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How would TM/HM's be used?

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Confirmed by the item pics in FR/LG, TMs and HMs are seen as discs. But unless pokemon have secret disc drives, how would they be used? I see that this would be the reason they aren't featured in the anime. But the only plausible way I can see them being used, is being uploaded into a PC containing one of your pokemon, but in the games they are often used nowhere near a PC. Then again, pokemon are stored in their poke balls as data, so if they were somehow uploaded to them that way, it might work. Ideas? Theories? Anyone?
 
You put them in the Teachy TV and it shows your Pokemon how to learn the new move.

:D

Really though, we see they learn it by putting the discs on their head. So.. it sends data out in signals that the Pokemon's brain receives? o.o
 
I figured they play them in the case, shows a video to the trainer and through psychic energy shows and possibly allows the pokemon to perform the move.

They got psychic pokemon, they had have other things that work in the same way.
 
The disk probaly emits some sort of signal that teaches the move to the selected Pokémon.
 
Æsahættr said:
Confirmed by the item pics in FR/LG, TMs and HMs are seen as discs. But unless pokemon have secret disc drives, how would they be used? I see that this would be the reason they aren't featured in the anime. But the only plausible way I can see them being used, is being uploaded into a PC containing one of your pokemon, but in the games they are often used nowhere near a PC. Then again, pokemon are stored in their poke balls as data, so if they were somehow uploaded to them that way, it might work. Ideas? Theories? Anyone?
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I personally like the TM's in the Magna - they make a lot more sense to me. If you don't know, they are basically electronic cubes that you break in haldand then hold each half on either side of the Pokemon's head and it pretty much zaps the knowledge into their brain, etc.
 
I think that the TM/HMs are liquid or gas, and come in capsules. When you want to use it, there is a compartment in the pokeball that opens, and the head of the capsule fits in and expels the gas/liquid. Meanwhile, as the pokemon is in its POKEBALL DEMENTION world, the information is soaked into its brain, and it learns the move.
 
FireRed/LeafGreen's mini-animations (those were awesome, I figured we should get them in the future games) shows the discs go directly on their head and somehow their brain omits and sucks the data out of the thing.

I remember there was a comic in one of the PokeSho's galleries that shown the FR/LG Girl cheating her way out of a TM or HM but making one herself, however it does not work since it's not an official thing.

So another question is who makes them and how?
 
I have two theories:

Theory #1

There is a special helmet or band that you wrap around your poekmon's head. There is a case for the disc. Insert the disc and it will emmit electrical impulses that let it learn this move.

Theory #2

You inject it in the bloodstream.

Of course, in the good old days, it would just be hard work that taught them these moves. Infact I think that's how movetutors do it.
 
My theory
The TM case transforms into a helmet and you select a TM/HM for your pokemon to learn through informative radiation absorbed by the pokemons brain cells. or something.
 
Radiation. Informative radiation? BUH?

Maybe the TM is some self-contained teaching device, like a speak n' spell. And it somehow craps out after one use. HMs are just built better?
 
This idea that they get into Pokemon brains by teleportation, radiation or other convenient method into Pokemon brains is to ridiculous for me. Even if it is in the manga!

I do like the idea above regarding the Teachy TV, Lil Brother. Too shame that the animations shows a disc on its head.
 
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BlackWodin said:
I personally like the TM's in the Magna - they make a lot more sense to me. If you don't know, they are basically electronic cubes that you break in haldand then hold each half on either side of the Pokemon's head and it pretty much zaps the knowledge into their brain, etc.
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that didn't look like data getting zapped into a brain. Looked more to me like some kind of powder... which actually makes a bit of sense. Some Pokemon should only be able to use certain techniques once specific elements have been seeped into their bodies.
 
If I recall, in the early days of the TCG, the TM trainer cards were also shown as mechanized cubes, it also had a space in the middle for Pokeballs. FRLG probably made it into discs since they were carried in a TM case, and the compact size of the discs made sense (yet you can carry how many berries in that pouch?).
 
Yamato-san said:
that didn't look like data getting zapped into a brain. Looked more to me like some kind of powder... which actually makes a bit of sense. Some Pokemon should only be able to use certain techniques once specific elements have been seeped into their bodies.
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Heh - you're right, I went back to my old Ono Magnas and saw I was remembering wrong - I think I was mixing Pokemon and some science-fiction show together.
 
Hmmm... does anybody still remember the movie "The Matrix"? There was one scene where one of the characters in the Matrix needed to fly a helicopter (I believe that wass Trinity), and another character in the real world simply pulled up information on how to fly one and "poured" it into her head. I believe Pokémon learn moves from T.M.s and H.M.s in a similar way; a disc containing information on a move is placed into a case, an electrode-like device is then connected from the case to the Pokémon's head or to the Pokéball with the Pokémon that will be learning the new move, and the information is "poured" into the Pokémon.
 
Does'nt everyone know pokémon have secret disk drives. I play Roller Coaster Tycoon on my Charizard all the time. XD
 
My thery before FR/LG was that you could like install the TM's through the pokedex and onto your pokemon from there, seeing that the pokedex was rather encumbersome earlier on in the franchise. Maybe on FR/LG, all you are seeing is the image of your pokemon, not the physical being itself, and the pokedex is just teaching it to the pokemon inside the ball. Like a visual aide, so you know you didnt mess up and give it to the wrong pokemon... but that is just what i always thought
 
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