History Headscratchers / PokemonScarletAndViolet

*** What is this troper trying to ask. Somebody '''is''' able to see what Pokemon they've seen before in the dex, what does this troper mean?

*** Where do you think evolution stones come from? They're special ore found in the wild. All a Pikachu has to do is dig a bit of Thunderstone up or find some that already eroded out of the ground. As for trade evolutions, some dex entries (like those related to Shelmet and Karrablast) state what actually evolves them is exposure to a specific form of electricity. Trading therefore must mimic this electricity, but it must also sometimes happen in the wild.
*** How though? Are there wild Gengar or Machamp in SV or do you have to evolve Haunter and Machoke respectively?

*** Then why do they appear in the wild in [[VideoGame/{{PokemonSwordAndShiled}} SwSh]]?

** I can only assume Pecharunt found it amusing.
** Either that, or by forcing its brainwashed victims to act silly instead of threatening, Pecharunt hopes that people don't immediately notice that something wrong has happened. That is to say, had Pecharunt forced its victims to shamble around like zombies for example, the townsfolk would have immediately gone on high alert and enacted measures such as quarantine that might make it difficult for it to brainwash more targets.

*** You have to evolve them, they are not in the wild. That question is not what the Headscratchers page is for.
** To make it more realistic, I guess? Step outside, and you're certain to see your local wildlife in many different stages of growth.
* I know that some fans don't like the fact that all the future Paradox Pokémon are robots, calling it "uncreative." My question is, well, what the hell else are they supposed to be? I feel like speculative evolution-based Pokémon would probably be too similar to past Paradoxes in terms of appearance and behavior, which, given that the whole theme of the paradoxes is "how the past and future are different," wouldn't be all that great.

** The problem I've seen doesn't really seem to be the fact that they are robots, more so it appears to be that the Pokemon just look uncreative and just like a robotic version of the original Pokemon (especially Iron Jugulis). I personally wished these Pokemon would appear more artificial and alien looking (like say, add detailing to Iron Moth's wings to make them look like solar panels, or make Iron Jugulis's arms to be like cannons and the rear wings to appear like radiators).

* Why back to the pre Gen V cry for Pikachu? I get that [[VideoGame/{{PokemonLegendsArceus}} LA]] was set in the past but [[WordOfGod Junichi Masuda states]] that everyone hears [[Creator/{{IkueOhtani}} Ikue Ohtani]]'s [[PokemonSpeak Pika-pika]] for Pikachu.

*** Except we know this isn't true. It's been said a thousand times before, but sending out a revenge sweeper that is powered up by KOs before an entry hazard setter doesn't strike me as "unable to hold back."

** Either that, or by forcing its brainwashed victims to act silly, Pecharunt hopes that people don't immediately notice that something wrong has happened. That is to say, had Pecharunt forced its victims to shamble around like zombies for example, the townsfolk would have immediately gone on high alert and enacted measures such as quarantine that might make it difficult for it to brainwash more targets.

** One idea I've heard is she had affection bonuses going on like crazy (i.e. getting more critical hits, recovering from poison, living hits that should have knocked her out), given she loved her partner so much and was on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge (and heck, even in our battle against her simply the feelings from the experiences she has had allow her to basically revive herself to full strength three times). In the lore video where we see the fight it also looks like she avoided most of the Loyal Three's attacks through sheer speed and agility. It's also possible she was at a substantially higher level than the Loyal Three were at the time. We are also told that she was badly injured by the end of the battle.

* There are Alolan exeggcutors in the Blueberry Acadamy terrarium's coastal biome, implying that one can evolve an exeggcute to an Alolan exeggcutor in that biome. Yet exposing an exeggcute to a leaf stone in the coastal biome just gets you a common Kantonian exeggcutor. Where are those Alolan exeggcutor's coming from?

** In ''Indigo Disk'', we find that ''mere students'' can invent an item printer, which occasionally can create rare Poké Balls. Given how vastly more advanced and more powered-up the time machine is (what's with being literally ''walled'' with tera crystals), it's probably not a surprise that the machine can just conjure Master Balls out of the blue as well.

** In ''Indigo Disk'', we find that ''mere students'' can invent an item printer, which occasionally can create rare Pokeballs. Given how vastly more advanced and more powered-up the time machine is (what's with being literally ''walled'' with tera crystals), it's probably not a surprise that the machine can just conjure Master Balls out of the blue as well.

* How did Penny get her Tera Orb? The only characters in the entire game including DLC who have Tera Orbs but are not working (as staffs) for either Academy or Pokémon League are Nemona, you, Arven, Penny, Carmine, Kieran and BB League Elite Four. Nemona mentions that a student needs to have some kind of achievement to get a Tera Orb, hence she, the StudentCouncilPresident and a Paldean champion, has long since earned hers. She then uses her position to pull some strings to get you a Tera Orb prematurely. With Arven, it can be inferred that perhaps his professor parent, who invented Tera Orb to begin with, gave him one as a present. Kieran and the BB Elite Four seem to earn their Tera Orbs for the same reasons outlined by Nemona: you need to be an accomplished student, and being the best trainers in the academy obviously counts as one such achievement. Carmine is a bit complicated; either she indeed earned her Tera Orb because she actually wasn't bluffing when she claims her battling skills are on par with the Elite Four, or being friends with Amarys nets her one the same way you get yours from Nemona long before you achieve anything. But Penny? Given that it's spelled out in the post-Indigo Disk optional quest that Team Star bosses don't have Tera Orbs (likely due to their truancy, among other things), how could she gain one when she herself has truancy issues, on top of having to temporarily "exile" herself due to the Team Star incident?

** Also, a minor reminder: She already has a Tera Orb when you battle her at the climax of Starfall Street, so the "apology gift" idea definitely is false.