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Birthdays?

JohtoMotto

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:birthday: Do pokemon have birthday's? I mean like when a pokemon levels up are they getting older? Example: Piplup evolves to Prinplup at 16 & it looks like a teenage penguin at 36 it evolves into empeleon which looks like an old penguin.
 
You know, that doesn't sound stupid.. I mean, a lot of Pokémon that evolve at Lv 16 (especially the starter pokemon), look like teenagers..
 
The whole 'level = age' thing does make sense. I think pokemon just have a different way of measuring age than people do. I mean, Dragonite is the original ultimate (non-legendary) pokemon. If it were human, it wouldnt have that kind of power and experience until it was an old man/woman. So 55 sounds about right age-wise.
I think the levels pokemon evolve at reflect how mature and strong they would be were they human.
I can't explain non-evolving pokemon though.
 
GoldenMuk said:
The whole 'level = age' thing does make sense. I think pokemon just have a different way of measuring age than people do. I mean, Dragonite is the original ultimate (non-legendary) pokemon. If it were human, it wouldnt have that kind of power and experience until it was an old man/woman. So 55 sounds about right age-wise.
I think the levels pokemon evolve at reflect how mature and strong they would be were they human.
I can't explain non-evolving pokemon though.
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Non evolving pokemon can be explained. Even though the sprite doesn't change, I always imagine my pokemon looking older as the level increases.
 
cowboy dan said:
I would just celebrate my pokemon's birthday on my birthday so we can both get presents!
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This post wins. xD

And, I don't really support the Level = Age idea, the Levels are more of knowlege, for example, you can train a Pokémon from LV1 to LV100 in one day, letting it have a Exp. Share and beating the E4 , it learns from watching the battle, maybe that Charizard is now LV100, but it hatched the same day it was leveled up.
 
I tend to think of gaining levels as gained maturity and experience.
 
cowboy dan said:
I would just celebrate my pokemon's birthday on my birthday so we can both get presents!
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And you keep the presents for your pokemon for yourself!

What? You tell me you don't want to eat a blue orange? Or wear bizarre glasses?

Their birthday anyways is the day the egg hatches, duh, it says the date even in the latest games. For those you captured in the wild, you don't know. Probably you could get it checked in a laboratory somewhere, but that's it.

As for the evolutions, yes, they do resemble gaining maturity an experience... Which makes having high-level unevolved pokemon rather interesting. Like sorts of a child prodigy... they DO learn moves earlier after all.
 
level =/= age.
i've always seen it where, when they evolve, its like they're taking "rights of passage" like human children do at certain ages. Only when they're ready are they allowed the opportunity to mature and grow. For those that don't, perhaps their species are a culture that see no need for "rights of passage" or separation of the ages?

yay over-thinking pokemon.
 
Meh...Interesting in a way, but then again...
if lv100 = 100 years old...When they actually die?
I mean...The world would be eventually be filled with a 100 year old pokemons! O__O

Meh...
 
but then again thats why we can't find lvl. 100 pokemon in the wild the oldest (in normal circumstances) is about 60
 
But then it's weird, considering that years =/= levels. I mean, let's say you start out with turtwig (lvl 5). 10 minutes later, it's 8 years old.

If you want to mean birthdays, you could refer to as the day they hatcbed out from their eggs, not from their levels.
 
If 1 level = a year, my Geodude in Silver had one hell of a party, because he grew 23 levels from beating Bruno's Machamp.
 
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That plus: Whattabout those who collect dust and grow plants on them in PC for several years?
I just fin it odd that if "let's say you start out with turtwig (lvl 5). 10 minutes later, it's 8 years old."
while the, for example bidoof, that's on PC for five years stays at lv/year 10
 
That just doesn't make sense, IMO. The levels just measure a Pokemon's experience.

If you just captured a Pokemon, it's most likely not it's birthday. You just captured it and made a new friend. The Pokemon wasn't born then.

If you hatch a Pokemon, he exact same day next year would be it's birthday.
 
Probably many of the pokemon you catch in the wild are much older than you anyways.

It's how japanese mithology works and many are outright stated to live longer than humans, while all are implied to be at least of a human lifespan ("life-long friends").
 
IMO Level isn't equal to age, it's just battle experienece, me and my siblings always congratulated our mons, we considered their B-days to be the day we caught them, this obviously isn't true, but we don't celebrate their birthday per se, but the birthday of our friendship...
 
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