Do wild pokemon die?

[Johnny Novgorod]

I thought they just "fainted". Maybe it's a translation thing. Maybe in Japanese it's "Wild RATTATA is now fuckin' dead!".

Well, you beat up a wild animal until it fainted and left it alone in a place full of predators that will attack anything in sight, including humans...

Do Pokemon eat Pokemon though? For that matter, do humans eat Pokemon? All I know is they eat Farfetch'd.

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

Of course. You slit their throats and eat them after you knock them out. That's how you survive while never buying food.

 

[Maxtro]

If wild Pokemon just fainted, how come you can't catch them? That's how basically every wild animal is captured in the real world, you knock it out first.

 

[Miss G.]

I thought they just "fainted". Maybe it's a translation thing. Maybe in Japanese it's "Wild RATTATA is now fuckin' dead!".

Well, you beat up a wild animal until it fainted and left it alone in a place full of predators that will attack anything in sight, including humans...

Do Pokemon eat Pokemon though? For that matter, do humans eat Pokemon? All I know is they eat Farfetch'd.

Yes to both.
- Several species of Pokemon have in their 'Dex entries that they eat other Pokemon (some by name), such as Pidgeot eat Magikarp, Sneasle eat Pidgey eggs, Heatmor eat Durant, Glalie freezes its prey alive then eats it in a leisurely fashion, Victreebel's entry says 'victim' so that also could be a Pokemon or a human, Kabutops slashes its prey open and drains its fluids, Ariados attaches silk to its prey and sets it free then it tracks the silk to the prey and its friends (again prey is not specified as Pokemon or human).

- Aside from Farfetch'd, people do eat Slowpoke tails, but at least those grow back, and there are entries in the Canalave library in D/P/P that teaches you about not wasting any bit of the Pokemon you eat out of respect and an older story of a guy who used to butcher Pokemon for food and for the hell of it until he saw the error of his ways.

- Then there's Pokemon that eat people like Kyurem, or at least their souls/life force like the Litwick line, Honedge (line), Gastly's evos, Cofagrigus kinda since he turns them into mummies afterwards.

 

[Lieju]

I thought they just "fainted". Maybe it's a translation thing. Maybe in Japanese it's "Wild RATTATA is now fuckin' dead!".

Well, you beat up a wild animal until it fainted and left it alone in a place full of predators that will attack anything in sight, including humans...

Do Pokemon eat Pokemon though? For that matter, do humans eat Pokemon? All I know is they eat Farfetch'd.

There are a lot of references to Pokemon eating each other.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_food#Eating_other_Pok.C3.A9mon

 

[Qvar]

Wasn't this in a Cracked article a few days ago?
Oh well; I guess they get eaten by other Pokemon. Probably doesn't end well for the trainers you defeat either. Without pokemon, surrounded by grass covered in wild pokemon waiting for their chance.
Like in the article.

Edit: Here's the one, in case someone is intrested!
http://www.cracked.com/article_20673_5-video-games-with-disturbing-implications-you-didnt-notice_p2.html

Oh gawd that article ruined my gaming memories.

 

[Fijiman]

I would have to say yes. Why else would you be unable to catch or find legendaries if/after you accidentally defeat them?

 

[verdant monkai]

Pokemon has always been about knocking out.

I'd say the defeated ones lie on the floor until they regain conciousness or are eaten by a larger pokemon.

 

[Qvar]

If wild Pokemon just fainted, how come you can't catch them? That's how basically every wild animal is captured in the real world, you knock it out first.

Well we don't know how do pokeballs exactly work. Maybe they can't know who really captured them unless they are conscious (but weak) when captured, so they won't serve you even if you had them in a pokeball. Or some other mumbojumbo.

 

[2xDouble]

Not sure if this should go in gaming or off-topic forums.

So we know pokemon can die ( hence the graveyard). And the pokemon used in competitive battle faint and have to go to the pokemon center . What about the pokemon we encounter on the field, the "wild" pokemon? Without a trainer to bring them to the center, are they just left for dead? I imagine a field filled with dead pokemon i just defeated and didn't catch . Is this accurate in any way?

"Can wild Pokemon die?" Did you play through X/Y version? The answer lies there, and the answer is definitively "yes". Without spoiling anything in case you haven't played it yet (or skipped through the dialogue/cutscenes), let's just say Pokemon X/Y gets pretty damn dark really, really quick.

If my memory serves, it is official, but unstated lore in the games that Pokemon do not die from ordinary battling. They "faint" (become unable to battle, not necessarily losing consciousness), and recover fully after resting for a while. Recovery is sped up dramatically by medical facilities at a Pokemon Center, but those are not necessary.

The manga and TV series, on the other hand, have their own sets of crazy rules ("aim for the horn! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYwdJvnf6I]"), so who knows?

If wild Pokemon just fainted, how come you can't catch them? That's how basically every wild animal is captured in the real world, you knock it out first.

When the battle is over, unless caught, a wild pokemon disappears or escapes back to wherever it was they appeared from, making "Fainted" capture impossible.

It is a bit confusing because "faint" is not exactly accurate for what happens when a pokemon runs out of stamina (or HP). The word "faint" implies total loss of consciousness. That's clearly not the case because pokemon can still use moves like Fly, Surf, Dig, and Teleport outside of battle, even if "fainted". Such feats would be impossible if the pokemon were truly unconscious. (It's pretty hard to sleep and swim at the same time, especially when carrying someone.) "Faint", in the terms of the game, simply refers to the state of "being unable to battle".


As I said earlier, the Manga and TV series follow their own set of rules that can differ quite a bit from the actual game lore, so there are many different possible explanations.

 

[Vausch]

If a Wailord Body Slamming a Skitty only causes the Skitty to faint instead of being reduced to, at most, a tiny smear, then I don't think one should think too hard about the realism of mortality in the Pokemon universe.

Wailord is lighter than air if you actually look at its weight compared to its size. It body slamming on a Skitty is just going to be like it playing with a balloon.

That said, yes. It's established that poke'mon eat other poke'mon. If they're fainting, then scavengers can pick them up. Then there's Spoink. Apparently Spoink's heartbeat is reliant on its bouncing, so when you make it faint you're stopping its heart. YOU MONSTERS!

 

[Hero of Lime]

Just by fainting after a battle with a trainer? I would say no. Now, if left unconscious, maybe a predator Pokemon may come and eat them, or others of their kind take them to safety.

Wild Spoink might die, after all it's a bit difficult to keep bouncing when you are knocked unconscious, and we all know what happens to a Spoink who stops bouncing.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Wailord is lighter than air if you actually look at its weight compared to its size. It body slamming on a Skitty is just going to be like it playing with a balloon.

That's even worse.
But at least that kinda justifies wailord's atrocious defense.

 

[Ryan Minns]

First thing I thought when coming into this thread. Pokemon to the player are like children in an Bethesda game.

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