Do you think Pokemon should've remained a world where animals exist alongside Pokemon, and they're two different creatures? Similar to how a lot of JRPGs have monsters and animals roaming the land.
Do you think Pokemon should've remained a world where animals exist alongside Pokemon...
Noah Ross
Colton Butler
Yes. Somehow the pokemon world ecosystem makes less sense when pokemon are supposed to replace every single animal. Like are there microscopic pokemon representing microfauna or what?
Tyler Bailey
No because I can't battle with them.
Zachary Gutierrez
I'm iffy on it.
The early Pokemon setting, where it was basically just the real world but with some weird creatures inhabiting it in addition to the regular animals, feels like an entirely different beast to the current Pokemon setting, where it's basically just high fantasy.
Owen Barnes
>and they're two different creatures?
They still are though.
Brandon Thomas
>Like are there microscopic pokemon representing microfauna or what?
yes
Joseph Morgan
Nah, I think it kind of cheapens the universe's lore. Plus animals would have no way to survive in an environment with a bunch of other wild creatures that have magical powers and seem to be much smarter than them.
Parker Barnes
Yes. It separates the smart pokemon from the dumb, makes for a more believable ecosystem, and makes training and battling an actual feat since not every pokemons wild life would be based around fighting other pokemon/regular animal trainers would make them look even stronger in comparison.
Grayson Williams
Why is it OK for Pokemon to replace animals, but not plants? Should every palm tree be an exeggutor? Should every lily pad be a lotad? And hey, what about smaller animals, like bugs, or plankton? And rocks, we have rock pokemon, so why do we have rocks?
David Bailey
>Plus animals would have no way to survive in an environment with a bunch of other wild creatures that have magical powers and seem to be much smarter than them
Replace 'magical powers' with technology and you have humans. It's not like Pokemon would automatically render every single animal species extinct by virtue of being more dominant on the food chain, that's not how ecology works
Joshua Long
You eventually get to a point where it just doesn't make sense for real world animals to exist in this world. It worked when there were only 151 species of Pokemon, now that there's nearly 1000 species and counting, animals don't have a place in the Pokemon world. Anything animals can do can be done (and better) by Pokemon.
Angel Mitchell
What do humans eat?
Levi Cooper
It's not just the food chain, they'd be competing with Pokemon FOR food and territory too.
Joseph Johnson
Pokemon? The series makes it very clear that humans eat Pokemon the same way humans in the real world eat animals.
Michael Ramirez
>Anything animals can do can be done (and better) by Pokemon
What does this even mean? Why do animals have to 'do' something to be part of the world? Why are there trees and flowers if they're 'done better' by Pokemon like Trevenant or Comfey? Why are there mushrooms if that's 'done better' by Amoonguss and Shiinotic?
In real life, why are there black people when they're 'done better' by apes and chimpanzees?
Benjamin Ross
Plant-based Pokemon are more animal than plant. They aren't rooted to the ground and eat actual food instead of relying solely on photosynthesis. They serve a completely different purpose than actual plants.
Joseph Roberts
>it's not just food, they'd be competing for food
??
i don't think that literally every current living animal would be able to survive on poke-earth, but there's no reason why pokemon would dominate real life animals so thoroughly they would all be driven to extinction. it's not like a lot of real life carnivores couldn't adapt to a diet of weedle or pidgey or something, too
it also helps that poke-earth doesn't seem to indulge in mass scale habitat destruction like ours does
Grayson Edwards
They eat pokemon. Basculin's pokedex entries often talk about how delicious it is.
Gabriel Lee
These are Pokemon, powerful creatures with magic powers. Even a Caterpie or Weedle can tie up and immobilize a regular non-powered animal with String Shot. Even a Pidgey can generate windstorms.
Lucas Turner
>can tie up and immobilize a regular non-powered animal with String Shot
that's not even what string shot does, it slows you down. pidgey can't generate 'windstorms', it's dex entry even says what it usually does in the wild is kick sand into other animal's faces. smarter than regular birds? sure. so impossible a real life animal couldn't reliably hunt them? no lol
are you just room temperature IQ? you've said two incredibly retarded things so far
Jace Kelly
String Shot can do this, and Pidgey learns moves like Gust, Air Slash, and Hurricane, AKA moves that involve it using its air/wind manipulation powers.