Biological needs.

[SwordLord]

This topic isn't for the faint hearted. If you're not too fond of the inner works of mother nature you may want to stop reading now.

Well, we all know that pokemon are the ingame counterpart of real life critters. Like, for instance: Scyther = Mantis, Beedrill = Bee, Butterfree = butterfly, Muk = ???, and so on and so forth.

Have you guys ever played with a virtual pet, or am I getting old? I remember back when it was the hype and how people would go insane about taking care of their pets. Perhaps, one of the many factors that make pokemon so addicting is the fact you raise your pet but you can also fight to find out which pet is stronger.

Well, I digress. With every new installment in the franchise we've been getting closer and closer to our pokes and one of the features that really caught my attention on the game box was the pokemon amie feature. I was like: this is going to be one hell of a virtual pet minigame! But something terrible has been bothering me to the point I can't sleep anymore. So forgive my rant, but I have to let this off my chest:

Where have all the pokepuffs I fed to my Ninetales gone to?????? I don't want to be nasty but seriously.. where have they gone to? We all know that at a given time they will have to come out. Even virtual pet games would portray the harsh reality of every life form: they need to poop eventually. Yeah, that's right, I said poop.

So, what are your insights? What else do you think that might be missing on the new pokemon amie feature? Would you rather have a remodeled pokemon amie feature in the next installment where your pokemon actually poops or would you rather keep it neat and clean as it is in X and Y?

Now seriously though, the new feature is really amazing and I spend a lot of time petting my pokes. What else would you like to see in pokemon amie? Maybe a throw and catch game? A hide and seek game? The possibilities are endless. Lemme know waddya guys at PC think c:

 

[moon]

Haha, I do remember tamagochis doing their little business in a corner of the screen and forcing you to clean it up for them to be happy. I don't think it's fitting to care about the workings of the pokemon biology in that way in the pokemon games though, mostly because amie is just an extra feature and not the focus of the game. Or? Haha, I haven't played X/Y myself but it sure does seem like a popular mini-game.

Anyways, since this is about gaming wishes, I'll toss this over to PGC.

 

[Magikarp From Hell]

Hehehe, interesting.. I don't play Amie though. I'm Old Skool.
I do remember having some of the first DS games where you had to raise dogs.
I didn't play the game a lot and I didn't think it had much too offer, but I really
felt connected to the dogs eventhough it's only virtual. I really like animals, especially dogs.
I'm going to check out Amie later now you brought it up.

 

[DowntownDumpling]

Digimon World DS has Port-o-Potties and as such eliminates questioning without needing to get any deeper.

Ultimately, while I find myself wondering about this, too, I don't think it would clear anything up canonically to simply show every Pokemon taking dumps. How does a Magnemite poop, for instance? What about Gastly, Porygon, Voltorb, Unown, or Shedinja? How can you possibly dispense of a Wailord's, Steelix's, or Rayquaza's business?

 

[Nah]

Then another thing to think about is their diet. All we've ever been able to feed Pokemon are treats (Poffins, PokePuffs, etc) and what you could basically call protein shakes (Protein, Zinc, etc). Isn't that a rather unhealthy diet for your Pokemon? "Here ya go Rampardos, here's yet another sugary, high-fat PokePuff for you". Or "Keep drinking that Protein ****, Garchomp! You still have another 6 bottles to go!" Our Pokemon must be so nutrionally screwed...

Also, how the hell is Honedge/Doublade/Aegislash capable of eating anything? You can feed 'em PokePuffs.

How can you possibly dispense of a Wailord's, Steelix's, or Rayquaza's business?

OH. MY. ARCEUS. I do not wanna think about that mess.

 

[Sydian]

This topic makes me feel like having an anal evacuation. Anyway, I don't think on it too much really, cause I honestly don't care, but now that I've read through all the posts here, I don't think I can look at Amie that same again. Thanks, y'all. :(

 

[Azire]

They do their business in their self cleaning Pokéball obviously. You didn't know they did that? The Luxury Ball has a literal golden throne.

Let's not even get to the breeding....

 

[DowntownDumpling]

They do their business in their self cleaning Pokéball obviously.

There are countless wild Pokemon, though, although I'm not sure they're within the scope of this thread. Trainers are also known to use their Pokemon's feces, e.g. for fertilizer as implied by an NPC in Goldenrod City, and for insulating jackets as stated in Darumaka's Pokedex entry.

Then another thing to think about is their diet. All we've ever been able to feed Pokemon are treats (Poffins, PokePuffs, etc) and what you could basically call protein shakes (Protein, Zinc, etc). Isn't that a rather unhealthy diet for your Pokemon? "Here ya go Rampardos, here's yet another sugary, high-fat PokePuff for you". Or "Keep drinking that Protein ****, Garchomp! You still have another 6 bottles to go!" Our Pokemon must be so nutrionally screwed...

To be fair, you can also feed them Berries. And then there's whatever the folks managing the Day Care and the PC storage systems give them.