QotD: With Pokemon lore already being rather twisted, what are your favorite uplifting Pokemon myths?

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Today’s Question:
QotD: With Pokemon lore already being rather twisted, what are your favorite uplifting Pokemon myths?

Helpful Considerations: Adorable quirks? Cute habits? Dark twisted but well meaning myths?

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Favorite? That mimikyu wears a costume to avoid scaring people with its true form.

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The origin of Magikarp/Gyarados’s design. Reading Azul’s article makes it even better :pikahappy:

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Regice can’t melt.

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The way Slakoth lolls around makes anyone who watches it feel like doing the same.

The shells seems to be filled with joy. It is said that it will share good luck when treated kindly.

Greetz,
Quuador

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One myth that stuck with me is Gardevoir creating black holes, to protect their trainers. How do they generate such extreme, weird phenomena?
They seem to be very loyal creatures and I find it cute.

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Palifin based on the legend of the Amazon Dolphin. It can sense emotion and thoughts and can evolve into a hero. ( Zero to Hero)

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I like how drifloon and drifblim can carry children and people away.
That’s very uplifting.

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i like that there is a mew behind the truck

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Ash keeps his youth because he bumped into Ho-oh

Instead of y’know the “Coma thing”

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Then why is fire super effective? Sometimes things just don’t make sense, if it can’t melt then fire shouldn’t be able to do anything it should only be able to chip very confusing lore.

Also I LOVE Grotle’s description

It lives along water in forests. In the daytime, it leaves the forest to sunbathe its treed shell. It knows where pure water wells up. It carries fellow Pokémon there on its back.

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Regice should have a hidden ability called Superionic Ice that halves the damage taken from super-effective moves and makes it immune to burn.

And while we’re on the subject, they should give Regenerator to Regirock and Filter to Registeel. Rapid Spin to Regice and Regirock, Knock Off to Registeel. Recover to all of them.

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I think this was adorable

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