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***** And is also, apparently, you.
**** During the very very first episode of the anime, the Pokedex said something about Rattatta (actually, I can't remember what Pokemon it was, but let's say it was Rattatta) and how it likes to play pranks on stupid trainers? All I know is that it called Ash stupid.
** The people responsible for the Pokédex entries [[Sci
** The Pokedex research are based from YOURS, or rather, THE CHARACTER'S point of view. It's like a scientific diary or journal or something. Obviously if you're just 10 yrs. old you'd exaggerate.
*** When did you fit in the scientific research between catching the pokemon and seeing the entry. Apparently, Prof. Oak's dream is to have a random kid enable every entry in the Pokedex. Imagine a hacker getting ahold of a Pokedex. "You captured every single Pokemon in the world? You were never even given a starter pokemon!" I'm seriously starting to doubt Oak's trustworhiness.
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******* And now most breeders just get a hacked ditto. There are also limits to what can be done to improve stats (+ 8 point on every stat, if I remember it right), so it's far from absurdly overpowered.
* Size is fundamentally messed up in the Pokemon universe. But still, they could have avoided putting a freaking ''whale'' in the game (Wailord) who should be able to win fights just by being launched from a Pokeball and crushing his opponent to a pulp. As it is, you can defeat the thing with a suitably leveled Pikachu.
** Don't forget [[Hot Skitty
*** Well, we've seen Giant Pokemon before, so a Giant Skitty probably isn't too out there, evening things out a tad. Conversely, a Giant ''Wailord'' probably doesn't bear thinking about.
**** Not to forget miniatures of said Pokemons, or dwarfmons.
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** Let's see. They're designed to be comfortable. There's a definite advantage to being able to hold an injured Pokémon in a Pokéballs to reduce the amount of pain and risk of aggravating injuries, not to mention how it seems to counteract certain status ailments. Even outside of those circumstances, it seems that trainers spend a lot of time walking long distances, and not forcing smaller or slower creatures to keep up on foot if it isn't necessary is appealing. Your Fly-equipped Staraptor will be relieved to know that it won't have to carry your Steelix, and the same goes for any Surfers.
** That said, there's a definite IJBM in the idea that Pokémon ''shouldn't'' be allowed to travel free, but I've seen very few trainers with that absolute mindset. And most [[Pok Ã]]©ball-wielding trainers on the show find opportunities to let their Pokémon run around freely. As with most of the training habits in the series, it really depends on the trainer's judgment, and there are times when it's good and times when it's bad.
*** This does not explain why Ash and friends thought it was a good idea to let their Pokémon run around as soon as they got to ''a desert''. They were lucky that the worst consequence was [[Hot Skitty
** And before I forget, it was only the fourth episode of the series when Ash was accused of neglecting his Metapod by not recalling it as soon as it was threatened by Beedrills. And the third episode where he was criticized for not letting his Pidgeotto rest after a battle.
** Yellow has the Pikachu out of a ball until it's fainted. Heart Gold and Soul Silver will have some feature that lets the Pokémon be outside the balls. I think mainly it's just convenience.
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** [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Jirachi For the last, it already happened.] Okay, it's not an actual [[The Lion King|giant ball of gas burning millions of miles away]], but you get the picture.
*** They'll probably retcon Arceus into something lesser than a god, or make some lesser Legandary that's just so cool that nobody cares about how it's a step down. However, I have a particularly disturbing thought about catching legendaries. Isn't it kind of irresponsible of the trainer to catch Pokémon like the Lake Trio, Dialga/Palkia, the Birds, and especially Arceus? Does nobody stop to think that maybe it's a bad idea to put those Pokémon in the balls or on the computer when they have very important work to do, such as keeping spacetime, emotions, and the elements under control?
*** ...[[Sci
**** [[They Might Be Giants|About 93 million miles away! That's why it looks so small!]]
***** Yeah, but there's only one star that close. The next closest is 2.4 * 10 ^ 13 (93 is 9.3* 10^7). Since "star" is generally used to refer to the ones outside our solar system, we can take that as a minimum. More likely, it is even farther out than that.
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*** As others have said, if you're having trouble with battles and need to level grind, something's wrong. (Oh, and besides being incredibly fast, Infernape has a very good type combination and stat distribution, in addition to a wide movepool.) This troper has never had to level grind in Platinum any time besides ''before'' the E4, and if you can take Cynthia and her optimized Garchomp down you're more than ready for the Battle Zone.
** Story's your issue? Whoa whoa whoa whoa, my friend, slow down. Pokémon has always had an [[Excuse Plot]]. That...hasn't really changed even for Black and White. The Galactic thing is a fun distraction, as are most stories behind Pokémon (remember Mewtwo. Yeah...okay). Pokémon is a game about training little animals for battle. The league is definitely ''not'' [[The Artifact]]. Your goal is [[To Be a Master]]. Embrace this. EMBRACE IT LIKE A CHILD, OKAY, PLEASE? And I think you're exaggerating on the Elite Four and Post-Game content a little there. If you're having that much trouble, methinks you're not the best trainer. I managed to get through there without using the VS Seeker once. And if you didn't get Chimchar, you probably should've had a Ponyta a while ago for beating Gardenia, and there's the Riolu you got from Riley if you didn't. Candice's Pokémon really aren't even that much higher up from Byron, and you've had the whole mountain thing and Routes 216-217 to help you level up. Oh, and Pro-Tip: You can obtain an Old Rod as early as ''Jubilife'' and you don't get Surf until four gym leaders later. AND there's the Day Care right before Veilstone if training Magikarp is too hard. The Day Care levels Pokémon up really fast for low leveled Pokémon. Magikarp levels up at level 20, and Crasher Wake's (the guy you beat to get Surf) Pokémon are 33, 34, and 37 so most of your Pokémon ought to be way above Magikarp's leveling point by then.
*** ''[[Troper/Donaldthe Potholer|Not]]'' the OP: First up: you're saying that an event that could trigger [[The End of the World As We Know It|a civilization- (if not universe-)ending crisis]] is Gamefreak's '''[[Values Dissonance|idea of a distraction]]'''? [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Team Rocket's antics, back in the day]], ''could'' qualify as a "distraction", but their problem is that they're ''[[But Thou Must!|literally]]'' in your way of your goal. Apart from their guards blocking up the paths to at least two gyms, <ref>[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|in each "generation"]], as well as taking advantage of [[Chaos Architecture|the Cerulean Planning Commission]],</ref> the [[Player Character]], by all rights, should be allowed to just shrug and say "[[Somebody Else's Problem|Not my problem]], I just want [[To Be a Master]]." At which point, it should be the writers' responsibility to ''[[Video Game Cruelty Potential|make]]'' the player [[Video Game Caring Potential|care]] [[No Points for Neutrality|about the problem]]. [[But Thou Must!|But the player is]] ''[[Railroading|never given the choice]]''. Of course, when [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|two titans clash over populated areas]] [[The End of the World As We Know It|threatening the destruction of those areas]], only the worst [[Jerkass]] or [[Dirty Coward|Coward]] wouldn't try to find ''some'' way of intervening. But, at that point, it becomes ''[[Apathetic Citizens|everybody's]]'' [[Apathetic Citizens|problem]]. Yet, it's [[All Up to You]] and you alone.<ref>This ''is'' a common problem in RPGs. I'm thinking that the OP's objection is that solving this problem is not "[[A Winner Is You|The End]]", a nailbiting (yet Anti-Climatic in the face of taking down a terrorist group) fight against 5 expert fighters is.</ref>
*** Which brings me to my second point. "Your goal is [[To Be a Master]]." A master of '''what'''? '''[[RP Gs Equal Combat|Warfare?]]''' What if I wanted to be a master of Performance Art (Contests & Musicals)? Or athletic training ''not'' involving [[Violence Is the Only Option|direct combat]] (Pokeathalons)? Or of [[Hot Skitty
*** First off...[[Wall of Text|holy cow]]. Second, Pokémon is about training Pokémon the fight. That's what it always has been since Gen I. Taking it off of the back of the box, it says, "Catch, train, and battle your favorite Pokémon and discover ancient, mythical Pokémon in this exciting new adventure!" That's literally all it says about the story. Also, they didn't even have anything about contests until Gen III and a lot of people totally hated that. If you want to do Contests, Musicals, Pokétlon, whatever, fine, great, but that's not the main point of the game. Yes, Team Galactic is still a distraction. A super huge fun dangerous distraction, but a distraction none the less. And why the hell are you looking for morals in Pokémon? It's a video game, calm the heck down.
*** This troper is torn. On the one hand, sure, the franchise is about catching and training creatures to battle and [[To Be a Master]]. The point is, Gen IV was the first Gen to get more than an [[Excuse Plot]] by Game Freak. They added more motivation. DPPt, though being far from perfect, had a logical storyline with only a few obvious [[Broken Bridge|Broken Bridges]], an interesting antagonist team, better-developed NPCs and were - with the exception of some [[Pacing Problems|momentum breakers]] - pretty well-paced. Game Freak conciously tried to give us more than before and apparently continues to do so in Gen V. So even if Gen I-III set a certain standard of how a Pokémon game has to be, there is no reason this can't ''gradually'' change. With such a [[Cash Cow Franchise]], we can expect more installments and, following the development in Gen IV and V, maybe even more plot, more characters, more motivation and maybe better pacing without losing the "catch Pokémon, [[Level Grinding|grind your butt off]], beat the league" premise that made it famous. (And as for DPPt... Yeah, beating the league ''after'' beating the [[Omnicidal Maniac]] and saving the world was pretty anti-climatic, [[Excuse Plot]] or not.)
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