What's the dumbest piece of vidya lore that's actually canon?

I dunno, if they somehow developed advanced shrinking technology in that era it would be just as silly. Pokemon is inherently a silly concept.

>>714677715 (OP)
Clefairy shrink down and go into my urethra!

>>714677715 (OP)
Gwyndolin being a boy.

You do know that's why they're called Pocket Monsters, right? That was the original concept. They shrink to hide in the tall grass and grow to fight you. You can't catch them when they faint because they shrink back down and you can no longer find them. You have to put them in the ball before that happens.

>>714677715 (OP)
i have a onyx in my anus rn

>>714678029
in the first game you had some guy change bodies with a pokemon or some shit with a machine he built in his house

>>714678593
This is a life changing revelation.

>>714678593
Does that mean tall grass is filled with tiny tiny pokemon like they're snails and people are just constantly stepping on them and killing them by accident?

>>714678593
Yeah, because they were put inside the pokeballs. But what everyone assumed was that the technology of the balls shrinked them or turned them into energy or data or whatever. Literally nobody thought that mons had a inherent ability to shrink, that's retarded.

>>714679148
lemme guess, your fetish?

>>714679186
>Minimize has been an attack since the very first game
>game goes out of its way to show a sprite shrink down into pixels
>hell, the intro literally shows your own character shrinking down if you want to go down that rabbit hole
Okay anon, just because you were the retard, doesn't mean "literally" everyone else has to be.

>>714679521
Oh, so humans can shrink in the pokemon world too? Retard.
Literally nobody thought that pokemon having the innate ability to shrink was a thing, it was never part of any conversation until the shitty Legends game came out. It never happened in the anime either despite it airing for decades, every time they come across a Pokemon it's always at full size, we literally never see a Pokemon shrunk down in the wild despite you claim that they spend most of their time tiny hidden in the grass apparently

the midichlorian incident of pokemon

>>714679521
Every pokemon learns minimize?

the red energy that pokemon turn into was an anime invention.

>>714680440
Yeah, a 90s anime could never improve what it is adapting

>>714679521
can every pokemon learn minimize?
if a pokemon doesn't have minimize in its moveset, does that mean it can't shrink into a pokeball?

>>714679186
Honestly it's cuz of the show. The red light comes from the ball and covers the pokemon and then they get sucked in. It's clearly not the pokemon sucking themselves into the ball or shrinking first. The entire process is the ball doing something to the pokemon

>>714677715 (OP)
You just know this was invented by some vorefag so he could write stories about pokemon crawling into his dick and ass

>>714678593
Firstly, the only monster in any pocket here is the one between my legs
Second, it was assumed for decades that Pokemon were digitized by the Pokeballs, not that Pokemon have an innate ability to shrink.
Which makes less sense since Minimize exists as a move, but can’t be learned by every Pokemon despite every Pokemon being able to shrink themselves.

>>714680668
>>714680973
minimize requires a greater degree of control, for most pokemon the shrinking is a subconscious ability

>>714680973
>digitalized by the Pokeballs
Exactly, which was further confirmed by the fact that you could send them and store them into computers. Made perfect sense. How does the shrinking bullshit align with them being turned into data and transmitted digitally?

>>714681495
you stuff them into the floppy disk slot now play your slop games kiddo

Pokemon as a franchise was never designed with any sort of prequels in mind. As far as I recall, in Gen 1, Bill was the one who invented the Pokeballs (that digitized the Pokemon) and the PC storage system (that stored them digitally), while Oak invented the Pokedex, hence why (You) were tasked with filling out the latter by using the former - nothing like that was done before. The stuff PLA had is bullshit that doesn't make sense in this context - if people were studying Pokemon for more than a century and even had Pokeballs, then what the fuck was Oak doing?

>>714681082
you have brain damage

>>714677715 (OP)
hammerspace balls are superior

>>714677715 (OP)
Why do you never see them shrink in the anime? They just turn into red energy and go in the pokeball

>>714681737
kurt was making pokeballs out of random fruit in johto
the capability of pokemon becoming smaller is an innate property of the polemon themselves, it's not caused by the pokeball

>>714677715 (OP)
They're called pocket monsters because they shrink to fit in your pockets, it has always been canon

>>714681835
Cope loser

>>714678593
so that's why they seem to shink when defeated in the 3d games?

Is he a villain?

>>714677715 (OP)
>gamexplain

>>714678593
>>714680000
The first thing that happens in RBGY is that you shrink like the Pokémon.

>stealth feet thread

>>714678593
So is the anime to 'blame' for making them seem like full size animals just inhabiting the world?

>>714677715 (OP)
It's only dumb because it was never stated outside of Japan until the game came out; much like how Japan knew a bunch of stuff from the mega leak a few months back but nobody else did.

>>714683269
Not necessarily. There's plenty of cases of mons just hanging out in the overworld before games like Let's Go, such as the fatass Snorlaxes that block the routes in RBGY. I believe that game's Safari Zone implies that they let the mons roam about, hence why they can choose to fuck off. Plus stuff like Pineco and Voltorb being casually camoflauged as normal objects hint towards that mons do just exist alongside humans, they just gonna be dicks about it.Though common sense would have at least keen you in that there are too many monsters WAY bigger than the tall grass they hide in, so something fucky about them is going on.
Arceus just made it incredibly clear the why and how of mons shrinking, that it wasn't just an odd artistic expression of mons fainting or being devoured by the grass.

>>714678593
Not knowing this fact is the giveaway that someone is a zoomie that started after Gen5 or an anime only.

>>714682719

I need to lick Akari's unwashed pits and asshole

>>714677715 (OP)
>>714678593
This is fucking stupid and I refuse to see it as canon. Laventon is a fucking dumbass as far as I'm concerned.

>>714681737
Biologists have been studying our animals for thousands of years, and we're still nowhere close to knowing everything, especially as methods and tools improve. Pokemon has a lot of fucked up animals.

>>714687024
and lick her holes after she takes a big meaty shit

You anons are all missing the point

So if pokemon can shrink, that means that they can grow too. WE CAN MAKE GARDEVOIR BIGGER!

>>714688150
We already did that. It's called dynamax. Pokemon changing their size is not only canon, but a major part of their biology.

>>714682894
Chris looks alright

>>714688150
The point is I want to taste an a young girl

>>714678593
And what happens when you switch out in RBY? The pokemon shrinks.

>>714677715 (OP)
I had forgotten all about this, thanks anon for reminding me that gamefreak really doesn't give a shit anymore and just dials it in.

>>714677715 (OP)
This has been a thing since the first god damn game

>>714678920
Pokemon was always set in a semi-sci fi setting to begin with. When the games launched the idea of there being a PC to store pokemon in digitally, magical health incubators, teleporters etc. always made the games feel vaguely futuristic, but with a strong connection to nature.

As the series has gone on its felt more connected to the real world rather than a fantasy setting imo

>>714683165
>>714679521
The fact that the intro of the game shows you shrinking down but you can't actually shrink as a human lends credence to any other shrinking also being a visual abstraction and not literal shrinking.

>>714680973
>Second, it was assumed for decades that Pokemon were digitized by the Pokeballs
It's been awhile but I'm pretty sure the anime said they worked that way too.

>>714678593
If this is true then
>Why are Pokemon never seen actively this ability in any Pokemon media except (supposedly) when balls are used
>Why has this supposed ability never been referenced or even alluded to since Laventon said his retarded line about it
>What the fuck is the point of Minimize

>shrink themselves

But the pokeball was supposed to shrink them

Damn niggers at the writing desk

WHAT DO A RAVEN AND A WRITING DESK HAVE IN COMMON

NIGGERS

>>714677715 (OP)
The manga did it best imho

>>714677715 (OP)
Star Ocean 3's twist recontextualizes the villains of SO1 and 2 from world and galaxy level threats to raid bosses

>>714682894
>@troontris

>>714689236
imagine being trapped and conscious inside a tiny ball that affords no room for you to move in

>>714688937
Minimize is the strategic use of this ability, dumbass.

>>714677715 (OP)
>>714688937
>Pokemon possess the odd power to-
I dont think that necessarily means pokemon can shrink themselves at will like ant man.
Its probably a translation of the original JP script being something like
>Pokemon can be shrunk down/Pokemon sometimes change size
Etc. etc.
I mean if pokemon can train to the point where they literally morph into a brand new shape and physiology in seconds I dont think shrinking down in size under certain circumstances is that hard to believe
>Why has this supposed ability never been referenced or even alluded to since Laventon said his retarded line about it
The line was only there to address any plot concerns about "How did the tech for pokeballs exist back then"
>What the fuck is the point of Minimize
A combat technique that not every pokemon will know how to use.
Like Magnemite or Voltorb can obviously discharge electricity naturally, but not every single one of them will know how to use Thunder or Zap Cannon

>>714689714
Logically if they can go small to get in the ball they can go even smaller.
But basically every media has always painted the balls as being akin to a bed for the pokemon to rest in so it must be comfy somehow

>>714677715 (OP)
Lolwhat?