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How A Pokeball Works

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I've always wondered how a Pokeball works, and what is inside them. Do the Pokemon have a place to run around in them, or are they like encaged?
 
I always thought that a Pokeball was akin to a laser vacuum cleaner...

*SHHHOOOKK*
 
It's not really clear if they have a place to run around or not. Maybe they are being in a sort of stasis or maybe in a white walled area with no boundaries? It's never really been covered!
 
In the Manga you can see through the Pokeball,don't know if this applies to all of the Pokemon Mangas but I saw one and the Pokeball was transparent and you can see through them and it looked like the Pokemon was pretty enclosed in it and was small, it looked like it was in a weird dimension.
 
To me, its always looked like when the Pokemon gets returned to its Pokeball, it turns from solid matter, into some sort of light matter and mirrors inside the ball somehow keep the Pokemon stable inside while it is in this non-solid form until it is released and it somehow turns back into a solid object again. The miracles of Pokemon science! :3
 
GuitarHero said:
To me, its always looked like when the Pokemon gets returned to its Pokeball, it turns from solid matter, into some sort of light matter and mirrors inside the ball somehow keep the Pokemon stable inside while it is in this non-solid form until it is released and it somehow turns back into a solid object again. The miracles of Pokemon science! :3
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I thought that once but is the best guess aswell, Jessie breaks a pokeball by stomping on it in the goodbye dustox episode but nothing special seemed to show on it's...remains so most likely just for statis form.
"No wonder pikachu doesn't like it"
 
This has always puzzled me. And, like, what about different kinds of PokeBalls? Safari Balls, Fast Balls, etc. And then, they become small, so they're easy to carry around.
 
I have often thought that the pokemon went back into the pokeball in statis, but if that was so, pokemon could not break out of the ball, but they an do.
 
They must still be, for lack of a better word, conscious in the PokeBall, and maybe even aware of what's going on outside the PokeBall. I mean, Psyduck used to break out just when Misty was going to call another Pokemon to battle.
 
It seems logical that to transport them in, they are converted into energy matter. However, after that, they might be re-formed in an extra dimension of some sort. That actually makes sense. Pokemon go... somewhere when they enter a ball, possibly a quantum dimension tailored to their mind. Probably it's magic though.

But the difference between most pokeballs is just the catch rate. I think that the Luxury Ball is one of the few that would be different on the "inside" - probably very spacious and comfortable, given its cost/rarity.
 
Though now that you've brought this up, how does a trading, or transporting machine work? Prof Oak's in Pallet, and Ash is out somewhere, and he can get his Pokemon from Oak's lab. Same with trading. I guess the Pokemon would know it's new trainer.
 
I always viewed it as the pokeball converting the pokemon to data, similar to how pokemon can be stored on a PC.
 
The Pokemon is most likely conscious in the Pokeball with evidence that was all ready stated about Pikachu and Psyduck. The Pokeball has to convert matter into energy and back to matter again. Let's face it there are some pretty big Pokemon, like Snorlax for example. Upon return to its trainer's Pokeball the Pokeball would have to convert Snorlax into matter (the read beam of light) then back to matter but now in a smaller form to be easily transported.
 
The Snorlax issue is circumvented by the introduction of the heavy ball, but that wasn't explained either....
 
My personal opinion on the pokeworld (well, as well as we're wasting our time and such getting in depth with all this nerdy, though fun, reasoning and such) is that pokemon inhabit a slightly different dimension than ours (see, SG-1 with the "out of phase" technologies in some episodes) and as such whilst they can interact with the "real world" and vice versa, they're of a different "integrity" or "substance" than "our world" and as such the pokeball can exploit this in some way and thus store pogeymans in pokeballs. My "theory" also to some degree explains the whole "pokemon not getting cut in half by each other, dying by burning and generally being able to have the crap beaten out of them but not moryally" though of course that's explaining something that most cartoons\games do. Still, so pokemon can harm each other but not to the same effect, say a real flamethrower would harm a "real" animal. Moreso, pokemon powers and attacks, whilst they do things in the "real" world, their power is lessened and thus the whole "ash surivivng a fire blast by charizard" again though this is just justifying a cartoon staple, ie unrealistic physics and injuries for the sake of being a cartoon.

If ever there was to be some real-life film adaptation of pokemon (like they've given many animes\comic books) surely this is possibly one way they could explain pokemon existing in the "real" world, or probably hash it up making some experiment meaning our worlds leak into each other or something. So yes, viva la "pokemon existing on a slightly different plane of reality, whilst still being in our own"
 
This brings back horrible, horrible memories of Sunday school. . .

I was 7, maybe 8, and we were being force-fed 'facts' about Pokemon, as this was during its height of popularity.

One of these 'facts' was that the Poke Ball's purpose was to "rip a monster's soul out, forcing it to become friendly to it's 'master,' who will then force it to cockfight." The evidence she presented was "When they put the monster back in it's ball and it tuns into a red light, that is it's soul being forced into semi-permanent containment." -.-

Now, of course, if Pokemon or their trainers existed in reality they'd be "put to death and sent to hell because the Lord almighty wouldn't allow animals to gain the ability of elemental powers, let alone allow humans to control those powers." *sigh*
 
Something I've wondered is whether that 'beam of red light' or.. whatever color of light the anime is using now was how the Pokeballs were really intended to be used. I mean, in all the games, the ball opens up, releases a puff of smoke, and just shrinks the Pokemon, doesn't it? For that matter, doesn't Adventure/Special do the same thing? Basically, I guess just call me a Pokespe fanboy who enjoys the idea of miniature Pokemon watching things from the inside of a Pokeball, rather than having mysterious adventures in another dimension until being called out as a beam of light.
 
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