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[–] RedIce25 115 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...this implies they have a cardboard box full of Arceus, the Pokemon God

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with that? This is the same world where a 10 year old can force a legalized cockfight with exotic animals they've trained in order to capture said god themselves, at which point the god will do their bidding and fight other exotic animals on the kid's behalf. And all without parental supervision! This comic seems just as plausible as anything else that happens in this world.

[–] systemglitch 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That puts it fully into perspective. My partner and I like to discuss how messed up that world is, but we tend to focus on the darker side of cannibalism.

[–] Usernameblankface 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As opposed to the light-hearted, fun side of cannibalism?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

What's a little nibble among friends.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 95 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So you're telling me to fill my pokedex, I just had to rob a pokecenter?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Team Rocket don't know this secret.

[–] aeronmelon 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Team Rocket tried to hold up a PokeCenter in episode 2!

[–] RustyNova 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And in the porygon episode (sort of)

[–] aeronmelon 1 points 2 months ago

That was more like a DDoS attack, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Found Team Rocket

[–] gofsckyourself 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Original comic, since the posted copy is infested with jpeg

https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/hotspital

Also, it was extremely easy to find the original one on their site. Would be nice if people who shared this stuff on Lemmy spent just a little time to get a higher quality copy.

[–] schema 64 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

They'd have to store one for each level and possible ability combinations.

I don't know enough about Pokémon to even try and guesstimate that number.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's even more than that since you can improve attacks with more AP, two Pokémon of the same level can also have wildly different stats depending on different factors, there are also genders, passive abilities, etc.

Also what about legendary Pokémon? Are they having hundreds of different versions of literal gods in each of those?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Probably those are generically engineered blueprint Pokemon, which they can quickly adjust to lvl and settings

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Could be, but once you start involving genetic engineering, you probably can also just heal the Pokémon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It probably just boiles down to costs. Our economy mostly favors reproducing over repairing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Functionally, what's the difference between "healing" a Pokemon vs. using their genetic makeup and organic matter to biologically 3d print a fully healthy clone?

[–] TwanHE 2 points 2 months ago

Everything is a ditto

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

nothing gets past the council of pedants!

[–] YarHarSuperstar 5 points 2 months ago

Not to mention name?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There is a giant factory breeding operation going behind the scenes.

Why else do you think they can afford to serve Slowpoke tail in restaurants?

[–] ladicius 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You realise that this game is fiction, right?

[–] Mango 3 points 2 months ago

You sound really fun.

[–] ekZepp 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That's just what Katie Tiedrich's face looks like.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This implies they have multiple legendary Pokemons and multiple magikarps in multiple masterballs because that's how I roll.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Blain's island missingno. glitch for the win. Gotta get Lapras too.

[–] lowleveldata 20 points 2 months ago

I always heal my pokemons twice to be sure

[–] stupidcasey 9 points 2 months ago

I don’t see a monetary incentive for this, my bet is they sell the experienced ones as a perverted snack for the ultra rich who enjoy eating the children’s pets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[–] rayquetzalcoatl 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] rayquetzalcoatl 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Slugma nuts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Slugma ballz

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'm cool with that but let me get one with better IVs