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Do Mawile’s antenna serve a purpose? I recently got a mawilite and she wants to match me and my keystone earring, so is it possible/ethical to pierce my Mawile antenna?

Those antennae serve as balance, actually—counterweights to their bulky horns. Don’t let this alarm you, though; you can still absolutely adorn them with jewelry and not harm your mawile.

The problem lies in the fact that they’re difficult to pierce. After all, they’re actually reinforced with organic metal (the same sort that causes mawile to be classified as a steel-type). It may be a good idea to create a clip-on earring for your mawile or a clip that otherwise resembles your earring instead.

Best of luck!

I recently caught a combee and her ability is honey gather, its creating an awful lot of honey though, I have more jars than I know what to do with, I don’t know if this is in your area of expertise but got any recipes I can use to help me and my pokemon use some of it? Also, is it okay to feed her honey back to her?

In reverse order, it is absolutely all right to feed a combee its own honey! The truth of the matter is honey is combee food, simply in a form that can be stored for long periods of time. (Some combee even store honey within their bodies during the winter.)

As for recipes … I fully admit that cooking is not at all my area of expertise. I’m actually (and unfortunately) quite useless in the kitchen. I can say, however, two things:

1. Tea with a couple teaspoons of honey alongside honey on toast is an absolutely divine breakfast.

2. Cooking is more Lanette’s expertise, so for the rest of this post, I’ll defer to her.

LH: 
Honey is a really versatile ingredient, actually, and can be a decent substitute for granulated sugar in practically every dessert recipe. You just have to remember the four basic rules if you choose to do this:

1. For every cup of sugar your recipe calls for, only use a half cup of honey. (Maybe a little bit more, if you prefer something sweeter, with a more pronounced honey taste.)

2. On the subject of taste, add a quarter to a half teaspoon of baking soda. This will help cut the natural acidity of the honey and bring out the sweetness.

3. Remember that honey is, well, a liquid. So you need to reduce all of your other liquids (or add more flour) to balance it out and get the right consistency. This typically means for every cup of sugar the recipe calls for, reduce liquids by a quarter cup or, if it’s a recipe that doesn’t call for many liquid ingredients, add two tablespoons of flour.

4. Reduce your oven’s heat. Honey browns anything it’s put in, so cooking at a lower temperature will help keep the end product from browning too much.

Of course, these are all just hard rules for making baked desserts or breads. If you’re not baking a pastry or bread, then honey can be even more versatile. You can, for example, mix honey with a few spices and coat chicken with it for an excellent baked chicken. Likewise, a few tablespoons of honey on fresh fruit with cream can either be a great breakfast or a great recipe for a smoothie. Be creative and don’t be afraid to experiment.

If you’re interested, though, here’s one of my favorite recipes:

Leppa Berry Flaugnarde

Ingredients
* 3 large eggs
* ½ cup milk
* ¼ cup honey
* 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
* dash vanilla extract
* dash salt
* ½ cup flour
* 2 cups leppa berries (de-stemmed, washed, and dried)
* Cinnamon (optional)

Note: If you don’t have access to leppa berries, two or three large apples—peeled, cored, and cut into chunks—will also do. I would recommend something sweet but tart, such as honeycrisp.

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (about 162 degrees C). Grease a pie tin or a cast-iron skillet and set aside. (You can use either of these things, but I like how traditional a cast-iron skillet is.)

2. Whisk the eggs until they’re just foamy. Add in milk, honey, butter, vanilla, and salt, and mix until they’re incorporated. Gradually add flour until you’ve created a smooth batter.

3. Pour half the batter into your pie tin or skillet. Spread leppa berries (or apple chunks) across the batter, then carefully add the remaining batter without shifting the fruit around. Sprinkle cinnamon on top to taste.
Helpful tip: A ladle may help you add the remaining batter without going too quickly to disrupt your fruit.

4. Bake for 40 minutes or until the center is set.

My mawiles tooth just fell out! What do I do!? Its from her false jaw not her mouth, do I put it in moo moo milk? I heard that’s a thing…

It is for most pokémon that have teeth, but with a mawile’s false jaws, it’s actually far easier to take care of. The fact of the matter is that a mawile’s horns are normally lose their teeth every so often because they’re used to bite deep into a victim and hold, even when the victim struggles. Losing teeth is simply often inevitable in these situations. Thus, a mawile’s horns can regrow teeth rather quickly.

In other words, don’t worry! Your mawile will be fine. As for the tooth, some trainers like to collect them to make jewelry or as keepsakes, but otherwise, it would be fine to throw it away.

I’ve seen arguments about whether or not Phione is a mythical pokemon or not, what are your thoughts on this?

This is a tricky topic, as it’s just as much of a debate within the research community as it is among trainers and the like. Nonetheless, I personally believe that because the only way a phione can come to be is through the mating of a mythical pokémon, this makes it mythical in a sense as well—just not, perhaps, by the strictest definitions. It’s essentially the equivalent of a demigod but a pokémon: admittedly not quite a legendary but certainly separate from a common pokémon.