Tag: Kadabra

The Abra Line

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Abra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 63
Entry: A small, fox-like pokémon of the psychic-type. Due to its incredible psychic power, it requires at least eighteen hours of sleep per day. However, it also has the power to read minds, so when it senses danger or when it is summoned for battle, it is still capable of “reading” its surroundings and using its other moves to protect itself. Unfortunately, the only move it learns naturally is Teleport, and as teaching a pokémon moves via HM or TM requires them to be fully conscious, training an abra may pose difficult for the beginning trainer. On the positive side, it provides many life lessons to trainers who are just starting out from Goldenrod City, which is flanked by two major abra habitats. One of these lessons is, of course, never go out to capture your first pokémon without reading the pokédex first.

Kadabra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 64
Entry: The evolved form of abra, by battle experience. After evolution, a kadabra’s psychic powers grow in strength, and its mastery over its psychic abilities increases, allowing it to learn more techniques and stay awake for longer periods of time. Unfortunately, its powers also cause it to unconsciously emit alpha waves at all times. These alpha waves increase when a kadabra is excited and have a tendency to irrevocably damage sensitive equipment, as well as induce headaches in a nearby human. Because of the latter, it is said that only those with a strong psyche may handle this pokémon … which would be a compliment if the author was a little more prepared for poké puff-related migraines.

Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65
Entry: The evolved form of kadabra, via trading. Upon evolution, a kadabra’s abilities and intelligence grow exponentially, to the point where the average alakazam is said to possess a brain powerful enough to rival a supercomputer. On the downside, because its head grows too heavy for its body to support, an alakazam is constantly exerting its telekinetic powers, which in turn means it is, more than ever, exuding psi energy. Additionally, due to its unusual evolutionary requirements, most trainers will never get to own an alakazam, let alone observe these telekinetic abilities … which on the one hand is a shame but on the other hand is also a blessing for both the author’s research equipment and his head.

Mega Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65+
Entry: The advanced form of alakazam, via alakazite. The array of spoon-like objects it gains upon mega evolution are psychic amplifiers that greatly enhance its telekinetic abilities. They are not, as the internet claims, for consuming vanillite although some mega alakazam use them for this too.

My Kadabra has had some vision problems since his evolution. After taking him to the Pokemon Center, he’s been diagnosed with astigmatism resulting in near-sighted vision. Should I invest in prescription glasses/goggles, or do items like Choice Specs or Wide Lens do the trick?

Always invest in prescription glasses or goggles if you can. While choice specs sound like a good alternative on paper (as they do focus a pokémon’s eyesight enough to allow them to hone in on a target and thus hit them harder with long-distance techniques), the fact of the matter is that they’re not medical tools. Moreover, a set you find or buy at a local pokémart may not be attuned to your kadabra’s specific needs, as a set of prescription lenses might be.

(And wide lenses are not eyeglasses at all but rather more or less akin to a periscope.)

That having been said, most pokémon centers will help you choose lenses that would be right for your kadabra, if not connect you to a pokémon optometrist who might be able to assist you. I would recommend going back to your local Nurse Joy and asking for recommendations or a prescription.

Best of luck!

I just caught an abra and I was wondering about its teleportation abilities. Like, is there any risk of us getting jumbled together into a human-abra hybrid if we teleport too far or while distracted or something? Or is that just a silly urban myth?

Ah, abra! One of the most challenging pokémon to train but also one of the most rewarding!

Luckily, anonymous, the idea that pokémon teleportation of any kind will result in human-pokémon hybrids is a complete myth. In truth, Teleport is one of the safest ways to travel by pokémon—even safer than using Fly. Your only real risk is having your abra misjudge the landing, resulting in it sitting on the edge of a cliff and you standing just off it. However, I can reassure you that this rarely happens … unless you and your abra or kadabra have a disagreement of some sort, anyway. For example, there was an incident when a trainer (who shall remain nameless) had a disagreement with his kadabra concerning which way Vermilion City was from Cerulean, and the next thing he knew, his kadabra had teleported him to an abandoned lighthouse on a rather lovely cliff. Or, rather, the kadabra teleported there. The trainer, who had been right beside the kadabra just before teleporting, was a few inches away from the cliff, and needless to say, he found the cliff and its lighthouse lovely enough to move there.

Er, the point is, never have an argument prior to teleporting with a pokémon. That’s basically the only way you can really be in danger when asking a pokémon to use Teleport.

Artificial teleportation via a teleporter or teleport tile, however, is an entirely different matter, but we won’t get into that.

The Abra Line

Abra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 63
Entry: A small, fox-like pokémon of the psychic-type. Due to its incredible psychic power, it requires at least eighteen hours of sleep per day. However, it also has the power to read minds, so when it senses danger or when it is summoned for battle, it is still capable of “reading” its surroundings and using its other moves to protect itself. Unfortunately, the only move it learns naturally is Teleport, and as teaching a pokémon moves via HM or TM requires them to be fully conscious, training an abra may pose difficult for the beginning trainer. On the positive side, it provides many life lessons to trainers who are just starting out from Goldenrod City, which is flanked by two major abra habitats. One of these lessons is, of course, never go out to capture your first pokémon without reading the pokédex first.

Kadabra
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 64
Entry: The evolved form of abra, by battle experience. After evolution, a kadabra’s psychic powers grow in strength, and its mastery over its psychic abilities increases, allowing it to learn more techniques and stay awake for longer periods of time. Unfortunately, its powers also cause it to unconsciously emit alpha waves at all times. These alpha waves increase when a kadabra is excited and have a tendency to irrevocably damage sensitive equipment, as well as induce headaches in a nearby human. Because of the latter, it is said that only those with a strong psyche may handle this pokémon … which would be a compliment if the author was a little more prepared for poké puff-related migraines.

Alakazam
The Psi Pokémon
Type: Psychic
Official Registration #: 65
Entry: The evolved form of kadabra, via trading. Upon evolution, a kadabra’s abilities and intelligence grow exponentially, to the point where the average alakazam is said to possess a brain powerful enough to rival a supercomputer. On the downside, because its head grows too heavy for its body to support, an alakazam is constantly exerting its telekinetic powers, which in turn means it is, more than ever, exuding psi energy. Additionally, due to its unusual evolutionary requirements, most trainers will never get to own an alakazam, let alone observe these telekinetic abilities … which on the one hand is a shame but on the other hand is also a blessing for both the author’s research equipment and his head.