Strange Oddities in Pokémon

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Two things: 1. Another thing that can cause move oddities is evolution such as Jolteon being able to know Tail Whip despite not having a tail because Eevee can know the move. 2. My theory about no one knowing where eggs come from is that the adults actually do know and they are trying to avoid talking sexual around children.

That "maybe the burn heal DOES evolve something" line really got me. Only those who know the gen 2 spaghetti code will understand

For the starters thing, it's probably just "I know a guy", aka a pokemon professor. I think the starters are meant to be rare in the wild (all of them are 7/8 male), so they're specially bred by humans, but still rare, so you have to be connected to a professor somehow in order to get one. Most of the game protagonists live in the same town or one town over from a professor.

Strangest oddity the fact that your father got the milk in emerald ruby sapphire

I think the Vanillite line was what inspired people in early Unova to invent ice cream.

I like to imagine that Wooper becomes enveloped in the energy corresponding to the attack and act as the fist.

Wooper does not need fists,he I S the F I S T

To build on the oddity that sometimes Pokémon can understand humans and sometimes they can’t, there’s also Pokédex entries like Lapras that say it’s an exception and is one of the only Pokémon that can understand human speech, it always confused me as well

I think I remember the evolution item explanation from the manga (or at least the Electrizer and Magmarizer). They basically create the instance of what causes them to evolve. Like a Magmar hibernating in lava to evolve into Magmortar

I think in the Pokémon world IRL animal names are just used to group similar species. Like how there are different named types of snakes in the world (vipers, pythons, boas, etc...) and we refer to all of them collectively as "snakes". Same with fish, birds, etc

5:50 this one might make sense maybe people realized that many pokemon have similar features and created words to classify them (and those words just happen to be irl animal names)

6:06 I got an answer for that one. The real-world names such as birds are just category names that people in the Pokémon world apply to Pokémon. Similar to how real-world animals have scientific names. Also, in the anime, real animals exist so there's that too.

I like to imagine the real life animal name thing is in the Pokémon universe simply as a descriptor, something like a class or family in Zoology

The fact that meowth can walk on all 4s except the ones in the mainline series is just proof that they are just but different

The eggs were explained as being containers that parent mons make for their fragile offspring. They're like natural pokeballs in that way. That's why one size fits all Pokemon. I think it was stated in a DYKG video.

for Wooper learning punching moves, what if Wooper's tail forms into a fist and Wooper just has to launch itself backwards to smack the fist into the opponent? It's actually quite funny if you think about it

I always thought the Cryogonal Attract thing was because it looks like it's crying. It even has Cry in it's name (Which I get is from Cryo, but it's still there), so it's probably a joke on it being alone forever...

For the held items that cause evolution, I've always felt like they were man made substitutions for rare natural phenomenon. Like take the Metal Coat for example. Dex entries talk about how Onix gains tougher and tougher coats over time and Steelix talks about its diet or applying pressure and heat to its body or something. Metal Coats fastrack that. Similarly, I think the Magmarizer and the Electrizer are simply items packed with an insane amount of Fire and Electric Infinity Energy respectively. Likely meant to replicate feats like a Magmar drowning in a volcanic eruption or Electabuzz being struck by a powerful bolt of lightning.

Fun Fact: In Gen 9, Wooper is unable to learn Ice Punch as it can’t learn it by TM and Shroomish is unable to learn Focus Punch as it can’t learn it by breeding unlike in other games, and you can’t transfer one that already learnt the move in a previous game, as your moves will reset, though Shroomish still can learn Drain Punch by TM and its evolution Breloom can learn Focus Punch by levelling up