It’s an urban legend, but seeing a mimikyu without its costume isn’t without any sort of consequences. It’s just that the consequences are less death and more a Shadow Claw to the face.
Tag: Mimikyu
If someone were to say, find a small, shadowy, supposedly not real Pokemón unconscious in the Alolan wilds, how you would take care of it? Please respond quickly.
That depends on what the not-real pokémon is, but I’d imagine that you’d very likely want to start by giving the mimikyu back its costume.
(Preferably while not looking directly at it.)
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Or just…like…get a dozen Mimikyu and make their day!
For the briefest of moments while I was reviewing my notifications, I thought this was intended for the magikarp post, and thus, I was about to correct you to say you can only carry six mimikyu into battle against League trainers such as the Elite Four.
So on that note, yes, you could have a dozen mimikyu serve as your cosplay team, and everyone would be happy (but especially the mimikyu). Or you could challenge the Elite Four with a team of six mimikyu. Or both. Both works too.
My Mimikyu, Sprite, was recently prescribed glasses by our local Nurse Joy, but I’m having some trouble convincing her to wear them properly. She wants to wear them over the eyes she’s drawn on her costume, not her actual eyes, even though she keeps bumping into things without them. She won’t wear them under her costume either, I’ve tried but she’s not having any of it. What do I do? I just want her to be able to see where she’s going properly but she’s being very stubborn. Help?
One thing you can do is get her a pair of costume glasses for her, well, costume. If you give her a pair that she considers to be more fun or stylish than her actual glasses, she may be more willing to wear her prescription glasses over her actual eyes. Additionally, she may be more accepting if you gave her costume glasses and her actual eyes contact lenses meant for pokémon (if she can wear them). This way, your mimikyu will get the corrective lenses she needs, while her costume will get the frames she wants to give it. It’s all about appearance, really. Mimikyu generally identify as their costumes, so if you need to give a mimikyu anything it’s supposed to wear on its actual body, you need to make sure you have a second or “cuter” version of it for the costume as well. (Hold items, luckily, can simply be worn on the costume and still take effect. Glasses, of course, are a different story.)
As a final note, if you have her wear contacts and she’s a battle-ready mimikyu, be sure to wet her eyes with eyedrops between each match to prevent her contacts from popping out mid-battle. Just as a tip.
Best of luck!
My Mimikyu isn’t normally hostile to any Pikachu that we pass by, but strangely he seems to hold a grudge against this trainer’s Raichu that we see in the park often, any thoughts?
Do all mimikyu choose to look like pikachu, or are there some that disguise themselves as other pokemon?
For whatever reason, mimikyu fixate on pikachu and pikachu alone (likely due to pikachu’s popularity as a mascot, actually, but that’s a subject for another ask). While it’s possible to give a mimikyu another costume and while it’s possible for a mimikyu to temporarily don another costume of a popular pokémon (such as clefairy) in order to attain that level of popularity, they’ll generally go back to their pikachu costumes rather quickly, I’m afraid.
Hi Bill, my jolteon and ninetales are both male and they adopted a female spinda from the wild and a male black pikachu and a female shiny mimmikyu. ( Both hatched at the same time.)They are happy together as a family.
May they continue to be happy, anonymous! They sound like a wonderful family.
I have a mated pair of raichu, the male kantonian and the female alolan. well, they have an egg that did not hatch… and they both got very depressed. well, a mimikyu, presumably a baby one, wondered into my garden yesterday and it would seem my raichus have adopted it as their own child. are they confused by mimikyus clothing choice and think its a real pikachu? do you think my electric/psychic mice able to care for a mimikyu? the mimikyu seems happy with the attention
It’s possible, anonymous, but it’s more likely that they simply see mimikyu as a baby pokémon to raise—a sort of replacement for their lost child. I realize that sounds terrible, but what I mean to say is that they likely understand perfectly that this mimikyu is not related to them (it most likely doesn’t have the scent or electrical signatures of a pichu anyway), but they nonetheless see mimikyu’s presence as a moment of hope for them. They’re taking comfort in the possibility that they may be able to raise a child of their own after all, even if it’s not technically theirs.
As for your other question, certainly, anonymous. Although care for a mimikyu is vastly different from care for a pichu or even a pikachu, your raichu should be able to figure it out based on instinct and perhaps a little guidance from you. Do your research on how to care for a mimikyu (I’m afraid that while I can offer guidance on the matter, that would make this post far longer than it needs to be) and nudge your raichu along whenever it seems like they aren’t quite sure what to do in order to raise their adopted child.
Best of luck to you and the new addition to your family, anonymous!
Hello Bill. I have a Mimikyu who is quite scared of thunderstorms due to some past trauma. Whenever we have one, she goes and hides under the bed and will refuse to come out for hours. Is there anyway I can help her cope better during storms so she’ll no longer have to hide under the bed or should I just leave her be?
All phobias are difficult to outgrow, especially those related to something as powerful and often difficult to predict as the weather. However, there are certainly ways you can coax your mimikyu out from under the bed, although she may still be quite terrified either way. The simple solution is to make your home feel safe for her. Provide a comfortable space in the interior of your home, away from any windows. Offer distractions (her favorite snacks, toys, and so on) and be sure you can drop what you’re doing to offer support and reassurance during a storm. (You may wish to coax her out the first few times until she realizes the space you’ve created for her is completely safe.) If your mimikyu sees this (that is, the space and your willingness to support her), then she will gradually begin to feel safe near you and will, at the very least, spend more time with you than under the bed.
From there, if you wish, you can work on her fear of storms, but do remember that it’s best to take things gradually.
What does a mimikyu really look like under the disguise doll? Has anyone live long enough to describe what it looks like? Is it a shadowy blob with eyes and arms?
No one’s really sure, exactly. Even if someone had survived long enough to describe it without its disguise, they weren’t able to put it into words. It was almost as if mimikyu were completely indescribable…
Which, quite honestly, is a shame, as I’m just as curious as you are, naturally.
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