Pokemon Pokemon Plotholes Discussion Thread

Hatman said:
If you use fly in a battle while in a cave, shouldn't the flier pokemon hit its self on the ceiling?

In conjuction, Dive anywhere else but on the ocean would look like Dig. Digging in buildings... XP Anything that requires terrain manipulation would have some context that would make things whacky.
 
RE: Pokemon Plotholes!

Zyflair said:
Oh yeah. I forgot about the pressure down there :/

Another thing about the games: their sense of time is horrible. There's the old lady that asks you if you want to rest. If you say yes, only 5 seconds pass and your Pokemon are good to go.

If the game is turned off, time is still continuing, so just exactly how long can you hold your breath underwater, or infiltrate a base for days without getting caught?

That would then effect gameplay. You would have to beat the whole hideout before you could save. What happens if it is time to go to sleep, work, or use a toilet?

why does it cost 80 currency to buy a lemonade, japan's money cant be worth that little world wide?

Hatman said:
Onto the breeding subject again, since cats are mammals, how does a Glameow or Purugly have an EGG???

And you can get a Girl Mr Mime


Then how come Giritina can learn fly?



or what about garchomp?
 
I'll leave this open even though it was revived.

dmaster out.
 
RE: Pokemon Plotholes!

paddy185 said:
They are both in the same egg group, but another weird breeding pair is Seviper and Zangoose. They are supposed to be mortal enemies, so why did I get an egg when I left them both in the daycare?

EDIT: How do so much random Pokemon conduct electricity from no where? How do things like Rattata conduct electricity at all.... Seriously, GF made some wrong decisions when they made the TM lists for some Pokemon.

RE Zangoose and /seviper: LOVE OVERCOMES ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Like Romeo and Juliette, yeah? Maybe they just listened to People Are People by Depeche Mode a lot and got themselves into a more mellow frame of mind.

"Pokes are Pokes so why should it beee, you and I should get along so awfully?"
 
Why isn't Flying supereffective to Fire? A gust of wind will put out any fire!!
Why is Ground supereffective against Poison? I just don't get how that works
Why is Fighting supereffective against Steel? YOU ARE HITTING A VERY HARD SURFACE!!!
Where are all of these Rock-type Pokemon getting all the rocks for Rock Throw! Do they collect them?
Arceus makes me mad. Mew is now less than (or equal to) Arceus, and that makes me want to vomit in his face.
WHY DOES GOREBYSS WEAR A BRA!!! Why is it afraid to show its boobies? Nidoqueen shows her boobies
What is the importance of the Regiis?
I don't understand training in the wild. If you faint a pokemon, what will happen to it? It'll just lie there, with no friends!!
WHY WON'T ENTEI STAY STILL!!!!! (not really a plothole)
Why can Gastly and Spiritomb learn Sucker Punch? They have no limbs to punch with!!
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WOOPER SUPPOSED TO BE?
 
Skylands said:
How can Zangoose and Serviper breed if they despise each other so much?
Romeo and Juliet fell in love, despite the fact that their families hated each other. That didn't stop their love.

Mr. Backlot(or whatever the mansion guy's name is) imports Pokémon...and then lets some roam free on specific days. What does he do, put them in cages until then? Are those cages in that room that the maid blocks off?
 
When trainers throw their pokeballs up in the air like 50 feet, how does it always magically reappear in their pocket? How do they always get the pokeballs back?

In the episode where James finds his toybox from when he was a kid and there is a pokeball in there with his growlithe inside, how has it survived in the pokeball for atleast 5 years? Wouldn't he of starved to death?
 
@darkrai: There are a LOT of discussions about how pokeballs work. General theory is that while they are inside the ball they either have some way of being provided for (Like a transfer system set up to subtract food from a different location and put it in the pokemon) or the pokemon is put in something akin to cryogenic sleep. The second would make sense, seeing as how often times a pokemon will come out of their pokeball with no clue what is going on around them.

Why doesn't anyone ever find pokemon eggs in the wild? I mean, I know that most pokemon could be very clever about hiding nests/young, but shouldn't they have discovered SOME by now? And yet it seems that the only way for pokemon to breed is to have them under the constant supervision of a clueless old couple. @.@

Ash's Pikachu. Is that thing on level 100 by now, or what??? I mean, it seems like every gen it gets some sort of regression put on it to make it go back down to a low level while still keeping its moves. Continually we see him being beat up by gym leaders/storyline characters that can't nearly have been training as long.

Pokemon holding items. How does one with no limbs hold an item??? How can one WITH limbs holding an item (IE with its hands full) fight more efficiently than one not holding an item (Hands empty)? I mean, it's a little difficult to use Dive while holding an Iron Ball. XD

Also, how the heck does pokemon get away with such inaccurate bird weights??? I mean, Starly. 4.4 POUNDS, one foot tall. To compare, a golden eagle is about 26-40 inches tall and weighs 5-10 lbs, about what a Starly is said to weigh. However, a Kestrel, which can be about a foot tall, weighs an average of 4-5 OUNCES. Starly is so fat it could not fly in any way. Obviously a couple of people at GF/Nintendo/whoever missed the part about birds having HOLLOW BONES.
 
Boddy903 said:
Why isn't Flying supereffective to Fire? A gust of wind will put out any fire!!
Why is Ground supereffective against Poison? I just don't get how that works
Why is Fighting supereffective against Steel? YOU ARE HITTING A VERY HARD SURFACE!!!
Where are all of these Rock-type Pokemon getting all the rocks for Rock Throw! Do they collect them?
Arceus makes me mad. Mew is now less than (or equal to) Arceus, and that makes me want to vomit in his face.
WHY DOES GOREBYSS WEAR A BRA!!! Why is it afraid to show its boobies? Nidoqueen shows her boobies
What is the importance of the Regiis?
I don't understand training in the wild. If you faint a pokemon, what will happen to it? It'll just lie there, with no friends!!
WHY WON'T ENTEI STAY STILL!!!!! (not really a plothole)
Why can Gastly and Spiritomb learn Sucker Punch? They have no limbs to punch with!!
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WOOPER SUPPOSED TO BE?

Gastly and Spiritomb can learn it because in Japan the move is called Ambush IIRC. And Wooper is a Axolotl.

http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species:_Wooper
 
In PMD2, it is said that one has to have a pure heart to enter the Hidden Land, so all the Pokemon found in there + Temporal Tower must be mass bred :O. Anyway, how many Pokemon with pure hearts is that?
 
Boddy903 said:
Why isn't Flying supereffective to Fire? A gust of wind will put out any fire!!
Why is Ground supereffective against Poison? I just don't get how that works
Why is Fighting supereffective against Steel? YOU ARE HITTING A VERY HARD SURFACE!!!
Where are all of these Rock-type Pokemon getting all the rocks for Rock Throw! Do they collect them?
Arceus makes me mad. Mew is now less than (or equal to) Arceus, and that makes me want to vomit in his face.
WHY DOES GOREBYSS WEAR A BRA!!! Why is it afraid to show its boobies? Nidoqueen shows her boobies
What is the importance of the Regiis?
I don't understand training in the wild. If you faint a pokemon, what will happen to it? It'll just lie there, with no friends!!
WHY WON'T ENTEI STAY STILL!!!!! (not really a plothole)
Why can Gastly and Spiritomb learn Sucker Punch? They have no limbs to punch with!!
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS WOOPER SUPPOSED TO BE?

Wooper is based off of an Axolotl. Quagsire is a Wooper on steroids, or something, I remember learning somewhere that you Inject an Axolotl with something, and it gets ugly :p Also Mudkip and it's family is based off of a Mud puppy crossed with a mud skipper and I have a Bearded Dragon :p (There awesome)
...Sorry for getting off topic...
And I think Fighting can hurt Steel is because if you hit it hard enough, I'm sure it'll dent them XD
 
Thing is physics and reality with Pokemon don't meet very often, if not, not at all i guess.
 
How can Jynx be male unless the males are all cross dressers and if so wouldn't they be gay.

How come Machop/Machoke/Machamp can be female?

If they made Nidoqueen and Nidoking separate pokemon that can breed why did'nt they do the same for Smoochum/Jynx Machop line?

How come Chansey doesn't have a male counterpart and Kangashkhan too.I mean they did the with the Nido but could not with the 4 pokemon I mentioned. I mean that is only 9 new pokemon
 
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