what is a pokemon

has this question ever been definitively answered in all of the pokemon content out there? they seem like wild animals but all available information points to them just being data.

the pokeball's ability to de-compile and store them, the ability to transfer them via pc and then do all sorts of other things from there, their ability to learn skills from data discs... the list goes on.

perhaps a wild pokemon is a real creature, and a pokeball creates a carbon copy of the pokemon's spirit and stores it as data, so what you're really getting is more or less a clone.

missingno is the result of the copy process failing.

Missingno is just a fail pokemon that wasn't coded correctly. Each pokemon has a hidden ability to be shrunken down into small balls. You don't get a clone, since there would be everyone and their mother running around with a Mewtwo. The TM are just magical and pokemon can read them and learn the data on it. You transfer thanks to the pokeball.

I thought the TM Case read your TMs and then you beamed them into your pokemon's head or something.

I had always thought that TMs worked in the same matter as Rosetta Stone.

You pop in the disc, read the on screen instructions, and boom you know how to Hyper Beam.

both of the explanations are more far-fetched than my own.

everyone and there mother IS running around with a mewtwo, by the way. if you want to go for an anime or story explanation the lack of mewtwo could easily be explained by no one ever taming it. also that clones aren't duplica...ble..., so even if someone did catch one, there would still only be one.

I had always thought that TMs worked in the same matter as Rosetta Stone.

You pop in the disc, read the on screen instructions, and boom you know how to Hyper Beam.

that is a decent explanation but there's still the other things that don't make sense.

The TM are just magical and pokemon can read them and learn the data on it.

You jam a CD in their head. That's how TMs work, not because of some "magical" bullshit.

You jam a CD in their head. That's how TMs work, not because of some "magical" bullshit.

hur hur fire red

hur hur fire red

Exactly my thoughts. I support the idea that they are data.

Pokemon are salves that do whatever we want them to do.

SO THIS MUST EXPLAIN WHY PIKACHU DOESN'T WANT TO GO IN ITS BALL?

Or maybe Pokemon just takes place 1 billion years into the future.

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