yourantagonist:

the ditto/meltan thing brings up a funny point about the pokémon world

pokémon researchers and legendary hunters must hate ditto

especially considering that canonically there are some trainers who dedicate their whole lives to hunting specific legendaries and like, if one passes through and a ditto (or two, or more!) happens to see it and goes “o shit that’s neat lemme just” and transforms, then you’ve got a HELL of a lot of false trails. and imagine thinking you’ve finally got it, you’ve got this pokémon of legend finally in your hands after years of sweat and tears, you’ve finally found celebi or whatever and then it dissolves in your hands, jellofies, and goes

( ・ 〰 ・ ) ditto!

ditto are real fuckin jackasses

appendingfic:

xenosaurus:

pokemon theory of the day: the reason some pokemon evolve only when traded is that, in the wild, those pokemon don’t evolve until they’ve left the pack they were born into to start families of their own, so if they’re still with their original trainer, their biology says “oh there’s my parent, must not be out on my own yet, haunter is fine for now”

Thank god someone thought about this question enough for a plausible answer

This question has been low-key bugging me for like 15 years