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Pokemon that I don't understand.

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Highschool_Her0

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I realize that when you're talking about Pokemon, logic doesn't exactly come into play...

BUT!!!

There's a few Pokemon that, to me, don't make very much sense.

Slowbro/Slowking: According to the Pokedex... Slowbro/Slowking are just Slowpokes with a Cloysters attatched to them. If that's the case, I wouldn't really classify it as an "evolution" or even a new Pokemon. It's just two creatures that have formed a symbiotic relationship. The real-life version of Remoraid attaches itself to the bottom of a shark and eats the shark's leftovers, right? Well, when the shark and the fish-thing are attatched, they're not considered a new species, they're just a fish and a shark. So I don't get why Slowpoke + Cloyster = OMG NEW POKEMON.

Magneton: Same thing. It's just three magnemites working together. That's a symbiotic relationship.

Dugtrio: Same thing.

That's about all I can think of at the moment. If someone could please make up a valid excuse for these Pokemon, that'd be GREAT.

Also, feel free to add to the list.
 
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Kaim_Fabuyashi

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slobro/slowking: the shellder changes form when this happens, this also makes the slopoke able to stand on hindlegs giving new abilities and powers hence ecolution, and with slowking if you read a dex entry the toxins that now get injected into its head maki it smart being able to talk and like slobro gving it inhanced powers and able to stand on 2 feet
 
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~*Mudkip Fantastic*~

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Silcoon, Cascoon, Metapod and Kakuna. I don't understand these. They aren't real Pokemon. Just Caterpie/Weedle/Wurmple incased in a shell. Then they evolve straight to their final form.
 
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Psydaquil

Psyduck + Cyndaquil
Yeah I thought about this same thing often before also.
 
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Kaim_Fabuyashi

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~*Mudkip Fantastic*~ said:
Silcoon, Cascoon, Metapod and Kakuna. I don't understand these. They aren't real Pokemon. Just Caterpie/Weedle/Wurmple incased in a shell. Then they evolve straight to their final form.
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They are real pokemon, their appearence changes and they are in another life stage as they would say with catterpillars.
 
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Highschool_Her0

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Ok, so let's say that a Hitmonchan gets it's arm swallowed by a Snorlax. So now the Hitmonchan has a Snorlax for an arm, preventing it from being able to punch with that arm.

Does that make it a new pokemon?

That's basically what happens with Slowbro, which is why it doesn't make too much sense to me.

I can let the cacoon pokemon slide, though I see where you anti-cacoon people are coming from.
 
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wcgold

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Slowbro/Slowking: Chemical reaction to Shellder's saliva?

Dugtrio: Although they are three separate beings, they did come from one body, and they have the exact same thoughts. Pokédex said so.
 
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While I do agree that the idea behind these pokémon is rather silly to begin with, Slowbro at least does go through some physical changes, despite being very minor ones. It's bipedal, has one or two extra claws on it's 'hands' and feet, and gains a scaly underbelly. And when all is said and done, that's not too different from Pidgeotto just getting a longer head-crest, or Chansey growing a bunch of frilly curls.
 
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shooting star

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Highschool_Her0 said:
Ok, so let's say that a Hitmonchan gets it's arm swallowed by a Snorlax. So now the Hitmonchan has a Snorlax for an arm, preventing it from being able to punch with that arm.

Does that make it a new pokemon?

That's basically what happens with Slowbro, which is why it doesn't make too much sense to me.

I can let the cacoon pokemon slide, though I see where you anti-cacoon people are coming from.
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Hitmarlax used heavy punch! Yay! I agree with kaim_fabuyashis post.
 
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Watergod

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The Pokedex isn't really that accurate now, is it? It does say some ridicuous things, so I'm saying that the Pokedex is just wrong in most of these cases.
 
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Alkaide

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The Pokedex isn't really that accurate now, is it? It does say some ridicuous things, so I'm saying that the Pokedex is just wrong in most of these cases.
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I agree with you. Slowbro doesn't even evolve that way in the games! But there a lot of pokedex entries that make no sense.
 
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Haha! Nice!

Ok, Dugtrio passes. If it's a Dodrio-type thing, then that doesn't bother me.

Regarding the cacoons: In the games, I think they're just fine. Metapod becomes all shiney and white and morphs into Butterfree. Makes sense. However, in the anime, Butterfree EMERGES from a Metapod, as if it were merely a SHELL. Well, if it's just a SHELL, it shouldn't have eyes or a voice or tackle stuff, now should it. Then again, it IS the anime were talking about... ::shudders::

I'm still really iffy on this Slowbro thing. If he was to just, GROW a shell, claws, and scales, and then stand-up on two legs, I'd be fine.

What if the the Slowbro's tail is cut off? I think that in G/S/C we found out that Slowpoke's can re-grow their tails. So let's say a Slowbro's tail is cut off, and then it grows a new tail. Then what? Does it change back into a Slowpoke, since the toxin's are no longer being injected into it's body, or does it become a WHOLE NEW DIFFERENT POKEMON!

And what of the shell? Is it just a Slowbro-tail? Or is it a Cloyster again? Or is it a WHOLE NEW DIFFERENT POKEMON?

And since when is Cloyster poison type? I don't remember it even having any poison-ISH moves. So where are these toxin's coming from?
 
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Validus

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I love the idea of Slowpoke Evolution according to the pokedex, the only real downside is that how when you train one it'll still evolve without a shellder in your team... which is Good! as far as gameplay goes, but it does go against the dex. The only one the really bothers me it mantine. it does not need a random remoraid under it. it's a good idea to link them by the Pokedex, but Not in the sprite.

Edit: oh and Highschool her0, just a reminder it's Shellder that does the evo, not Cloyster. but as for as the poison goes you have a good point. Perhaps it serves some purpose in the shellder, like part of digesting food. It's there but it does get used outside it's body. kinda like us! we have Acid in our stomach, but you won't see me spilting it out.... (well unless i've had a few too many beer... but thats a differant story)
 
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TogeticTheRuler

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Imagine if they make the shell actually a new pokemon if its taken off somehow(if it doesnt turn back)
I think in the games,they made it evolve without shellder cuz if you evolved slowpoke in a way like having shellder use clamp on slowpoke and after the battle,it evolves,cuz what about the opponent?He would lost his shellder cuz its stuck to you slowbro!now you wouldnt want that would you
 
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Highschool_Her0

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Well yeah, that WOULD suck. I'm glad they made the Slowpoke evolutionary process NOT require the loss of a shellder.

I'm just saying. It'd make a lot MORE sense if it just didn't involve a shellder at all.

And, just to add something that'll get us away from the topic of Slowbro:

I think Hitmonchan, an exclusively MALE pokemon, looks like a girl. It looks like he's wearing a skirt. I've always thought, since I first picked it up from the little dojo in Saffron City back in the R/B/Y days, that it was a girl. Cuz it appears as though he's wearing a purple skirt. But it's a boy. Always a boy. It's impossible for it to have girly parts. Even though he's wearing a skirt. I don't understand that.

I hope he's at LEAST wearing underwear.

Fire at will! :p
 
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