I think they may technically not be Pokémon, for story purposes.
...but they might as well be, because I guess they'll be treated as such for all gameplay purposes.
I mean, I think they'll be catchable, have types, have abilities, and so on.
Why not? I don't really see what the problem with using them in battle would be.I honestly think that capturing UBs won't be like catching Pokèmon.
What if capturing them actualy means sealing them?
I mean, I can't see Nintendo allowing us to use these beasts as Pokèmon on our teams...
Why not? I don't really see what the problem with using them in battle would be.
I agree, if the Pokedex entries are to be taken at face value, and Arceus is the literal creator god of Pokeworld, then there is literally nothing that can't be a catchable pokemon.
But what if the ultra beasts are:
a) not created by Poke God
b) not Pokemon?
If we can capture Poke God, I see nothing wrong with capturing Poke Cthulhu *shrug* That's all. I'd prefer it myself if they weren't catchable, I'm just saying that if they are catchable there would be nothing wrong with it.
If we can capture Poke God, I see nothing wrong with capturing Poke Cthulhu *shrug* That's all. I'd prefer it myself if they weren't catchable, I'm just saying that if they are catchable there would be nothing wrong with it.
The problem is: why? Why go through all the trouble of marketing them as something weird and different when they are just weird pokemon in the end? Why not just say they are legendary Pokémon and be done with it? Why have a special ball that just looks different? Why make special animations for them? Why describe them as mysterious when they are just fancy pokemon? Why go that extra mile when they are just more of the thing we've seen over the past 20 years?
The problem is: why? Why go through all the trouble of marketing them as something weird and different when they are just weird pokemon in the end? Why not just say they are legendary Pokémon and be done with it? Why have a special ball that just looks different? Why make special animations for them? Why describe them as mysterious when they are just fancy pokemon? Why go that extra mile when they are just more of the thing we've seen over the past 20 years?
The problem is: why? Why go through all the trouble of marketing them as something weird and different when they are just weird pokemon in the end? Why not just say they are legendary Pokémon and be done with it? Why have a special ball that just looks different? Why make special animations for them? Why describe them as mysterious when they are just fancy pokemon? Why go that extra mile when they are just more of the thing we've seen over the past 20 years?
Well why else
[spoil] give them a place in the pokedex?[/spoil]
Maybe they are meant to be a special "group" of Pokemon due to their unique properties and/or origin. And maybe they are mysterious Pokemon. Maybe we only learn during the plot that they are, in fact, Pokemon.
Consider Lusamine's line about how "Even pokemon from distant worlds, far from the Alola Region" are worthy of her love...
Sure that could be a quirk in the translation but maybe she really is talking about different worlds...she knows something...
Well why else
[spoil] give them a place in the pokedex?[/spoil]
Maybe they are meant to be a special "group" of Pokemon due to their unique properties and/or origin. And maybe they are mysterious Pokemon. Maybe we only learn during the plot that they are, in fact, Pokemon.
Consider Lusamine's line about how "Even pokemon from distant worlds, far from the Alola Region" are worthy of her love...
Sure that could be a quirk in the translation but maybe she really is talking about different worlds...she knows something...
I'm still gonna say UBs are creatures that are not pokemon but can be captured. There's still that puzzling mystery of why in Italy they are called Ultra Chimeras.
Because Chimera in italian or French can mean 'Monster' or 'Beast'. It has nothing to do with the English meaning of Chimeras...
Then it doesn't go anywhere. The entire plot of the game becomes meaningless just because of that.
You're reading too far into it. It's not that deep, fam.
Mysterious creatures in a pokémon game that you can battle and seemingly catch potentially being pokémon could hardly be called a surprise, much less "reading to far into it".
I don't see how this would ruin the plot either, in the grand scale of things "pokémon" is just a (very vague) classification.