Uh hey. It looks like I'm gonna be here for a while, so does anyone know where I can get my hands on a van? I'm gonna need somewhere to live once the weather gets better. I can't just crash on people's couches forever.
It doesn't take nearly as long as that. A few second, a bright flash of light, and bam! You have a new Pokémon species in your team. Though a few of the Bug-types do have a cocoon-like stage, which counts as its own thing.
[Almost dying what. He has no idea what a Gem means in this context, but he's definitely worried for their safety now.]
No! Certainly not! Sure, most of the time it involves battling to get experience, but for some species just shoving special rocks at them is enough. And if your Pokémon get badly injured, you're doing somthing wrong.
I mean, that's how it works for Gems! That's how it worked for Rose! I mean, I guess, sort of, it's more that her light body was destroyed and her real body, her Gem, stayed fine and then she made it all over again into the one she's in now, or anyway that's how I think it happened, it was thousands of years ago and I wasn't around yet and I never went inside Pearl's pearl to see like Steven did and--
[Deep breaths, Greg. Deep breaths.]
Um. Anyway. That's all the context I've got for someone changing their entire form all at once.
[...That was a long, strange and complicated explanation, but Ash thinks he kinda understand the gist of it. As much as anyone with absolutely no other context can, that is.]
Ah. In that case, still no. Pokémon only have one physical body that actively changes, even the ones like Magneton that look like they've split or cloned themselves. It's more like... instantaneous puberty, with a few species that just decide to completely change their style along the way. Or like those scrawny civilians that magically become muscle-bound superheroes in movies, except they don't change back.
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[It's actually a Wooloo but sshhh, Greg doesn't know that.]
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At first, yes. But that line has three stages in total, so don't get too used to the name.
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[That's very weird.]
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[BECAUSE THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH GEMS.]
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[Almost dying what. He has no idea what a Gem means in this context, but he's definitely worried for their safety now.]
No! Certainly not! Sure, most of the time it involves battling to get experience, but for some species just shoving special rocks at them is enough. And if your Pokémon get badly injured, you're doing somthing wrong.
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[Deep breaths, Greg. Deep breaths.]
Um. Anyway. That's all the context I've got for someone changing their entire form all at once.
[voice]
Ah. In that case, still no. Pokémon only have one physical body that actively changes, even the ones like Magneton that look like they've split or cloned themselves. It's more like... instantaneous puberty, with a few species that just decide to completely change their style along the way. Or like those scrawny civilians that magically become muscle-bound superheroes in movies, except they don't change back.
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So... not actually that much like Gems. Got it.