SUPER EFFECTIVE

^ I know what you mean. In RGBY era games that did happen. I remember it happening on level 35 Pokemon before Saffron Gym.

And you didn't cause your ID to spontaneously change by some cheating voodoo or anything?

I kind of thought that starters were the only exception to the disobedience rules.

Not me, at least.

Nope. It was like some kind of built in limiter or something. Unless you triggered some Event Flag or got the proper gym badge (or both, I never figured it out) any Pokemon who turned level 35 or higher prior to Saffron City ran the risk of disobedience.

Strangely it didn't seem to happen at any point later than that.

http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=79

The Pikachu breakout continues.

Why do I feel that throwing a Pokeball at it while it's still conscious is going to be a case of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero?

edited 23rd Aug '14 10:08:57 AM by MarqFJA

Silly boy, you need the pokemon to still be conscious, otherwise the fight ends before you can capture them!

Well, they can be unconscious, but it has to be a certain sort of unconscious.

Which gives^note in RBY only you a fixed 1/6th chance of capturing them before anything else (and especially not their health) is checked.

Tell that to the anime and manga versions of the setting.

This is a videogame comic.

edited 24th Aug '14 12:04:03 AM by Medinoc

In the anime, pokémon get caught when Ash thinks about it hard enough and the soundtrack cooperates.

Which includes anime elements, if Brock's attempt to join Red on his adventure and mentioning a desire to become a Pokemon breeder is any indication.

Some concessions need to be made. For example in the games pokémon can faint whilst asleep. How the hell is that even supposed to work?

Well, unconsciousness and sleep are quite different mental states, IIRC. For one, you can't have dreams in the former.

The description for fainting is really weird, I forget which game describes it, but it's really just a state where pokemons honestly don't feel like fighting anymore, not that they are knocked out cold.

Not Too Violent

The makes the whole 'sleep doesn't KO' thing even weirder.

Just assume that fainted means dead. You killed the fuzzy little yellow rat when your giant green praying mantis disemboweled it, now you can't enslave it any longer.

Let's not.

... But that would beg the question of how a Pokemon Center can get the little critter back up and about. I mean, you're indirectly implying that humans in this universe have mass-produceable resurrection technology for free, which directly clashes with various instances of characters mourning Pokemon that died in battle against one evildoer or the other.

Trainers aren't allowed to kill each others slaves.

Then you admit that your previous suggested interpretation was wrong.

The Catcher of Pikachu is Green.