They can vocalise more than just their names, so if anything, they’re Digimon.
I don’t think this is true, there’s some Pokémon that speak normal language like meowth, lucario, legendaries etc…
Every human can talk because they were taught. Meowth couldn’t talk until he taught himself how(to try and impress a girl meowth 😭). Humans don’t teach their Pokemon to speak, and most don’t have the inclination to teach themselves. So for all we know every Pokemon is capable of human speech if they were taught.
Idk i think that’s just how Pokemon moo or whatever and the names are onomatopoetic.
In lore it says humans and Pokemon used to be indistinguishable. So probably yeah
And then in Legends Arceus suddenly humans barely understood how to interact with Pokemon barely a few hundred years before modern times. What genius came up with that nonsense?
I feel like they’ve been forgoring since around gen 7. There’s been a weird shift in how the relationship between humans and Pokemon has been written for a while now and I don’t like it. But that’s a schizopost for another time.
No, as regular animals exist in the Pokemon world, too. The original games had cats and dogs in some houses. The cartoon showed non Pokemon birds flying alongside pidgeys and such.
The original games also made the claim that Pokemon came from space. They only showed up after a meteorite.
Which part? That Pokemon came from space or the inclusion of common animals like dogs and cats? I didn’t even know the show continued beyond my high school years until I saw all the talk about the show finally ending recently so I personally have no idea what they changed but the recent games I have played make the origin of the pokemon more mystical.
As far as I’m aware, the inclusion of real-world animal species in the older anime and games was due to the lack of variety in existing Pokemon species. The last time I know they referred to a real animal was in 2016, where the Pokedex entry for Raichu says it can knock out an Indian elephant. More recently, Raichu’s Pokedex entry was updated to instead say it can incapacitate a Copperajah.
Pokeballs get really sinister when you think about them too deeply.
Yes. Because answering “no” is more troublesome.
