Do you think Magby would be a good first Pokémon? I have family from Freezington who want to give my youngest brother one.
Oh absolutely!
We have a pretty decent Magby population, and I keep a close eye on them, and they are awesome fire types for beginners.
A ways back we has an issue in our natural ecosystem, mostly a lack of fire types in the wild.
With the help of rangers from Johto and a few other places, we were able to relocate some hoards of fire types here to balance our natural biome.
Magby and it's line were some of the quickest to adapt, and since Magmortar was discovered here it's pretty clear why.
If you're looking to raise one in a cold environment then you'll need to take special preparations first.
You'll need the proper foods for it to keep its internal flame nice and strong, and you can't just leave them in the cold all of the time.
You'll want to make trips out to more naturally hot, sunny, or volcanic environments about once a month to make sure it's socializing and receiving the proper nutrients from its natural environment.
Also be prepared, if a Magby gets sick it's nose drippings are really hot so you'll want to approach with caution.
I also always suggest that if you're trying to pair a pokemon and a person, you should let them decide and make the connection instead of just giving them a pokemon and hoping for the best.
It will make the relationship much stronger and starts things off well.
So instead of just giving your brother a pokemon, let him come to meet them, if you're in sinnoh we can easily set up a trip to the natural habitat of the Magby and introduce him to some more social ones.
I would definetly recommend the pokemon but don't just gift them one, let them choose.
i love comparing pokédex entries for the same mon between different games bc almost all of them will be very brief, matter-of-fact, purely scientific without any first person pronouns or personal information about the author. and then you get to the legends arceus entries and laventon’s writing stuff like ‘ngl i still don’t understand this species’ ‘i tried petting this pokémon once and it bit me’ ‘i live in fear of this thing’ ‘man i miss galar. who said that’
If this man has to haunt me, he has has to haunt you.
Meet Sweaty. He’s a 42 year old absol and lives with his human mom in Castelia, Unova.
Some Absol headcanons:
I do think part of why Absols have such a bad rep among people is partially due to folklore of them appearing before and after horrific disasters, but also because they have such a human face. Imagine seeing this mf in the dark woods watching you. Something that looks human, but is not. Something that sounds human, but is NOT. Follow this by a horrific landslide.
Do you see the problem. Humans remember human faces. Predators sometimes mimic their prey. Absols have the truly unfortunate evolutionary quirk of falling into both categories.
So yes, there was a huge stigma against absols which led to a pretty severe population decline.
In modern day (much like wolves), Absols have become media darlings, in large thanks to a the help of pokemon rangers who utilize Absol’s ability to sense weather as an indicator when to evacuate. They are a very long lived species and need lots of intense exercise, often declaring huge swaths of land as their personal territories. Absols also tend to get very anxious when they feel they do not have enough space, so keeping them with other pokemon’s usually a no no.
Sweaty’s mom used to be a pokemon ranger and found Sweaty stuck in a refrigerator. Nowadays, she lets him free roam—much to the chagrin of every other person in the area. Sweaty in turn makes himself a nuisance to the local icecream store, begging for treats.
(The kids love him. He comes home with ink and paint stained everywhere and it’s a nightmare to clean.)
Hate my human faced monstrosities? Thank @tjs-stuffs for this. Ciao!
Elesa’s feeling homesick. Emmet, bless his heart, tries to help by infodumping while Ingo frantically runs off to find water (crying is a very dehydrating experience).
((Would you look at that! The kids are picking up kantonese and galarian from each other!))
BONUS:
Heh. Callback.
Want to see more? Here’s the masterpost for submas!
one of the best things about Pokemon cards is that some of the illustrators have been at it so long that you can actively see their art improve and progress over time
for example, all of these cards were illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, just years apart (1999, 2005, 2017, and 2022, respectively)