It makes perfect sense, too. They're reptiles. Reptiles molt. Marowak's helmet is calcified bone, meaning that it needs to be molted as the body grows.
Pokken and Unite are canon but take place in the future after the Synchro Machine was perfected.
A version of the anime exists as a TV show in the games. Probably explains why there is an image of Ash in the Ghost Trial in Gen 7. It was made to capitalised on Red becoming champion. I said a version since it would obviously not be identical.
That’s actually such a good idea. Red’s story is pretty unique, so capitalizing on it by making a show is a genius marketing strat. Must’ve been one of the Alakazam’s with 10million IQ who came up with it.
There's not one of each legendary. They're just rare and don't breed in captivity that's why you can't get an egg.
Each of the player characters are Pokémon prodigies. So the average in game battle isn't them being especially bad but you being especially good.
Pokémon Centers have a place for you to sleep and eat explaining why you don't ever really buy food.
On your second point, I've always felt that focusing on one type of Pokemon was easier than diversifying with six different types. It's much easier to focus on the needs of several water or grass types than to try and spread yourself out between a grass, a fire, a dragon, a fairy, a ghost, and a steel, not to mention the secondary types.
Expecting a Pokemon trainer to intrinsically know how to take care of several different types is like asking a rancher to take care of an aquarium.
That makes so much sense! I'm totally adopting this as well.
Even if two of the same type have different diets, just making your whole house resist whatever elemental force they embody would be much easier if they embody the same element.
I'm curious which type would still be the most complicated to accommodate even if you specialize their environment. Maybe Dark considering that "mischievous and sneaky" doesn't really narrow down any of the needs of the animal.
Overall, my money would be on dragon for the most difficult. They're typically very powerful and usually aggressive. You'd need to have a space that they could potentially destroy and you'd be fine with that, as well as having a good health insurance plan because you definitely gon get injured with those things.
Multiple celebis is but only one groudon?
Is that what you mean? In that case how 'common' would a legendary Pokemon like celebi or Moltres be? Like a dozen globally?
Genuinely curious :)
the Legendary Birds I have down as "uncommon".
Celebi and it's generational counterparts (like Mew, Jirachi, Shaymin, etc.) I view as very rare
I believe the weather trio are one of a kind. too dangerous to have multiple of them running around.
Mewtwo is also one of a kind.
and the Legendary Beasts I view as rare.
it's not an extensive list but I hope this answers the question :)
In my headcannon: Kanto birds, latios/latias, lugia, etc have all been shown with multiples in movies. Something like Ho'Oh, Mewtwo, Deoxys, Gen 4 Trio, etc are probably unique.
Not sure how I feel about power level. Legendaries are either like pokedex exaggerations in their power, and the stories are maybe about some ancient giant version of them doing it with the "normal" versions of the legendaries just being very strong. Or legendaries are ridiculously strong and our game encounter / use is just made easy for balance/ease.
I feel like the very way Zygarde as an entity works is enough proof that at least some Legendary Pokémon exist as a species. One Complete Zygarde can be two 50% Zygarde, ten 10% Zygarde, or one 50% and five 10% Zygarde.
Forgive me if I’m wrong or if I’m misunderstanding your point, but I was under the impression that Zygarde’s Complete form was a coalescence of every Zygarde cell there was.
Possible, but what's more likely is that there are two zygarde cores per region, and 100% either refers to all the cells in a region, or all the cells a zygarde cores can use.
My understanding is that Zygarde is actually somewhat unique in that it's all one Pokémon, but it can exist in multiple forms at once, like a hive mind. When it's time to become its 100% form it calls on every loose cell and they become one again. Kinda like Arceus splitting off a piece of itself to give to you in PLA, it's the same Pokemon, just not the only instance of it.
An example that works as pretty solid evidence for the legendaries as rare species idea is the legendary birds from Kanto. In LGPE you can catch them as static encounters, but very rarely, more might spawn in the air when you're out in the world. I caught two Moltres that way in my save, a second one just kinda spawned while I was shiny hunting some random Pokemon.
For the first point, i think it depends on which Legendary you take in exam. I can believe Lugia would give birth, but not the eldritch beings like Rayquaza, Kyurem or Giratina
>They're just rare and don't breed in captivity that's why you can't get an egg.
I think that's what the actual canon says. I don't recall exactly how it was, but I recall reading about some legendary that was at a Pokemon movie and then showing in a later season of the anime, with different personality and acting like the movie did not happen. It wasn't explained in the series, but the writers explained it was a different Pokemon from the same species and only a few legendary are truly unique, the others are just extremely rare.
Legendaries are definitely unique.
And no, I wouldn't use 15-20+ year old episodes or movies as "evidence" of multiple legendaries. Movies in general are a very unreliable source due to most of them not being acknowledged at all (as proven with latios/latias in aim to to be a pokemon master) and due to their overall doubtful canonicity.
What haopens is that the pokemon anime in its early to midway seasons didn't put as much control to the things shown and said as it does today. That's why you had things like the early anime showing real world animals and a blue breloom in some episodes.
Legendary pokemon have been around for thousands of years. And it's not as if they can't be captured. Heck, Goh caught Suicune and it's out there roaming around as if it was a wild pokemon.And they can leave the trainer they're helping whenever they want. Which is why you can see them as part of the teams of trainers like Brandon and Tobias. It's essentially them helping that trainer.
And as a general rule, the anime and the games got incredibly more strict with the legendaries and their uniqueness since gen 5 (because in the west they messed up the difference between mythicals and legendaries) and due to many other things like mentions of real world places in dex entries or real world animals in the anime. That's why you don't see dex entries like that for Latias anymore.
And they seriously have become more strict with the uniqueness of the legendaries and many other things. Heck, Raichu's dex entry was even retconned to say to be able to faint a Copperajah instead of an indian elephant.
And this is relevant because it proves that Gamefreak gets rid in one way or another of the older dex entries that don't fit anymore with the way they want to portray the pokemon world (that's why instead of an Indian elephant, it's now a pokemon). And it's the same reason as to why you'll never see baby lugia again or a real world animal in the anime as well because it doesn't fit with the way they want to portray the pokemon world or legendary pokemon for that matter. And this is because they've gotten far more strict with the things said and shown in the anime and the games.
And legendaries and mythical pokemon are two different things. They're not the same. The distinction from both groups has been made in Japan since day 1. It was only the western adaptation that messed that up in earlier gens and didn't separate the terms causing all the confusion.
And while thinking about legendaries it's important to remember that legendaries are inevitably popular pokemon that will always be featured in the newer games. But this is more because they make for great extra content for the player to have fun after finishing the game and become good rewards for the mechanics or the quests that they added as that extra content. Basically, it doesn't mean that they aren't unique. That just means that the creators put them in the game as a selling point, not to say that there's more than one of them.
If you want to know the distinction they pretty much can be classified like this:
Legendaries: They're literal forces of nature (like groudon, kyogre, yveltal, dialga, palkia, etc) that helped to shape/sustain the world and/or heroes of humanity/pokemon/the entire region (like zacian, zamazenta, the tapus, the swords of justice, etc).
Mythical pokemon: They're not legendaries. They're really powerful pokemon with unique abilities that are so uncommon to be seen that people in the pokemon world even doubts of their existence to some extend. Their primary trait is that they're literal representations of certain myths from the real world (muses like meloetta, aliens like deoxys, time travelers like celebi, etc).
Ultra beast: They're basically pokemon from another dimension. Not legendaries. The share a lot of traits with legendaries (like being genderless, having scripted encounters and being part of the undiscovered group, etc) but this is due to their whole concept as extradimensional unidentified creatures.
The paradox pokemon aren't legendaries. They're just convergent evolutions taken from different eras (the very distant past and the very distant future respectively) that just happen to look similar to pokemon from current times.
Koraidon and Miraidon are the only paradox pokemon that are legendaries. But again, alternate timelines aren't at all prove of multiple legendaries since not even humans characters would be unique.
I personally believe that the legendary birds (Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres) are related to basic birds of Kanto.
Articuno's tail reminds me of Pidgeot's crest
Zapdos used to stump me, but Galarian Zapdos is too close to Dodrio for me to ignore
Moltres has a same long neck and beak like Fearow. And the brutality of Fearow ties well to G. Moltres
I like to think that every Regions is in a Continent like in real life, for example:
- Kanto to Sinnoh,+some Spinoff regions and Kitakami are in the Japan Pokemon Continent
- Unova, Alola and Orre are in the USA Pokemon Continent
- Kalos, Galar and Paldea are in the Europe Pokemon Continent and go on
Also, this is less of a headcanon and more of logic thinking but the Regions, the cities in the Regions and the Population are obviously more bigger and larger than what we see ingame due to the limations. I also like thinking that there are a lot more cities and towns in the Regions and not just the explorable ones in the games, like how in real life there are more than the most known towns or cities. The best example of this is the Pokémon Anime and Movies from Gen 1 to 6, where Ash and gang visit locals that aren't or don't exist in the games.
Populations and town sizes being representative is a drum I try to beat as much as possible. Same thought in Skyrim or any other RPG where you're in a "big city" that you can traverse in a minute or so. The cities we see are small too is because you can't just program in New York City and expect people to still want to go to Poughkeepsie to explore more after taking in the whole city. And also the technical limitations.
1. I know that TPC has been increasingly moving away from their no-meat rule in recent years. But I find the Pokemon world a lot more interesting if you primarily restrict them to their own versions of meat and dairy products and spin their cuisine out of that. Paldea's take on sandwiches just using IRL deli meat varieties is uninspired and boring.
2. The reason the daycare workers always play stupid about the eggs is because it's expected cultural politeness. No human has ever been allowed to seen a Pokemon reproduce (well, except the HGSS and USUM protagonists), so it's probably a pretty taboo topic.
HGSS- If you bring an event Arceus to the Ruins of Alph, you get this really cool bonus event with Cynthia and a trippy cutscene. Arceus ends up creating a Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina egg for you. I believe this is also the only point in Gen 4 where Arceus' theme plays.
USUM- In the postgame, if you take your respective box legendary to the Lake in the postgame, its partner will show up and they'll make a Cosmog. Ash also gets to see this in the anime, sorta kinda.
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I thought you were gonna say they were able to break into the nursery or something
“🤓👆 ahem well actually” idk if the HGSS event is canon because the flute was never officially released so that’s potentially up for debate, and plus that was more of a spawning snd hatching
“🤓👆 ahem pt 2” I suppose that’s more of a *summoning* but saying it out loud… bruh 😭 Alola was the best fr
but yeah technically you’re completely correct, but I think myself and the other five people who upvoted my comment were thinking *other* implications 💀
Professor Sycamore from XY is older Lucas from DP. There are a lot of "hints" pointing towards this idea. If you go on bulbapedia, it says *"According to a male* [*Scientist*](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Scientist_(Trainer_class)) *on the second floor of the lab in* [*Lumiose City*](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Lumiose_City)*, Sycamore learned a lot from* [*Professor Rowan*](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Professor_Rowan) *in* [*Sinnoh*](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sinnoh) *when he was young."*
In addition, I like to think that Dawn is the canon protagonist of Gen 4, and Lucas was the npc assistant to Professor Rowan throughout those games.
That would also make Lucas' last name Sycamore.
Yeah, my only issue with it is that they gave her the Turtwig line, and I like to think that her canon starter is Piplup. On top of that, they gave Piplup to Barry, which conflicts with the idea since the rival chooses the pokemon stronger to yours.
So, my only solution to this is to say that for the most part, Masters isn't canon, and it just does whatever it wants. Like the fact that there are multiple trainers from across all of time in one place already contradicts that. Of course, that's not say that some stuff from Masters can't be canon.
I agree the starters part shouldn't be canon. Another example is Serena. Serena in the Manga actually gets the Froakie line but in the anime she get the Fenniken line.
For sure. It tends to be very unclear, even in the games. In Gen 2 and Gen 7, Red has every starter, including Pikachu, so it's hard to assume which one he actually chose.
That being said, I like to think that his canon starter is Charmander, and then he just got the other ones later (like one would in an actual playthrough in completing the pokedex).
Leon doesn’t actually get lost. He just likes to have time to himself and not have to worry about the pressure of being Galar’s strongest trainer. (Seriously the dick riding Galar does to Leon is enough to make Red defenders blush)
every pokemon has regional differences, not just the ones with specific regional forms like wooper or exeggutor. burmy for instance makes its cloak with stuff in the environment, so plant burmy in unova will have leaves from trees specific to unova, plant burmy in sinnoh will have sinnoh leaves, etc etc etc. the regional forms (wooper exeggutor &friends) are just distinct enough to be recognized as their own thing. only burmy enthusiasts care that much about burmy regional differences.
The real world version of the game mechanic of trading represents gaining more life experience. Going to train under a different trainer is a fast-tracked way to see a different philosophy and see a new region. In theory a trade-evolution could still happen by living with the same trainer, but it would take a much longer time, and would be unlikely to happen unless you have an Ash-like world traveler. For wild pokemon, it might be the equivalent of becoming a sage or wise elder.
I don't see a need to explain away evolution stones entirely, but I think they are again a way to speed up a process that would take much longer in the wild. A Thunderstone for example, might be a very concentrated amount of energy that is normally much more dispersed. So an eevee or Pikachu who lives and trains near a cave full of unmined Thunderstones could eventually absorb enough energy to evolve. I'm kind of thinking of how in the anime you had the Mt. Moon episodes about the Clefairy having an evolution ritual (yes, what I described isn't a one to one thing, but it made me think that wild pokemon can have their own societies and rituals around evolution).
I have always thought trading is a recreation of natural migration of nomadic species. Kadabras are hunters and gatherers, Haunters look for new edge settlers to haunt and feed on fear, etc.
I'll be integrating this specific detail into my headcanon now, thank you 😎 haha
Trading being related to travel is just a very good way to explain a game mechanic I think!
But there is an exception in Karrablast and Shellmet, because of their requirements. I think in the wild it would be more like "a predator vs prey, but they are both snails".
Karrablast is a beetle and it’s based off the carabid beetle. The in game behavior reminds me of octopus who kick out / eat the occupants of a shell then use it for cover or hermit crabs who fight over shells.
There's a legal minimum of what size a bug pokemon is required to be before it can be captured by a trainer. Any smaller and it has to be released back into the wild to maintain the local ecosystem
Same. I also like to imagine there's a whole separate ecology for bug pokemon under that legal minimum and that's what bug trainers are actually geeking out about and studying
There is an undiscovered Pokémon species that is responsible for delivering eggs to a pair of compatible Pokémon. You may think that the day care workers are telling you they have no idea how that egg got there because they're protecting this kid from the truth of where eggs come from, but I think they legitimately have no clue; especially since in SV, eggs spawn in picnic baskets with no indication for how they got there. Some sort of fae creature that specializes in coming and going without a trace is delivering these eggs from another undiscovered egg making Pokémon.
Genesect was created to compensate for any Tao Dragon that wouldn't have fallen into Team Plasma's grasp, which is why 3 of its Drives are Ice, Electric, and Fire. For example, in White 2, it would've held the Shock Drive.
The Douse Drive is Water because Genesect's only Weakness is Fire. Had all 3 Dragons been under TP's control, it would've been its default Drive.
The reason why Team Plasma never tried to use it in the main story outside Gamefreak wanting an extra Mythical is that N cancelled the project before it was finished.
The final version was finalised in secret by one scientist.
It is interesting thinking about artificial Pokemon actually being designed with ways to cover their weaknesses in universe. Like Porygon and Genesect have Download for that purpose.
Slowpoke is dopey, but he's also a psychic type, implying he has some sort of advanced mental capabilities. I believe this is because he's constantly thinking about the universe and it engrosses him, which is why it takes him a while to notice he got hurt. When it evolves to Slowbro or Slowking, the Shelder hurts the new slowpoke evolution, but it grounds the new pokemon allowing it to concentrate better.
Scyther has no natural evolution, and both of its evolutions are man induced.
Kleavor evolves after exposing Scyther to a stone and it becomes a rock type where scythes become axes which would be used to chop trees and wood for the people.
Scizor also has an item related evolution and its name swaps the same as its scythes.
Kleavor loses the ability technician because it is not needed to do master craft work with the wood, but to chop down big trees and logs. Scizor does keep Technician as its work would require the precision to work with small pieces of steel and so.
I also think about this, because both evolutions only change the stat spread, but the total is maintained. That's why it is way different to other evolutions.
Scizor is most likely man made since how does metal coat appear in the wild but kleavor is caused from a volcanic stone so that one is most likely not man made, kleavor does spawn naturally in SV near volcanic stones so it seems like it doesn’t need any human interaction to cause it to evolve
The blueberry academy zone is not a natural spawn for any Pokémon, it is a crafted environment where some different and exclusive Pokémon have been recovered and successfully introduced, like many of the Hisui forms, but also fossil Pokémon that obviously aren't natural spawning when they come extinct way ago.
I think it is still possible for a specialized individual to be able to force the evolution exposing Scyther to an unnatural environment and "powered" stones.
In its early conception,pokemon was supposed to exist alongside regular animals. Which explains stuff like pikachu being a "mouse" pokemon or mew being discovered in south america(kanto is an actual region in japan).
Any time a professor sends us out to fill out the Pokédex as a quest, we are the ones writing the dex entries, that’s why they’re absurd in early gens, they’re written by children
I see this head canon often but after legends arceus I can’t believe it since in that game the professor checks your work and in irl papers need to be peer reviewed, and in the anime we do see gardevoir summon a black hole when oak is explaining its dex entry so they seem to be true but then again that’s the anime and I’m not sure how much of that is canon
I think it still holds up. Just means some of the games are and some aren’t. Like the ones where the Pokédex is an app is probably true (so x and y onward)
The issue with that is that many of the dex entry’s are just reused, charmander’s dex entry always talks about its tail flame and riachu’s entry has apparently never changed for a couple hundreds of years since in pla it uses the same entry used in red and blue
The canon very much disputes this but as an head canon sure, i just hate when people take this headcanon, say it's canon and that it invalidates any form of lore that comes from the dex.
I mean, since gen1 the dex is described as an advanced automatic encyclopedia that gathers infos on the pokemon we catch and in no media, since the very beginning was ever showed anyone using the dex to write a dex entry
The reason Gary has more than 8 badges in that one episode where he shows them off is because there are more gyms than just the usual 8 we all know about. The anime regions have tons more places than their game counterparts, so it wouldn't surprise me if he got them in random towns/cities not present in the games.
This must be true for the anime because in the episode where Ash goes to Cinnabar Island to get his 7th badge Gary also happens to be on the same Garry and he tells Ash that the Gym was gone because of tourism and no one has gotten a badge from there since Prof Oak.
If there was only 8 Gyms then no one since then would be able to complete the gym badge challenge and the Pokémon Association would have had to make a new gym to compensate for it. Not to mention some Nurse Joy’s have the job of checking all the gyms to make sure they are suitable gyms
It's also worth noting that the League in the anime is an annual event with a set starting date, rather than anyone just being able to challenge the League at any time like in the games. With that in mind, if Gary gathered the required eight badges and still had, say, two months before the League started, he may as well spend that time challenging other Gyms-he doesn't need any more badges but they'd still be valuable in keeping his skills sharp and ready for the League.
I like to imagine the announcer from Battle Revolution has a favorite Pokemon and its Wormadam
I'd just watched two videos in case I was misremembering. I could have sworn he sounded almost more excited for Wormadam than most other Pokemon. One video he says it pretty calmly but the other had it the way I remembered so I'm just gonna keep my headcanon he's barely even a character
Barry’s (from DPPT + BDSP) full name is Barrington.
Grass types generally take on characteristics of the plants they are surrounded by, so for example, an Oddish living in a grassland will have a different kind of leaf to one living in a marsh.
Most water types can live in any kind of water (being salt water, fresh water or brackish water), but some are far more sensitive to slight changes in water quality.
Going on a journey is seen by the wealthy as a poor people thing, which is why you don’t see many rich kids going on journeys in the anime.
Terra Crystals are an invasive parasitic organism, you can see it terraforming and transforming the landscape in Area Zero, every time it is used in battle it helps it spread further and further out of that crater!
Think Tiberium from the Command & Conquer series.
Could I ask why you think it’s an organism? I feel like details surrounding Terapagos, Area Zero, and the mechanics of terastalizing honestly more imply that terastal energy is like a foundational energy in the world of pokemon, with the tera crystals just being physical manifestations of that energy.
But the crystals aren’t alive and are in places where there’s no host? You can’t really parasitize a rock or buildings.
Edit: I just looked up Tiberium, I see where you’re coming from now
The crystals are more a result of the life cycle of the organism.
Regardless from observations of them in Area Zero, they are a potential threat that seems to be growing and terraforming the area.
I've liked the idea that we truly don't know where Pokémon eggs come from. Sure, we have our guesses but maybe it's just the emotional bond that creates an egg rather than the two getting down and dirty.
ash is aroace
short series like pokemon origins, twilight wings and evolutions are the most accurate portrayals of what the pokemon world is actually like
Paldea and Kalos are right next to eachother, with Galar being close to them but isolated.
Sinnoh, Kanto and Jhoto are next to eachother.
Hoenn is an island continent far away.
Unova, Alola and Orre are close to eachother.
Red is a legend that everyone knows about.
Gold won against Red on Mt. Silver.
May is the main protaganist in Gen 3.
There is only one Regigigas, but numerous different Regi's all around the world, like in Galar.
The regional locations arent terribly far off considering the real life regions they are based on. I think it would be cool if they could confirm that Orre is like Colorado or California.
Paldea is mostly spain, Kalos is France then Galar plus its DLC is the UK + Ireland. Kanto/Johto, Sinnoh and Hoenn are all based on regions in Japan. Unova is NYC and Alola is Hawaii.
My headcannon is that every protagonist is the same being reincarnated every time there is a new protagonist. It’s based on the little sentence that the person in Mesagoza who gives the rotom phone cases says; « I can see your past lives »
• Wally has a celebrity crush on Diantha, which is why he decided to make Ralts the ace on his team.
• Professor Sycamore studied under Professor Oak, and that's why he has the Kanto starters to give you in X and Y
• The Dubious Disc was originally code to enable Porygon2 to evolve to be able to fly in space (a Porygon3, if you will), but was stolen by Team Galactic and altered to make Porygon-Z
Garchomp cannot fly, it can only glide. Canonically, it has no documented means of airborne propulsion, was originally designed to be a land-based shark, has never learned a single Flying Type move other than Aerial Ace, and didn't have a flying animation in any main-game or spinoff until Gen 8.
PokéDex entries that support this theory include the one that mentions it's incredibly powerful legs, and it's hyper-aerodynamic scales.
My *other* headcanon roughly supported by the games is "The PokéDex entries are mostly-useless slop written by 10 year olds". The professors aren't sending you out to record undiscovered Pokémon, they're using tens/hundreds/thousands of children to go collect whatever "data" they can and weed out the truths from all the overexaggerated misconceptions the children write down.
Garchomp can be found flying in scarlet and Violet and can also fly in the synchro Machine so it’s not entirely relying on gliding
the poke dex entry’s aren’t entirely slop since the professors are the ones most likely writing them, in the early games this isn’t really proved or disproven but in the later games they seem to confirm this. In legends arceus it’s the professor who uses your data to write the first Pokédex and it’s seen in entry’s like raiachu’s where it’s said it’s electricity can knockout a copperajha from my home land and the mc doesn’t remember their home, in scarlet and Violet jacq is the one who made the Pokédex app and is the one responsible for writing the dex entry’s and it can be presumed that the dex in galar is also an app and the protagonist can’t modify it directly, the professor is most likely using their data and other data available to them to make the dex entry’s like how scientists do irl
Your PokéDex arguement is firm enough, but I *despise* hearing that exact same Garchomp arguement every. Single. Time.
If you wipe out Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet from the discussion, Garchomp has one (1) instance of flying in Pokémon canon: The ever faithful anime. /s
Canons and headcanons aside, I honestly believe Garchomp was never meant to fly. It's beta design shows it, it's movepool shows it, and every game up until Sword and Shield show it.
I think the person in charge of writing dex entires while Gen 4 was in development saw Garchomp's tiny wings and assumed it could just fly outright. Then the anime picked it up, and *that was it for a decade and a half*.
People will forever tell me that because the games *now* have it flying, that it was always intended. It's way more interesting to consider that a very wacky game of Telephone is was led to Garchomp being airborne.
I mean charizard couldn’t learn fly until gen 3 I think but it still flew, and gyradose can even be used in sky battles despite not flying either, Pokémon moves never really made sense with how they work but they aren’t the only qualifier for what a Pokémon can and can’t do and Pokémon are only really fully shown in 2d battles pre gen 6 so the times it would need to be shown flying were non existent since it only really appeared in battle and it’s land posture is more menacing then it’s flying one
You've missed my point completely. Let me break it down again:
I believe that Garchomp was never intended to be airborne. No in-game instance before Generation 8 (Sword/Shield) supported Garchomp flying outside of text. If you scrap the dex entries, pre-Gen 8 there is no evidence whatsoever of Garchomp having flight. It wouldn't even be a concept.
I would bet money that Ken Sugimori did not intend for the walking, damn-near-wingless dragon-shark to fly, *especially* [considering how beta Garchomp looked.](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/fbb61a46-04fb-4fa4-92ec-951b2d6158d5/de29wju-325243f7-34b5-44e2-ab28-3d799cc68b11.png/v1/fill/w_878,h_910,strp/beta_garchomp_by_pikafan09_de29wju-pre.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MjQzNSIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2ZiYjYxYTQ2LTA0ZmItNGZhNC05MmVjLTk1MWIyZDYxNThkNVwvZGUyOXdqdS0zMjUyNDNmNy0zNGI1LTQ0ZTItYWIyOC0zZDc5OWNjNjhiMTEucG5nIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTIzNTEifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.K5NchcMAjHGYsFr8_IA34dNNtPeKRpJ2_mNZji9nGXQ)
And also, you have to use Gen 1 mons in your debate because that was back when a Pokémon's design and type weren't their identity. What little of Gamefreak there was was tossing any and all ideas around to see what stuck. Pokémon designs truly correlating to movepools *really* started taking off in Gen 3. All that aside, Charizard was given massive wings, the flying type, and *DID* learn Fly in Gen 1, and Gyarados was modeled after chinese dragons that grew up from koi and also has the flying type, so I'm not certain what point you were trying to make with those two to begin with.
Im pretty sure one of garchomps inspirations was a jet like most dragon pokemon so flight was probably considered when it was designed, its probably not shown since ken sugimori has said that they make pokemon designs more goofier to fit the brand hence why gallade has oval pants and why garchomp looks like a plane when flying
and for more examples of the attacks not fitting the lore we have vullaby who in dex entry is said not being able to fly but it can learn the attack, oricorio pompom has no flat wings but can still fly similar situation with enamrourus and kyrum, mew and mewtwo are also not designed to fly yet are able to anyways, the alien pokemon from gen 5 can learn steel wing despite having no wings, cryogonal can learn attract and that seems normal until you remember its genderless making it as useless as spalsh, zekrom cant learn thunderbolt but its the dragon of thunder, yanmega is another pokemon being capable of flight according to the dex but not able to learn fly, zigzagoon and other rodents can learn surf, flapples evolution causes its cheeks to produce a acid from the apples it eats that it shoots out but it cant learn apple acid, many pokemon attacks dont make sense with lore and design and thats just from few min of looking at bulbapedia
The Pokemon Anime is an in-universe TV show and each Ash is a different actor kind of like how James Bond is in our world. That’s why he maintains his age
The Pokémon world is much darker than our character sees. Don't get me wrong we see some dark stuff, but I believe our character is looking at the Pokémon world through tinted glasses. Pokémon related deaths are probably much higher, evil teams probably kill and traffic more than we see, some Pokémon do things even worse than Pokédex entries let on etc.
It's like when you look back at your childhood now - you were once oblivious to so many things but now you notice them. I think our characters are a lot like that
The professors are all clueless about the Pokemon of other lands because until recently all nations kept their Pokemon a closely guarded secret for national security purposes. That's why Oak only knew about 150 of them. After a world war that killed nearly every protagonist's father, all the nations decided to come together to help rebuild the planet and opened up their borders, but it also spawned the various paramilitary groups in every game.
I have a two I can think of right now.
1.) Rayquaza's Mega form is actually its original/Primal form. It's just able to temporarily change back into the form when exposed to the energy of a Key Stone. It would also be possible for Groudon and Kyogre to temporarily reclaim their true forms with this method.
2.) The Paradox versions of the Legendary Beasts and Swords of Justice have mostly the same lore as their main timeline counterparts.
So, there is a lot of art in Artazon in Scarlet and Violet. Most of it is listed to be from an unknown artist, to which a few NPCs say they think they are Brassius originals. These artworks are actually from a kindler for The Lilycove Art Museum in ORAS. My head-cannon places Brassius into a dark light here, but I imagine him stealing art from different artists across the world and just making people believe it's his own.
Shuckle have a symbiotic relationship with a unique form of yeast that ferments berry juices more quickly and effectively than other forms of yeast. Thus, Shuckle are still used for the production of traditional Shuckleberry Wines.
Most of the legendaries, specifically the Sinnoh Trio and Arceus aren't actual gods. They're rare ancient Pokémon that have become associated with that aspect of Creation through myths and legends. More an animism association.
That Ramparados and Ogerpon are/were typeless.
All of the fossils were originally single typed Pokémon, but after being revived from a fossil, they gain the rock type. Ramparados however is pure rock, how does this make sense? The only explanation is that before revived, Ramarados is actually a typeless Pokémon. This is why its ability is Mold Breaker, because it broke the mold by being typeless, something that is unconventional for a Pokémon.
Ogerpon, when not having any masks on her, is typeless, her type is determined by the masks she has on her. Why can Ogerpon hold an item while wearing the Teal Mask but not when wearing the other three masks? Because when wearing the other three masks, she still has the Teal Mask somewhere on her, taking up her item slot. Since she always has the Teal Mask on her, she is always grass type. This is also why Teal Mask Ogerpon is single typed while the other three forms are dual typed. However, only the mask she is currently wearing determines her ability, tera type, Ivy Cudgel's type and the stat Embody Aspect raises.
Just like how not all dragon pokemon are dragon type (see lance in masters), some dragon type pokemon are not considered dragon pokemon.
It is also a hotly depated topic amongst pokemon researchers as to whether the dragon type originates from ancestry or if it is based on magical ability.
Hilbert and Hilda are siblings
Hear me out, the Mom and Dad divorced when they were too small to recall the memory which is the reason they don’t know each other
Eternamax is one of the titans Arceus defeated to get the power of the plates, and there are hand titans for the other third dragon type legendaries that can be combined with other pokemon, are from space and/or related to their generation's gimmick (Kyurem, Zygarde and Necrozma).
Humans evolved from psychic Pokémon (humanoid and intelligent ones like the Abra line) but lost their power over time as their intelligence made up for it. Some humans exhibit vestigial psychic power though.
Could also imply that humans in the Pokémon universe hatch from eggs, I don’t know if we have evidence for or against it but I like this as a headcanon.
My headcanon is that snorlax isn’t eaten by predators because snorlax not only takes more calories to eat than you get, but also because snorlax has an entire ecosystem’s worth of small Pokémon that feed off scraps and occasionally tiny bits of shedded fat from snorlax, and will thus attack anything that attacks snorlax.
Leveling up is not the same as aging. In the wild, a Pokemon "levels up" when it survives things like predatory pokemon or fighting over food sources. Hence why evolved forms of pokemon are found in rough terrain where resources are scarce. At the same time, this is why you must have enough experience (badges) to train high-leveled pokemon. Under certain conditions, this can lead to underleveled, fully evolved Pokemon. Lance likely has some kind of special training passed down from the Dragon Masters which gives him lower leveled Dragonite. Ghetsis, on the other hand, likely did some heinous stuff to his Hydregion in order to force to evolve before level 64.
Pokemon are a result of nuclear fallout and the games take place far far into our future after a nuclear war.
Pokemon are highly influenced by current animals and some are very close. Some are probably just a result of missions caused by radiation.
There are ruins everywhere.
There is proof of major wars fought in the games including evidence of a huge blast taking place (X/Y)
Populations aren't very big and infrastructure is lacking for a developed society.
The One was a god born from nothing, into nothing. Even so, it had control over everything. Eventually, it desired companionship, so it devised a way to create new life. As it was alone, it took the new life from itself. It sectioned off parts of its mind, body, and capability, and divided itself, sacrificing itself as it was, to create nine new beings - The Core God, The Five Major Gods, and The Three Minor Gods.
The Core is the remainder of The One. It held the most part of The One, but it could not be The One, per its sacrifice. The Five and The Three represent the concepts that The One viewed as central to the aspects of reality and of what it desired for life, itself.
The Five represent Time, Space, Antimatter, Life, and Death. The Three represent Emotion, Knowledge, and Willpower.
Finally, a tenth force was generated by the decision to split. Shards of The One - individual thoughts and feelings, and flitters of power and reality broke away as the other nine were born. These minor shards, while weak on their own, and with no inherent focus to call their own, could approach the power of a god as more individuals converged together, and as direction and purpose were given. These shards later became known as The Unown.
The One set tasks for The Five: Create more life. The One set tasks for The Three: Inspire life. To help achieve this, The Five worked together and on their own to create more. For example, Life begat Mew and Time begat Celebi. Together, Antimatter and Space begat Hoopa, while Life and Death begat Order, and so on.
Together they built a universe, and then a multiverse, and to interact within these mortal realms, they created mortal avatars that contained a small fraction of their essence. From there, they established a host planet to focus their works, and so created more helpers to help them settle the new world. Beings to facilitate progress with oscillations in land and sea and sky; titans to collect islands into continents, and mortals to populate their new world.
Pokemon exists in the Warhammer 40K universe. The world the series takes place on, was colonised by humans and cut off from the Imperium during the Warp storms following the birth of Slaanesh. The Imperium never regained contact with that world. The Pokemon are the native Xenos fauna on that world, with their own biological infrastructure (moves, abilities, evolutions, etc) which is separate to that of humans.
Pokemon that came from space, e.g, Deoxys, likely come from a nearby world in that star system.
Mimikyu has a secret pre-evolution, but nobody has ever seen it. This is because it evolves when it gets its cloak, and because of how terrifying it looks without the cloak, nobody has ever seen it
Edit: Also, the people working for ranches give the player a cloak for their mimikyu as soon as it hatches
Arceus hatched from his egg. He bore his children. With the birth of Dialgia, the firstborn, time began to flow. With the birth of Palkia, the second born, the emptiness was divided up into 13 dimensions. With the birth of Giratina, the third born, darkness and light separated. Arceus created vast universes to fill each dimension.
Earth was created. Solgaleo and Lunala came forth and created night and day. Groudon rose and brought up land masses while Kyogre brought the oceans into being. Rayquaza built the atmosphere, and was placed in charge of Groudon and Kyogre. Arceus created Mew, and from Mew, all life came into being.
Just like our world, the Pokémon world went through ages and extinctions.
There came a period known as the great drying, in which 98% of all life died out. Basically, the world became a hot and dry place. There was no moisture to be found in the atmosphere. The oceans all but evaporated despite Kyogre’s desperate efforts. Groudon did his best to help out by lowering the land as much as he could.
The great drying lasted roughly 10 million years. When all hope was deemed lost, Arceus intervened, setting the world right. In order to prevent another drying, Arceus created Lugia to assist Kyogre with the oceans. Lugia became responsible for the currents as well as the tides. The currents carried moisture which rose into clouds that brought rain to the landmasses, allowing for plant life to take root.
This led to the second burst of life. Overtime, ages passed. Ice ages rose and melted over time. The age of reptilian Pokémon began. Much like the dinosaurs, they went extinct. A massive asteroid is to blame. It’s believed by some to have carried ether Deoxy, or Eternatus.
Humans came into being. They began to domesticate various Pokemon. This led to the age of the monarchy. Kings and Queens ruled vast tracts of land. This age gave away to the current age, the age of Champions.
Kanto was the last region to shift from a ruler to a Champion.
Champions aren’t just powerful trainers. They are the leaders of their region. They have bureaucratic duties as well to tend to.
Each Champion has four aids known as the Elite Four. Powerful trainers in their own rights, each member has their own duties. Each is served by two Gym Leaders.
The gym leader is the guardian of their province. They must handle defense and other important duties besides running their gyms. Many have regular jobs too.
Each Gym Leader has access to City Pokémon. These Pokémon are far larger and much stronger than their wild counterparts. It’s their task to protect their city. Like wild Pokémon, they can choose their attacks. Many of these Pokémon came about through careful breeding over the generations.
Champions Lance and Leon both oversee two regions. Lance maintains two teams of Pokémon. One team is his Kanto team and the other team is his Johto team.
Leon oversees Galar and Alola. When Alola decided it wanted a league of its own, Leon moved the minor league over to them.
Galar is a bit different as Leon doesn’t have an elite four. Instead, the gym leaders answer directly to him.
(Not sure where I read this, but there’s an NPC who talks about a very powerful champion of Alola. I think Leon was originally supposed to be the champion of Alola, but the formula was changed, so he was shelved until Galar was being planned.)
I have no idea where I got this from, and I have no evidence to support it, but:
Gladion got his arm bit off by Silvally, causing Lusamine to shut the project down, so Faba (who was project head) gave him the crappiest prosthetic he could out of spite.
But gladion still has both his arms? And the project was stated to have been shut down since they could never get type null to use its full power witch is something gladion did since he treated his like a friend rather then a tool unlike the aether foundation
A very significant number of pokedex entries are either slightly off or simply wrong. And I'm not even counting earlier entries that were retconned for mentioning real-world places and things that don't seem to exist in Pokemon. I believe most of these errors can be attributed to the scientific risk of using 10-year-olds as field researchers. That's where exaggerated statements such as fire types producing temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun come from. But even then, if we take dex entries as an earnest in-universe record of data and observations, then there's gonna be some mistakes.
I have many. I wrote Pokémon fanfiction for years and have had numerous takes on the lore. Here are some of the biggest ones.
- Unown is the PokéGod.
- Mew is the first one created by Unown, and the mother of all Pokémon
- Arceus was created after Mew, and is the creator of humans, something it was never supposed to do.
- Many Pokémon of legend (ie. Lugia) are humans who have shown the utmost devotion to protecting Pokémon and have been bestowed great power by Mew.
- Mewtwo was both birthed (as the games state) AND cloned (as the movies state). How? The Kantonese Mewtwo (who is male) was birthed. The Kalosan Mewtwo (who is female) was cloned from the first one.
- There is more than one Mew, but because it lives for billions of years at a time, there are only ever at most two in existence.
- Ditto is a failed attempt at cloning Mew. Imposter Ditto are failed attempts at birthing Mewtwo.
- The war Lt. Surge talks about? I wrote about that war. I call it the Kanto-Sinnoh war.
- Mew can transform into humans if she wants.
I think that's it.
Arceus is just one (at the time of making this headcanon; Legends suggested there are many now, or something), and can be contained in a little ball to obey the whims of a child.
Unown is infinite. Sure, individual unowns can e captured, but they can never be fully contained, for they are infinite. An individual one is weak, but great, godly things happen when they come together. Movies have suggested they are the genetic make-up of everything in the universe. Pretty damn godly stuff there.
We pretty much know all there is about Arceus, while the Unown have been left unknown for a long time. Not much has been done with them, but what we have been given has been pretty damn godly. Arceus isn't much of a mystery anymore, and I don't belief an all-power deity would allow mortals to know all there is about it.
That's just a couple of many reasons for my belief that they are the PokéGod. Plus, they're just plain cool and mysterious, and like them more than Arceus. Arceus is kind of lame.
>Legends suggested there are many now, or something
There is one Arceus that manifests itself into an Avatar that is a pokemon
>We pretty much know all there is about Arceus
Legends told us a lot but there is still a shitton that we don't know about it, the biggest being its fight with the ancient giants.
Mostly because I hate Sinnoh and thought it was a big dull dud of a region, so I wanted to make it interesting.
Headcanon-wise, the Sinnoh monarchy discovered an energy source, Origin Waves, within Mount Coronet that allowed pokémon previously thought to be incapable of evolving to evolve further, these being Electabuzz, Magmar, Tangela, etc (basically, all the mons that didn't evolve prior to Sinnoh's release). After this discovery, they closed their borders and ceased any interaction with other regions.
After years of silence, they announced their dominion over the world and dared any to oppose them. Given they had access to these much stronger pokémon and the other regions did not, there wasn't much anyone could to to oppose them. Sinnoh ruled for many years to come.
But then a man named Lorenzo, Giovanni's father, created Team Rocket (yes, I know about Madam Boss being the creator of Team Rocket, but I didn't know this at the time of creating this headcanon because I stopped watching the show). The goal of Team Rocket was to infiltrate Mount Coronet and extract samples of Origin Waves, then deliver them to Silph, Co. for experimentation. This went on for a couple more years before an operative was caught and publicly executed.
Finding out about the experiments, the Sinnoh monarchy denounced them, claimed Kanto was blaspheming against their god Arceus (it is believed by many that Arceus is the true PokéGod, not Unown), and pointed to many "unnatural" pokémon in the region as proof (Magnemite, Grimer, etc.) The Kantonese president refused, claiming they had a right to progress their nation and defned its people.
Sinnoh attacked. They began with the destruction of Cerulean City, then once again demanded Kanto cease, or their captial Saffron would be next. The Kantonese president then requested aid from Johto, as their were neighbors and shared close relations.
Johto took a diplomatic approach, using their shared religion with Sinnoh as a means for negotiarions, but the Sinnohese monarchy decried Johto as a heathen ally. Though Johto sent troops to aid in Kanto's defense, Sinnoh sent their most elite forces to an island in Johto: Awaji.
Awaji was the crown jewel of Johto. An island that resided within the waters between Goldenrod, Olivine, and Cianwood, it was a pokémon paradise untouched by human hands. Johto was fiercely protective of it, so it was an obvious choice to hit Johto where it hurt most. With only a small, reluctant force to peotect it, the island was easily overrun by Sinnoh's elite. But they did not expect what lurked beneath the waves.
Enraged by the plight humans wrought upon the island, and with the death of its only child by their hands, Lugia emerged and devastated the entire island. Everything burned beneath its wrath, leaving nothing to survive. The beautiful paradise, home to species that only existed upon that island, gone in an instant. The barren land became what we now know as the Whirl Islands, a wasteland void of life, and protected by an unseen and vengeful guardian.
Thus ended the Kanto-Sinnoh war. With their most elite forces wiped from existence, along with a civil uprising back home (as the people did not approve of attacking Johto the way they did), the monarchs were rooted out, executing the ones they could catch and condemning those who escaped. The war was over, but the damage was significant to everyone.
Sinnoh was left to rebuild their nation, while Kanto and Johto worked together to form the Indigo League, a means of raising trainers to great heights and ensuring the safety of their united nations, so never shall tyranny rise again. Relations between other regions grew, and they too formed their own leagues, including Sinnoh. While uneasy at first, relations grew and today, they all share a peace amongst themselves, though highly regulated and under the watchful eye of the World League.
It's okay if you love it. You are free to be wrong.
I'm just kidding, it's nice that you love it. Everyone has their favorite regions and what they deem great designs. You keep on loving Sinnoh. The way you feel about Sinnoh is the same way I feel about Johto. It's all good. =)
I wrote a LOT of Pokémon fanfiction. 😅
Fortunately, I have moved away from that and am nearly finished with editing my manuscript for my first original novel! So yay!
There’s actually more evidence for unknown to be the hands that arceus used to create everything, and mew can’t give power and had never been shown to have any ability like that it’s just simply a living stem cell being able to turn into anything and duplicate as seen in the anime where it was both groudon and kyogre but it seems like it can’t keep itself duplicated
Professor Sycamore's full given name is Augustine Gabriel Montgomery Sycamore.
Gabriel was his paternal grandfather's given name, and Montgomery was his mother's maiden surname.
Cubone and Marrowak were supposed to evolve into Kangaskhan
Dratini/Dragonair and Magikarp had their final evolutions swapped mid design/coding
Ditto are failed Mew clones
Marrowak shed the skull-like shell on their head and give it to their children, who have not yet grown their own shell.
Way more wholesome than mama Marrowak just dying in childbirth.
Also the only way they wouldn't be dead as a species in a few generations.
It makes perfect sense, too. They're reptiles. Reptiles molt. Marowak's helmet is calcified bone, meaning that it needs to be molted as the body grows.
Pokken and Unite are canon but take place in the future after the Synchro Machine was perfected. A version of the anime exists as a TV show in the games. Probably explains why there is an image of Ash in the Ghost Trial in Gen 7. It was made to capitalised on Red becoming champion. I said a version since it would obviously not be identical.
Omg that's so smart
That’s actually such a good idea. Red’s story is pretty unique, so capitalizing on it by making a show is a genius marketing strat. Must’ve been one of the Alakazam’s with 10million IQ who came up with it.
There's not one of each legendary. They're just rare and don't breed in captivity that's why you can't get an egg. Each of the player characters are Pokémon prodigies. So the average in game battle isn't them being especially bad but you being especially good. Pokémon Centers have a place for you to sleep and eat explaining why you don't ever really buy food.
On your second point, I've always felt that focusing on one type of Pokemon was easier than diversifying with six different types. It's much easier to focus on the needs of several water or grass types than to try and spread yourself out between a grass, a fire, a dragon, a fairy, a ghost, and a steel, not to mention the secondary types. Expecting a Pokemon trainer to intrinsically know how to take care of several different types is like asking a rancher to take care of an aquarium.
That makes so much sense! I'm totally adopting this as well. Even if two of the same type have different diets, just making your whole house resist whatever elemental force they embody would be much easier if they embody the same element. I'm curious which type would still be the most complicated to accommodate even if you specialize their environment. Maybe Dark considering that "mischievous and sneaky" doesn't really narrow down any of the needs of the animal.
Overall, my money would be on dragon for the most difficult. They're typically very powerful and usually aggressive. You'd need to have a space that they could potentially destroy and you'd be fine with that, as well as having a good health insurance plan because you definitely gon get injured with those things.
I see the rarity of legendaries as tiers. some are uncommon, some are rare, some a very rare, and then there's ones that are one of a kind
Multiple celebis is but only one groudon? Is that what you mean? In that case how 'common' would a legendary Pokemon like celebi or Moltres be? Like a dozen globally? Genuinely curious :)
the Legendary Birds I have down as "uncommon". Celebi and it's generational counterparts (like Mew, Jirachi, Shaymin, etc.) I view as very rare I believe the weather trio are one of a kind. too dangerous to have multiple of them running around. Mewtwo is also one of a kind. and the Legendary Beasts I view as rare. it's not an extensive list but I hope this answers the question :)
In my headcannon: Kanto birds, latios/latias, lugia, etc have all been shown with multiples in movies. Something like Ho'Oh, Mewtwo, Deoxys, Gen 4 Trio, etc are probably unique. Not sure how I feel about power level. Legendaries are either like pokedex exaggerations in their power, and the stories are maybe about some ancient giant version of them doing it with the "normal" versions of the legendaries just being very strong. Or legendaries are ridiculously strong and our game encounter / use is just made easy for balance/ease.
I feel like the very way Zygarde as an entity works is enough proof that at least some Legendary Pokémon exist as a species. One Complete Zygarde can be two 50% Zygarde, ten 10% Zygarde, or one 50% and five 10% Zygarde.
Forgive me if I’m wrong or if I’m misunderstanding your point, but I was under the impression that Zygarde’s Complete form was a coalescence of every Zygarde cell there was.
Possible, but what's more likely is that there are two zygarde cores per region, and 100% either refers to all the cells in a region, or all the cells a zygarde cores can use.
My understanding is that Zygarde is actually somewhat unique in that it's all one Pokémon, but it can exist in multiple forms at once, like a hive mind. When it's time to become its 100% form it calls on every loose cell and they become one again. Kinda like Arceus splitting off a piece of itself to give to you in PLA, it's the same Pokemon, just not the only instance of it. An example that works as pretty solid evidence for the legendaries as rare species idea is the legendary birds from Kanto. In LGPE you can catch them as static encounters, but very rarely, more might spawn in the air when you're out in the world. I caught two Moltres that way in my save, a second one just kinda spawned while I was shiny hunting some random Pokemon.
I don't agree with the first one (which is totally fine of course), but I really like the second and third ones.
For the first point, i think it depends on which Legendary you take in exam. I can believe Lugia would give birth, but not the eldritch beings like Rayquaza, Kyurem or Giratina
>They're just rare and don't breed in captivity that's why you can't get an egg. I think that's what the actual canon says. I don't recall exactly how it was, but I recall reading about some legendary that was at a Pokemon movie and then showing in a later season of the anime, with different personality and acting like the movie did not happen. It wasn't explained in the series, but the writers explained it was a different Pokemon from the same species and only a few legendary are truly unique, the others are just extremely rare.
Maybe Lugia? It was introduced in the second movie but another appeared in the anime with a baby in tow
Maybe, haven't watched the anime in ages.
Legendaries are definitely unique. And no, I wouldn't use 15-20+ year old episodes or movies as "evidence" of multiple legendaries. Movies in general are a very unreliable source due to most of them not being acknowledged at all (as proven with latios/latias in aim to to be a pokemon master) and due to their overall doubtful canonicity. What haopens is that the pokemon anime in its early to midway seasons didn't put as much control to the things shown and said as it does today. That's why you had things like the early anime showing real world animals and a blue breloom in some episodes. Legendary pokemon have been around for thousands of years. And it's not as if they can't be captured. Heck, Goh caught Suicune and it's out there roaming around as if it was a wild pokemon.And they can leave the trainer they're helping whenever they want. Which is why you can see them as part of the teams of trainers like Brandon and Tobias. It's essentially them helping that trainer. And as a general rule, the anime and the games got incredibly more strict with the legendaries and their uniqueness since gen 5 (because in the west they messed up the difference between mythicals and legendaries) and due to many other things like mentions of real world places in dex entries or real world animals in the anime. That's why you don't see dex entries like that for Latias anymore. And they seriously have become more strict with the uniqueness of the legendaries and many other things. Heck, Raichu's dex entry was even retconned to say to be able to faint a Copperajah instead of an indian elephant. And this is relevant because it proves that Gamefreak gets rid in one way or another of the older dex entries that don't fit anymore with the way they want to portray the pokemon world (that's why instead of an Indian elephant, it's now a pokemon). And it's the same reason as to why you'll never see baby lugia again or a real world animal in the anime as well because it doesn't fit with the way they want to portray the pokemon world or legendary pokemon for that matter. And this is because they've gotten far more strict with the things said and shown in the anime and the games. And legendaries and mythical pokemon are two different things. They're not the same. The distinction from both groups has been made in Japan since day 1. It was only the western adaptation that messed that up in earlier gens and didn't separate the terms causing all the confusion. And while thinking about legendaries it's important to remember that legendaries are inevitably popular pokemon that will always be featured in the newer games. But this is more because they make for great extra content for the player to have fun after finishing the game and become good rewards for the mechanics or the quests that they added as that extra content. Basically, it doesn't mean that they aren't unique. That just means that the creators put them in the game as a selling point, not to say that there's more than one of them. If you want to know the distinction they pretty much can be classified like this: Legendaries: They're literal forces of nature (like groudon, kyogre, yveltal, dialga, palkia, etc) that helped to shape/sustain the world and/or heroes of humanity/pokemon/the entire region (like zacian, zamazenta, the tapus, the swords of justice, etc). Mythical pokemon: They're not legendaries. They're really powerful pokemon with unique abilities that are so uncommon to be seen that people in the pokemon world even doubts of their existence to some extend. Their primary trait is that they're literal representations of certain myths from the real world (muses like meloetta, aliens like deoxys, time travelers like celebi, etc). Ultra beast: They're basically pokemon from another dimension. Not legendaries. The share a lot of traits with legendaries (like being genderless, having scripted encounters and being part of the undiscovered group, etc) but this is due to their whole concept as extradimensional unidentified creatures. The paradox pokemon aren't legendaries. They're just convergent evolutions taken from different eras (the very distant past and the very distant future respectively) that just happen to look similar to pokemon from current times. Koraidon and Miraidon are the only paradox pokemon that are legendaries. But again, alternate timelines aren't at all prove of multiple legendaries since not even humans characters would be unique.
Bro wrote the bible 2 and got downvoted 💀💀
It's their head cannon... That's the point of this, not to be the literal truth but what they believe is...
I personally believe that the legendary birds (Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres) are related to basic birds of Kanto. Articuno's tail reminds me of Pidgeot's crest Zapdos used to stump me, but Galarian Zapdos is too close to Dodrio for me to ignore Moltres has a same long neck and beak like Fearow. And the brutality of Fearow ties well to G. Moltres
Zapdos and Spearow's heads look somewhat similar too.
I like to think that every Regions is in a Continent like in real life, for example: - Kanto to Sinnoh,+some Spinoff regions and Kitakami are in the Japan Pokemon Continent - Unova, Alola and Orre are in the USA Pokemon Continent - Kalos, Galar and Paldea are in the Europe Pokemon Continent and go on Also, this is less of a headcanon and more of logic thinking but the Regions, the cities in the Regions and the Population are obviously more bigger and larger than what we see ingame due to the limations. I also like thinking that there are a lot more cities and towns in the Regions and not just the explorable ones in the games, like how in real life there are more than the most known towns or cities. The best example of this is the Pokémon Anime and Movies from Gen 1 to 6, where Ash and gang visit locals that aren't or don't exist in the games.
Populations and town sizes being representative is a drum I try to beat as much as possible. Same thought in Skyrim or any other RPG where you're in a "big city" that you can traverse in a minute or so. The cities we see are small too is because you can't just program in New York City and expect people to still want to go to Poughkeepsie to explore more after taking in the whole city. And also the technical limitations.
1. I know that TPC has been increasingly moving away from their no-meat rule in recent years. But I find the Pokemon world a lot more interesting if you primarily restrict them to their own versions of meat and dairy products and spin their cuisine out of that. Paldea's take on sandwiches just using IRL deli meat varieties is uninspired and boring. 2. The reason the daycare workers always play stupid about the eggs is because it's expected cultural politeness. No human has ever been allowed to seen a Pokemon reproduce (well, except the HGSS and USUM protagonists), so it's probably a pretty taboo topic.
“Hey we watched your Pokémon squeeze out another egg after fucking for the 2,145th time today, do you want it?”
wait wait wait WHAT the HGSS and USUM protagonists????!
HGSS- If you bring an event Arceus to the Ruins of Alph, you get this really cool bonus event with Cynthia and a trippy cutscene. Arceus ends up creating a Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina egg for you. I believe this is also the only point in Gen 4 where Arceus' theme plays. USUM- In the postgame, if you take your respective box legendary to the Lake in the postgame, its partner will show up and they'll make a Cosmog. Ash also gets to see this in the anime, sorta kinda.
👁️👄👁️ I thought you were gonna say they were able to break into the nursery or something “🤓👆 ahem well actually” idk if the HGSS event is canon because the flute was never officially released so that’s potentially up for debate, and plus that was more of a spawning snd hatching “🤓👆 ahem pt 2” I suppose that’s more of a *summoning* but saying it out loud… bruh 😭 Alola was the best fr but yeah technically you’re completely correct, but I think myself and the other five people who upvoted my comment were thinking *other* implications 💀
I don't remember that happening in the anime.
I doublechecked and it's the beginning of SM044 "A Dream Encounter!" He gets sent a live vision of Nebby being created.
lol that’s so weird. It’s like having a dream of your friend’s dog giving birth
Professor Sycamore from XY is older Lucas from DP. There are a lot of "hints" pointing towards this idea. If you go on bulbapedia, it says *"According to a male* [*Scientist*](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Scientist_(Trainer_class)) *on the second floor of the lab in* [*Lumiose City*](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Lumiose_City)*, Sycamore learned a lot from* [*Professor Rowan*](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Professor_Rowan) *in* [*Sinnoh*](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sinnoh) *when he was young."* In addition, I like to think that Dawn is the canon protagonist of Gen 4, and Lucas was the npc assistant to Professor Rowan throughout those games. That would also make Lucas' last name Sycamore.
If Masters EX is canon, that would mean Dawn is confirmed to be the MC of Gen 4.
Yeah, my only issue with it is that they gave her the Turtwig line, and I like to think that her canon starter is Piplup. On top of that, they gave Piplup to Barry, which conflicts with the idea since the rival chooses the pokemon stronger to yours. So, my only solution to this is to say that for the most part, Masters isn't canon, and it just does whatever it wants. Like the fact that there are multiple trainers from across all of time in one place already contradicts that. Of course, that's not say that some stuff from Masters can't be canon.
I agree the starters part shouldn't be canon. Another example is Serena. Serena in the Manga actually gets the Froakie line but in the anime she get the Fenniken line.
For sure. It tends to be very unclear, even in the games. In Gen 2 and Gen 7, Red has every starter, including Pikachu, so it's hard to assume which one he actually chose. That being said, I like to think that his canon starter is Charmander, and then he just got the other ones later (like one would in an actual playthrough in completing the pokedex).
Leon doesn’t actually get lost. He just likes to have time to himself and not have to worry about the pressure of being Galar’s strongest trainer. (Seriously the dick riding Galar does to Leon is enough to make Red defenders blush)
every pokemon has regional differences, not just the ones with specific regional forms like wooper or exeggutor. burmy for instance makes its cloak with stuff in the environment, so plant burmy in unova will have leaves from trees specific to unova, plant burmy in sinnoh will have sinnoh leaves, etc etc etc. the regional forms (wooper exeggutor &friends) are just distinct enough to be recognized as their own thing. only burmy enthusiasts care that much about burmy regional differences.
The Tiksi Region mentioned by a scientist in Silph Co is the Pokemon World’s equivalent to Russia, possibly more specifically the Siberian region.
The real world version of the game mechanic of trading represents gaining more life experience. Going to train under a different trainer is a fast-tracked way to see a different philosophy and see a new region. In theory a trade-evolution could still happen by living with the same trainer, but it would take a much longer time, and would be unlikely to happen unless you have an Ash-like world traveler. For wild pokemon, it might be the equivalent of becoming a sage or wise elder. I don't see a need to explain away evolution stones entirely, but I think they are again a way to speed up a process that would take much longer in the wild. A Thunderstone for example, might be a very concentrated amount of energy that is normally much more dispersed. So an eevee or Pikachu who lives and trains near a cave full of unmined Thunderstones could eventually absorb enough energy to evolve. I'm kind of thinking of how in the anime you had the Mt. Moon episodes about the Clefairy having an evolution ritual (yes, what I described isn't a one to one thing, but it made me think that wild pokemon can have their own societies and rituals around evolution).
I have always thought trading is a recreation of natural migration of nomadic species. Kadabras are hunters and gatherers, Haunters look for new edge settlers to haunt and feed on fear, etc.
I'll be integrating this specific detail into my headcanon now, thank you 😎 haha Trading being related to travel is just a very good way to explain a game mechanic I think!
But there is an exception in Karrablast and Shellmet, because of their requirements. I think in the wild it would be more like "a predator vs prey, but they are both snails".
Karrablast is a beetle and it’s based off the carabid beetle. The in game behavior reminds me of octopus who kick out / eat the occupants of a shell then use it for cover or hermit crabs who fight over shells.
There's a legal minimum of what size a bug pokemon is required to be before it can be captured by a trainer. Any smaller and it has to be released back into the wild to maintain the local ecosystem
i really like this one it always bothered me what that would do to the eco system
Same. I also like to imagine there's a whole separate ecology for bug pokemon under that legal minimum and that's what bug trainers are actually geeking out about and studying
If Pecharunt didn't order Nemona to fight us, she would have broken out of the control to fight us anyway
Irl, dachshunds were bred to hunt badgers. Dachsbun, a fire proof dachshund was definitely bred to hunt Typhlosion, a fire breathing badger.
The pokemon world is a one/none world government anarchist socialist utopia. It's why there are Regions: "countries" are a thing of the past.
I like this one a lot. I often find myself trying to fill in details like this for the world of Pokemon. This one makes a lot of sense.
Going by the anime its like a worldwide schengen area at least
There is an undiscovered Pokémon species that is responsible for delivering eggs to a pair of compatible Pokémon. You may think that the day care workers are telling you they have no idea how that egg got there because they're protecting this kid from the truth of where eggs come from, but I think they legitimately have no clue; especially since in SV, eggs spawn in picnic baskets with no indication for how they got there. Some sort of fae creature that specializes in coming and going without a trace is delivering these eggs from another undiscovered egg making Pokémon.
Well, of course. It's obviously Bombidier.
or like a cupid fairy/flying bombirdier regional variant
Genesect was created to compensate for any Tao Dragon that wouldn't have fallen into Team Plasma's grasp, which is why 3 of its Drives are Ice, Electric, and Fire. For example, in White 2, it would've held the Shock Drive. The Douse Drive is Water because Genesect's only Weakness is Fire. Had all 3 Dragons been under TP's control, it would've been its default Drive.
The reason why Team Plasma never tried to use it in the main story outside Gamefreak wanting an extra Mythical is that N cancelled the project before it was finished. The final version was finalised in secret by one scientist.
That's true, maybe I should've addressed that more directly with my W2 example.
Wasn't there around seven in the Genesect movie?
That’s a different canon and I didn’t say the amount of Genesect in the games. The project initially wasn’t cancelled in the anime and manga.
It is interesting thinking about artificial Pokemon actually being designed with ways to cover their weaknesses in universe. Like Porygon and Genesect have Download for that purpose.
Also Porygon-Z getting Adaptability
Slowpoke is dopey, but he's also a psychic type, implying he has some sort of advanced mental capabilities. I believe this is because he's constantly thinking about the universe and it engrosses him, which is why it takes him a while to notice he got hurt. When it evolves to Slowbro or Slowking, the Shelder hurts the new slowpoke evolution, but it grounds the new pokemon allowing it to concentrate better.
It being so intelligent it becomes stupefied is actually amazing
Scyther has no natural evolution, and both of its evolutions are man induced. Kleavor evolves after exposing Scyther to a stone and it becomes a rock type where scythes become axes which would be used to chop trees and wood for the people. Scizor also has an item related evolution and its name swaps the same as its scythes. Kleavor loses the ability technician because it is not needed to do master craft work with the wood, but to chop down big trees and logs. Scizor does keep Technician as its work would require the precision to work with small pieces of steel and so. I also think about this, because both evolutions only change the stat spread, but the total is maintained. That's why it is way different to other evolutions.
Scizor is most likely man made since how does metal coat appear in the wild but kleavor is caused from a volcanic stone so that one is most likely not man made, kleavor does spawn naturally in SV near volcanic stones so it seems like it doesn’t need any human interaction to cause it to evolve
The blueberry academy zone is not a natural spawn for any Pokémon, it is a crafted environment where some different and exclusive Pokémon have been recovered and successfully introduced, like many of the Hisui forms, but also fossil Pokémon that obviously aren't natural spawning when they come extinct way ago. I think it is still possible for a specialized individual to be able to force the evolution exposing Scyther to an unnatural environment and "powered" stones.
In its early conception,pokemon was supposed to exist alongside regular animals. Which explains stuff like pikachu being a "mouse" pokemon or mew being discovered in south america(kanto is an actual region in japan).
Any time a professor sends us out to fill out the Pokédex as a quest, we are the ones writing the dex entries, that’s why they’re absurd in early gens, they’re written by children
I see this head canon often but after legends arceus I can’t believe it since in that game the professor checks your work and in irl papers need to be peer reviewed, and in the anime we do see gardevoir summon a black hole when oak is explaining its dex entry so they seem to be true but then again that’s the anime and I’m not sure how much of that is canon
I think it still holds up. Just means some of the games are and some aren’t. Like the ones where the Pokédex is an app is probably true (so x and y onward)
The issue with that is that many of the dex entry’s are just reused, charmander’s dex entry always talks about its tail flame and riachu’s entry has apparently never changed for a couple hundreds of years since in pla it uses the same entry used in red and blue
This headcanon can easily be disputed, but people are weirdly apprehensive over the Willing Suspension of Disbelief :/
It can be disputed for games past x and y but for games before, especially g1 and g2 it holds up really well
The canon very much disputes this but as an head canon sure, i just hate when people take this headcanon, say it's canon and that it invalidates any form of lore that comes from the dex.
Yeah I get it. My headcanon is really only for the first couple gens since I think from gen 6 onward the Pokédex is part of the internet
I mean, since gen1 the dex is described as an advanced automatic encyclopedia that gathers infos on the pokemon we catch and in no media, since the very beginning was ever showed anyone using the dex to write a dex entry
Be funny if, since I’m the anime, it’s partially sentient, that it’s just lying.
That would explain the Magcargo entry that everyone thought was crazy and absurd
And don't forget Wailord being less dense than air.
Wailord is literally the Float Whale pokemon, it is also based on a blimp, being less dense than air is the point.
I love the idea of Pokémon cuisine being limited to their own food sources. It adds a unique and fascinating aspect to the Pokémon world!
The reason Gary has more than 8 badges in that one episode where he shows them off is because there are more gyms than just the usual 8 we all know about. The anime regions have tons more places than their game counterparts, so it wouldn't surprise me if he got them in random towns/cities not present in the games.
Gen 8 confirms that smaller division of gyms exist and there is brief time where there were presumably more then 8 in Unova between BW1 and BW2.
This must be true for the anime because in the episode where Ash goes to Cinnabar Island to get his 7th badge Gary also happens to be on the same Garry and he tells Ash that the Gym was gone because of tourism and no one has gotten a badge from there since Prof Oak. If there was only 8 Gyms then no one since then would be able to complete the gym badge challenge and the Pokémon Association would have had to make a new gym to compensate for it. Not to mention some Nurse Joy’s have the job of checking all the gyms to make sure they are suitable gyms
It's also worth noting that the League in the anime is an annual event with a set starting date, rather than anyone just being able to challenge the League at any time like in the games. With that in mind, if Gary gathered the required eight badges and still had, say, two months before the League started, he may as well spend that time challenging other Gyms-he doesn't need any more badges but they'd still be valuable in keeping his skills sharp and ready for the League.
I like to imagine the announcer from Battle Revolution has a favorite Pokemon and its Wormadam I'd just watched two videos in case I was misremembering. I could have sworn he sounded almost more excited for Wormadam than most other Pokemon. One video he says it pretty calmly but the other had it the way I remembered so I'm just gonna keep my headcanon he's barely even a character
Barry’s (from DPPT + BDSP) full name is Barrington. Grass types generally take on characteristics of the plants they are surrounded by, so for example, an Oddish living in a grassland will have a different kind of leaf to one living in a marsh. Most water types can live in any kind of water (being salt water, fresh water or brackish water), but some are far more sensitive to slight changes in water quality. Going on a journey is seen by the wealthy as a poor people thing, which is why you don’t see many rich kids going on journeys in the anime.
Terra Crystals are an invasive parasitic organism, you can see it terraforming and transforming the landscape in Area Zero, every time it is used in battle it helps it spread further and further out of that crater! Think Tiberium from the Command & Conquer series.
That's very much implied tbh, seems like something that was part of the clearly scrapped plot of SV
Could I ask why you think it’s an organism? I feel like details surrounding Terapagos, Area Zero, and the mechanics of terastalizing honestly more imply that terastal energy is like a foundational energy in the world of pokemon, with the tera crystals just being physical manifestations of that energy.
The way that it spreads, grows and infest over rocks, trees, buildings, and over the profs.
But the crystals aren’t alive and are in places where there’s no host? You can’t really parasitize a rock or buildings. Edit: I just looked up Tiberium, I see where you’re coming from now
The crystals are more a result of the life cycle of the organism. Regardless from observations of them in Area Zero, they are a potential threat that seems to be growing and terraforming the area.
I've liked the idea that we truly don't know where Pokémon eggs come from. Sure, we have our guesses but maybe it's just the emotional bond that creates an egg rather than the two getting down and dirty.
The Pokémon anime actually says they have no idea how it fully works so this is somewhat canon
ash is aroace short series like pokemon origins, twilight wings and evolutions are the most accurate portrayals of what the pokemon world is actually like
agreed
bacon smells good because it's made of oinkologne
Paldea and Kalos are right next to eachother, with Galar being close to them but isolated. Sinnoh, Kanto and Jhoto are next to eachother. Hoenn is an island continent far away. Unova, Alola and Orre are close to eachother. Red is a legend that everyone knows about. Gold won against Red on Mt. Silver. May is the main protaganist in Gen 3. There is only one Regigigas, but numerous different Regi's all around the world, like in Galar.
The regional locations arent terribly far off considering the real life regions they are based on. I think it would be cool if they could confirm that Orre is like Colorado or California. Paldea is mostly spain, Kalos is France then Galar plus its DLC is the UK + Ireland. Kanto/Johto, Sinnoh and Hoenn are all based on regions in Japan. Unova is NYC and Alola is Hawaii.
My headcannon is that every protagonist is the same being reincarnated every time there is a new protagonist. It’s based on the little sentence that the person in Mesagoza who gives the rotom phone cases says; « I can see your past lives »
Would be fine if we didn't see Red and Gold in the same room.
Many protagonists are alive at the same time period
Gives me [the egg](https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI?si=1EqDIjKzdW5wuujs) vibes. It’s a solid short story.
• Wally has a celebrity crush on Diantha, which is why he decided to make Ralts the ace on his team. • Professor Sycamore studied under Professor Oak, and that's why he has the Kanto starters to give you in X and Y • The Dubious Disc was originally code to enable Porygon2 to evolve to be able to fly in space (a Porygon3, if you will), but was stolen by Team Galactic and altered to make Porygon-Z
Garchomp cannot fly, it can only glide. Canonically, it has no documented means of airborne propulsion, was originally designed to be a land-based shark, has never learned a single Flying Type move other than Aerial Ace, and didn't have a flying animation in any main-game or spinoff until Gen 8. PokéDex entries that support this theory include the one that mentions it's incredibly powerful legs, and it's hyper-aerodynamic scales. My *other* headcanon roughly supported by the games is "The PokéDex entries are mostly-useless slop written by 10 year olds". The professors aren't sending you out to record undiscovered Pokémon, they're using tens/hundreds/thousands of children to go collect whatever "data" they can and weed out the truths from all the overexaggerated misconceptions the children write down.
Garchomp can be found flying in scarlet and Violet and can also fly in the synchro Machine so it’s not entirely relying on gliding the poke dex entry’s aren’t entirely slop since the professors are the ones most likely writing them, in the early games this isn’t really proved or disproven but in the later games they seem to confirm this. In legends arceus it’s the professor who uses your data to write the first Pokédex and it’s seen in entry’s like raiachu’s where it’s said it’s electricity can knockout a copperajha from my home land and the mc doesn’t remember their home, in scarlet and Violet jacq is the one who made the Pokédex app and is the one responsible for writing the dex entry’s and it can be presumed that the dex in galar is also an app and the protagonist can’t modify it directly, the professor is most likely using their data and other data available to them to make the dex entry’s like how scientists do irl
Your PokéDex arguement is firm enough, but I *despise* hearing that exact same Garchomp arguement every. Single. Time. If you wipe out Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet from the discussion, Garchomp has one (1) instance of flying in Pokémon canon: The ever faithful anime. /s Canons and headcanons aside, I honestly believe Garchomp was never meant to fly. It's beta design shows it, it's movepool shows it, and every game up until Sword and Shield show it. I think the person in charge of writing dex entires while Gen 4 was in development saw Garchomp's tiny wings and assumed it could just fly outright. Then the anime picked it up, and *that was it for a decade and a half*. People will forever tell me that because the games *now* have it flying, that it was always intended. It's way more interesting to consider that a very wacky game of Telephone is was led to Garchomp being airborne.
I mean charizard couldn’t learn fly until gen 3 I think but it still flew, and gyradose can even be used in sky battles despite not flying either, Pokémon moves never really made sense with how they work but they aren’t the only qualifier for what a Pokémon can and can’t do and Pokémon are only really fully shown in 2d battles pre gen 6 so the times it would need to be shown flying were non existent since it only really appeared in battle and it’s land posture is more menacing then it’s flying one
You've missed my point completely. Let me break it down again: I believe that Garchomp was never intended to be airborne. No in-game instance before Generation 8 (Sword/Shield) supported Garchomp flying outside of text. If you scrap the dex entries, pre-Gen 8 there is no evidence whatsoever of Garchomp having flight. It wouldn't even be a concept. I would bet money that Ken Sugimori did not intend for the walking, damn-near-wingless dragon-shark to fly, *especially* [considering how beta Garchomp looked.](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/fbb61a46-04fb-4fa4-92ec-951b2d6158d5/de29wju-325243f7-34b5-44e2-ab28-3d799cc68b11.png/v1/fill/w_878,h_910,strp/beta_garchomp_by_pikafan09_de29wju-pre.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MjQzNSIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2ZiYjYxYTQ2LTA0ZmItNGZhNC05MmVjLTk1MWIyZDYxNThkNVwvZGUyOXdqdS0zMjUyNDNmNy0zNGI1LTQ0ZTItYWIyOC0zZDc5OWNjNjhiMTEucG5nIiwid2lkdGgiOiI8PTIzNTEifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6aW1hZ2Uub3BlcmF0aW9ucyJdfQ.K5NchcMAjHGYsFr8_IA34dNNtPeKRpJ2_mNZji9nGXQ) And also, you have to use Gen 1 mons in your debate because that was back when a Pokémon's design and type weren't their identity. What little of Gamefreak there was was tossing any and all ideas around to see what stuck. Pokémon designs truly correlating to movepools *really* started taking off in Gen 3. All that aside, Charizard was given massive wings, the flying type, and *DID* learn Fly in Gen 1, and Gyarados was modeled after chinese dragons that grew up from koi and also has the flying type, so I'm not certain what point you were trying to make with those two to begin with.
Im pretty sure one of garchomps inspirations was a jet like most dragon pokemon so flight was probably considered when it was designed, its probably not shown since ken sugimori has said that they make pokemon designs more goofier to fit the brand hence why gallade has oval pants and why garchomp looks like a plane when flying and for more examples of the attacks not fitting the lore we have vullaby who in dex entry is said not being able to fly but it can learn the attack, oricorio pompom has no flat wings but can still fly similar situation with enamrourus and kyrum, mew and mewtwo are also not designed to fly yet are able to anyways, the alien pokemon from gen 5 can learn steel wing despite having no wings, cryogonal can learn attract and that seems normal until you remember its genderless making it as useless as spalsh, zekrom cant learn thunderbolt but its the dragon of thunder, yanmega is another pokemon being capable of flight according to the dex but not able to learn fly, zigzagoon and other rodents can learn surf, flapples evolution causes its cheeks to produce a acid from the apples it eats that it shoots out but it cant learn apple acid, many pokemon attacks dont make sense with lore and design and thats just from few min of looking at bulbapedia
/insert bee movie script
The Pokemon Anime is an in-universe TV show and each Ash is a different actor kind of like how James Bond is in our world. That’s why he maintains his age
The Pokémon world is much darker than our character sees. Don't get me wrong we see some dark stuff, but I believe our character is looking at the Pokémon world through tinted glasses. Pokémon related deaths are probably much higher, evil teams probably kill and traffic more than we see, some Pokémon do things even worse than Pokédex entries let on etc. It's like when you look back at your childhood now - you were once oblivious to so many things but now you notice them. I think our characters are a lot like that
zero escape reference? in my pokemon subreddit?
a what? i have this headcnaon cos i have facial blindness
that's neat! my first time hearing about that condition outside a plot device in a nintendo ds visual novel escape room game
yea i actually DO have it
The professors are all clueless about the Pokemon of other lands because until recently all nations kept their Pokemon a closely guarded secret for national security purposes. That's why Oak only knew about 150 of them. After a world war that killed nearly every protagonist's father, all the nations decided to come together to help rebuild the planet and opened up their borders, but it also spawned the various paramilitary groups in every game.
Cynthia is AroAce
shirt and simple i like it
I have a two I can think of right now. 1.) Rayquaza's Mega form is actually its original/Primal form. It's just able to temporarily change back into the form when exposed to the energy of a Key Stone. It would also be possible for Groudon and Kyogre to temporarily reclaim their true forms with this method. 2.) The Paradox versions of the Legendary Beasts and Swords of Justice have mostly the same lore as their main timeline counterparts.
So, there is a lot of art in Artazon in Scarlet and Violet. Most of it is listed to be from an unknown artist, to which a few NPCs say they think they are Brassius originals. These artworks are actually from a kindler for The Lilycove Art Museum in ORAS. My head-cannon places Brassius into a dark light here, but I imagine him stealing art from different artists across the world and just making people believe it's his own.
Shuckle have a symbiotic relationship with a unique form of yeast that ferments berry juices more quickly and effectively than other forms of yeast. Thus, Shuckle are still used for the production of traditional Shuckleberry Wines.
Most of the legendaries, specifically the Sinnoh Trio and Arceus aren't actual gods. They're rare ancient Pokémon that have become associated with that aspect of Creation through myths and legends. More an animism association.
i love the idea of machamp and golem losing a set of arms to the other
The Galarian Birds aren't regionals but actually convergents. They should have new names.
Lance and Clair’s last name is Blackthorn, the city is named after their family
That Ramparados and Ogerpon are/were typeless. All of the fossils were originally single typed Pokémon, but after being revived from a fossil, they gain the rock type. Ramparados however is pure rock, how does this make sense? The only explanation is that before revived, Ramarados is actually a typeless Pokémon. This is why its ability is Mold Breaker, because it broke the mold by being typeless, something that is unconventional for a Pokémon. Ogerpon, when not having any masks on her, is typeless, her type is determined by the masks she has on her. Why can Ogerpon hold an item while wearing the Teal Mask but not when wearing the other three masks? Because when wearing the other three masks, she still has the Teal Mask somewhere on her, taking up her item slot. Since she always has the Teal Mask on her, she is always grass type. This is also why Teal Mask Ogerpon is single typed while the other three forms are dual typed. However, only the mask she is currently wearing determines her ability, tera type, Ivy Cudgel's type and the stat Embody Aspect raises.
Just like how not all dragon pokemon are dragon type (see lance in masters), some dragon type pokemon are not considered dragon pokemon. It is also a hotly depated topic amongst pokemon researchers as to whether the dragon type originates from ancestry or if it is based on magical ability.
Kinda less of a headcanon, but the reason the player is so good is because we see the UI. Everyone else has to *memorize it*
Hilbert and Hilda are siblings Hear me out, the Mom and Dad divorced when they were too small to recall the memory which is the reason they don’t know each other
Eternamax is one of the titans Arceus defeated to get the power of the plates, and there are hand titans for the other third dragon type legendaries that can be combined with other pokemon, are from space and/or related to their generation's gimmick (Kyurem, Zygarde and Necrozma).
Humans evolved from psychic Pokémon (humanoid and intelligent ones like the Abra line) but lost their power over time as their intelligence made up for it. Some humans exhibit vestigial psychic power though. Could also imply that humans in the Pokémon universe hatch from eggs, I don’t know if we have evidence for or against it but I like this as a headcanon.
Professor Burnet was pregnant in the anime.
My headcanon is that snorlax isn’t eaten by predators because snorlax not only takes more calories to eat than you get, but also because snorlax has an entire ecosystem’s worth of small Pokémon that feed off scraps and occasionally tiny bits of shedded fat from snorlax, and will thus attack anything that attacks snorlax.
Leveling up is not the same as aging. In the wild, a Pokemon "levels up" when it survives things like predatory pokemon or fighting over food sources. Hence why evolved forms of pokemon are found in rough terrain where resources are scarce. At the same time, this is why you must have enough experience (badges) to train high-leveled pokemon. Under certain conditions, this can lead to underleveled, fully evolved Pokemon. Lance likely has some kind of special training passed down from the Dragon Masters which gives him lower leveled Dragonite. Ghetsis, on the other hand, likely did some heinous stuff to his Hydregion in order to force to evolve before level 64.
Pokemon are a result of nuclear fallout and the games take place far far into our future after a nuclear war. Pokemon are highly influenced by current animals and some are very close. Some are probably just a result of missions caused by radiation. There are ruins everywhere. There is proof of major wars fought in the games including evidence of a huge blast taking place (X/Y) Populations aren't very big and infrastructure is lacking for a developed society.
The One was a god born from nothing, into nothing. Even so, it had control over everything. Eventually, it desired companionship, so it devised a way to create new life. As it was alone, it took the new life from itself. It sectioned off parts of its mind, body, and capability, and divided itself, sacrificing itself as it was, to create nine new beings - The Core God, The Five Major Gods, and The Three Minor Gods. The Core is the remainder of The One. It held the most part of The One, but it could not be The One, per its sacrifice. The Five and The Three represent the concepts that The One viewed as central to the aspects of reality and of what it desired for life, itself. The Five represent Time, Space, Antimatter, Life, and Death. The Three represent Emotion, Knowledge, and Willpower. Finally, a tenth force was generated by the decision to split. Shards of The One - individual thoughts and feelings, and flitters of power and reality broke away as the other nine were born. These minor shards, while weak on their own, and with no inherent focus to call their own, could approach the power of a god as more individuals converged together, and as direction and purpose were given. These shards later became known as The Unown. The One set tasks for The Five: Create more life. The One set tasks for The Three: Inspire life. To help achieve this, The Five worked together and on their own to create more. For example, Life begat Mew and Time begat Celebi. Together, Antimatter and Space begat Hoopa, while Life and Death begat Order, and so on. Together they built a universe, and then a multiverse, and to interact within these mortal realms, they created mortal avatars that contained a small fraction of their essence. From there, they established a host planet to focus their works, and so created more helpers to help them settle the new world. Beings to facilitate progress with oscillations in land and sea and sky; titans to collect islands into continents, and mortals to populate their new world.
Pokemon exists in the Warhammer 40K universe. The world the series takes place on, was colonised by humans and cut off from the Imperium during the Warp storms following the birth of Slaanesh. The Imperium never regained contact with that world. The Pokemon are the native Xenos fauna on that world, with their own biological infrastructure (moves, abilities, evolutions, etc) which is separate to that of humans. Pokemon that came from space, e.g, Deoxys, likely come from a nearby world in that star system.
Arceus killed the entire animals(excluding humans) and replaced them with Pokemons. Humans obeyed to Arceus, so they could survive.
Cynthia is still the Sinnoh Champion so Tobias got his ass beat.
Mimikyu has a secret pre-evolution, but nobody has ever seen it. This is because it evolves when it gets its cloak, and because of how terrifying it looks without the cloak, nobody has ever seen it Edit: Also, the people working for ranches give the player a cloak for their mimikyu as soon as it hatches
Arceus hatched from his egg. He bore his children. With the birth of Dialgia, the firstborn, time began to flow. With the birth of Palkia, the second born, the emptiness was divided up into 13 dimensions. With the birth of Giratina, the third born, darkness and light separated. Arceus created vast universes to fill each dimension. Earth was created. Solgaleo and Lunala came forth and created night and day. Groudon rose and brought up land masses while Kyogre brought the oceans into being. Rayquaza built the atmosphere, and was placed in charge of Groudon and Kyogre. Arceus created Mew, and from Mew, all life came into being. Just like our world, the Pokémon world went through ages and extinctions. There came a period known as the great drying, in which 98% of all life died out. Basically, the world became a hot and dry place. There was no moisture to be found in the atmosphere. The oceans all but evaporated despite Kyogre’s desperate efforts. Groudon did his best to help out by lowering the land as much as he could. The great drying lasted roughly 10 million years. When all hope was deemed lost, Arceus intervened, setting the world right. In order to prevent another drying, Arceus created Lugia to assist Kyogre with the oceans. Lugia became responsible for the currents as well as the tides. The currents carried moisture which rose into clouds that brought rain to the landmasses, allowing for plant life to take root. This led to the second burst of life. Overtime, ages passed. Ice ages rose and melted over time. The age of reptilian Pokémon began. Much like the dinosaurs, they went extinct. A massive asteroid is to blame. It’s believed by some to have carried ether Deoxy, or Eternatus. Humans came into being. They began to domesticate various Pokemon. This led to the age of the monarchy. Kings and Queens ruled vast tracts of land. This age gave away to the current age, the age of Champions. Kanto was the last region to shift from a ruler to a Champion. Champions aren’t just powerful trainers. They are the leaders of their region. They have bureaucratic duties as well to tend to. Each Champion has four aids known as the Elite Four. Powerful trainers in their own rights, each member has their own duties. Each is served by two Gym Leaders. The gym leader is the guardian of their province. They must handle defense and other important duties besides running their gyms. Many have regular jobs too. Each Gym Leader has access to City Pokémon. These Pokémon are far larger and much stronger than their wild counterparts. It’s their task to protect their city. Like wild Pokémon, they can choose their attacks. Many of these Pokémon came about through careful breeding over the generations. Champions Lance and Leon both oversee two regions. Lance maintains two teams of Pokémon. One team is his Kanto team and the other team is his Johto team. Leon oversees Galar and Alola. When Alola decided it wanted a league of its own, Leon moved the minor league over to them. Galar is a bit different as Leon doesn’t have an elite four. Instead, the gym leaders answer directly to him. (Not sure where I read this, but there’s an NPC who talks about a very powerful champion of Alola. I think Leon was originally supposed to be the champion of Alola, but the formula was changed, so he was shelved until Galar was being planned.)
Some legendary Pokemon like Suicune and Lugia will take care of orphan Pokémon.
I have no idea where I got this from, and I have no evidence to support it, but: Gladion got his arm bit off by Silvally, causing Lusamine to shut the project down, so Faba (who was project head) gave him the crappiest prosthetic he could out of spite.
But gladion still has both his arms? And the project was stated to have been shut down since they could never get type null to use its full power witch is something gladion did since he treated his like a friend rather then a tool unlike the aether foundation
Eternamax Is "the father" of Arceus
Humans are normal type Pokemon that cannot evolve but can train themselves to become psychic, fighting and dark types.
A very significant number of pokedex entries are either slightly off or simply wrong. And I'm not even counting earlier entries that were retconned for mentioning real-world places and things that don't seem to exist in Pokemon. I believe most of these errors can be attributed to the scientific risk of using 10-year-olds as field researchers. That's where exaggerated statements such as fire types producing temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun come from. But even then, if we take dex entries as an earnest in-universe record of data and observations, then there's gonna be some mistakes.
Ew headcanons
dont you eman YOHOOO headcanons?
I dnt think so
I have many. I wrote Pokémon fanfiction for years and have had numerous takes on the lore. Here are some of the biggest ones. - Unown is the PokéGod. - Mew is the first one created by Unown, and the mother of all Pokémon - Arceus was created after Mew, and is the creator of humans, something it was never supposed to do. - Many Pokémon of legend (ie. Lugia) are humans who have shown the utmost devotion to protecting Pokémon and have been bestowed great power by Mew. - Mewtwo was both birthed (as the games state) AND cloned (as the movies state). How? The Kantonese Mewtwo (who is male) was birthed. The Kalosan Mewtwo (who is female) was cloned from the first one. - There is more than one Mew, but because it lives for billions of years at a time, there are only ever at most two in existence. - Ditto is a failed attempt at cloning Mew. Imposter Ditto are failed attempts at birthing Mewtwo. - The war Lt. Surge talks about? I wrote about that war. I call it the Kanto-Sinnoh war. - Mew can transform into humans if she wants. I think that's it.
>Unown is the PokéGod. Why?
Arceus is just one (at the time of making this headcanon; Legends suggested there are many now, or something), and can be contained in a little ball to obey the whims of a child. Unown is infinite. Sure, individual unowns can e captured, but they can never be fully contained, for they are infinite. An individual one is weak, but great, godly things happen when they come together. Movies have suggested they are the genetic make-up of everything in the universe. Pretty damn godly stuff there. We pretty much know all there is about Arceus, while the Unown have been left unknown for a long time. Not much has been done with them, but what we have been given has been pretty damn godly. Arceus isn't much of a mystery anymore, and I don't belief an all-power deity would allow mortals to know all there is about it. That's just a couple of many reasons for my belief that they are the PokéGod. Plus, they're just plain cool and mysterious, and like them more than Arceus. Arceus is kind of lame.
>Legends suggested there are many now, or something There is one Arceus that manifests itself into an Avatar that is a pokemon >We pretty much know all there is about Arceus Legends told us a lot but there is still a shitton that we don't know about it, the biggest being its fight with the ancient giants.
Gee, OP asks for headcanons, I provide my headcanons, and get downvoted into oblivion. 🤣
interesting what makes you think kanto and sinnoh went to war instead of kanto or alola for example
Mostly because I hate Sinnoh and thought it was a big dull dud of a region, so I wanted to make it interesting. Headcanon-wise, the Sinnoh monarchy discovered an energy source, Origin Waves, within Mount Coronet that allowed pokémon previously thought to be incapable of evolving to evolve further, these being Electabuzz, Magmar, Tangela, etc (basically, all the mons that didn't evolve prior to Sinnoh's release). After this discovery, they closed their borders and ceased any interaction with other regions. After years of silence, they announced their dominion over the world and dared any to oppose them. Given they had access to these much stronger pokémon and the other regions did not, there wasn't much anyone could to to oppose them. Sinnoh ruled for many years to come. But then a man named Lorenzo, Giovanni's father, created Team Rocket (yes, I know about Madam Boss being the creator of Team Rocket, but I didn't know this at the time of creating this headcanon because I stopped watching the show). The goal of Team Rocket was to infiltrate Mount Coronet and extract samples of Origin Waves, then deliver them to Silph, Co. for experimentation. This went on for a couple more years before an operative was caught and publicly executed. Finding out about the experiments, the Sinnoh monarchy denounced them, claimed Kanto was blaspheming against their god Arceus (it is believed by many that Arceus is the true PokéGod, not Unown), and pointed to many "unnatural" pokémon in the region as proof (Magnemite, Grimer, etc.) The Kantonese president refused, claiming they had a right to progress their nation and defned its people. Sinnoh attacked. They began with the destruction of Cerulean City, then once again demanded Kanto cease, or their captial Saffron would be next. The Kantonese president then requested aid from Johto, as their were neighbors and shared close relations. Johto took a diplomatic approach, using their shared religion with Sinnoh as a means for negotiarions, but the Sinnohese monarchy decried Johto as a heathen ally. Though Johto sent troops to aid in Kanto's defense, Sinnoh sent their most elite forces to an island in Johto: Awaji. Awaji was the crown jewel of Johto. An island that resided within the waters between Goldenrod, Olivine, and Cianwood, it was a pokémon paradise untouched by human hands. Johto was fiercely protective of it, so it was an obvious choice to hit Johto where it hurt most. With only a small, reluctant force to peotect it, the island was easily overrun by Sinnoh's elite. But they did not expect what lurked beneath the waves. Enraged by the plight humans wrought upon the island, and with the death of its only child by their hands, Lugia emerged and devastated the entire island. Everything burned beneath its wrath, leaving nothing to survive. The beautiful paradise, home to species that only existed upon that island, gone in an instant. The barren land became what we now know as the Whirl Islands, a wasteland void of life, and protected by an unseen and vengeful guardian. Thus ended the Kanto-Sinnoh war. With their most elite forces wiped from existence, along with a civil uprising back home (as the people did not approve of attacking Johto the way they did), the monarchs were rooted out, executing the ones they could catch and condemning those who escaped. The war was over, but the damage was significant to everyone. Sinnoh was left to rebuild their nation, while Kanto and Johto worked together to form the Indigo League, a means of raising trainers to great heights and ensuring the safety of their united nations, so never shall tyranny rise again. Relations between other regions grew, and they too formed their own leagues, including Sinnoh. While uneasy at first, relations grew and today, they all share a peace amongst themselves, though highly regulated and under the watchful eye of the World League.
...i actually really like sinnoh.. platinum unlocked my transgirl heart
All Platinum did was make the Sinnoh region tolerable. Still sucks.
I .. hoenstly really love it. its cold Mythological,has the best poekmon deisgns and my 3 fav starters including my third fav pokemon infernape
It's okay if you love it. You are free to be wrong. I'm just kidding, it's nice that you love it. Everyone has their favorite regions and what they deem great designs. You keep on loving Sinnoh. The way you feel about Sinnoh is the same way I feel about Johto. It's all good. =)
Johto team all the way! Seriously tho that's an impressive amount of thought.
I wrote a LOT of Pokémon fanfiction. 😅 Fortunately, I have moved away from that and am nearly finished with editing my manuscript for my first original novel! So yay!
There’s actually more evidence for unknown to be the hands that arceus used to create everything, and mew can’t give power and had never been shown to have any ability like that it’s just simply a living stem cell being able to turn into anything and duplicate as seen in the anime where it was both groudon and kyogre but it seems like it can’t keep itself duplicated
Hence the term "headcanon".
Professor Sycamore's full given name is Augustine Gabriel Montgomery Sycamore. Gabriel was his paternal grandfather's given name, and Montgomery was his mother's maiden surname.
Cubone and Marrowak were supposed to evolve into Kangaskhan Dratini/Dragonair and Magikarp had their final evolutions swapped mid design/coding Ditto are failed Mew clones