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Started by Inkfingers April 22nd, 2009 7:44 AM
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1st I don't stop because maybe the questions are fun to answer. And that's just your opinion on my answers. your's aren't so great either.

2nd shinies come about the same way albino animals come to be: they enherit the reccesive or dominant traits from their parents. It's just that those traits are more rare to be born with..

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It's just that those traits are more rare to be born with..
That doesn't work with any modern genetics I understand. The frequency of a parent having one is, well, you know the odds...1/8192. Ooh, I got one! How does the Masuda method actually work? xD[/youdon'thavetoanswerthat...stupidquestion]
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yah, but Albinos are albinos because they have a large melanin defecit. Melanind gives our skin a more brownish colour so without it, we look paler.

So how would that make a Pidgey GOLDEN? Or a Gyarados red? perhaps for the pidgey, it has more of a certain pigment...but that doesn't explain why there aren't pidgey's with too much light brown pigment or too much black pigment. The gyarados makes NO sense because normally, a gyarados doesn't even HAVE any red pigment, so it would have to somehow mutate in a way that it created an entirely new pigment. Which again raises the question of why every shiny gyarados is specifically red.

Edit: sorry tk, I missed your first post re: the shinys :d that made a lot more sense ;)

btw, Ink, I didn't actually make any comment on the quality of your answers, I was just pointing out that you repeatedly doublepost even though its against the rules. Thanks for the implied insult though, that was appreciated :D

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Which again raises the question of why every shiny gyarados is specifically red.
I answered that on the last page-
Let's remember that shinies are a game phenomenon. In the actual world of pokemon, you do see greater colour differentiation. Pinkin Island pokemon are not shiny yet are pink. Pokemon native to the Orange Islands occasionally have a more tropical look to them (search that yourself if you need pics). Then we've got that grossly overrated Pichu. There's surely more examples I'm missing...

So how do some shinies have minute differences like Gastrodon, Happiny, and Garchomp while others are much more different? Let's look at Project R...anyone recall this? You'd better since we're returning to Johto. It was the codename for TR's plot at the Lake of Rage. They were testing radio signals to "control" pokemon, and the result was a prematurely-evolved Magikarp where the Gyarados had more Magikarp-esque colours. There's no use debating that that Gyarados isn't shiny; it had the shiny bling in GSC.

Clearly, shinyness can be induced by unfavourable exposure to forms of radiation. Excess UV radiation exposure might lead to the Orange Archipelagos' off-coloured pokemon, while other forms could lead to what we know as shinies. Take a look at Cradily. It retains is Lileep colour just like Gyarados and the Magikarp colour (again, roughly).

However, I know someone will point out that not all shinies follow that pattern. Some could easily be the result of, simply, location. There's more than one of every shiny but not enough to go 'round, so I'll label them all as endangered species. If you've got a population of Tropius that strays from the densly-forested 120-Fortree area to the beaches by Lilycove, then (assuming they don't return), over a long period of time, they'll take on a more yellowish colour to fit their, uh...beach habitat. We could play this game all day. Grimers go green due to living in different hazardous substances as opposed to the usual "sludge" which happen to have the same colour as them. I would not be surprised at all if there are blue and brown Grimers, too.

It doesn't necessarily explain Golem specifically, but it's a start.
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I thought you were insukting the quality of my answers. Sorry bout that. I didn't mean what I said.

I got one for the shinies. It's a very rare defect when two pokemon of different species breed. The male physical charactristics sneak their wayin there and it turns out a different color.

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That wouldn't work. Since the Pokeradar, I can safely argue that, while incredibly uncommon, if you sift through populations, you're bound to find several shinies. They must be able to reproduce; that would explain why, against the odds, we have so many of them. A shiny and a nonshiny yields a nonshiny, but, perhaps, that "combination" would never naturally occur outside of a Day-Care center...
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Why is the thread dead? Did something happen?

About the shiny thing, I agree with what templekeeper said about different enviroments changing the way a pokemon looks, or with radiation affecting them. There may be a recessive pigment of color in every pokemon that is the same for any species, so all Gyarados' have a recessive red color in them, and with the odd mutation a pokemons color will change to that of whatever is recessive in it's genes.

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Well, all living things give off infrared radiation (a form of heat). Perhaps, when a pokemon uses Sunny day, they release a larger amount of it or something? For Rain Dance - they could possibly suck in or move the air around, to create areas of low pressure, leading to rain? That would take a little while, though...

Good question ;)

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For Rain Dance, they probably just release water into the air to make the humidity rise until the Wet-bulb temperature is equal to the Dry-bulb temperature, which are the conditions for rain.

For Sunny Day the pokemon may do the opposite, and absorb moisture in the air so that clouds disappear and the sun is not blocked by anything.

Though it is a lot of moisture for one pokemon to release/absorb.

Sandstorm may just be Geokinesis, which is probably the basis for most rock moves, and Hail may be similar to Rain Dance, except also with Thermokinesis to make it cold, so the rain turns to hail.

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I've got a question, if anybody is still here to answer it. Most grass types can learn attacks such as Absorb, Mega Drain or whatever, okay? So, how exactly do these attacks work?

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Hm, let's see. Absorb I'd guess they take in a large amount of sunlight by enlarging their chloroplasts. Giga drain I would guess the pokemon exerts some sort of colorless odorless gas that weakens a pokemon's health and sustains the health of a pokemon. The pokemon, whom the gas has no effect to, uses a second harmless gas that attracts the first gas. The pokemon then takes a deep breathe in and the chmicals in its body (which is located in the upper portion of its body and the gas itself is stored in the lower portion and the lower body chemicals don't have any effect the the gas) convert the gas into more energy and health. So the other pokemon is not as healthy and weakened. This is fixed with potions and the Pokemon Center.

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I know the whole Porygon thing was answered a while ago, but here's my two-bits on it (being a Porygon Expert):

The reason why Porygon is tangible is due to the same matter to energy (or data if you prefer) conversions that are used in pokéballs. The programing code is basically Porygon's equivalent to DNA, and it controls the molecules around it in order to form Porygon's physical body, and also dictates Porygon's actions, emotions, intelligence, ect. This means that Porygon can't manifest itself straight from the virtual world into the "real" world in places with insufficient matter, such as vacuums.

Porygon seems to also have the ability to convert matter into the energy used to fuel it, though since it's artificial it doesn't necessarily need to eat.

Since Porygon's body is nothing more but it's corporeal form, Porygon is able to withstand many things that would be fatal to even powerful pokémon such as Mewtwo, as it's ethereal form (it's coding) cannot be harmed in the physical world, allowing it to completely regenerate it's entire body even if it's seemingly vaporized, so long as it has sufficient energy to do so (it's body is also very flexible despite it's appearance, as shown by Porygon2 when it's hit by an attack in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.)

In the virtual realm, however, Porygon is not quite as invulnrable. Although it's able to do many things it couldn't normally do outside it's cyber habitat (such as grow to massive preportions, fire powerful attacks and move at blinding speeds), it is here where it's also possible to destroy it's coding (think mirage pokémon).

Porygon seems to be able to exist outside of contact with Sliph Co., as suggested by Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, though how this is possible is currently unknown, though it might suggest that Porygon's coding is not dependent on Sliph Co. in order to function.

The reason why Porygon and Porygon2 can levitate but not fly is due to the fact that they are dependant on the electromagnetism of the planet in order to do so, which is why they can't "fly" in space.

...Hope this helps answer anyone's questions.

Also, some trivia on the creature:

  • Porygon has extra hidden polygon faces in it's tail, allowing it to wag it to an extent. This is shown breifly in the anime and in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.
  • The back of Porygon's head was depicted as angled in the games until recently, where it's head was flat in the anime. This was fixed in generation IV.
  • Porygon's limbs are completely detachable. In the 3D games, it can be seen thrusting it's head until it breaks off for a short period. It's fainting animation in Pokémon Stadiums 1 and 2 also depicted it shaking rapidly before falling apart. The seems to be referenced in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, where Porygon would say "System error. polygons are falling apart." if it's HP is in critical condition. Porygon2's body seems to be more stable, with it's tail and head being fully connected to it's body, though it's arms could be detached (which happens if Porygon2 is hit in any of the 3D games with an attack.)
  • Porygon's index number in the National and R/B/G/Y regional Pokédex is 137, similar to the 1337, or leet. Whether or not this was a coincidence is unknown.

I've been holding that in for a looong time, you can tell. ;]

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Wow. That's a whole lot of Porygon.

Here's a question: It's safe to assume the Upgrade item simply upgrades Porygon's physical model and capabilities, but what exactly happens when Porygon2 becomes Porygon-Z by the use of the Dubious Disk? It apparently did not go as planned.
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I'm assuming that the Dubious disc is, for lack of a better term, a mod. It is probably Team R's attempt to try and 'hack into' porygon in an attempt to make it into an unbeatable fighting machine. Obviously, they've failed but by fiddling around with the code and what not, they have improved it somewhat.