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[schachmeister]

[The video opens on a nice little beach towards the sunset hours. A large red Gyarados is laying with his head in the surf, enjoying some good rubs to his crest from Armin, who addresses the camera without taking his eyes off the big lug on the sand.]

I spent a lot of time reading the Pokedex when I first arrived here, but the longer I am here and the more research I do, the more I realise there are a lot of falsehoods in the Pokedex as well. Or at least, a lot of uncorroborated information. Which, unfortunately, seems to lead to some pokemon having a very undeserved reputation.

Take Gyarados, for example.

[He gestures with his arm to the Gyarados laying on the sand, who lets out a low rumble of enjoyment.]

All the Pokedex talks about is how vicious and destructive they are, and how they go on constant rampages.

Now, I won't deny that they can be dangerous and territorial in the wild, but I don't think it is right to portray them as mindless rampaging monsters either. They behave that way for a reason and each has their own personality. They can make perfectly fine pokemon, as long as they are handled by an experienced trainer.

[In fact, Armin got some theories about how their bad reputation really is the result of being handled by a few too many inexperienced trainers.]

I'm not sure how to go about submitting corrections to the Pokedex, but until I figure that out, I wanted to ask: are there any pokemon you care about that you feel have a very undeserved reputation? Or any other false information in the Pokedex that you know about?

[Armin can't research every pokemon as much as he'd like. But perhaps other people can help him correct any misconceptions he might have.]

Comments

[nastyboy]

It is the same here. However, it is rather difficult to think of them as the same creature... and here, there is really no excuse.

Yes, Raticate, and Rattata with enough time, can chew through stone given enough time. Yet I fail to see how that makes them anymore a menace than what other breeds can do.

[schachmeister]

They do have a tendency to breed very quickly compared to some other species. That does form a bit of a problem when they don't have any natural predators in a given area. That's what happened in Alola until they brought in Yungoos if I remember correctly.

[nastyboy]

Clearly, they need to simply catch more Rattata.

[The Gardevoir looks amused by this, although she has to patiently instruct Dimitri on something, judging by the way she points. There are a few clinks and clunks.]

Although that is interesting, considering that none of mine have seemed interested in breeding... Of course, Cofgodas and Hob are interested in one another, in a romantic sense, but I still have two other Raticate who could, and of course Gremlin.

[schachmeister]

There are always some pokemon who don't really seem interested in it. You should consider yourself fortunate though. Just imagine how many eggs you would have to deal with if they were all interested in breeding. You'd end up like Cecil.

[nastyboy]

[...Now he's got a concern]

What has happened with Cecil...?

[schachmeister]

I think in this case, I'll let one of his own posts do the talking.

[Armin has gone through his gear memories to find this.]

[nastyboy]

[Dimitri keeps his video on as he watches Cecil's post, just because he.... genuinely has no idea how to not do that. So Armin gets to see his whole face journey as his eyebrows rise, impressed, before his eye slowly starts to get bigger, and bigger...]

[By the end of it, he has one hand over his mouth, and is looking mildly horrified. His voice is a whisper.]

Oh no.

[schachmeister]

Y-yeah.

Though at least he has managed to convince his pokemon to only do something like that once a year. It's. That's something, at least. probably