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Things in the Pokémon world which just don't make sense (by pokémon standards)
- Thread starter Doomsdaytreecko
- Start date
A pokemon that's asleep is like a stationary target. Poor aim can lead to the sleeping pokemon avoiding an attack. It's like when someone is trying to shoot a target with an arrow, sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.
SlowPokeBroKing
Future Gym Leader
I can agree with that logic.
My only problem with Sleep is that Pokemon don't wake up when hit by an attack or stay asleep for a ridiculous number of turns if kept in its pokeball. Personally, I don't believe Sleep should be the same type of status as Paralysis and Burn but rather in the same category with Confusion. It would just make more sense to me.
Vern
Why not both?
But if someone had used minimize and fallen asleep, they could still dodge a 100% accuracy move.
Blaze The Movie Fan
Reviewer and PokéFan
It's not? I really thought it was.
Akashin
Well-Known Member
I'm not quite getting what's weird about that. You can fail to hit a stationary target, and Minimize makes that stationary target smaller and harder to hit. Simple as that.
With that said, Pokemon retaining evasiveness granted by Double Team while asleep doesn't make sense, seeing as it relies upon rapid movement to create copies of itself. But that's gameplay mechanics for you.
The Pokemon Broadcast
Snafu
I'm still at a loss at how badge names like the Cobal badge and the Fen badge have to do with a fighting (Cobal badge) and water gym (Fen badge).
What do these two words have to do with their gym type?
What do these two words have to do with their gym type?
Blaze The Movie Fan
Reviewer and PokéFan
I know I just find it incredibly odd.
Akashin
Well-Known Member
I've always thought the Cobble Badge was meant to be derived from cobblestone (which the appearance of the badge sort of reflects, to me), though what in particular that has to do with a Fighting Gym I'm not sure.
The Fen Badge is more obvious. A fen is a type of wetland which, coupled with Pastoria's proximity to the Great Marsh, makes the naming make perfect sense.
MetalFlygon08
Haters Gonna Hate
I figured Cobble was an intentional mispronunciation of clobber.
Chibi_Muffin
Smart Cookie
Well, cobblestones are like bricks. Smashing bricks is a way of showing off karate...
(Now, in my opinion, the Marsh and Soul badges should swap names, since the former is used for a Psychic gym and the latter Poison for some reason...)
(Now, in my opinion, the Marsh and Soul badges should swap names, since the former is used for a Psychic gym and the latter Poison for some reason...)
Captain Jigglypuff
*On Vacation. Go Away!*
I have always thought the same thing. Always confused me back in the RBY days exactly who gave WHICH Badge.
The Pokemon Broadcast
Snafu
The Fen Badge explanation I actually learned about (sort of) in a Dragonology book I'm reading right now, coincidentally.
Thanks!
XXD17
Draco rex
It's partially based on a koi windsock...
SlowPokeBroKing
Future Gym Leader
Because it's a spore move and not an offensive Poison attack.
Captain Jigglypuff
*On Vacation. Go Away!*
^Don't forget about Gurdurr and that heavy steel beam it carries!