Pokémon is one of those franchises I can proudly admit I was around for since the beginning. I imagine my feeling is akin to how a veteran thinks about combat. They were there. They saw it. Now, of course, talking about Pokémon like it was a conflict is silly and I’m not trying to compare myself to veterans. Basically I know what it was like when Pokémon first hit. Everybody who was cool was playing the Game Boy games, collecting the cards, and watching the anime. Not to mention gathering other merchandise like action figures and stuffed animals. It became so popular at my school that even flashing a Pokémon card during, between, or after class was a punishable offence. That’s right they took our cards. Oh the🍎 humanity!

The series is now over twenty years old and just as popular as ever. Nintendo and Game Freak keep thinking of new ways to explode our minds. Who saw Pokémon Go coming? No one and it was awesome and continues to be addicting to a certain crowd. I gave up after a few months, but that’s not the core of my rambling. The point is Pokémon is huge, but it’s not without faults. There are certainly a lot of logic jokes in both the anime and games we can scoff at. While these twenty-five entries poke fun at some inconsistencies, they’re all in good fun, which is to say fans like me don’t 🀅really care. We’ll play these games no matter if they don’t exactly make sense.

25 Pocket Dimension Monsters

Nerd-Scribbles on DeviantArt made this piece of fan art. Have you ever wondered what life is like inside a Pokéball? Is it cozy in there? Are there tiny rooms that Pokémon can relax in like a pocket dimension apartment? Perhaps they sort of enter a cryogenic state of mind where their bodies freeze along with their minds. That’s the positive side of me thinking. It could be a worse fate than we can ever think. Imagine if a Pokémon exists in a state of mind where it could process thought, but had no body. It couldn❀’t do anything, but float around as an abstract thought until it was time to battle once again. Sure that’s dark, but it’s a question better left unanswered for the time being.

24 Tastes Like Extinction

What do humans eat? It’s a question fans often ask, but the answer is right💖 in front of us. People eat Pokémon, duh. If every creature in the world is a Pokémon then naturally the only answer is Pokémon. There are examples in the show that show dishes made of the cute little critters like Magikarp. In the games the entry for Farfetch'd says it nearly went extinct after people hunted them for food.

Welcome to Diners, Drive-Ins, and Ducklett.

Those are just a couple examples and before ꦦyou freak out let’s r💎emember we eat cute animals in our world too. Granted a sheep isn’t going to be as smart, or sentient as any monster in the Pokémon universe, but you get my point. People need to eat.

23 Timber!

Okay I have one final bone to pick with Hidden Machines. HM01, Cut, allows you to destroy t♛iny twigs in your way so you can progress.

Now I understand why a large boulder would hinder your hike, but what is a tiny tree doing in my way.

Peꦫrhaps the sprite work is justꦕ too poor for us to really understand how deep rooted these shrubs maybe are. Perhaps they are poisonous?

There have been instances where you could have just as easily bypassed it via climbing a fence right next to it. All in all I guess my biggest issue is the games blocking your progress with unnecessary proꦿblems like twigs. If security guards stopped me I would understand more clearly.

22 A Bolt Of Genius

The Pokémon series is based on a rock, 👍paper, scissors like approach when it comes to combat. That is to say every Pokémon type has a weakness. Fire is weak to water and water is weak to electricity. Pokémon also have strength🗹s. In contrasts to my earlier example, water is strong against fire, but fire still harms it a little. Some types have a complete shield against others.

Electric attacks don’t work on ground Pokémon at all.

Just like in real life a proper grounding will make sure lighting does not strike. That is except for the show wherei🧸n early on Pikachu is overcharged to the point where it can harm Onix. True it does get hit with water too as a lubricant, but it still seems implausible. Eh, whatever. That’s the show.

21 Fly Me To The Moon

Insaniiity on DeviantArt made this piece of fan art. Hidden Machines, or HMs, were kind of like a puzzle element thrown into th꧙e games. They almost felt a bit like Metroid, or Zelda. The powers you acquired through Pokémon opened new pathways previously blocked, which was a cool feeling to have. However, some of them don’t make sense in a variety of ways. Let’s first take a look at the HM02, Fly.

I’m like a bird I’ll only fly away.

You can teach it to most Pokémon with wings and it lets you travel around the globe in an instant with fast-travel. That’s super useful, but does teaching a tiny bird like Pid🅠gey make sense? Just how exactly are you flying around with it? Either it𝓡’s stronger than I think, or that’s a big logic hole.

20 God In The Shell

Here’s a theological question for you all. Every Pokémon game introduces new legendries for you to capture. They started out being just rare, super powerful monsters like in the case of Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. From there things started to get crazy. These weren’t just unique Pokémon any more. They were turning into literal gods that helped create the planet and or see over certain areas like water. Pretty cool, but there’s one thing wrong about this idea and that’s that they can be captured. You can catch gods. Arceus is basically the God and you can wrangle him like it w🌳as nothing. That’s doesn’t make sense, but hey, w𒉰ho really cares? As long as they are strong and on my team it doesn’t matter to me.

19 Born With A Silver Spoon

Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam are three of my favorite Pokémon from the original games. The pun is perfect and the evolutionary chain makes sense. Well it almost makes sense. There is one problem though. How does Abra evolve into Kadabra with a spoon in its hand? D🍨oes that imply that the spoon is part of Kadabra’s body? What’s more Alakazam has two spoons.

If these are evolutionary states then that must mean they can’t use their hands to eat right?

I guess this species eats a lot of soup and ice cream then. Let’s get real though. As strange as i🐲t is for Abra to s💮uddenly have a human tool it’s not as weird as a world inhabited by monsters people can catch with balls.

18 So Shiny

There are two aspects of Pokémon that are only there for the truly hardcore players. That would be EVs and shiny Pokémon. EVs are special stats that determine a Pokémon’s growth and that’s about all I understand. Pushing that complex subject aside let’s talk about shiny Pokémon. Basically these are Pokémon with an alternate color pallet. For example, a Magikarp could be gold. That’s it. They’re not legendary by any stretch of the imagination. They’re just supre꧅mely rare so much so that I find it weird they are even a thing. Who cares what color my Pokémon is? As long as it fights well, that’s good enough for me. I do understand the need to obsess over these small details so don’t let me stop you.

17 Déjà Vu

The thing I find most criminal about Pokémon is that it’s the same thing every time. You’re a young trainer starting your Pokémon journey with a water, fire, or grass typ♕e Pokémon. You explore the world catching Pokémon, fighting other trainers, collecting badges all in the name of becoming the very best. While there are improvements mechanic꧟ally between each new game it also feels dated and tired.

The yearly Pokémon cycle continues.

Even the weird challenges in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon follow the same guideline. All that said I admittedly don’t mind. Going through a new region with different Pokémon is good enough to hook me every time. A small part of me does wish for a drastic change in the scale of Breath of the Wild though.

16 What Came First?

Kangaskhan is lik🀅e a kangaroo, but one that looks like it was spliced with a rhino, or some thick-skinned dinosaur. As one would imagine, as it is a kangaroo like creature, it has a baby in its pouch. Well here is where it gets strange. If you hatch a Kangaskhan from an egg it has a baby with it.෴ I feel like we’re missing an evolutionary link here. How can this critter be born with a baby? It is a baby too and not apart of its body like other two-headed Pokémon. It’s weird, but honestly do you really care? The Pokémon isn’t even that good so no one probably even noticed this egg thing. If you want something more fascinating look up the fan theories surrounding Kangaskhan and Cubone.