History Headscratchers / PokemonSunAndMoon

** That's less a moral and morea facet of growing up. The real moral could be closer to just because you are growing up doesn't mean you have to give up your passions completely, just adapt around them.

* One of the morals is GrowingUpSucks because you'll have to get a job and/or basically give up your dreams of becoming a Pokémon trainer as seen with Team Skull and the Eeveeolution users. Yet, there's several trainers such as Bellhops and Firefighters who have jobs but still do Pokémon battling on the side. Does anyone else think the moral is lost because of this?

* If Cubone only evolves into Alolan Marowak at night in Alola, then what is stopping it from evolving into regular Marowak during the daytime? It's very odd that during a whole stretch of the day Cubone just doesn't evolve when it would in any other region; even odder that taking it to Ultra Space is what allows it to evolve into regular Marowak instead of just the absence of night. This could've been avoided if Gamefreak just created Alolan Cubone.

* Mallow says that once Trial Captains turn 20, they move on. This is probably an In-Universe MandelaEffect. I say it’s one big timeline with just different universes. Watch [[https://youtu.be/OfAmiJbe3tQ this video]] and you might get a better definition. I could theorise that Mina got sent back in time from on of the Wormholes. Her parents are way too old to be like in their 30s-40s age gap. Her father is the Gentleman sprite (which seems like 60s-70s gap) but don’t know how old her mother’s sprite is due to it not being a trainer. But we are [[VideoGame/{{PokemonSwordAndShield}} Mustard in the Isle of Armor with a son who’s like a little younger than the protagonist]]. Perhaps Hyde is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]]. Honey, Mustard’s wife, is like in her 40s so she and Mustard have an [[AgeGapRomance a gap relation]]. If Mina is around 11-19 in 2016 then she must’ve got sent back in time or Mallow has a Mandela Effect or mean they need to have new jobs. I, for example, am [[Film/TheSoundOfMusic 20 going on 21]] and I still watch childhood shows.

* Mallow says that once Trial Captains turn 20, they move on. This is probably an In-Universe MandelaEffect. I say it’s one big timeline with just different universes. Watch [[https://youtu.be/OfAmiJbe3tQ this video]] and you might get a better definition. I could theorise that Mina got sent back in time from on of the Wormholes. Her parents are way too old to be like in their 30s-40s age gap. Her father is the Gentleman sprite (which seems like 60s-70s gap) but don’t know how old her mother’s sprite is due to it not being a trainer. But we are [[PokemonSwordAndShield Mustard in the Isle of Armor with a son who’s like a little younger than the protagonist]]. Perhaps Hyde is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]]. Honey, Mustard’s wife, is like in her 40s so she and Mustard have an [[AgeGapRelationship a gap relationship]]. If Mina is around 11-19 in 2016 then she must’ve got sent back in time or Mallow has a Mandela Effect or mean they need to have new jobs. I, for example, am [[Film/TheSoundOfMusic 20 going on 21]] and I still watch childhood shows.

* Mallow says that once Trial Captains turn 20, they move on. This is probably an In-Universe MandelaEffect. I say it’s one big timeline with just different universes. Watch [[https://youtu.be/OfAmiJbe3tQ this video]] and you might get a better definition. I could theorise that Mina got sent back in time from on of the Wormholes. Her parents are way too old to be like in their 30s-40s age gap. Her father is the Gentleman sprite (which seems like 60s-70s gap) but don’t know how old her mother’s sprite is due to it not being a trainer. But we are [[PokemonSwordAndShield Mustard in the Isle of Armor with a son who’s like a little younger than the protagonist]]. Perhaps Hyde is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]]. Honey, Mustard’s wife, is like in her 40s so she and Mustard have an [[AgeGapRelationship a gap relationship]]. If Mina is around 11-19 in 2016 then she must’ve got sent back in time or Mallow has a Mandela Effect or mean they need to have new jobs. I, for example, am [[Film/TheSoundOfMusic 20 going on 21]] and I still watch childhood shows.

** Speaking of Sandshrew/Sandslash, why does an Alolan sandshrew need an Ice Stone to evolve into a sandslash when its more common countrpart just needs to reach a certain level?

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* Mallow says that once Trial Captains turn 20, they move on. This is probably an In-Universe [[MandelaEffect]]. I say it’s one big timeline with just different universes. Watch [[https://youtu.be/OfAmiJbe3tQ this video]] and you might get a better definition. I could theorise that Mina got sent back in time from on of the Wormholes. Her parents are way too old to be like in their 30s-40s age gap. Her father is the Gentleman sprite (which seems like 60s-70s gap) but don’t know how old her mother’s sprite is due to it not being a trainer. But we are [[PokemonSwordAndShield Mustard in the Isle of Armor with a son who’s like a little younger than the protagonist]]. Perhaps Hyde is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks]]. Honey, Mustard’s wife, is like in her 40s so she and Mustard have an [[AgeGapRelationship a gap relationship]]. If Mina is around 11-19 in 2016 then she must’ve got sent back in time or Mallow has a Mandela Effect or mean they need to have new jobs. I, for example, am [[Film/TheSoundOfMusic 20 going on 21]] and I still watch childhood shows.

** Speaking of Sandshrew/Sandslash, why does an Alolan sandshrew need an ice stone to evolve into a sandslash when its more common countrpart just needs to reach a certain level?

* During one of the plot beats when you reach the third island, you visit the Aether House and meet two kids who say that they live in here. My question is- why? We don't know who their parents are, because they're never mentioned. At first I thought that they're orphans or were taken from their parents for whatever reason, but the Aether foundation helps pokemon, not people. So why do they live in an Aether facility? My only guess is that maybe their parents are Aether workers, but there's no word on that in game.

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* So mareanies prey upon corsolas, they're even based on a species of starfish that eats coral. Then why aren't they of a typing with an offensive advantage against a water/rock-type pokemon?

** Fixed in ''VideoGame/PokémonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'': There are lots of very strong trainers on Mount Lanakila in that game. Some of them say they're there because they heard about Professor Kukui starting a Pokémon League and want to check it out.

** Fixed in ''VideoGame/UltraSunAndUltraMoon'': There are lots of very strong trainers on Mount Lanakila in that game. Some of them say they're there because they heard about Professor Kukui starting a Pokémon League and want to check it out.

* [[ScrappyMechanic Disregarding how tedious the S.O.S. mechanic can be when you're just trying to get through a pokemon-populated area]], the idea behind said feature was established as a means of letting players seek out pokemon with hidden abilities, increased chances of encountering shinies, and certain pokemon only being encountered by way of S.O.S. However, did none of the developers consider [[UnfortunateImplication how cruel it sounds]] to have players force a beaten-up pokemon to cry out for help just to watch your pokemon take out the pokemon who came to help and then you force them to cry out for help and start the cycle again until the kind of pokemon you want finally arrives?

** The theory seems to have originated from [[https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/187276-pokemon-sun/74535483 this post]] on Website/''GameFAQS'', and many fans (admittedly, including myself) took it as fact. The fact that she said "''protect'' the Battle Tower" instead of something else might provide some evidence, but it is still very, very, scanty.

** If one goes for in-universe logic then one possibility is the Raticate/Gumshoos would eventually get tired of switching holes and just come out and fight.