I have a question about my Flygon. I’ve had her for years, I captured her in the wild as a Vibrava and she evolved four years ago, but there’s something bothering me: she’s tiny. Normal Flygon are about 6’07” but mine doesn’t even hit 6′. She was this tiny upon completing evolution so I figured she just needed some time to grow, but she hasn’t. I’m feeding her fresh meats and kibbles every day, but she’s still tiny. She’s also getting plenty of exercise. Is something wrong with her?

Not really, anonymous. Just as humans come in a wide variety of different heights, so too do pokémon. The average you might see listed in the pokédex is merely an average: the average height of a pokémon species, as determined from data collected through a large sample. In truth, only a handful of flygon are actually 6′07″; they are otherwise a wide variety of different heights, from 4′00″ all the way up to 8′00″. There’s only something wrong if your flygon is excessively small or large, and that’s only because such heights can be linked to actual medical problems that your local Nurse Joy would have diagnosed by now.

In short, anonymous, your flygon may be perfectly fine—just a bit on the shorter side than most.

So I live in Sootopolis, Hoenn and didn’t have a flying Pokémon. I took a trip to Desert Pass to maybe catch a trapinch. I found one but she was stuck wiggling on her back. I helped her but then a sandstorm kicked up to where I couldn’t leave. So this trapinch took me to its cave where I met its 10 siblings and flygon mother. I spent a day with them and flygon flew me home. I found out that the trapinch hid in my bag. Flygon came back with her babies &I have a flygon and 10 babes in my backyard

Congratulations on your new flygon and trapinch, anonymous!

Stock up on kibble and build a shelter that can fit a mother flygon and her hatchlings. I’d imagine that Sootopolis may not be the most comfortable place for them when it rains. You might want to build a pit of mulch and dirt as well; that will resist flooding a bit more than a sand pit would.

Good luck!

Tips on caring for a freshly evolved Flygon?

Continue caring for your flygon as you had for your vibrava. Most flygon have the exact same needs as a vibrava; the only difference is that they’ll require more. That is to say, your flygon should need more space to fly, more sand to nest in, more food (insects and meat primarily, if not kibble) to consume, and more time to train. Just about the only thing your flygon will need less of is perhaps sleep, as it will no longer be saving energy for a future evolution.

Well, that and toys, as final-stage pokémon rarely want toys for enrichment. They mostly prefer battling, truth be told.

Why is the flygon line not bug type?

The trapinch line, despite their insectoid appearances, do not actually exhibit any affinity for the bug element naturally, anonymous. (Or, well, vibrava is capable of learning Bug Buzz without assistance, but other than that, I mean.) Rather, the entire line exhibits a strong alignment with the ground-type at first, then with the dragon-type as it grows into its advanced stages. This goes for both its offensive and defensive capabilities. It’s not only true that members of the trapinch line are incapable of learning bug-type moves, but it’s also true that none of them display any of the weaknesses or resistances of a bug-type.

Remember, anonymous, a pokémon does not simply receive an elemental classification according to its physical appearance. What matters more is that pokémon are both capable of controlling a certain element and respond to other elements in a certain way.

Hey Bill, I’m starting to suspect that my Flygon may be kidnapping people out of jealousy, as she gets quite protective over me when other people/pokemon are around, and my new friends have recently went missing after I introduced her to them. Is there anyway to verify/stop this?

That’s … an unusual situation for a flygon, especially one that’s been well-trained (as I assume yours has). The important thing is that accusing your flygon or being stern with her will not yield any answers. What you’ll need to do is check her usual hiding places. Keep an eye on her if you let her out and try to follow her if she strays from your yard. In addition (not alternatively), ask her nicely and offer her treats if she’s seen your friends. It might even be a good idea to invest in a psychic-type to ensure she’s telling the truth (or to find your friends if she isn’t).

In the meantime, regardless of whether or not your flygon is involved, it may be a good idea to approach the issue that is her overprotective behavior. It may even encourage your flygon to show you where your friends are if she was involved in their disappearances. It’s important to reassure her that you’re not replacing her by maintaining the same level of affection and attention as you usually do. However, it may be prudent to get more pokémon anyway to help her socialize and get used to the idea that you can be “shared,” as it were. As you do this, remember to maintain the amount of love you give your flygon to avoid making her feel like you’ve replaced her with new team members. You may even want to be present as she socializes with her teammates at first. Once she gets used to the idea of sharing you with others and of being around other beings, then you can introduce her to people, but start with public areas with many people, rather than one-on-one interactions with personal friends. If she can get used to seeing you surrounded by other humans, then she’ll find it easier to get used to you forming bonds with some of them. At that point, she may open up and help you find the friends you’ve already made.

Of course, it’s also important to report your friends as missing and to communicate as much as possible either way, as if your flygon is responsible, then it will be some time before she opens up and tells you where they are … and by then, well, law enforcement may be involved. The more you communicate, the more you can make it clear that you didn’t kidnap them.

Best of luck, anonymous!

My altaria and flygon have been fighting a lot recently since flygon evolved. Before I used to fly primarily on alratia but since I’ve been training my flygon I’ve been taking Him more often… im really worried one of them is going to get seriously injured. What do I do?

Ah, therein lies the problem, anonymous. Any time you shift attention from one pokémon to another, especially if you don’t explain the situation beforehand, you risk instilling a sense of jealousy in one of them. Yes, this happens even if the jealous pokémon is one of the nicest, most selfless you’ve ever worked with or if the jealous pokémon had been close friends with the one you’re affording more attention to.

With that in mind, in order to rectify the situation, you need to do two things. First, you need to explain clearly to your pokémon (both of them) that you’re not replacing either of them. You’re simply redistributing tasks. Of course, it’s also important that you offer this explanation without implying that your flygon is simply better suited to flight than your altaria. Otherwise, you risk provoking your altaria to “prove” that it’s just as capable of a flyer (by fighting your flygon again).

The second task will help you avoid this implication. What you need to do is, quite simply, spend more time with your altaria. Find something that it does best and work with it every day. Spend a little more time training it. Do everything you can to make it feel important to you or to make it feel as if you’re spending an equal amount of time with it as you do with your flygon. The more effort you put forth to make your altaria feel like a part of your team, the more your altaria can rest easy that its place hasn’t been taken by flygon. And thus, once you figure that part out, it will be less likely to instigate fights with its partner.

Likewise, your flygon may also be less likely to display dominance over your altaria, but I would also keep an eye on him and reassure him that your altaria is not a threat too.

Best of luck, anonymous.

The Trapinch Line

Trapinch
The Ant Pit Pokémon
Type: Ground
Official Registration #: 328
Entry: A large, antlion-like pokémon native to deserts, particularly those of the Hoenn region. A patient hunter, trapinch digs conical pit traps and waits at the very center for prey to come tumbling down. However, due to its habitat in the remote parts of brutal deserts, it may wait for a solid week before anything comes tumbling into its pit. During this time, it does not move from its pit, even to search for water. Part of this might have something to do with the construction of their pits: each pit is typically so well-made that even the trapinch struggles to escape from them.

Vibrava
The Vibration Pokémon
Type: Ground/Dragon
Official Registration #: 329
Entry: The evolved form of trapinch, by battle experience. Also: a dragon-like pokémon known for generating supersonic waves capable of inducing headaches and disorienting prey by vigorously shaking its two pairs of wings. Also: a fearless predator that darts in at high speeds to take down prey, then spits venom onto said victims to dissolve them for easier consumption. Not: an adult toy whose name cannot be specified on a blog meant for general audiences, Bebe.

Flygon
The Mystic Pokémon
Type: Ground/Dragon
Official Registration #: 330
Entry: The evolved form of vibrava, by battle experience. Nicknamed “the spirit of the desert,” flygon is capable of kicking up massive dust storms with powerful flaps of its chitinous wings. It hides within these sandstorms and travels at great speeds across its desert habitats, which is why many people consider it a mirage. This is not the only thing flygon is known for, of course. It is also known for the massive waves of disappointment it had created when it was discovered that, unlike a number of other pokémon native to the Hoenn region, it is virtually incapable of mega evolving.