That was tested, and pretty much proven to be false. I think the current thought is tipping ups the chances of getting the good stuff out of Secret Super Training, such as evolution stones.
While I do not have an answer to what the dewford popular phrase has anything to do with feebas, the pokedex answers why feebas can only be found in certain areas:
Feebas is a hipster; what's mysterious about that?
Unfortunate side effect of making eggs hatch by footsteps. I guess they could make it that eggs hatch after a certain amount of time based on the DS/3DS clock...but imagine how much of a nightmare that would be for us who go through hundreds of eggs to get what we want!
That was a false rumor from people desperately trying to figure out what the point of tipping was. The answer is for nothing, just like giving money to Palutena or Viridi in Kid Icarus: Uprising. Well, you do get some medals in the Global Link depending on how much you tipped collectively, but that's it.
Social experiment might be an interesting idea, since the biggest "non-choice" in the game is weather to push a red or blue button and release Team Flare's ancient super-weapon. An interesting thought is that since whatever you choose gets overwritten by Xerosic anyway, the safest choice for Kalos is to walk away and never return.
And who's to say Xerosic wouldn't just activate it even then? You're pretty much doomed no matter what, so may as well choose one for giggles then go kick some more Team Flare ass just as the game intends.
I picked the blue button because:
Must be one somewhat tall Fairytale Girl, just the game for whatever reason shows them all exactly the same size. That, or Emma's one hell of a physically insensitive young woman to not feel her EVERYTHING be crushed and stretched to fit trainer classes taller or shorter than her...
Yeah but with Pokemon you're turning them into pure energy which is how you're able to store them into Pokeballs. After you finish the Looker missions you're able to re-battle Emma in her Expansion Suit and you can perfectly see her face behind the mask, so she hasn't been turned to energy like a Pokemon would.
It could be a compression field, like the Slitheen used in Doctor Who. Also could be a purely cosmetic, holographic disguise (it's not like we ever actually touch her or anything).
I'd say they eat the Liechi Berries in that tree(it also sort of explains why there's only one), and maybe the tall grass or flowers. As for the repopulation, I'd say some of them evolve naturally, by battling each other, and since Wobbuffet can breed(don't ask me how), they can get a Wynaut egg;)
Wynaut can't breed due to being a baby Pokemon, so someone had left a Wobbuffet with Lax Incense in the daycare with something else. You can catch wild baby Pokemon in several places throughout the generations, though Mirage Island is the only place you find wild Wynaut. Mirage Island has one other feature to it - you can obtain a Liechi Berry here, which really shouldn't be replanted in the same spot you picked it from as you're probably never going to be back there. (unless the clock stopping keeps the island visible if it would have been at the time, but it's still better to plant it someplace more convenient to reach like the Berry Master's garden)
It's a pretty tall island, so it's not too Farfetch'd
Well it's the only location you can get a Liechi Berry in the Hoenn games (though not for all of Gen III as the Pokewalker could very rarely get you one). To me as long as a location provides something that no other place has that's purpose enough itself for the place to exist, especially if the item is very useful like the Liechi Berry is. You can ask the same "why is it there?" question for the Scorched Slab which only houses the TM for Sunny Day. There's nothing else there, so why is it there? Because it has the TM for Sunny Day, that's its reason for being there (it's also a reference to the Japanese legend of Amaterasu (stories people may know a bit about from the game Okami), but as far as I know Mirage Island doesn't have any legends connected to it). As for all the Wynaut, maybe them being there is a joke on it's name? In Japan it's name translate to "Really?/Is that so?" which I suppose you could take it as them questioning the island's existence.
Actually Pokemon caught/hatched on Mirage Island would say they were caught/hatched on Route 130.
Anyway though, I think that this is just to avoid having pokemon that are too similar( having pokemon that are more unique) if we are thinking about it from gamefreak's perspective. If we are talking about pokemon universe logic, it makes absolutely no sense. The same goes for the opposite; like how can spheal know fissure and why can manectric know flamethrower despite not being fire type?Pikachu315111 said:
Well if we're going to bring that up you might as well ask why not a whole evolutionary family appears in one place that a single of their evolution appears. As long as it's not a secluded place like an island I can sort of see a baby Pokemon running around on its own in the early routes.
Perhaps it has flammable gas that it ignites in its mouth via all that electricity its body builds up? Some of these things can also attribute to the Pokemon's basis or established lore. And some may have more to do with their evolved forms. Spheal may seem odd to be able to use Fissure, but Walrein breaks ice flows with ease using its huge tusks. Xerneas would probably be extremely awkward trying to play roughly being the huge deer with the enormous antlers it is, but those antlers are perfect for launching a Megahorn or Night Slash. Though what would possess a Munchlax/Snorlax to want to blow itself up via Self-Destruct?
Rhydon/Rhyperior is just that bad ass. It doesn't like being attacked with the stuff, but MAN can it catch some serious waves! (even though they'll barely tickle anything 4X weak to Water with such a pitiful Sp. Atk stat) Honestly I was a bit upset that HG/SS replaced the Dance Theater owner's (the guy who gives you Surf) Rhydon with Psyduck...
Well, some people age really slowly. My sister is 30 but looks exactly as she did at 16.And the mysteries keep coming:
Pokemon World Tournament. A fun little extra where we battled the Gym Leaders and Champions throughout the generations. Now I know what you think I'm going to complain about. "Where are the Elite Four"? Actually I'm not as I already head a pretty good excuse for them not being there, with the Gym Leaders and Champion visiting Unova they need someone to be running the Pokemon League (with that said, being I consider the PWT non-canon, I see no reason why they couldn't be in there as well as the Frontier Brians). No, instead my question concerns whether the PWT is canon and I have one reason why I don't think it is: None of the characters have aged.
As far as the Pokemon timeline goes, it goes Kanto/Hoenn >3 years> Johto/Sinnoh >?> BW Unova >2 years> BW2 Unova. Now I personally think that at least 5 years took place between the events in Sinnoh and BW Unova because Caitlin is part of the Unova Elite Four and we clearly see she's grown up since the last time we saw her in Platinum/HGSS acting as co-Frontier Brain of the Battle Castle:
(I chose this image as I think the artist did a good job showing the age difference between the two)
Now I would argue she grew up more than 5 years, but for simplicity sake we'll say 5. So that means the Gym Leaders/Champions we saw in Hoenn should have aged by 10 years & the Gym Leaders/Champion we saw in HGSS (Johto & Kanto) and Sinnoh should have aged by 7 years.
Now, excusing the adult Gym Leaders/Champions as once you're fully mature you don't really visually age that much unless you start reaching middle/old age, the kid/teen Gym Leaders/Champions have no excuse why they didn't age at all. Brock, Misty, Janine, Blue, Red, Falkner, Bugsy, Whitney, Jasmine(?), Roxanne(?), Flannery(?), Tate, Liza, Maylene, and Candice should now be adults/older teens. Now obviously they look the same due to recycling the sprites/fan service, but because of that wouldn't that mean the PWT is non-canon?
Also its interesting how things can change so much in 2 or 3 years (or versions as with the case of Hoenn) with there being new Gym Leaders and Champions in a region yet according to the PWT Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh haven't changed a bit since the last time we saw them.
And of course there's GIOVANNI participating even though he was known to be the leader of Team Rocket (kind of dissapointed they never had Giovanni talked with the ex-Rocket grunt now thinking about it, of course that would mean the PWT was canon). In addition Giovanni acts as if he never went through any of his character development.
So was the PWT suppose to canon or just a fun extra fanservice to players? The oddest thing about PWT is that at least two of the Gym Leaders is seen outside it: Sabrina has a starring role in PokeStar Studios (and she actually looks older when she's in her costume) and Crasher Wake is on Route 18 (and he does mention the PWT there). Are those two roles there also non-canon? Or were those two the only actually foreign Gym Leaders to be in Unova?
