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17th moon [video action]

[The feed first shows a messy room, where a disheveled white-haired man sits at a table and writes furiously. He is surrounded by trinkets of all sorts and books on various subjects, and he does not appear to realize that someone is using his Pokégear.

The camera then turns toward the ground, where a Bayleef is delicately placing a Fire Stone. The Pokégear is placed in front of it, and a Clefairy looks at it for a few seconds before nodding at an unseen Pokémon. Said Pokémon enters the picture, looking at the Fire Stone for a few seconds before touching it. It makes him glow brightly.]

What the- Flare?

[But by the time Cecil turns around and comes closer, Flare the Growlithe is no more. Instead, Flare the Arcanine stands proudly, dwarfing the rest of the Pokémon in the room. He howls once, twice, before walking up to his trainer and licking his face gently.]

...Thank you...

[The feed times out a few minutes later.]

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You're telling me. I've got an eight foot alligator on my team, not to mention a six foot dragon. Feeding them's tough, but I figure it could be much worse.

An alligator and a dragon? They do sound like species that would eat a lot, though I suppose they must eat less than those Onix. It seems like Pokémon's appetites are often proportional to their size.

Yeah, they're not like an Onix. Those things probably eat enough to feed a whole team.

They must eat even more when they evolve... If they evolve, that is. I've never heard anyone mention their Onix's evolution.

Who knows? Some Pokémon don't evolve; maybe Onix is one of them.

I've never had a Pokémon that could not evolve, actually. Are they that common, compared to the others?

I don't think so. Most seem to evolve at least once. Think the only one on my team who hasn't is my Rotom.

And then we have the Eevees, with their multiple parallel evolutions... Rotom was one of those ghosts that showed up in September, wasn't it?

That's right. They were harder to find than all the others, though.

Were they? I did not pay much attention to them. I only caught the Shuppet responsible for my nightmares, and then I left to find my friend. Besides, I doubt I could have caught one. I only had a Normal-type at the time.

Yeah, normal types don't do much to ghosts. I'm lucky I had a few different types by then, otherwise it might've been tough.

Rosie ended up in a staring contest with Avenger, so it was too distracted to attack. But it still took me three Pokéballs to catch him. [Nevermind the fact that the first pokéball had missed its target, and the second had hit Squall instead.]

I guess that's one way to catch them off guard, I just prefer to stay on the offensive. It's extra training for my team.

I like to have both a good offense and a good defense. Which is why I bought them all TMs that cover types I do not have and compensate for their elemental weaknesses, along with a few indirect move. I'll never have to deal with a Pokémon I cannot touch again.

Defense and strategy are important. I just prefer to keep attacking, so my enemies don't have a chance to strike back.

It's a good strategy, and also how we defeated Bugsy. But we were forced to fight more defensively against Falkner and Whitney, due to type disadvantages. Poison and paralysis in particular worked quite well. Luckily, our levels should be sufficient to defeat Morty quickly and directly.

Status effects are pretty useful. It's how I beat Falkner, but with Whitney, all I had to do was use brute strength. My Nidoking was at a huge level advantage, and he knows a fighting type move.

I had no access to fighting type moves against Whitney, so defeating her took some time. Luckily, half of my team was female, so her Charm attack was mostly ineffective.

Can't say the same about my team. More than half of them are males.

Does their gender influence anything beyond the Charm attack and breeding? I never saw a difference, but then again I never looked for one.

Nidorans look different, depending on their gender. They evolve into different Pokémon, too.

I've not heard of any other species acting like that. Why would their genders be so different?

Beats me. Wonder what makes Nidorans so special.

Then again, some Pokémon have no gender at all. Extreme differences between sexes cannot be any stranger than that.

True. And the ones with no gender can still breed somehow.

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