You’re in luck, anonymous, because just to the west of Hearthome is the home of Dr. Irving Fig, known colloquially as the Berry Master. If anyone knows what to do about berry trees and grass-types that aren’t quite faring well, it would be Dr. Fig.
Best of luck, anonymous, and may your garden and your roselia grow green again!
Usually, this sort of behavior occurs in trickster pokémon (the zorua line, ditto, ghosts capable of illusion) that find their owners’ reactions to be, well, hilarious.
My advice would be to train yourself to avoid reacting if at all possible, and your zorua will be just frustrated enough that she’ll stop doing it. For example, when she disguises herself as a legendary, plant your feet firmly in the ground, take a deep breath, look her in the eye, and compliment her illusion. This may be difficult at first—especially if your initial reaction is to jump or scream in surprise—but the more you go through these motions (once you realize what she’s doing, anyway), the less time will elapse between her surprise attack and the first step in the above-mentioned sequence. Eventually, it should come naturally to you, and your zorua will gradually lose interest in teasing you in this manner … or at least the two of you will impress your house guests.
Of course, it should be noted that this won’t necessarily mean that your zorua will attempt to change her tactics on you, but the more you train yourself to avoid reacting to her disguises, the less likely she’ll use them on you in general.
The important thing is to make sure your zoroark understands that his worth both as a living being and as your partner are not determined by the battlefield. If you can reassure him that the way you see him hasn’t changed, despite the fact that he can no longer perform what had been one of his main duties on your team, life during and after recovery will be a lot easier for him. My advice would be to find something he can do that will keep him close to you as often as possible. Don’t keep him from watching battles if he wants to do that; rather, simply keep him from joining. Preventing him from watching will make him feel excluded from your life, especially if you battle frequently. Perhaps even allow him to mentor your krokorok and lucario if his condition allows him to use his abilities outside of the high-energy environment of the battlefield.
As for breaking the news to both him and the rest of your team, break it to your team first. Tell them that their teammate will need all their support but that just because he can’t battle doesn’t mean he should be treated as if he can’t do anything. Make sure they understand that he needs them to include him in as many of their activities as he can physically handle, and let them know that most likely, your zoroark won’t appreciate being treated gently. Do this in a confident but gentle tone, and speak clearly. Although the news may be devastating to them at worst (or perhaps disappointing at best), getting them to understand your zoroark’s condition as quickly as possible will help you to break the news to your zoroark.
Once you’re ready for Zoroark, inform him gently. Have his team in the room with you for support, and let him know that you and the others will work hard to help him through recovery.
Best of luck, anonymous.
I do hope I’ve made it in time for your trainer’s birthday, Apollo!
That having been said, while your trainer likely already knows you love her, it’s always safe to give her something from the heart. Figure out what makes her happy and do something related to that. Even making something with your own hands or doing something at home that makes her life easier somehow will be enough.
Good luck, little ralts, and happy birthday to your trainer!
Poké balls can be rather disorienting for some pokémon. They’re aware of the outside world, but they perceive it in the same way you might perceive a dream. You may not be aware of your body exactly, and you might feel as if you can’t interact with what you see—not really, anyway. For some pokémon, this can induce anxiety and trigger their flight response. As a note, many other pokémon—more than the few who dislike poké balls—feel more safe and comfortable inside their balls than outside; it’s more a personal preference to stay inside.
(Also as a note, no, I do not know this from personal experience, contrary to popular belief.)
That having been said, a pokémon needs to want to stay inside. If their need to escape is so powerful that it overwhelms their poké ball’s closing mechanism, then the ball will fail and subsequently release them. However, if a pokémon merely wants to escape but not with everything they’ve got (or perhaps their want to stay inside outweighs their need to escape), then their balls will remain closed.
Jynx is perhaps the best, largely because hair is extremely important to the jynx culture. They understand more than any other pokémon the intricacies of using hair as a form of expression, and thus, they’re far more open to listening to clients and working with them to style their hair (or fur, in the case of animals and some pokémon) in just the right way that best suits who those clients are. Moreover, even in the wild, jynx are adept at caring for hair, and as such, they’re very keen on learning and using the proper techniques for managing a client’s hair.
By extension (no pun intended), smoochum are the second best, as they’re often apprentices of more experienced jynx.
Besides jynx, shockingly, mr. mime (note: not mime jr., which is often more interested in play than work), audino, chansey/blissey (despite a lack of hands), and aromatisse are the next best, due to their eagerness to serve people in more domestic tasks—or, in aromatisse’s case, an interest in trends.
As a note, contrary to popular belief, pokémon such as scyther, scizor, and others known for sharp claws are not good choices and should never be used for such purposes. In some cases (such as sneasel), it’s because they’re fickle and may cut clients’ hair in wild, erratic patterns for fun. In other cases (such as sandslash), their type or body plan prevents them from being effective for anything besides cutting. And in others (such as scyther), it’s a combination of the two.
Well, they rarely share habitats, so in the wild, I unfortunately can’t say. However, I also admit that hoothoot and rowlet would consider one another competitors for resources, so I doubt they would.
On the other hand, in captivity, they get along quite well, as their needs often overlap, allowing them to be housed, fed, and engaged with equally. Additionally, both pokémon fill different niches on a team, allowing the two to interact and work together in harmony.
So in short, I suppose in scenarios where resources are abundant, I think they would indeed get along quite well, but in an average forest with limited resources, the possibility of the two getting along would unfortunately be quite grim.
In a way, a good trainer is that for a pokémon. While not every trainer is capable of doing this, it’s not unusual for a trainer to adopt and help pokémon with mental health needs of one sort or another. Moreover, pokémon centers often have pokémon psychologists—either Nurse Joy or another trained professional—on staff to offer advice and therapy.
In short, anonymous, no, there are no mental hospitals for pokémon. That’s generally more of a human concept, to be honest.
Generally speaking, gallade tend to be rather protective of their trainers, some more than others. So I wouldn’t say that the people you date are latently evil, @hoshikostar. It may be more that your gallade is finding it difficult to trust new people you bring into your life, especially if it’s been just the two of you for a very long time.
My advice would be to try and acclimate your gallade to a new partner the same way you would a new pokémon. Do it gradually and in comfortable settings, and make it clear to your gallade that your partner means him (or you) no harm.
If he continues to express aggression towards your partners, it may also be jealousy or a genuine fear of something he’s detecting. If it’s the former, have your new partner interact with your gallade in mediated settings to establish their intent on forming a partnership or family with him as well. (In other words, have your partner reassure your gallade that they have every intent on including him in activities, rather than excluding him and monopolizing your time.) If it’s the latter, reassure your gallade that you trust his judgment, but let him know that you can’t act on his advice unless he opens up to you.
Finally, consider training alongside him, rather than simply guide him through exercises as a trainer usually would. In doing this, you’ll remind your gallade that you’re not simply someone who needs constant protection but rather an equal, and thus, this should reassure your gallade enough to be a little less overprotective.
Best of luck!
Eevee and its evolutions lean more toward (for the most part) carnivorous lifestyles, actually. While, like most pokémon, they can eat nuts, berries, grains, root vegetables, and so forth, much of their diet should be meat and protein of some kind.
That having been said, the answer to your second question depends. In captivity, the eevee family can actually be fed the exact same diet, regardless of what evolution each individual takes, with no real consequences so long as their trainer keeps in mind that they should be fed a balance of foods.
In the wild however, absolutely, it depends on the evolution.
Eevee tend to have the most balanced diet (as one would expect) and will eat whatever it can find in its immediate environment.
Flareon often stick to slower animals and pokémon, and its favored food sources tend to be small mammals. It will also display the unusual behavior of roasting their food with the intention of cooking it before eating. (Trainers should be aware that tamed flareon also display this behavior and should only be fed in fireproof environments.)
Vaporeon, being aquatic pokémon, will eat mostly seafood, including fish, amphibians, turtles, jellyfish, and aquatic mammals (such as seals). It tends to avoid shellfish, likely due to the difficulty in getting them open, but it will also hunt for larger meat sources (such as walruses, dolphins, and even sharks) in packs.
Jolteon, being faster and gifted with electrical attacks, often hunt for birds and forage for eggs. It’s also the one eeveelution that prefers pokémon meat over animal meat, as bird pokémon tend to be larger targets than their animal “counterparts.”
Espeon and Leafeon both tend to eat more of a herbivorous diet than their cousins. This does not mean that they are strictly herbivorous; simply that they forage more often than the others. Espeon tends to hunt for insects and other animals with lesser cognitive functions thanks to its psychic abilities. Leafeon, meanwhile, avoids insects (due to its plant biology) and consumes largely rodents, rabbits, frogs, and anything else it can find in its forest habitat. (Leafeon also photosynthesizes whenever a food source isn’t readily available.)
Umbreon, meanwhile, is much more of a carnivore than its cousins in that its diet consists almost entirely of meat. As a nocturnal, forest-dwelling pokémon in nature, it will often hunt for small, ground-dwelling pokémon and animals, particularly diurnal ones. It has no qualms raiding the nests of sleeping prey, in other words.
Glaceon will often consume whatever it can find in its colder, more arctic environment—usually seafood (for polar glaceon) or rabbits (for mountainous). Glaceon may also share territory with vaporeon, sometimes even hunting alongside them to take down larger prey (such as seals and even walruses).
Finally, Sylveon, like eevee, will eat whatever it can find in its environment but typically chooses prey it can lure into dark corners of its habitat and then devour.
The Pokédex According to Bill 