it’s possible, but just barely. they have a -49.5% recruitment rate, by far the lowest in the entire game. you can boost your recruitment odds in a number of ways. being level 90-100 gives you +25%, and holding the golden mask gives you +24%.
but wait, that still adds up to -0.5% recruitment for kecleon, which is still literally impossible!! well, the Fast Friend iq skill gives you an extra +1% to your rate, giving you a whopping 0.5% chance to recruit kecleon every time you defeat one, given you meet all these requirements. it’s why i’m using celebi here.
more things you absolutely need to do if you want to recruit one:
evasion orbs. like, 10 of them. you need max evasion to stand a chance against the waves.
really, really ludicrously high stats. i’m playing sky, so i used the spinda bar to boost my stats
on top of having high base stats, you need a way to boost yourself. i brought a violent seed on top of that, and celebi has silver wind and ancient power that also have chances to give boosts to all stats. note: some kecleons have screech, if they manage to hit you with it you’re basically dead next time they hit you regardless of how bolstered your defenses are
max elixirs because you’re gonna run out of moves fending off the swarm
resetting will probably happen a lot but with preparation and patience you’ll get your kec eventually. there’s my handy hell lizard recruitment guide
the answer to that is a surprising “yes”, its IQ is reset to 0 (like all recruited pokemon) but its stats are ridiculous
the base stats in this game cap at 255 (because they’re counted by signed 8-bit binary) and it was one point off from hitting that cap when i recruited it. its hp is also ridiculously high at 282 despite only being level 42
so this makes it without any contest the single strongest pokemon you can have on your team in this game, stronger than mewtwo, stronger than dialga, everything. keep in mind you have to fight dozens of these at once to get one.
another thing:
most pokemon have a small pool of phrases determined by their IQ group, but kecleon seems to have unique dialogue when you talk to it in and out of dungeons.Â
strange but cool detail to include for something that’s nearly impossible to get in the first place
biologists in the pokemon universe are fuckin idiots. imagine excluding entire countries’ worth of animals and saying “yeah these are all the species in the world”. and these arent even like. undiscovered continents. each of these countries has enough history to show that it’s been populated for countless generations. fuckin professor oak or whatever professor is just straight up neglecting to include entire continents in his research papers
The first 4 Generations aren’t even different countries, just different regions in the SAME country. And according to the remakes have known about each other for ages. Which makes it worse.
professor oak, travelling 10 km west: what the fuck are all those
Also in the first episode of the anime Ash asks why a wild pokemon is attacking Pikachu and his pokedex says that wild pokemon are often jealous of pokemon with trainers.
#keep your edgy shit away from my pokemon plz n thx
Pokemon are miniature blood knights who love beating the shit out of one another and dream of joining professional fighting squads that go around beating the shit out of one another and I think that’s amazing
It’s actually also officially stated that pokemon battle all the time against each other in the nature. Just think about it: it’s how they EVOLVE, that’s how they grow and mature, and you meet evolved and high-leveled pokemon in the wilds, meaning they did a lot of fighting. Also, a lot of people forget that the reason they have moves is because it’s how they harness their power in a relatively safe way. That’s why they need to learn things like “Cut”, “Surf” and “Fly”: they could do all those things naturally, but they need to learn how to cut things without gutting creatures around them, how to swim without drowning you in the process, how to fly without having you falling from dangerously high heights. They use moves precisley because that isn’t a brutal beat-down or a fight to the death, but a safe way of confrontation and personal growth. And it was also stated that captured pokemon are stronger and level up faster than wild ones, meaning that once they bond with a trainer the whole challenging other trainers is actually beneficial to them, not cruel.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I FORGOT ABOUT THAT. this makes much more sense now.
Honestly, this sounds like a more interesting angle to explore than the “Pokemon are just tools for human bloodsports”. What sort of implications would that raise?
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