s my birthday and I walked out of my room to see feathers everywhere then a very dead starly on the floor with my very please looking Litten who nudged it to me. Why did he do this? It’s the first time ever and cleaning up dead bird isn’t exactly how I wanted to spend my morning

Litten often believe humans are very large, strange-looking, extremely incompetent litten. As such, they will often present their trainers with “gifts” in the form of dead animals, as an effort to teach us how to hunt. So with that in mind, your litten is doing one of two things:

  1. Giving you a birthday present by way of assuming you wish to have something extra special for your birthday.
  2. Operating under the assumption that you’re old enough to know how to hunt while at the same time finding it odd that you don’t.

In short, your litten is just trying to help. By telling you that you can’t hunt, and this is a shame.

so i took a trip to unova and caught a very sweet sandile who i named Zoro, who is now a krookodile. now, ive gotten all the necessary paperwork to take him to my home reigon of Hoenn, but i know how humid hoenn can be (i live just a bit away from fallarbor town). are there any precautions i should take before bringing Zoro home?

Not particularly. Unlike quite a few ground-types, krookodile can fare just as well in humid environments as in arid ones, so long as it has a sand pit to bury itself in during particularly humid days. Additionally, be sure to give yours a dry place to rest whenever it rains, and try to wait for a few hours after a rainstorm (for conditions to dry up) before sending him back outside again.