Tag: Machamp

How do human like Pokémon like gardevoir and medicham sleep? Do they need a human bed? Or can they curl up like eevees and other Pokémon do?

They sleep very much like humans, anonymous. That is to say, they don’t curl up but rather lie down wherever they can. However, they don’t necessarily need special beds. Oftentimes, they’re content enough to sleep on whatever soft surface you have at the ready, including a couch, a cot, blankets on the floor, the ground itself, trees (in the case of the more … unusual sorts of fighting- and grass-types), or in very rare cases, your bed. Of course, many trainers still like to offer a simple bed to their pokémon anyway, although this isn’t always feasible for every trainer.

As a separate note, regardless of what less scrupulous blogs may have you believe, pokémon such as gardevoir, lopunny, and so forth are not the pokémon I was referring to when I said some human-like pokémon enjoy sleeping in the same bed as their trainers. (In fact, gardevoir especially prefer sleeping spaces as far from their trainers as possible, due to their inherent psychic abilities.) Rather, I was referring to sawk, throh, mr. mime, elgyem and beheeyem, and members of the machop line (but especially machamp).

Furthermore, I would not advise sharing a bed with a machamp. I will let your imaginations come up with the reason why.

My Machamp and Blaziken, Star and Magician, have been posing very… Intensely, recently. They’ll just lock eyes and suddenly strike a very impressive pose after a moment. Is this a behavior commonly seen in fighting-types?

Strangely, yes. While not all fighting-types do this, many consider flexing to be a form of communication. Think of it as similar to the way two growlithe sniff at each other’s tails when they first meet. Just as this is a way for growlithe to understand each other, two fighting-types display for each other to show off their power, which in turn allows them to understand a number of things about one another, including how they train and so forth.

It should be noted that when I say that fighting-types compare how they train with one another, I don’t mean that they try to establish dominance. Rather, it’s a form of camaraderie, an act in which two pokémon engage in friendly appraisal. This is especially common with pokémon on the same team, as fighting-types will gauge each other’s progress for the sake of helping one another to develop their talents.

So in short, it’s nothing to worry about, @samthewindwaker. It just means that your pokémon have been putting forth a particular amount of effort in their training regimens lately, and they’re discussing their progress.

(Assuming, of course, that they aren’t literally fighting one another or displaying any form of explicit aggression towards each other.)

I tripped down the stairs yesterday and now my Machamp won’t let me walk on my own. I didn’t even get hurt, but now she’ll literally kind of freak out and pick me up if I try to walk by myself. What should I do?

Ah, worried pokémon. I’d hate to say it, anonymous, but it’s heartwarming to know a pokémon cares that deeply about its trainer. The bond between the two of you must be magnificent!

That having been said, as always, start slow. Begin by sitting. Sit upright with your feet on the floor. When your machamp begins to look worried, speak to her in a reassuring tone. Let her come close and have her reach out for you but not touch you. If she picks you up, ask her to put you back down wherever you were sitting. Ask her, not order her. Ordering her may exacerbate the situation.

Once she reaches out for you, take her wrist and pull yourself to your feet. If she panics and picks you up then, ask her to put you back down, as you had earlier. (As in, ask her to seat you, not place you back on your feet.)

Keep doing these two steps until she allows you to stand. Once she does, allow her to walk with you. Let her support you as you walk across the room at first but gradually work your way towards shifting your weight so that you support yourself. Once she realizes you’re walking basically on your own, pull away from her a little and show her that you can walk.

If you perform this process gradually, you’ll eventually work your way up to the point where she trusts you to stand on your own two feet. Once you remedy the immediate process, you can begin to work on the deeper issue, which is the fact that she seems overprotective of you. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including issues that were born from her former trainer (assuming she had one, considering she’s a machamp and not a machoke). It’s important to isolate what it is that’s causing her anxiety and see if you can find a way to reassure her and to convince her that she doesn’t need to be afraid of losing you.

Best of luck, anonymous.

The Machop Line

Machop
The Superpower Pokémon
Type: Fighting
Official Registration #: 66
Entry: A short, humanoid pokémon native to the mountains of Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn. Although machop is small and slight, do not be deceived: it possesses super strength and trains itself by lifting multiple geodude for hours each day. Moreover, it is a natural at martial arts and is capable of mastering multiple forms shortly after hatching. All of this, of course, is exactly what researchers tell one another to reassure themselves that getting beaten into a broken pulp by a pokémon the size and stature of a toddler is perfectly explainable by science and has absolutely nothing to do with the researcher’s own physical prowess.

Machoke
The Superpower Pokémon
Type: Fighting
Official Registration #: 67
Entry: The evolved form of machop, by battle experience. Machoke are, in general, highly proud of their muscles, which are toned to the point where each one possesses the hardness of steel. The average machoke enjoys showing off these muscles and the strength associated with them, and as such, machoke are happiest when performing any job that requires manual labor around humans or other pokémon. Given that this is a well-toned, humanoid creature that may be captured and tamed by humans for the express purpose of lifting things, it should be worth it to note that its desire to show off is completely innocent and has nothing to do with whatever the Sinnohan administrator may be thinking. Furthermore, it is worth it to remind her that pokémon-human relations are generally frowned upon in most cultures for a reason.

Machamp
The Superpower Pokémon
Type: Fighting
Official Registration #: 68
Entry: The evolved form of machoke, via trading. A master of every form of martial arts in existence, machamp possesses four arms that are capable of firing over 1000 punches in two seconds, lift passenger jets with ease, and throw an adult man over the horizon. According to the Sinnohan administrator, machamp is also “pretty bara for a pokémon.” The author is not entirely sure what this means, but given the other things the Sinnohan storage system administrator has said about pokémon lately, he is inclined to say no, it is not.