[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Spiritmon]

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And thats it. Its all we know about Melmetal and Meltan. Its basically all his Lore. *Sigh* I miss the times Gamefreak make better work in making the Lore of Legendary more interesting. This is the same case of Magearna and Zerahora. They make a little more interesting Lore when have come to Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, but still lacks from something interesting. And Zerahora its only a Pokemon who absorb eletricity...and thats it. Its a living battery. 

Mythicals typically get more lore when they either a) show up in in-game events (which are currently on hiatus as far as we know) or b) are featured in one of the movies.  Magearna actually has quite a lot of lore, but you have to watch the Volcanion movie to see it in action.  Marshadow and Zeraora were actually featured in the first two reboot movies.  For all we know, Meltan and Melmetal might show up in the next one (which is a reboot of the very first pokemon movie).

So yeah.  Most of the lore for mythicals comes from the Pokemon Anime these days.  And since Meltan and Melmetal haven't been in the anime yet, that means we only have those 2 pokedex entries to go off of so far.

Y'know this is something I've been wondering for quite some time: how the heck do pupa Pokemon, such as Kakuna or Metapod even execute the move Bug Bite?

Beats me. Its one of the things we might never know. Its like Arbok using Sucker Punch without having arms or Kyurem not learn Ice Punch (despite the fact he literally have a Ice Punch).

Sucker Punch actually isn't a punching attack.  Its Japanese name directly translates to 'surprise attack' (a much more general name), which is why many pokemon without hands can learn it.  It's also the most common example of a move's actual interpretation getting somewhat lost in translation.

Kyurem can't learn Ice Punch because base Kyurem and White Kyurem don't punch things (I don't think base Kyurem is even capable of punching things with those short arms...).  Yeah, Black Kyurem probably could, but since they all share the same movepool (with slight alterations), things need to be kept consistent for all of them, I imagine.

*Roll eyes* Problem is the Pokemon movies and anime its something...also complicated. First of all: As much the anime I heard have become a little more better, after the Kalos League and change of animation the Anime ruined any chance of me in watch, so there is zero percent of chance of me watch it. The movies I try to watch them after the Diamond ane Pearl movies (the ones who appear Darkrai, Palkia, Dialga, Giratina and Arceus) was "interesting", but not to much in my opinion. Sometimes the story is too much long, and sometimes they dont give some explanation or backstory to the pokemon, at least not "that" interesting. 

I try to watch the Kyurem movie, and man, I didnt have anymore patience to continue watching. Hoopa movie? Only the first part then I give up because I was out of patience to the story actually go foward.

Thing is, I dont have anymore patience to watch a whole Pokemon Movie or the will to watch the anime Pokemon. Call me a hater, but thats how I feel.

Thats why I prefer the games. Its where we can find the backstory for ourselves.

*Facepalm* And that translation not gonna say anything about the lost interpretation of the translators to translate "Surprise Attack" and still keep the error for other generation. Lets leave at that.

Thats makes sense. Maybe with such short arms he could never really punch things.