History Headscratchers / PokemonDiamondAndPearl

* Why does Flower Gift boosts Attack and Sp. Def when its sole user, Cherrim, has Sp.Att and its best stat followed by Speed? The ability seems wasted to me by not boosts its best stats. Not only that, Flower Gift's description implies that Sp.Att will be raised instead of Sp.Def. And finally, this issue seems to be treated like an ElephantInTheLivingRoom, where not a comment was made about it.

* Why does Flower Gift boosts Attack and Sp. Def when its sole user, Cherrim, has Sp.Att and its best stat followed by Speed? The ability seems wasted to me by not boosts its best stats. Not only that, Flower Gift's description implies that Sp.Att will be raised instead of Sp.Def. And finally, this issue seems to be treated like an ElephantInALivingRoom, where not a comment was made about it.

* Why does Flower Gift boosts Attack and Sp. Def when its sole user, Cherrim, has Sp.Att and its best stat followed by Speed? The ability seems wasted to me by not boosts its best stats. Not only that, Flower Gift's description implies that Sp.Att will be raised instead of Sp.Def. And finally, this issue seems to be treated like an ElephantInALivingRoom, where not a comment is made about it.

** Well, to be fair, Rotom was an...urban ([[JustForPun legend]]).

* Why doesn't Cresselia have the legendary Pokémon music? I don't remember if she did or not in Diamond/Pearl, but she didn't in Platinum, which seems to have carried over to Black 2 and White 2. (Then again, if she had it in D/P but not Platinum, that would raise more questions...) Even weirder, Rotom ''does'' have the legendary battle music despite not actually being a legendary.

** Well, he ''is'' good at manipulating emotions (as shown by that speech in the Galactic Veilstone Building in Platinum)... Maybe he just faked being nice to Golbat, and then stopped caring after it evolved?

* How Cyrus has Crobat? Golbat needs friendship ([[FanNickname then called happiness]]) to evolve, and I am sure that is a kind of emotion, such as love. While Cyrus thinks emotions are worthless and plans to create world without them. He has Golbat in first battle, then it evolves, in both DP and Platinum. So, how exactly he got that one Mon, considering he "starts" with Golbat?

* How Cyrus has Crobat? Golbat needs friendship (then called happiness), and I am sure that is some kind of emotion, such as love. While Cyrus thinks emotions are worthless and plans to create world without them. He has Golbat in first battle, then it evolves, in both DP and Platinum. So, how exactly he got that one Mon, considering he "starts" with Golbat?

*** If they're gods or not is pretty much irrelevent. They're god-LIKE and that's what matters, because their powers are the same. If something is a god or not is pretty much a human distinction anyway, and as Arcanine's dex entry shows, varies from region to region. But the creatures don't change.

**** Out of all of the moves in the entire series up to that point ''just one''[[hottip:*: which has a very low base power and doesn't even always hit or have 100% accuracy]] was programmed to behave differently for the sake of stopping hackers. I don't see how you can seriously attempt to argue this to be anything other than a programming error, especially when considering the facts that the move no longer bypasses the ability in Gen V unless it's super effective [[hottip:*:which is exactly how the ability was intended to function]] and that Shedinja [[hottip:*:who's normally vulnerable to Fire type moves]] is the only Pokemon to have this ability under normal circumstances, simply because somebody cheating at the game might be caught off guard. The fact that Fire Fang isn't even a commonly used move only makes this claim even more unlikely.

** Iron Island probably has naturally occuring Metal Coat, which lets it evolve (let's ignore the trading part since there's really no logical reason why that should even happen in the first place). As for the Victory Road and Snowpoint Temple ones, you got me.

*** Well then the reason behind my confusion becomes "how can they do that?" If they aren't gods, then I'm assuming they're pretty much just powerful beasts. So how does something like that acquire the ability to manipulate fundamental elements?

** Who said that they're not capable of manipulating spacetime? They aren't what the myths claim, they didn't ''create'' time/space/antimatter. But they do have power such that they are capable of manipulating them, hence how Giratina can make the Distortion World, and why summoning Dialga/Palkia in diamond/pearl creates a massive distortion emanating from the peak where it was summoned.

** Yes, removing the one factor that his entire plan was based around does, in fact, ruin the plan. Funny how that works.

* So, assuming that Dialga/Palkia/Giratina aren't what the myths claim them to be (gods of time/space/antimatter), then what would the purpose of Cyrus' plan have been? Surely if the dragons weren't truly capable of manipulating spacetime, Cyrus would have accomplished nothing by controlling them, eliminating the presence of any real threat. (Okay, so the nihilistic leader of a terrorist organization would be in control of a very powerful Pokemon, but that's not quite the same as resetting the universe.)

* So, assuming that Dialga/Palkia/Giratina aren't what the myths claim them to be (gods of time/space/antimatter), then what would the purpose of Cyrus' plan have been? Surely if the dragons weren't truly capable of manipulating spacetime, Cyrus would have accomplished nothing by controlling them, eliminating the presence of any real threat. (Okay, so the nihilistic leader of a terrorist organization would be in control of a very powerful Pokemon, but that's not quite the same as resetting the universe.) On a similar note, if the mythology behind D/P/G isn't factual, then how does a trio of ordinary (if slightly more powerful than average) Pokemon end up inhabiting parallel dimensions?

* It's implied Darach likes Caitlin.. But she's 14 and he seems to be an adult. {{Squick}}, eh?

** The level 1 Regigigas isn't actually useless. The level 100 Regigigas can't be EV-trained (kinda like customizing its stats through use) because EV's take effect when the Pokemon levels up. A level 100 CAN'T level up. Which makes the level 1 you get far better than the level 100 when they're both at level 100.

* How one is expected to capture the level 1 Regigigas in Platinum. You can't battle it until you have all three legendary golems in your party. How do you unlock the way to them? Having an event only level 100 Regigigas in your party, therefore making the level 1 Regigigas obsolete.

* So, how come in ''Platinum,'' the cutscene at the Spear Pillar adds Dialga and Palkia to the Pokédex as seen without you having to battle or catch them until later, but the events in the Distortion World don't do the same for the lake trio?

** [[AWizardDidIt Magic.]]