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[–] s@piefed.world 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Do you think a wild Pokémon ever evolved into a larger form while in a confined space and couldn’t get out and slowly starved to death?

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Well since pokemon legends arceus tells us that the shrinking to go in the pokeball is done by the pokemon and not some technoscience in the ball, they could just change size and get out

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Wait.

... what.

So... any pokemon, at any time, could just... decide to become ant man, and become the size of a lepton?

... could they just like sneeze one day and accidentally become the size of the Milky Way?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It's more of a stasis thing. The old pokeballs trigger that. Modern ones digitize pokemon into information though.

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

Said game also includes a mechanic where you can get big versions of the pokemon and there is gigantimax in sword and shield where they become kaiju sized

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

So Pikachu could kill his enemies from the inside. A thundershock on Charizards liver or something idk...

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So then why do we even need pokeballs then?

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Because something about them triggers the shrinking pokemon can do, and if a pokemon doesn't want to get in the ball it just doesn't get caught

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago

I get the feeling they just made all this up and it's complete bullshit

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

Depends on how forcefully they evolved, maybe they broke their surroundings

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I was about ti say they could be called back into their Poké Balls, but then I saw the "wild" part.

Eh, maybe catch them with a high catch rate ball.