Tag: our world

Is eevee related to arceus in any way?

It depends on whether or not you believe in the idea that Arceus created the universe and thus all pokémon. If you do, then yes. In a way, anyway. According to the myth, Arceus created Mew, who in turn is the ancestor of all pokémon, which means that eevee would be distantly related to Arceus itself.

If, however, you take more of a scientific approach, then likely no. While no one has a sample of Arceus’s DNA to confirm this, judging by appearances alone, I would venture a guess that eevee and Arceus are too genetically dissimilar. However, they do belong to the same taxonomic kingdom, so there’s that.

I went to a wrestling show with my boyfriend as a birthday gift to him and like, they had some actual pokemon fighting humans for some of the matches and using Pokemon moves on them??? Like there was this one Pikachu in a cute wrestling costume using ELECTRICITY on this buff dude and he somehow didn’t die! I assume they trained the Pokes for the show to be not as lethal, right? Curious how that process works.

Absolutely. For any sport that involves humans and pokémon literally fighting each other, pokémon are either instructed to use only their strength, sans augmentation from their abilities, or they’re simply told to, well, make it look as real as possible. The latter is especially true for pokémon wrestling. It looks like a Thunderbolt, but it’s more light than actual, damaging electricity.

Lanette, remind me not to show Amanita this post. It would break her heart to know pokémon wrestling is fake. —Bill

On it. —LH

I have a very important question. I’ve been off the internet for a while but.. Have the Ribombee movie memes finally died? How about the memes of that one movie where a Garbodor living in a swamp and a Mudbray rescues a princess? What was the name of that movie again..?

I refuse to name that movie, as naming it will draw forth its curse (by which I mean countless upon countless of memes in the replies). As for your question about whether or not its memes or the ones concerning the Ribombee Movie have died … no. Unfortunately.

On the positive side, no one’s talking about Blizzard anymore. You could say we’ve [REDACTED]

Don’t you dare. —LH

So i watch shows and videos of Pokémon battling in arenas surrounded by audiences and I’ve always wondered how the people never get hit by some strayin Pokémon moves. Is there invisible barriers of some kind or is there another explanation?

blackjackgabbiani:

bills-pokedex:

Yes, actually. In all League-inspected and -approved fields, there are energy shields erected to disrupt distance attacks, protect spectators, and minimize damage to the stadium or gym. Higher-powered shields are additionally placed around spectator seating to prevent a pokémon or its attacks from passing through. (The weaker shields don’t prevent pokémon from flying right through, which allows them to use high-altitude moves such as Fly or Sky Attack … or, well. Fly out of bounds, in any case.)

Of course, this is secondary to proper training. Most trainers will teach their pokémon to stay within a field anyway, if only because of the rules concerning TKOs.

In other words, rest assured watching a battle from the stands is perfectly safe.

I don’t know. The Sinnoh league a while back had a super high powered battle between Cynthia and a previously unheard of trainer that was so dangerous they asked for everyone to move to the upper rows. Apparently it was considered safer to break the fire safety rules for capacity than it was to be within range of this fight.

They also never determined a winner either. The opponent forfeited despite being on even ground.

Well … true. If you hit the shields hard enough, there’s a slim chance that you’ll short them out, resulting in a failure. Restricting seating isn’t an ideal solution to this problem, but it is a precaution, in a sense, which is why I can almost understand why the League allowed that. Of course, it would make more sense to limit ticket sales, but on the other hand, when you have a champion battling, it tends to be a big event. (And frankly, Leagues sometimes look at ticket sales over certain other details—especially if you’re dealing with less popular leagues such as Sinnoh’s.)

Sorry if you’ve been asked this before— if so just ignore me! But why is 6 the standard number of Pokémon to carry at any given time? Seems arbitrary to me. Obviously TRUE trainers would battle all the Pokémon they had in a days long poke-war to see who is best. Or at least enough slots to carry every evolution of eevee.

Believe me, I perfectly understand—not only because I have to live by that limitation myself but also because it was an utter pain to program the storage system to trigger on such a strange number. Why not five or ten? Or even eight? Honestly!

Is this because you had to throw out that entire system based on base-8? —LH

So many hours, just up and wasted! —Bill

Of course, I understand why the Association chose six. Studies have shown that six is the maximum number of pokémon the average trainer can take care of, given how vastly different each species’ needs can be. Any more, and you’d require considerable amounts of space, time, and money.

…

But still…!

It’s okay, Bill. It’s okay. —LH

So i watch shows and videos of Pokémon battling in arenas surrounded by audiences and I’ve always wondered how the people never get hit by some strayin Pokémon moves. Is there invisible barriers of some kind or is there another explanation?

Yes, actually. In all League-inspected and -approved fields, there are energy shields erected to disrupt distance attacks, protect spectators, and minimize damage to the stadium or gym. Higher-powered shields are additionally placed around spectator seating to prevent a pokémon or its attacks from passing through. (The weaker shields don’t prevent pokémon from flying right through, which allows them to use high-altitude moves such as Fly or Sky Attack … or, well. Fly out of bounds, in any case.)

Of course, this is secondary to proper training. Most trainers will teach their pokémon to stay within a field anyway, if only because of the rules concerning TKOs.

In other words, rest assured watching a battle from the stands is perfectly safe.

So I’ve been wondering, but how exactly do human psychics work? Are theit abilities that much different from a psychic type’s? Or like, where do mediums and aura users fit into that whole thing?

At the risk of, as my colleagues may put it, “copping out,” that’s actually a mystery. While scientists have had plenty of verified psychics who were willing to submit to testing (Sabrina, for example), the truth of the matter is we don’t entirely know how their abilities work.

We do know that these abilities are wilder than a pokémon’s. That is, while a pokémon’s abilities may take specific forms (Psychic is still a very specific technique with a very specific “look,” regardless of its source), the telekinesis wielded by humans tends to be less uniform. That is to say, even though such abilities will always do one specific general thing, how powerful that thing is or its “rules” vary from subject to subject. For example, Sabrina’s psychic abilities are so powerful she can actually use them to trigger a transformation into a subject or to astral project part of her own soul into a tangible, childlike version of herself. A psychic using the same abilities (identified as telekinesis and astral projection) might only be able to manifest a spectral form of themselves or bend an object. Still others may only be able to use telekinesis to lift and move objects. It’s still absolutely the same ability—just in different forms. Moreover, although most if not all humans possess either mild or latent abilities themselves (or at least they do according to popular theory), which abilities again depends on the subject. Some human psychics exhibit no telekinetic talent whatsoever but possess instead psychometry or clairvoyance.

All of this is to say that how psychic abilities work for humans isn’t much like how it works for pokémon. While pokémon abilities are also not well-understood (the going theory is that pokémon have differently developed brains than we do, hence their ability to use extrasensory talents), there’s no real reason why members of our species would display vastly different abilities of wildly different levels of strength, with each ability manifesting in completely different ways. It would be like a Thunderbolt varying from pikachu to pikachu. Certainly, there are some pikachu stronger than others, but a Thunderbolt is still recognizably a Thunderbolt. Moreover, every pikachu can still learn Thunderbolt; it’s not as if only certain pikachu can learn it while others can control fire. Or in other words, yes, pokémon abilities and human ESP are very much different breeds of abilities.

As for the others, as a disclaimer, mediumship is considered a type of ESP. It’s simply communing with the minds of the deceased, rather than the minds of the living, and oftentimes, mediums display other forms of ESP on top of their ability to tap into the spiritual realm. Aura users, however, are considered to be completely different things, as their source of power comes not from the mind but instead their own life force. While it’s true that they can control this life force mentally (meaning some may argue that it’s yet another form of ESP), it’s still more of a full-body action akin to the difference between psychic- and fighting-type pokémon, if that makes sense. These are also not the only abilities humans are known to possess that almost mirror pokémon ones. There are documented cases of pyro-, hydro-, and even geokinesis among humans, and it’s said that historical examples of witchcraft might have actually been the manifestation of abilities similar to fairy-type pokémon. It’s even thought that the ability to understand pokémon as if they’re speaking Common can also be categorized alongside the aforementioned.

But for how vastly different these abilities are, pokémon abilities and human abilities (of all kinds) supposedly share one important detail: their origins. As you likely know, there are stories in Sinnohan folklore that claim that humans were once closer to pokémon than they are now. While it’s unlikely that we were literally the same species (we’re too genetically different for that), it is likely that the abilities we have may have come from the same adaptive path that gave pokémon their abilities. That is to say, the going theory is that we humans adapted abilities similar to (but not the same as) pokémon in order to survive among them and better connect with them. Of course, because we’re not pokémon and because we don’t actually need our abilities to survive as a whole (just to better handle our pokémon partners), this is, in short, why our abilities are so erratic and wild compared to pokémon.

Rambling aside, the short answer is we just don’t know, but we do know that our abilities are only superficially like a pokémon’s.

Hey Bill I just wanted to ask what a champion in any region has power over? Can they make rules or change things? I ask because I ran into Alder on a trip to Unova and he said being the champion entitled him to the Casteliacone I bought since he dropped his.

Few people outside of Unova have kind words to say about Alder, and frankly…

On a serious note, the actual powers a champion has are more limited than you’d think. While, like gym leaders, they’re heavily encouraged to help protect their domains whenever possible (it’s just that a champion’s domain is an entire region, rather than simply a town or city) as well as make certain public appearances, they’re more or less high-ranking sports stars. The most decision-making power they have is within their respective Leagues, and even then, every proposal they have needs to be put before their branch of the Pokémon Association before it can be passed. (After all, we have ten-year-old champions; we don’t want to give them the power to make massive, permanent decisions.) Likewise, while they could assist in sting operations against the major crime organizations that seem to be cropping up lately, they don’t actually have the power to arrest anyone. Law enforcement only call on them for firepower, and that’s about it.

Or in other words, Alder owes you a casteliacone, and although I know he’s stepped down from his role as champion years ago anyway, I’m going to be sending word to my counterparts in the Unovan Association.