Pokémon is 22 years old. Heck, it's almost as old as I am. The franchise has spanned countries, languages, movies, tv shows, games, animation, and there's even a cafe in Japan. It's a worldwide phenomenon the likes of which have only been replicated by other gigantic Nintendo properties like Mario or Legend of Zelda. But, as we've seen with Legend of Zelda specifically, the more games you make, the more chance there is𒊎 for𒁃 continuity errors.
Zelda's timeline got so mixed up and confusing they had to make an entir🐼e book talking about it and even then a 🀅lot of it still doesn't make sense. Pokémon is the same.
The ideas the developers had in the 90s don't always match with the plans for the franchise nowadays. This leads to them either ignoring giant plotholes or attempting to f🌃ix them unsuccessfully. Over these 22 years, there have been unexplained mysteries, completely broken gameplay elements, absurdly ridiculous aspects of certain Pokémon, and even some absentee parents. There are just too many different threads here. There's no way Gamefreak has the time or patience to both work on a new season of the cartoon, and also to go back to explain why Geodude is able to just...floats there. And honestly, after all these years, fans of the franchise have gotten pretty good at ignoring the inconsistencies. This allows Gamefreak to move on to fixing more..pressing problems, and I completely understand. But, that doesn't mean the problems don't still exist. so, in order to help clear things up, I dug through and found Pokémon: 25 Ridiculous Things That Make No Sense (And Fans Ignore)
25 Pokémon Games - Elevator Girl꧅
Gamefreak has always had a knack for mystery. There has been a multitude of disappearing NPCs and ghosts throughout the Pokémon games. In Gen IV there was the Old Chateau that had both a Ghost Butler and Ghost Girl. Gen III's remake had an NPC that disappeared during 🌊the Phoebe Elite Four battle. And finally, we have ♔Elevator Girl from X & Y who is the worst of the three.
Elevator Girl suddenly appears, hovers past mid walk animation, and says that "you're not the one" before disappearing.
Super creepy, and fans still have no idea what 💛it's about.
24 𓄧 Pokémon - Generation 1 Is Broken ൲
Generation 1 of Pokémon suffers from a heavy case of nostalgia goggles. People rememberܫ them as these revolutionary 🔥games.
But actually, large amounts of the game's mechanics are completely broken.
I can't list off all of them, but I can summarize a few.💫 First, Pokémon fighting you had infinite PP. Next, one-hit KO moves like Horn Drill were speed based, so slow Pokémon never hit with it. And lastly, if you ever used Rage, you'd be stuck using it until the Pokémon faints. Overall Generation 1 is still iconic and fun, but iﷺt's not the perfect game we remember it to be.
23 𝓀 Games And Cartoon - Who Is Ash's Dad
One thing that especially confuses me in the Pokémon games, is the sheer amount of absentee fathers. 🌜It started with Ash in the cartoon, whose fat♛her still hasn't been revealed even after so many years.
But in every single game, your playable character has a missing papa.
Ash especially, has had fans speculated who his father is since the late 90s. I me♏an Ash is a world-renowned trainer whos fought Legendaries, entered the Pokémon League, and conquered over 20 gyms. You'd think his old man would have heard of him and found him by now.
22 ♛ Pikachu - Its Level Resets Ever🍌y Season
This is the sole reason I can't continually watch th💎e Pokémon Cartoon. Pikachu has been through every single region known to man, and yet still loses to♒ level 5 Pokémon. Gamefreak wrote themselves into a corner here, because Ash always has to have Pikachu, they have to reset it.
Pikachu can't be this level 100 Pokémon destroying entire regions and solo'ing the Pokémon League.
So each new season Pikachu is knocked down to being a low level again and has to work back up. ♍It's neat that Ash still u൩ses the same Pikachu, but it makes absolutely no sense from a continuity point of view.
21 ๊ Game Mechanics - How Does Fly Or Surf Work For Tiny Pokemon? ♑
This is a prett💃y basic complaint but one that Gamefreak (as far as I know) has never addressed.
How in Arceus's name am I using the HM Fly to get from point A to B...with a Pokémon with no wings?
Or how about the fact that I'm surfing across hundreds of miles of 🅺ocean, holding on to the tail of a Squirtle? Most of the other HM's make sense, Cut isn't really size dependent, and Strength is always subjective in animation. But Fly and Surf still don't and will never make sens🅷e in Pokémon.
20 🅷 🎀 Game Mechanics - Impossibly Impassible Shrub
Again, the💧se complaints have been around since the 90s, but they're sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtill relevant.
In a world where Trainers fight deities of space and time with tiny electric mice, how is hopping over one shrub so hard?
I'm talking about those darn mischevious little tree's that can only be passed with Cut. It's an obviously just Gamefreak needing to stop your progress every now and again. But how is it that in over 10 different mainline games, we aren't cutting down giant, mammoth sized trees? At least it'd make more sense.꧙ Trainers to this day, have their journeys cut short by shrubs that go up to their knees.
19 Pokémon - Diglett Just Doesn't Make Sense ❀
There's a couple of Pokémon where you can tell Gamefreak liked the idea but didn't consider all the 🤡situations. Diglett is the prime examꦰple of that.
Diglett, while adorable, makes absolutely no sense outside of caves.
How does one put a Diglett in a Pokeball? How do Digletts fight on metal? How would a Diglett battle in the ocean? Diglett in all its incarnations is shown with dirt around it from its dig hole, no matter the environment. No one knows what its body 🔴looks like. Maybe the Dirt around it actually is its body 🙈and we've been played all along.
18 ꧟ All Pokémon Games - Why Does𒉰n't Your Mom Get A Bed?
Mom's in all of the Pokémon games are too good for this world. They're brimming with positivity, and are genuinely happy to help their kid out in any way possible. They'll help yo๊u save up money, call you whenever urgent news comes up, and sometimes they'll even visit you on your Journey. When you first start most Pokémon games, you'll either be in your house or your room.
But, where's your Mom's room? Oh, that's right, she doesn't get one.
It will never make sense to me how such kind parents can be so mistreated. Shame on yo🦋u Gamefreak.
17 Game Mechanics - Tak🐈ing People's Money After Battling
Battling in Pokémon was already c꧟ruel. Gamefreak doesn't want us to acknowledge that Pokémon as a whole is pretty iffy morally.
So what makes it even worse is the whole concept of receiving money after winning a battle.
How does that go exactly? Does your tiny little Pikachu shake down the enemy Trainer for 20 bucks? Or are they so blown away by your immense battling🎐 prowess that their wallet explodes? I don't think I want to know.
16 💦 Game Mechanics - How Do Battles Happen In The Ocean
There's a couple of different biomes that make no sense for Pokémon to battle in. But, the worst of th🐽em all, is the ocean.
Unless you're surfing on top of a Wailord or something, there's no room for a Pokémon battle.
How is your Graveler, a giant two-ton boulder, supposed🍎 to fight on the ocean? They're not, that's how. Gamefreak has never even attempted to circumvent thꦆis issue in the games, instead just ignoring it completely. And I for one am honestly sick of it. You've had since the 90s to think of a solution Gamefreak, let's hear it.