Comments on: Servile with a Smile

By: Oatmeal

Oatmeal — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:52:58 +0000

There’s obvious strategy involved in a pokemon battle, maybe wild pokemon are retarded and use the moves they feel comfortable with, like a charmander spamming ember on a wild squirtle coz its easier. The Trainer would probably command the charmander to use slash or some other move that would do damage. And with trainers pokemon would get regular meals, since they have to find their own food in the wild they might go hungry for days inbetween meals, no chance of that happening when you’re hanging with Chef Le Brock. I mean no wonder they befriend pokemon so easily in the anime when all they do is give them food, it must be a no brainer to pokemon.

By: WR1

WR1 — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:35:52 +0000

1. Team Plasma is a group for the liberation of Pokemon, Lrn2BlackandWhite
2. In the wild, Pokemon may spend a large amount of their time gathering, hiding, socializing, etc etc, once caught, they do no more than Train and Fight, mostly. Think about it, who’s going to be stronger? The guy who trains hardcore every day, or the guy who only fights when he’s threatened, and otherwise does normal crap?

By: Chaos

Chaos — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:03:09 +0000

I think regular animals that aren’t Pokemon simply exist in nature as normal but aren’t under the spotlight like Pokemon are. They’re not the focus.

After all, what are you going to do with a chicken instead of a yellow mouse that fires lightning from its cheeks? Though, there is the aspect of replacing more and more everyday animals with Pokemon variants. The one that jumps out to me most is Miltank. It’s a cow. Literally.

By: sheppy

sheppy — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:55:37 +0000

Yeah, when the point has been made and joked about to the point that the source material even takes it as a central plot, this becomes a tired joke. By about 10+ years. But I guess as Ann Coulter would say, “Our Pokemon are better than their Pokemon.”

By: James

James — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:10:09 +0000

Actually, in D/P/Plat, team galactic seems to be an activist group seeking to seperate pokemon from humans. And The bad guys in B/W are trying to get people to release pokemon and are themselves an activist group, although we later see that they are mostly hypocrites. We do see fish and some other animals throughout the series, though we see less and less as new pokemon are made.
As for the whole “how are wild ones weaker than captured ones” thing, they’ve attempted to explain it. The bond pokemon develope for their trainers forces them to go beyond the power they’d normally have in the wild. This can be seen with friendship evolutions in the game. We see tons of wild golbats but no wild crobats. They also try to show that the more a pokemon likes its trainer, the stronger it’ll be (probably because of the cliche of something to fight for), most commonly see with the move return. It also works at the other end where a pokemon that hates its trainer can be stronger because of how it channels its hate. I think its just playing on humans provide better training than they’ll get in the wild though. Its like trying to teach yourself how to use a sword. You might be good on your own, but if you’re trained by a swordmaster you’ll be great. Also, all the powerful wild ones tend to be capture right away. Trainers that find a powerful wild one will instantly try to catch it. ONly ones that are powerful and good at escaping remain while, such as the legendaries