Breloom looks like it's wearing a frog costume.
To me, at least.
To me, at least.
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SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon
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Often I see people nickname their shroomishes on showdown as 'goomba' so the above theory could be true
Although I'm sure many people do name their shroomish goomba, between the facts that shroomish dosent really resemble goomba at all and that I would be extremely surprised if Pokemon based something off a Mario character, I think that the theory has basically no chance of being true. It's entirely possible that shroomish is just based off... a mushroom.
To be fair, this won't be the only time they based a Pokemon off another video game character. Of course their other example (Rotom) is from their other IPs (Pulseman) (Also, where's my Drill Dozer Pokemon?!)
Eh, sure it's a drill Pokemon but it's not a drill TANK Pokemon. Also the colors don't match it at all.
Well, we could have got a tank and we could have at least got each half separately, but then the final version of Hydreigon happened.
That being said, I'm curious as to how it could have been like. Same with the likes of pure-Water Jellicent.
Read the dex description again
dex description and appearance are different things
I dunno, if I saw a Jellicent haunting my bathtub I'd be terrified.
Male Jellicent looks like the mascot of Farmacias Similares, a chain of pharmacies that sell generics, I would honestly laugh my arse if given that said mascot is commonly seen outside shaking it's booty to pop, dubstep and reggaeton outside of those pharmacies.
Killing any Sun/Moon theories. Take it to the Sun/Moon thread if it's still open, or table it until the game comes out.
I'm chomping at the bit to discuss this too, but it's not fair to the Smogon members that don't want to be spoiled on the new game to have this multi-thread bleeding going on.
I'm chomping at the bit to discuss this too, but it's not fair to the Smogon members that don't want to be spoiled on the new game to have this multi-thread bleeding going on.
Come on guys, what did I just say?!
Ugh, let's get a legit mystery in here for the thread piranhas to chew on. Ooh, here's a good one:
There are a lot of object based pokemon. While the general conensus is that object based pokemon were first and that humans in the pokemon world simply got their inspiration and copied pokemon to make stuff like chandeliers, gear boxes, swords, ice cream etc. However, as more and more object pokemon are revealed, its become more likely that at least some of these pokemon evolved to match human inventions, not the other way around. So there are likely some new pokemon that came on the scene after human civilization developed.
So this raises two questions:
1. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Was Voltorb here first, or did Voltorb evolve to look like a trap? How about other pokemon with human inspirations? Note that this probably won't be the same answer for every pokemon.
2. If some pokemon did evolve recently (historically speaking) to match human inventions, how fast is pokemon evolution? To clarify, I mean the scientific term for species evolution, not the pokemon kind (which would technically be metamorphosis). Prehistoric pokemon prove that true evolution has to be happening in the pokemon world, at least in some form. Other questions could be what are the motiviating factors and exactly why fossil pokemon no longer exist in the wild (beyond de-fossilizing and breeding them).
Discuss but PLEASE don't mention Sun & Moon!
Ugh, let's get a legit mystery in here for the thread piranhas to chew on. Ooh, here's a good one:
There are a lot of object based pokemon. While the general conensus is that object based pokemon were first and that humans in the pokemon world simply got their inspiration and copied pokemon to make stuff like chandeliers, gear boxes, swords, ice cream etc. However, as more and more object pokemon are revealed, its become more likely that at least some of these pokemon evolved to match human inventions, not the other way around. So there are likely some new pokemon that came on the scene after human civilization developed.
So this raises two questions:
1. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Was Voltorb here first, or did Voltorb evolve to look like a trap? How about other pokemon with human inspirations? Note that this probably won't be the same answer for every pokemon.
2. If some pokemon did evolve recently (historically speaking) to match human inventions, how fast is pokemon evolution? To clarify, I mean the scientific term for species evolution, not the pokemon kind (which would technically be metamorphosis). Prehistoric pokemon prove that true evolution has to be happening in the pokemon world, at least in some form. Other questions could be what are the motiviating factors and exactly why fossil pokemon no longer exist in the wild (beyond de-fossilizing and breeding them).
Discuss but PLEASE don't mention Sun & Moon!
Voltorb is said to have been seen first in a Poké Ball manufacturing building, so it may be a living Poké Ball. In most other cases, we should expect the opposite - that humans invented those items by being inspired on Pokemon. Such as balloons being invented when someone noticed how much fun children had while carrying Drifloons.
While being far less dangerous. Since wild Drifloons want to drag said kids to hell, and only can't because they can't carry that sort of weight.
I think that Drifloon/blim probably evolved to imitate balloons. The ones that vaguely looked like them attracted attention and they turned the kids into easy meals... Yeah it's pretty dark, but so are the pokedex entries. Maybe ghosts just feed off of life energy without shortening it like how humans and plants support eachother by exchanging carbon dioxide and oxygen. That would make it a little more kid friendly. It'd also be make a pretty cool companionship/symbiotic relationship. A Gengar could feed off of its owner's energy while providing protection from disease carrying Pokemon/animals. (Of course Chandelure's Pokedex entries are strong evidence against this, so what do I know?)
For the first question, I definitely agree that probably most "object" Pokemon were first. Things like Vanillite, Klink, and Drifloon likely inspired human creatinos. Honedge I'm not sure about - it could've inspired swords or, if we take its life-sucking properties mentioned by the Pokedex to be truth and not myths, it could've evolved to trick people and drain them of some energy as a food source.
Object Pokemon that probably definitely came about after the rise of humanity include the Voltorb line, the Grimer line, and I think the Trubbish line too. Somehow, Voltorbs started showing up after the advent of Pokedball factories, and while Grimer probably wasn't brought to life by moonlight, in a meta sense it seems to be inspired by pollution, hinting that its origins are more artificial in origin. The same can be said of Trubbish, which appears to be trash given life. While Pokemon like Drifloon, Klink, and the Litwick line could conceivably have their reasons for evolving the way they did (air-based transportation, social interaction (my best guess for animals that evolve to fit with each other in vast constructions), and light to drive away dangerous darkness), Voltorb, Grimer, and Trubbish don't make much sense as natural developments, because their bodies are designed for a human-influenced world (blending in with Pokeballs, surviving in sludge or polluted water, and living off human trash).
This segues into question two: how can these Pokemon have developed so quickly after the development of human inventions or the rise of human waste? Clearly, Pokemon evolution is capable of being faster than that of the animals we are used to in real life. And yet fossil Pokemon existed millions of years ago, not thousands. So perhaps the rate of evolution in the world of Pokemon is inconstant (whether or not that makes sense). It is slow sometimes (like in the ancient past with fossil Pokemon being from millions of years prior) and fast sometimes (like in the present day with artificial Pokemon like Grimer arising).
Alternatively, perhaps Pokemon evolution only happens sometimes and often doesn't take place at all.
Perhaps Pokemon evolve in an overtly reactionary fashion more proactive than natural evolution in our world. IRL, evolution is the result of the survival of the fittest, but perhaps in the world of Pokemon, evolution is the act of a generation becoming more fit to survive. i.e., a Pokemon's body (being that of an elemental monster, not an animal) is able to give birth to a new species of Pokemon better suited to a suddenly changed environment (i.e. one with human pollution) without all that messy mutation business. The body just instinctively creates a new being capable of surviving a wasteland of sludge or a city street of garbage or an industrialized factory landscape. This way, the new generation is split into Pokemon A (the parent species of Pokemon) and Pokemon B (the brand new Pokemon); A exists in the old habitat that has grown smaller due to whatever cataclysm occurred (mass extinction event or human development) and B exists in the new habitat that has been created by the cataclysm, increasing the chances of survival for the entire generation of Pokemon. This way, the A species isn't forced to compete for resources in the shrunken habitat but instead is split into two species that can coexist by virtue of relying on different habitats and needs.
This does leave us with the unpleasant image of something like a Ponyta giving birth to a Grimer, but given how Pokemon breeding works, I don't think it's so Farfetch'd. Perhaps this is the very reason Pokemon breeding can be so unusual sometimes!
In Pokemon D/P/Pl, where is the kitchen gone in the Seven Stars restaurant?
In Pokemon D/P/Pl, where is the kitchen gone in the Seven Stars restaurant?
Clearly the Butler is a Hoopa.
Better yet, where's the food? And what happens if I have a party of three?
No triple battles, sorry :P
Another mystery in that area that needs to be answered:
Here is a map of Valor Lakefront. The most southernly building is the hotel;
If you look, the hotel seems to have a second floor with a balcony...
I cannot post it here because the formats won't let me but the hotel doesn't have a set of stairs leading up to that next floor! Why was GF so lazy with the seven stars restaurant and hotel?
Here is a map of Valor Lakefront. The most southernly building is the hotel;
If you look, the hotel seems to have a second floor with a balcony...
I cannot post it here because the formats won't let me but the hotel doesn't have a set of stairs leading up to that next floor! Why was GF so lazy with the seven stars restaurant and hotel?