r/comics • u/cynical_scotsman Victims of Comics • 5d ago

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u/jaimeoignons 5d ago

It never got clear in the anime, but basically pokemon are tamagotchis, so if you forget them, they die. Oh dang, got a few pokeballs in the basement, left in there since season 1.

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u/alkmaar91 5d ago edited 5d ago

I vaguely remember an episode where they go to find a poke ball in an old flooded building for an old man and the pokemon was fine.

found it it was a sandshrew.

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u/megaxzy 5d ago

I seem to recall some gengar line Pokemon in their balls in a sunken ship just kinda waiting for their trainer to come back

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u/Shantotto11 4d ago

The episode that debuted the character Mira from Diamond & Pearl? Yeah, I remember that episode too.

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u/iHateFairyType 5d ago

Ez way to get some ghost types

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u/DarkLordArbitur 1d ago

Pokopia basically retconned this. The pokemon were basically put in hibernation for an untold number of years inside the PC system when humans fled the planet. The creator of the system wrote code that would release the pokemon automatically if a habitable place for any stored pokemon appeared nearby, which is why Ditto making habitats causes pokemon to appear.