Tag: drifblim

What is the safety way to ride a Drifblim? My friend thinks its on top of them like you would any large bird, I think them carrying you would be the safest bet. They arent native to our area so there’s no local trainers we can observe.

Either way could work, actually. Some trainers prefer riding on top, as there’s more surface area, and not many of them trust the strength of drifblim’s ribbon arms (or their own arms, for that matter). Others prefer holding onto the ribbons and dangling from beneath. Still others construct swings or baskets that the drifblim carries, but if you do this, be sure to connect it to a harness strapped around the drifblim’s body. Forcing a drifblim to carry the weight of a basket and a trainer can be dangerous for both you and your pokémon. Additionally, never have a drifblim carry more than one occupant in your basket or swing at a time unless they’re particularly small (like children or small pokémon).

Drifloon and Drifblim

Drifloon
The Balloon Pokémon
Type: Ghost/Flying
Official Registration #: 425
Entry: A small, balloon-like pokémon first discovered in the mountains of Sinnoh. This potentially dangerous pokémon is well-aware of its cute, balloon-like appearance, as it uses this to its advantage when hunting its meal of choice: the souls of children. When it spots a potential victim, drifloon floats close and offers one of its string-like appendages for the child to take. In theory, the next step would be that the drifloon lifts the child and carries them away from their home, but considering the fact that the average toddler weighs ten times (at minimum) as much as the average drifloon, what typically happens instead is that the drifloon is dragged away from its natural habitat and presented to understandably horrified parents. (This is why most drifloon who survive in the wilderness feed on a supplemental diet of berries and dreams.)

Drifblim
The Blimp Pokémon
Type: Ghost/Flying
Official Registration #: 426
Entry: The evolved form of drifloon, by battle experience. Upon evolution, this blimp-like pokémon loses its desire to hunt. Rather, it adopts a more easy-going personality and has been known to befriend both people and pokémon very willingly. Moreover, drifblim gain an increase in strength, which, combined with drifblim’s more docile nature, tends to lead trainers into believing this pokémon would be an ideal candidate to teach the Fly technique to. However, it should also be noted that although drifblim can support the weight of a fully grown human being, it cannot control where it goes once airborne or how long it remains in the air, which is to say that drifblim is really the only ideal candidate to teach Fly to if one does not mind spending a week to go from Hearthome City to Canalave by way of Sunyshore and Oreburgh … somehow.