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Have you seen the latest cryptid craze going around? (Other than Venomothman) i think people have been calling the dude “nuthead.” The artists depictions are kinda cute, but, well… I’m a sucker for cyclopses… -looks at Magnemite and Unown- wonder if it’s actually a new Pokemon…? If it is I wanna name mine Gizmo :P

Ah, you must be referring to meltan! Yes, it’s quite an adorable and fascinating pokémon. I would be delighted to have an opportunity to study it!

Of course, with its tendency to seek out and absorb metal into its body, that might be a bit tricky, but anything for science.

When my Incineroar, Zjaar, was a Litten he had this odd habit of tapping my shoulder with his paw. I’d give him my arm to rub against but instead he’d very gently put my hand or arm into his mouth. He wouldn’t hurt me but would nibble a little bit, almost like he was holding my hand but with his mouth. He did this less when he evolved and doesn’t at all now that he’s in his final stage. Any idea why he did that when he was a kitten? He never actually sunk his teeth into me luckily.

That was actually a sign of affection, believe it or not. Feline pokémon, especially basic-stage or “baby”-like ones such as litten, will show affection by nibbling their trainer’s hand gently. It has to do with how felines interact with each other. Play-fighting is an important part of cat pokémon development, and they’ll often engage in roughhousing with one another to develop important skills, such as pouncing, clawing, and—of course—biting. Biting then translates into other forms of affection, especially if someone who is very decidedly not a cat gives them a limb for them to “capture” and nibble into. Thus, if your feline pokémon does this, this is a sign that they’re excited and, yes, would like to show you that they consider you a part of their families.

(However, note that if your feline pokémon pushes you away after a nip, this means they would like to be left alone. Always read your pokémon’s body language to ensure that you’re translating their signals correctly.)

As for why it decreased as your litten grew older, the answer is actually equally simple: love bites would hurt you. As a litten evolves, it gains an affinity for the dark type, and with it, it gains an understanding of what using it means. So once it reaches the torracat and incineroar stages, it realizes that it can’t display affection the same way, as this would harm you, a strange incineroar without any of its abilities or resistances, more than help you understand what it’s feeling. So instead, it resorts to other means of affection and only uses “love bites” if it thinks its message isn’t getting across (or if you’ve accidentally trained it to show this form of affection above anything else).

By contrast, it should perhaps be noted that this behavior lingers a little longer in both forms of persian, but that’s mostly because both forms of persian are a little more sadistic than most feline pokémon. Thus, if your persian grabs your arm with a paw, try to gently pull yourself away without getting clawed.

Best of luck!

Why don’t some people nickname their Pokemon? It’s so weird to just call it by its species, yknow? It just feels like.. the trainers aren’t emotionally invested in their team if they don’t even name em… just very impersonal I guess. It’s like calling all your friends “Human!” Do you guys have any idea why someone would abstain from Ni? Oh, And do you guys use nicknames?

You’re actually one of two possible camps on the matter, believe it or not. The other side of the coin is that some people feel it’s not right to force a name on a possibly sentient creature, particularly one that the pokémon themselves didn’t help decide on. It would be very much akin to giving a human an unflattering nickname.

Either that, or they simply aren’t creative enough to give their pokémon names. That would be the third camp, but believe me when I say that this group is far smaller than one would think.

As for myself, I’m more of the second camp (the one that doesn’t believe in forcing names onto sentient creatures), but when I started my journey right up until my career as a researcher took off, I always offered names to my team. Some, like my various eevee, didn’t really take to any of them. Others, like my core team that had remained with me all these years, had. For example, my kadabra is very fond of his name, Foxglove (or Fox, for short). My venusaur is named Lucky after a very long story, my clefairy is Primrose (or Prim), and I’m also occasionally helped by a porygon-z named Beatrix. On the other hand, my farfetch’d absolutely refuses to respond to anything but Farfetch’d, and any attempt at an offer for otherwise would typically be met with a near-swordfight.

As for Lanette … I’ll let her speak for herself, actually.

LH: Well, I was part of the second camp too when I started out, but Bill convinced me that offering names to pokémon was a good idea. It helped that it was such a cute method. Of my personal pokémon, though, only my swampert really wanted one; the others didn’t really show any interest in getting named whatsoever. In any case, my swampert’s name is Cetus, after the constellation.

Oh, and then there’s the porygon I work with as part of the storage system. I don’t really consider her mine, though, so I haven’t really thought of a name for her. Yet, anyway.

(1) Do you have any advice for someone who wants to “catch em all” so to speak? I’m from Kalos and I might be getting an internship in Alola, maybe even with a Rotom Dex! (Fingers crossed) I’ve always been really interested in Pokémon caretaking, and ever since I was a kid I wanted to raise every Pokémon I could. …Catch was I was raised by a single mom who couldn’t afford to care for any Pokémon, let alone multiple. Do you think I could go from no Pokémon to all of them?

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Well, perhaps not all of them, but it’s possible to befriend many of them. I don’t mean to discourage you, of course. It would certainly be impressive if you did catch them all. It’s just that no one knows how many pokémon there are in the world, and more are discovered each and every day.

I will say this, though: part of what makes working with pokémon wonderful is the opportunity to discover and interact with so many of them. Even if catching at least one of every pokémon would be extremely difficult, it’s still worth it to seek out as many of them as you can in order to learn as much about them as possible. Who knows? Perhaps you’ll stumble across a one-of-a-kind pokémon no one else has discovered, and maybe that will make the journey worth it.

As for building a personal relationship with each and every pokémon you catch, it certainly is possible, but it may be difficult. You’ll find that you’ll build stronger relationships with some pokémon than others. This is perfectly natural; after all, humans may be closer to some friends than others. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you don’t love your friends all the same. It simply means there are some friends you may find yourself talking to more than others. Likewise, you may find that you have six or fewer pokémon that you use more than others, but don’t worry. It doesn’t mean you won’t love your other pokémon all the same, either. The important thing, really, is simply loving your pokémon.

Best of luck on your journey!

So, if you look at it from more of a chemistry point of view, ‘cold’ isn’t really a thing. There is only a lack of heat. Temperature is all about measuring heat. I wonder what this could mean for ice types and their use of cold? Do they take heat away from their environment for their attacks?

Not so much for their attacks as it is just to exist. This would be why many ice-types, particularly those that have the ability Snow Warning, seem to emit auras of cold around themselves as well. A constant barrage of heat, such as from fire, can therefore easily overwhelm an ice-type because it’s difficult to process that much energy at once.

(Also, I stand corrected by my last post. Only fire is this sort of a problem for ice-types. Steel and rock fall under the same category as fighting.)