The Scientist
PKMN Scientist/Mathemagician
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About the Squirtle/Wartortle/Blastoise issue, I've noticed that in the Colosseum games, water moves like Hydro Pump have a brief charging period. Instead of storing supercompressed water in their shells, it may be possible that all Water-types were gifted by Arceus to have dominion over water, and as such they can draw in water from their surroundings to manipulate and focus into an attack. Sumner said that this would cause the Pokemon to dry themselves out, but if their skin is really as rubbery and waxy as it appears to be, then they should have no problem keeping their vital water supplies trapped in their bodies.
Not entirely sure about this, but as far as I know, I've never seen a water Pokemon use water moves in a severely dry environment.
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The Machamp thread was a joke.
YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE.
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Now, about the Cubone/Marowak issue. All the PokeDex entries that reference Cubone wearing its mother's skull are from the game, which means that Game Freak was just trying to be dramatic and didn't think this out very well for us. I mean, it is possible to have a female Marowak in the games (I named mine GHOST). But if you separate the games from the anime, you may have noticed that there are no female Marowak in the show.
The static population idea wouldn't work, because with a 50% gender division rate, the number of available females halve every generation. Start with 100 Cubone, 50 of which are female. After the 50 female Marowak die, they leave behind 50 children, 25 of which are female. Pokemon are unable to "breed" with their children, so the only males available for the new generation of females are the males that hatched from the other 25 eggs.
Ultimately, you end up with an all-male population. What may happen at this point is that Arceus simply makes more females. Now while Arceus may seem like a cop-out answer, it's the only thing that makes sense.
About Cubone being able to breed, that doesn't really change much. Note that the PokeDex entries just say "mother", not "mother Marowak". If a femal Cubone does have an egg, it will soon die and leave its skull behind for the baby.
A Cubone's skull may look slightly different from a Marowak's skull, but based on the appearances of Cubone's and Marowak's helmets, the skulls seem to be malleable enough that they take the shape of the wearer's head, not the other way around. So the baby Cubone may have a slightly different helmet for a short time, but after a bit of growing it will become standard.
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Ditto doesn't need telepathy, it is "born" with a faint instinctual knowledge of all the Pokemon in existence, and seeing its target is all it needs to "unlock" it. Once a Ditto has transformed this way once, it can transform into the same Pokemon again on command without an "original" there to copy. However, to "update" this image, it needs a new target to copy.
It's body is a plasma-like substance, and its cells are similar to stem cells. Ever seen a slime mold? It's kind of like that. Ditto maintains full control over this plasma, and must consciously hold its form or else it will fall apart (hence why a laughing Ditto reverts back into plasma). As far as copying moves go, I think that after a Pokemon learns a move, traces of that attack are stored in its cell memory. This is why baby Pokemon can "inherit" their father's attacks, and not their father's entire potential moveset. When Ditto copies an enemy, it modifies its pseudo-stem cells to "evolve" based on the target's appearance and/or pheromones.
Not entirely sure about this, but as far as I know, I've never seen a water Pokemon use water moves in a severely dry environment.
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The Machamp thread was a joke.
YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE.
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Now, about the Cubone/Marowak issue. All the PokeDex entries that reference Cubone wearing its mother's skull are from the game, which means that Game Freak was just trying to be dramatic and didn't think this out very well for us. I mean, it is possible to have a female Marowak in the games (I named mine GHOST). But if you separate the games from the anime, you may have noticed that there are no female Marowak in the show.
The static population idea wouldn't work, because with a 50% gender division rate, the number of available females halve every generation. Start with 100 Cubone, 50 of which are female. After the 50 female Marowak die, they leave behind 50 children, 25 of which are female. Pokemon are unable to "breed" with their children, so the only males available for the new generation of females are the males that hatched from the other 25 eggs.
Ultimately, you end up with an all-male population. What may happen at this point is that Arceus simply makes more females. Now while Arceus may seem like a cop-out answer, it's the only thing that makes sense.
About Cubone being able to breed, that doesn't really change much. Note that the PokeDex entries just say "mother", not "mother Marowak". If a femal Cubone does have an egg, it will soon die and leave its skull behind for the baby.
A Cubone's skull may look slightly different from a Marowak's skull, but based on the appearances of Cubone's and Marowak's helmets, the skulls seem to be malleable enough that they take the shape of the wearer's head, not the other way around. So the baby Cubone may have a slightly different helmet for a short time, but after a bit of growing it will become standard.
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Ditto doesn't need telepathy, it is "born" with a faint instinctual knowledge of all the Pokemon in existence, and seeing its target is all it needs to "unlock" it. Once a Ditto has transformed this way once, it can transform into the same Pokemon again on command without an "original" there to copy. However, to "update" this image, it needs a new target to copy.
It's body is a plasma-like substance, and its cells are similar to stem cells. Ever seen a slime mold? It's kind of like that. Ditto maintains full control over this plasma, and must consciously hold its form or else it will fall apart (hence why a laughing Ditto reverts back into plasma). As far as copying moves go, I think that after a Pokemon learns a move, traces of that attack are stored in its cell memory. This is why baby Pokemon can "inherit" their father's attacks, and not their father's entire potential moveset. When Ditto copies an enemy, it modifies its pseudo-stem cells to "evolve" based on the target's appearance and/or pheromones.
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