magically teleporting balls

[sam_h12]

so, whats the deal with the pokeballs teleporting when 6 pokemon are already present? theonly time we saw this was when ash caught Krabby...
in Johto, Ash kept coincidentally dropping Pokeon at Oaks to make room for another one before he actually caught it, so what are the writers afraid of?

so, whats the deal? why are the writers afraid to do it again?

 

[foxkitty]

Well, you know in the games that when we have 6 pokemon in our party the balls go to our box. In the show I think its because that each trainer in the show has 6 or less. Every one has 6 pokeballs no more no less. Meaning that they can't caught another one.
So Ash keept dropping off pokeballs at the lab so he could get another pokeball or great ball or any other ball (not master ball) so he can be set If he finds a pokemon that he wants to have.
Their araid of having them have 6 pokeballs and one of them wanting a wild pokemon and they remeber they don't have any empty pokeballs.

 

[Seijiro Mafuné]

Pokéballs.

They haven't portrayed anything different after Totodile (if I'm sure), so I doubt they'd show Greatballs or Ultraballs (especially since, I dunno, they never portrayed Ash buying them...).

 

[octoboy]

Well, you know in the games that when we have 6 pokemon in our party the balls go to our box. In the show I think its because that each trainer in the show has 6 or less. Every one has 6 pokeballs no more no less. Meaning that they can't caught another one.
So Ash keept dropping off pokeballs at the lab so he could get another pokeball or great ball or any other ball (not master ball) so he can be set If he finds a pokemon that he wants to have.
Their araid of having them have 6 pokeballs and one of them wanting a wild pokemon and they remeber they don't have any empty pokeballs.

Then why did that work with Krabby?

 

[Seijiro Mafuné]

Because they actually cared about the games/animé back then. [/sarcasm]

Seriously, though, they probably just didn't want to bother with that anymore... just like they don't bother with the evolving.

 

[CyberCubed]

I consider the transporting Krabby Pokeball to be another 1st season screw up. The writers were following the games strictly at that point, and haven't evolved the show into the way the anime does it yet.

Notice how we've never seen another teleporting Pokeball upon 7th capture again?

 

[Jesse GS the II]

It's probably the fact that a Poké Ball being suddenly teleported thousands of miles away from anywhere is the show's most illogical device. But then again, anyone who's read my sig knows where I stand on this show's logic.

 

[Heracross]

I consider the transporting Krabby Pokeball to be another 1st season screw up. The writers were following the games strictly at that point, and haven't evolved the show into the way the anime does it yet.

Notice how we've never seen another teleporting Pokeball upon 7th capture again?

We've never had the opportunity to either, they always simply avoid it altogether.

 

[Geki]

It's a simple answer. Trainers are only allowed to travel with a party of six Pokemon at a time, the rest go to your PC. In the anime, the rest of your Pokemon go to whoever gave you your first Pokemon, at least that's what it said in the Krabby episode.

 

[Alfonso]

It's a simple answer. Trainers are only allowed to travel with a party of six Pokemon at a time, the rest go to your PC. In the anime, the rest of your Pokemon go to whoever gave you your first Pokemon, at least that's what it said in the Krabby episode.

I'm sure he knows that, he's wondering about the logic of it all. For example, how does the system over at Professor Oak's lab know that Ash has caught a 7th Pokemon? Things like that.

 

[Seijiro Mafuné]

He's actually wondering why that isn't even appearing in the animé after Ash caught Krabby.

 

[PDL]

it would also be terribly unfair to the new pokemon that has just been captured.

Ever notice how whenever a new pokemon joined the team's roster, it gets a few episodes of character development participates in gym/contests and gets the spotlight for a little while? well, if there was now a capture where a pokemon gets transported thousands of miles away from the main group, it would completely miss out on any sort of character development aside from it's capture. In order for it to actually accomplish anything in the show, the main group would have to travel all the way back to where it is, be it Pallet town, Pewter, Cerulean, or Petalburg City. It would be completely pointless just to have a seventh capture in the first place if they're just going to shove it aside and leave it to rot.

 

[ハルカ and ゴンベ]

Ok, This makes me think...What ever happened to the "little white button" on the pokedex?

 

[AbsoluTotodile]

To further PDL's point, the Pokémon are usually caught to be used in the series at some point. Its probably just too hard to have the 7th Pokémon be transported to Oak's lab and then go through the explanation that Ash swapped them over every time. If they give Ash an empty slot they dont need to do that when he captures a Pokémon.

 

[Judai Yuki]

Ok, This makes me think...What ever happened to the "little white button" on the pokedex?

It got redisigned and lost in the process.

 

[Freedom]

did the transporting thing happen to ash's muk as well?

 

[AbsoluTotodile]

did the transporting thing happen to ash's muk as well?

Nah I think it stayed in Ash's team but at the end of the episode he sent it to Professor Oak cause it stunk through the Pokeball.

 

[Evil Munchlax]

Well, you know in the games that when we have 6 pokemon in our party the balls go to our box. In the show I think its because that each trainer in the show has 6 or less. Every one has 6 pokeballs no more no less. Meaning that they can't caught another one.
So Ash keept dropping off pokeballs at the lab so he could get another pokeball or great ball or any other ball (not master ball) so he can be set If he finds a pokemon that he wants to have.
Their araid of having them have 6 pokeballs and one of them wanting a wild pokemon and they remeber they don't have any empty pokeballs.

But in Johto he had more than 6 pokemon on his team:bulbasoar,squirtle,chickarita,pikachu,cyndaquil,totadile,noctowl and,herrecross.Thats 8 pokemon on his team.

 

[sdp]

well i have not seen a lot of Johto or later Kanto but i don't think its a 1st season screw up, has Ash ever actually caught a Pokemon he was going to keep that was not transported?

It also makes some sense in the Anime, if you're an official Pokemon Trainer you get a Pokedex, and if you're an official trainer you can only carry 6 as per the rules, any more get transported (the same way they do in the Pokemon Centers) to whoever gave you your trainer license. The Pokedex would know just the way it does on the games..

 

[ArrEmmDee]

I think the original point Ash went over 6 Pokémon in season one is because he was trying, albeit in an uber-futile manner, to catch up to Gary's capture number, which was an underlying plot idea emphasized in season one with Prof. Oak asking Ash why he had so few Pokemon, the original Catch 'Em All marketing motivation for the show and whatnot-- if they had to do it again, I'm sure Ash would've deposited someone before catching Krabby, and Muk.