I impulsively caught an adorable hoothoot. We get along great but there’s one problem. Hoot’s a night owl and I’m, well, not. Any advice for taking care of a nocturnal pokemon when you’re a day person?

One of the great things about bonding with pokémon is that eventually, you adapt to one another. That is to say, tamed hoothoot will generally adapt on their own to fit their trainer’s lifestyle. It will simply take time, but once your hoothoot notices that you’re asleep when it’s awake (or, in some cases, notices that you’re active when it’s trying to sleep), you may find it going to sleep later and later each day until its own cycle inverts. Don’t worry—this is a perfectly normal process, which means you aren’t inconveniencing your hoothoot, nor is it unhealthy for it to do this. So long as your hoothoot is still getting plenty of rest at night, it will be fine.

Of course, there’s also the possibility that your hoothoot won’t change its sleep cycle. At that point, you could adapt to your hoothoot if necessary. If that’s not possible, however, simply make sure it has enough food, water, and enrichment to last itself through the night, and give it enough space and a sturdy enough enclosure to prevent it from experiencing cabin fever. I would still advise trying to stay up as long as possible and using at least one hour of the night (after your hoothoot is fully awake) to train, but otherwise, rest assured that they’re normally self-sufficient pokémon. Additionally, once it evolves, consider letting it out to fly. By then, it should know how to get home on its own and defend itself during night flights.

Best of luck!

Do hoothoots and rowlets and their evos get along?

Well, they rarely share habitats, so in the wild, I unfortunately can’t say. However, I also admit that hoothoot and rowlet would consider one another competitors for resources, so I doubt they would.

On the other hand, in captivity, they get along quite well, as their needs often overlap, allowing them to be housed, fed, and engaged with equally. Additionally, both pokémon fill different niches on a team, allowing the two to interact and work together in harmony.

So in short, I suppose in scenarios where resources are abundant, I think they would indeed get along quite well, but in an average forest with limited resources, the possibility of the two getting along would unfortunately be quite grim.

Hoothoot and Noctowl

Hoothoot
The Owl Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 163
Entry: A small, owl-like pokémon native to Johtonian forests. Its brain and equilibrium organs have the capability of keeping perfect time by sensing the rotation of the planet. As it keeps time, it hoots softly and bobs back and forth in perfect time with its internal clock. Because of its accuracy, some trainers, especially in hoothoot’s native region, prefer keeping hoothoot instead of alarm clocks, as hoothoot will be able to awaken a trainer precisely on time, no matter where the trainer is located. However, be warned: a hoothoot’s preferred method of rousing a trainer is repeatedly executing Peck on one’s face, and hoothoot do not necessarily understand the concept of “please do not wake me with Peck tomorrow for the love of Ho-oh.”

Noctowl
The Owl Pokémon
Type: Normal/Flying
Official Registration #: 164
Entry: The evolved form of hoothoot, by battle experience. According to some cultures, especially those in the West, noctowl are thought to be extremely intelligent beings, and thus, they are symbols of wisdom in those countries. However, the idea that noctowl possesses an inordinate amount of wisdom is actually a myth. Noctowl are actually about as intelligent, if not less intelligent, than the average bird, and in Johto, they are actually more known for flying into windows, despite their heightened ability to see in the dark.