Thread 717750453

Could a master ball catch satan?

>>717750453 (OP)
Is Satan a pokemon? If not, not

Yes, the master ball works fine on Giratina.

>>717750453 (OP)
I dunno man, Lucifer is generally pretty willing to just join your party for free if you're aligned with Chaos.

I know exactly which video this shot is from
wish there was more to the series

Could a masterball catch me a girlfriend?

>>717750453 (OP)
AAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEE

>>717750453 (OP)
no

>>717750453 (OP)
Thats is how I got your mom.

>>717751139
I caught your mom with a heavy ball

>>717750558
Solid post.

Has the master ball even been used in the anime? Is there an explanation? It has to be like the most expensive/difficult to create item in the entire poke world

>>717751280
It was used on a whiscash, who ate it and swam away.

>>717751280
yes but it got eaten

>>717751280
Yes but it's considered a joke gets made useless.

>>717750558
Lucifer =/= Satan

Catch this bussy

>>717751451
Same principle applies, you just need to be Law aligned instead of Chaos.

>>717750453 (OP)
No.
All Pokemon naturally have the ability to shrink. They do this when scared or injured in order to protect themselves and heal. Pokeballs simply exploit this instinct by locking them tight in a comfortable environment. They don't do anything actually special.
The first Pokeball was actually a professor's glasses case. He accidentally caught his pet Primape when a lab experiment made a loud sound and scared it.

Satan most likely does not shrink as a defense mechanism.

>>717751280
>Is there an explanation? It has to be like the most expensive/difficult to create item in the entire poke world
The effectiveness of a Pokeball depends on what materials it's made of, with some doing a better job of pacifying shrunken Pokemon than others (and some having different effects on specific Pokemon, like the Heavy Ball).
Older pokeballs were made of apricots and tumblestone, while modern ones are made of different modern alloys and complex elements.

The Master Ball specifically is made of an unspecified composition of nickel, rhodium, iridium, copper, lutetium, rhenium, dubnium, darmstadtium, carbon/boron, arsenic/germanium, selenium/bromine, and two other ambiguous f-block elements. This is apparently the perfect combination to guarantee capture. It took years for them to figure out this combination, and after Giovanni fucked off after Red beat him, Silph Co lost the formula.

>>717750453 (OP)
how does it work anyways? I get normal pokeballs, because you have to weaken the pokemon first, making them surrender and accept that you are the stronger guy, and therefore follow you. But the masterball? It even works on mewtwo, a highly intelligent and prideful pokemon. Surerly he wouldn't become an obidient slave just because this borderline cheat-device has catched him. What stops him from killing you using his psychic powers once you let him out for a battle, and escape? The masterball must have some brainwashing-stuff going on.

>>717750453 (OP)
>don't be a thief!

would prompt

>>717751280
Sada/Turo in SV have seven of the damn things so who knows. Maybe they only have so many as part of like a research grant.

>>717751907
The guy above you answered it. It's not about subjugation and entrapment it's about essentially giving the Mon a womb to go back into. They're ok being in there because it's the perfect environment. The ass kicking comes after you open the ball

>>717751907
The obedience part comes from having badges (or whatever the fuck the equivalent in SM was). Don't ask me how that works but it's how it does.

>>717752047
>be mewtwo
>catched by a masterball
>uh it's really comfy in here, I will stay
>trainer let's you out, and order you to battle
>wtf why would I?
>kill him
>go back into comfy masterball

>>717752212
It also comes from the trainer having a Mon strong enough to beat the shit outta you so the respect comes from that. Like two boxers who have mutual respect for each other and hug after a match even though ones bleeding from his eyeballs

>>717751010
Fuckin' idiot, that's clearly a *Waster* Ball!

>>717750453 (OP)
What's inside a master ball that makes powerful pokemon like MewTwo want to stay?

>>717751706
>Silph Co lost the formula.
No they didn't considering they still have Master Balls in newer games.

>>717752307
Pokemon literally can't kill humans.

>>717750453 (OP)
>master ball is just a regular ball with pantsu on head

Really?

>>717752354
yeah, but that doesn't apply when you use a masterball to catch a mon without a fight.

>>717752307
That'd be a cool idea for a legendary actually. It was caught a thousand years ago or whatever and is just a caveman ball in a cave somewhere and everyone who opens it dies a horrific death. And you can't capture it because it's already caught

>>717752481
Well, that's what the official lorebook says. And as far as I know, they never explain why the post-Gen 1 ones even exist despite that.

>>717752495
>cannot kill humans
>whatever, just ignore his orders anyways
>leave, taking comfy masterball home with me using psychic powers
>embrace masterball neet live

>>717751706
>Satan most likely does not shrink as a defense mechanism.
false, it has been observed doing so many times

Isn't there like a 1/256 chance a Master Ball will fail because of Gen 1 fuckery or something

>>717751280
if i recall, they are simply prohibitively expensive to make, yeah. Presumably to the point where they wouldn't be profitable, or pokemarts would be selling them.

>>717752890
Nope, it's something that actually works as intended.

>>717752574
Pokemon didn't get lore remotely locked down until gen 3. Gen 1 also had references to real animals like fish in the anime or Raichu being able to hurt a Indian elephant which later games retconned to be a Copperjah.

>>717752574
Even as early as Gen 2 Elm tells the player he got his because he was a professor but he had no use for it. So sometime in the two year gap between Gen 1 and 2 it seems Silph figured out how to make them again.

>>717752890
You're thinking of 100% accuracy attacks, they can miss because they put the check as a less than 255 instead of less than or equal to, so if the RNG pulls exactly 255 it'll fail.

>>717753317
>Pokemon didn't get lore remotely locked down until gen 3
It got locked down on day one. Game Freak and Creatures put out multiple official lorebooks and magazines detailing it. These original lorebooks have been referenced to this day in the games and anime, like how Pokemon shrinking was mentioned in PLA despite being in Red/Green's lorebook. Another example is that the aforementioned professor who caught a primape is the grandfather of the slowpoke professor in the original anime, Professor Westwood.

Some other fun facts no one talks about:
>all pokemon give birth like real animals. Live births, fish laying hundreds of eggs, etc. The Pokemon Eggs from Gen 2 are actually artificial cocoons the parents build out of plant fibers, dirt, and debris, then deposit their offspring into. The eggs are borderline indestructible and keeps them safe until they're mature enough to survive on their own, which is why Pokemon can fight immediately after hatching
>the most famous movie in-canon is one where a human boy transforms into a Kadabra, which is referenced in its pokedex entry. This movie is so insanely popular that almost all pokemon media is now about transforming into Pokemon, with Gen 5's Pokestar Studios being a specific exception. Bill is the president of the global Pokemon TF fanclub, and the machine you see him building when you meet him in Gen 1 is a Pokemon TF machine for the club to use
>as for the animal thing you mentioned, they admitted in the ORAS lorebook that they accidentally added coral in the backgrounds of some fights, forgetting coral was an animal. They re-retconned it so that coral is the only non-Pokemon animal that canonically exists, and only in Hoenn

>>717750453 (OP)
>Could a master ball catch satan?
Funny you mention that. There's a book called "The testament of Solomon", where King Solomon tells one of his servants to trick a demon called Asmodeus to take a powerful ring to hell and catch Satan with it.

This book is Biblical fan fiction, but it's an interesting read/listen.

>>717752470
>MewTwo
kys

>>717750453 (OP)
wario wearing a thong