>the Pokédex entry about Parasect being a mindless husk is canon>this means that all the countless edgy entries about ghosts dragging people to hell or burning up their souls are canon too
>>59103315This is what we're choosing to hyperfixate on this week huh
>>59103315Now play mystery dungeon and realize all the fucked up entries about other pokemon are also real.
>the pokédex is confirmed to have always been canon>dumbfuck assumed it was jokes because it couldn't POSSIBLY be describing the pokémon universe and its magical monsters
>>59103337tbf that's been a common cope for a while now
What's your favorite messed up Pokedex entry?
>>59103337I'd say it's more a mix of biological fact, myth and urban legend, and a fair bit of hyperbole.
>>59103349I like the balloon
>>59103315It doesn’t mean that actually
People who think that the Pokedex is wrong have cinemasins brain and forget that this is a fantasy franchise and they physiological inconsistencies don't matter
It says that Aurorus has a freezing body temperature yet I can touch one just fine.
>>59103349I like the one that's just "Are you spooked? Gengar is after you. Give up."
What would you expect from a world where little monster things get to fuck around and do whatever? No wonder they started catching them
>>59103337Because retards kept thinking "lol the dex is written by 11 year olds" when no, sweetie, Pokemon's worldbuilding is just that messy. Every Cubone DOES in fact live the exact same tragedy of having a dead mother and donning her skull to cry about it until it finally evolves and gets over it.
>>59104237Pokemon fans are too autistic to imagine that sometimes the people who write these games aren't thinking about what would make sense in the real world
>>59103349Hattrina or whatever the name is
>>59103349Magcargo being hotter then the surface of the sun.
>>59104658The surface of the sun isn’t very hot in a cosmic sense. I wouldn’t want to touch it, but all the hot stuff happens inside. The deeper, the hotter.
>>59103337Explain why Doduo has a higher top speed than its own evolution with a higher speed stat.Or where the Indian Elephants are.Or if Araquanid is supposed to be a kind creature or sadistic predator.
>>59104237HER MOTHER IS RIGHT THERE IN THE PARTY AND HER DAD IS BOINKING A KECLEON IN THE DAYCARE
>>59104686Ludonarrative dissonance. At no point are you required to canonically breed a Cubone, and if the lore counted towards gameplay, then little Timmy would piss and shit himself that his Marowak disappeared for seemingly no reason.
>>59104669Your questions are easily solved by being literate. Try it out.
>>59104686It's canon that eggs just appear out of nowhere, so its parents arent its parents.
>>59103315Why wouldn't the information given about the Pokemon be canon? Only retards that can't accept the Pokemon world is fictional and unrealistic spout this bullshit
>>59104669>DoduoStats don't always match lore>Indian ElephantsCopperajah >AraquanidThe English entry is mistranslated and the original JP one specifically mentions caring for Dewpider
>>59104669It's the stats that aren't canon, not the pokedex. Jinx can't run faster than fucking Pidgeot
>>59103349>The fate of the ships and crew that wander into Jellicent's habitat: all sunken, all lost, all vanished. >Their favorite food is life energy.>It's said there's a castle of ships Jellicent have sunk on the seafloor. >Jellicent is always hanging around fancy cruise ships and tankers, hoping to drag away its prey. >Fishermen are terrified of Jellicent. It's rumored to drag them into the sea and steal their lives away.>Whenever a full moon hangs in the night sky, schools of Jellicent gather near the surface of the sea, waiting for their prey to appear.>The crown on its head gets bigger and bigger as it absorbs more and more of the life-force of other creatures.If you're on a boat at night and fall in the water, it's really hard for anyone to see or find you. Some say it's 'cause of how dark it is at night. Some may say it's because they Jellicent were waiting.
>>59104237>when no, sweetie,hi tumblr
>>59103315>>59103337I don't give a shit if the dex is always truthful or not, but "it is true in this instance therefore it is always true" is faulty logic. It's like saying someone never lies because they told you the truth once.
>>59103350This.>>59104237What happens if that mother has multiple offspring?
>Elephant examplethat is a blatant thing that they retconned out. Why are you pretending to be an idiot? Why would the Pokedex be "children making shit up" when no Pokemon media has EVER even tried to suggest that? It's a conclusion brought on entirely by insecure adults who just can't handle the fact that this fantasy series for seven year olds isn't actually built on layers of narrative subtext but selling cool action figures with ridiculous cartoon feats. So yes, Magcargo is hotter than the sun. Yes Alakazam has an IQ of 1000. Yes Metagross is smarter than a computer. If the Pokedex says it's true it is true.>But what aboutJust like real animals any contradictory information is on an individual basis.
>>59104700>It's canon that eggs just appear out of nowhere, so its parents arent its parents.Then how do Cubones have mothers?
>>59104765There's a sidequest in USM, I think (either that or SM, but I think it's USM) where some poor fucker gets marooned on a sea platform by a horde of Frillish until the player KO's them and scatters them.
>>59104790Except the entire franchise is based around the thing. TPC don't publish horseshit as an encyclopedia written by interns, they published a book of pokédex-based information as an encyclopaedia. Oak in the anime had a lesson that stated "When in doubt, open the Pokédex". In fact Nigel, apart from medium-specific concessions, TPC hold themselves to what the Pokédex says (well, Game Freak hold them to account rather, but you understand), because Game Freak treat it as absolute canon. You don't have to like it, but there is in fact no "wriggle" room, where some of it's true and some of it's tall tales. It's treated the EXACT same as any book of taxonomy of living creatures in the real world, where they describe the animal as extant in the world including dimensions, weight, along with any traits, habits or patterns.
>>59104932>Then how do Cubones have mothers?Its a plot hole. It's that simple. When Cubone was designed they did not have its concept fully thought out and they never wrote a version that makes sense.
>>59104669>>59104755It's because the "Speed" stat is a mistranslation, it's supposed to say Agility.Being very agile and having a high top speed are two entirely different things.
>>59103349My favorite dex entry isn't really messed up, it's just cool as fuck and often overlooked. Meganium's breath can bring dead plants back to life.As for my favorite fucked up one, Shedinja's soul-consuming hole is pretty fun
>>59103350>>59104790This. Pokedex entries should be judged on an individual basis as it is pretty clear some are more factual than others. I'd point out as well some of the things people tout as fact from the pokedex it itself refers to as rumors or common myth. For instance all of Regigigas' entries are prefaced with "it is said..." or stating that it is according to legend, it doesn't present any of it as actual historical fact that Regigigas towed continents.
SM had a lot of dark Pokedex entries, but they also tried to write happy endings for old Pokemon like Lapras who is no longer endangered. Someday Paras will have a new form...
>>59105495>it's supposed to say AgilityHow would that meaning differ from evasion then?
>>59106418Oh, Shedinja stealing someones soul is another instance of this btw. >Ruby: "...IT IS BELEIVED that this pokemon will steal the spirit of anyone peering into its hollow body from its back.">DPP/BW/X: "Peering into the crack on its back IS SAID to steal one’s spirit."
Dabbing
>>59104851>no Pokemon media has EVER even tried to suggest that?It's because the Gen 1 games described the Pokedex as a "blank encyclopedia," and the sprites depicting the Pokedexes in Oak's lab do look a lot like books.That's the foundation to this argument.
>>59106594It's blatant disregard for the obvious facts whenever someone takes that as a literal interpretation of "it's completely empty". That would imply Oak, who spent his entire life researching Pokemon, who was a trailblazer in understanding Pokemon in the modern day, apparently made a device that has no information whatsoever on it and just lets random inexperienced snot-nosed brats write information for him?The whole idea of the Pokedex was that it already has the data, it just unlocks it when it recognizes that a trainer owns the Pokemon. It's literal scavenger hunt shit, which makes sense because it's tasking a KID with finding and collecting things, and in the process of that little scavenger hunt, it sets the kid on the journey to become an adult. Ergo, the literal entire point of Pokemon's core values, a coming of age story that draws huge inspiration from Stand By Me. And then that scavenger hunt becomes the side quest to the main mission of proving independence and maturity by taking on the Pokemon League, which was always the REAL point of Oak setting Red and Blue on their journeys as a grandfather and family friend alike.
>>59106617Oak describes the Pokedex as "recording data" and that one has to capture a pokemon to "get detailed data". He doesn't state that it already has the data and unlocks it. Additionally he directly states>"To make a complete guide on all the Pokémon in the world… That was my dream! But, I'm too old! I can't do it! So, I want you two to fulfill my dream for me! Get moving, you two! This is a great undertaking in Pokémon history!"If the pokedex already has all the information this makes no sense, as then Oak's dream is already fufilled. This is reinforced in FireRed/LeafGreen in completing the National Pokedex has him sincerely thank the player for making his dream a reality.
>>59106653Most of the Pokedex was already written by Oak and other researchers. Pokedex scans Pokemon and associates it with data it has. Kids are just confirming such Pokemon species exist, it's visual characteristics, habitats.
>>59103315Pokedex thread?
