Porygon- Pokemon or man-made creation?

Started by Frostweaver October 16th, 2003 10:55 PM
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Porygon is a rather interesting Pokemon... in the anime (in the banned episode) "Porygon the Electric Soldier" certainly doesn't treat Porygon as much of a living Pokemon at all. Being called "data" Pokemon, having the ability to travel in space and using rather an interesting item for evolution, should Porygon be treated as a Pokemon at all?
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Porygon is man-made pokemon...but Porygon is still pokemon as well as Magnemite and Voltorb...
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The game is a little unclear as to how Porygon is projected into the real world to battle other Pokmon. It could be it's body is a mechanical shell, and the data is downloaded and uploaded from it, or it could be some method of harnessing the data's will.


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The game is a little unclear as to how Porygon is projected into the real world to battle other Pokmon. It could be it's body is a mechanical shell, and the data is downloaded and uploaded from it, or it could be some method of harnessing the data's will.
Hehe.....reminds me of yugioh's card duels in the anime (card scans brings out monster holograms). Hey maybe Porygon outside in battle was meant to be a hologram of it's virtual self, but it still doesn't make much sense. I don't care much about it since Pokemon isn't real.
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I'm thinking holograms, myself. I mean, considering the advanced technology in the series, it wouldn't surprise me. It should be treated like a Pokmon, though, simply because well, for instance, it has a number [137], can use attacks like any other Pokmon, and well, it is. Just because it's manmade, doesn't mean it can't be alive and be an official Pokmon.
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It also has a rather bland type: normal. Which means it can be harmed by fighting attacks. Personally, I think that Porygon should have been Psychic (unless they made a digital type), it would make sense for a mysterious psychic force to hold the blocky body pieces together (in stadium, porygon falls apart when it loses).

And the thing about mewtwo... unlike Porygon, mewtwo is organic.

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Actually, its being Normal allows it to be very versatile in its techniquelearning abilities--if it was Psychic, for instance, it wouldn't make sense that it can learn such a wide range of technique types. That's what I like about the Normal element; its versatility.

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hey! a digital elemental type...that's a good idea...

I always thought of Porygon as kind of a digital duck (I mean, look at any of its sprites...it looks like a duck) I say that it was man-made (just like Magnemite and Voltorb probably were), but it still a fully equipped pokmon ready to battle...
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hey! a digital elemental type...that's a good idea...

I always thought of Porygon as kind of a digital duck (I mean, look at any of its sprites...it looks like a duck) I say that it was man-made (just like Magnemite and Voltorb probably were), but it still a fully equipped pokmon ready to battle...
Porygon II looks like a toy duck to me.
I really thought that it was one when I first saw it
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Actually, its being Normal allows it to be very versatile in its techniquelearning abilities--if it was Psychic, for instance, it wouldn't make sense that it can learn such a wide range of technique types. That's what I like about the Normal element; its versatility.
Indeed, and Chanseys and Jigglypuffs learning Psychic is cool. The only problem about normal types is their defense.
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Not always. I'll have to do some more research, but I'm sure that there's at least 1 Normaltype with high defense.
Hehe I was right. My research has lead me to find that there is indeed at least one Normaltype with high Defense Smeargle.

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normal types tend to have a higher special defense compare to their normal defense. It's their ability to learn so much variations of buffing attacks such as curse and amnesia that makes up for their lack of defense...

In almost all situation (special situations are when stat upers are used beforehand), a normal type shouldn't go up against a fighting Pokemon if both pokemon has full hp. Even with psychic it's hard to take down fighting types for normal types. Even for the almight snorlax things will be very hard for it against a fighting type if it hasn't been cursed up yet.
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Snorlax come to mind when I think of high-defense normal types...
It is not partically high! ?_?
It is quite low really.

I think Normal type suits Porygon.
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i think it's better Porygon family don't have color change... color change is cool but fatal in battle. Imagine a shedinja can simply do this...

-first hit color changing pokemon with aerial ace
-opponent becomes flying type
-hit the opponent with shadowball
-opponent becomes ghost type
-hit the opponent with a STAB super effective shadowball now...

not the best example but you get the point...
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Miltank is the only normal-type I can think of who has real good Defense. Porygon should have the color-change like ability, that would be neat. It would block off the need for conversion and conversion2.
Those techniques are a Porygon's copyright! Trust me, if you can stand waiting for the right element to come around, C2 is the best defensive attack. You choose when it's used, and it switches to a defensive element, unlike the colourchange thing, which from what I can see changes to the same attack element. Besides, it's easy to restore with Conversion.