History Headscratchers / PokemonSunAndMoon

** Sableye's pokedex entry itself states that they rarely succeed in preying on Carbink, so clearly most of the gems and rocks they eat are normal ones they find in the ground (as stated in earlier pokedex entries). And when it comes to attacking Carbink, much like Mareanie toward Corsola they don't actually have to defeat or kill it but just be able to tear a piece off to eat. Carbink is stated to have a body "draped" in gems, so all Sableye has to do is bite a piece off and make a run for it.

** Keep in mind that Sableye existed like three generations before Carbink was a twinkle in Miyamoto's eyes. I'm sure they go for other gemstones usually - probably, they pop up in SOS Battles to prey on Carbink specifically ''because'' you've already started weakening it, and otherwise they just linger in the parts of the caves that aren't accessible to the player. In nature, they either stick to non-living gems or they beat Carbink through sneak-attack tactics (remember that turn-based battle is a gameplay convention, not how the battles actually go in-universe, so it's not impossible that a Sableye that would normally never win against a Carbink could manage to do so in "story mode", if you will.)

** Heatmor is supposed to prey on Durants too, but the suck so badly that Durants can apparently beat them up instead.

* Heatmor is supposed to prey on Durants too, but the suck so badly that Durants can apparently beat them up instead.

* Just how do Sableye continue to survive? They only pop up to prey on Carbink... but Carbink have the advantage in ElementalRockPaperScissors. Carbink are more than capable of running roughshod over their would-be predators, and Sableye don't learn any non-TM moves that Carbink is vulnerable to (and, in fact, Carbink resists most of the moves Sableye learns without [=TMs=] or tutors). If anything, it seems like Sableye would likely be hunted to local extinction by their would-be prey.

* Why is Plumeria with Team Skull anyway? She seems a bit too...normal for the group of abused children, challenge failures, and runaways.

* SOS battles. So I'm facing a wild/totem Pokémon and it suddenly calls for help. Now I'm outnumbered two to one. Why can't I call out one of my other team members and turn it into a double battle? I get that from a mechanics standpoint it's to be the battle harder, but what's the in story reason? Maybe your forbidden to with totem Pokémon, like how you're not allowed to catch them, but what about wild encounters? There can't be a rule there! Aside from being impossible to enforce, what would be the point? I feel like someone is going to claim HonorBeforeReason, but how does that work? If the other guy escalates the fight why is it dishonourable of me to even things up? Do I not have the right to a fair fight?

* Assuming the protagonist picked Rowlet and by extension received the Decidium Z, how do they already know the pose to make the move work? They recieve the Z-Crystal before they do Acerola's trial where the Ghost-type Z-Crystal pose is taught. Also, by extension, how do they learn the poses for the Z-Crystals that aren't given out by Trial Captains and Kahunas?

*** It's possible they might be saving that answer for a later game, sequel, or even remake. Since at least one will need to be available in order to complete the pokedex for a future player, unless you or Gladion releases theirs.

*** It's possible they might be saving that answer for a later game, sequel, or even remake.

** Okay, I got the answer. It takes a few days for actions to be noted on the Global Link website's Pokémon-by-species records.

** Empowering Team Skull also gives the Aether Foundation itself a possible excuse for putting so many resources into the Alola Region. Mainly though it gives Lusamine people who will readily do dity work for her outside of the foundation and not ask questions.

* Does anyone know what the criteria are for your Rating Battles results to show up on the Pokémon Rankings at the Global Link website? Apparently, I have double battling's only attack-oriented Furfrou in Rating Battles, but the Pokémon Rankings haven't yet acknowledged its existence. (Or there have been other people with attack-oriented Furfrous but they havne't been acknowledged either.)

* What purpose does the Totem Kommo-o having a Mental Herb serve? Given its moveset [[note]]Clanging Scales, Protect, Sky Uppercut, Flash Cannon[[/note]], what exactly do they think you're going to try to do to it that would make the Mental Herb necessary? The only thing I can honestly think of is use Taunt to make sure it doesn't use Protect, maybe there's something else I'm not aware of.

** Presumably, a matter of visibility. You're going to be seeing that mon's name every time you send it to battle, while the trainer name only pops up in the info screen.

* Why are most of the new Alola Pokemon so slow? It's not really fixing the power creep regarding speed, so much as it is making the new Pokemon shittier.
** Probably because a lot of the Pokemon this Gen have a lopsided stat or two that work wonders on it's own, so adding huge Speed to the mix would only make a much grosser power creep. Reminder that Gen 4 had a fair share of Slow Pokemon but various mons there didn't get ditched in the escalation. GF probably wanted to try out Pokemon that didn't need to be Speedy to be good or have a dedicated niche, and while some examples are absurd (like Vikavolt being slow despite its description), it is a nice change of pace to focus on Defensive play for once.
** Alternatively, it ties into the easygoing nature of Alola as a whole.

* Minor, but when you transfer from VC Gen I to these games, why is it that the Pokémon's name gets turned to lowercase letters if it isn't nicknamed, but the trainer's name isn't?

* Minor, but when you transfer from VC Gen I to these games, why is it that the Pokémon's name gets turned to lowercase letters if it isn't nicknamed, but the trainer's name isn't?
* Why are people so insistent that the next main series Pokémon game will be "Pokémon Stars" for the Nintendo Switch? They haven't had a third version since Platinum and The Nintendo Switch itself, while it has portable capabilities, isn't apparently meant to completely replace the 3DS. Not to mention that Pokémon games tend to be released midway into a console's lifespan (the 3DS was already some 2 or something years old before Pokémon X and Y were released). What's more likely would be something like a "Sun and Moon 2" or even Diamond and Pearl remakes, or even ''both'' if possible.

* Minor, but when you transfer from VC Gen I to these games, why is it that the Pokémon's name gets turned to lowercase letters if it isn't nicknamed, but the trainer's name isn't?

** The user asking the question seems to have confused Mew (an Event pokemon) with Mewtwo (a pokemon that is caught in regular gameplay and thus can be Wonder Traded).

** The user asking the question seems to have confused Mew (and Event pokemon) with Mewtwo (a pokemon that is caught in regular gameplay and thus can be Wonder Traded).

** Really? You can't trade Mewtwo over Wonder Trade? If that's true, then either it's news to me or a thing to this game, because I've done so in XY before, one that I caught completely legitimately in that game.