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When most people think of Pokémon, they think of funny cartoon animals with funny names with the ability to "blow shit up".

However, this is a bit of a misdemeanor: Many Pokémon are not based on animals!

But how might these Pokémon live in the wild?

I'd like to take a gander that Misdreavus live similarly to cuttlefish. Misdreavus' hair sorta reminds me of squid tentacles.

Drifloon and Drifblim sorta remind me of sea jellies or jellyfish. They float in the same way and they might be filter feeders.
 
both of those 2 are ghosts so they aren't very good examples as I don't think ghosts eat.
 
thunder999 said:
both of those 2 are ghosts so they aren't very good examples as I don't think ghosts eat.
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Well it's all just speculation so I don't see how I'm wrong.

Anyway, it's been mentioned in Misdreavus' Pokédex that it feeds on fear.
 
Drifloon and Drifblim are based on balloons, or at least that's what the Pokedex tells us.

Lunatone and Solrock aren't based on animals also, their names tell us that straight out.
 
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Perhaps I wasn't completely clear. This thread is about how these Pokémon, which are not based on animals, can fit in the ecosystem.
 
Pretty much every Pokemon is some how based on animals, being that they all have ether eye, mouths or both which such body parts have only been found on animals.
Even though Pokemon are not animals they still may function like the animals they share their appearance with. Bird like Pokemon may eat bugs and bug Pokemon, also there is a possibility of fish and fish Pokemon. Canine type Pokemon may eat various of lower chain animals and Pokemon.
Pokemon that have slight animal shapes but do not seem to be based off any one animal may find food or energy from other sources.
Lunatone may get it's energy from moonlight and Solrock may get it from sunlight. Pokemon like Chimecho and Cherrim may actually digest food since they have mouths although Cherrim may also use photosynthesis and Chimecho may also get it's energy from sound.
 
I believe that electric Pokemon such as Magnetmite and Voltorb would merely 'feed on electricity', or gain power from electrical sources - I recall a Pokedex entry for one of them anyway which said such a thing. (And an NPC in XD said a similar thing as well?) They probably just live in cities rather than the wild, or your average abandoned Power Plant.
 
grass types could use synthises from sunlight to feed themselves maybe? But they could eat things like berries or whatnot too.
 
I think it's been established that all Pokemon are capable of eating berries and berry by-products (Polocks and Poffins). What I wonder is: how? A lot of Pokemon don't even appear to have a mouth. In the case of pupa Pokemon like Trancel, they could be in a mere transition phase, but choosing not to evolve them (despite constant flavor text suggesting that it actually is a short-lived transition phase) creates quite a conundrum (makes you wonder if they even considered stuff like that when implementing the B-button, or when they made pupa count as their own Pokemon, whichever came last). Now, I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume the Regis are some kind of alien bacterial life form that possessed minerals and created a single entity. With everything else, I have no clue (and it's not just Pokemon based off of objects either; just look at Sawamular).
 
Yeah, the pupal stages do create a conundrum... And as far as Hitmonlee's concerned, He probably has a different way of nourishment.
 
Well, if we're going by gameverse for the Pokemon in a cocoon, then they somehow would eat the berry... but if we want to apply some real-world ideas to Pokemon, then I'd say, IMO, that they simply do not eat anything. Like how a catepillar in real life as a cacoon doesn't eat anything - it just sits there and... uses Harden. -_- Problem with the Pokemon world is that things simply contridict each other from time to time, especially when you mix things (fighting with a fire type Pokemon while underwater using Dive in RSE is one - wouldn't make sense to us, but hey, it's a game/anime show based off the game/Pokeymans!).

Hitmonlee is a tough one... I remember a fic though that had Hitmonless eat things by absorbing them where it's mouth would be.
 
One thing about cocoon pokemon, they are different than real world counterparts by having eyes. (Except Kankuna, it looks most like real world cocoon)

And I always thought pokemon like the magnemite line and voltorb/electrode were like living batteries or robot like and used electricity to fuel their cells.
 
I always thought that pokemon that don't have mouths just absorb food into their bodies or something.
 
well, maybe the water absorb ability like poliwhirl has helps keep it alive and some grass types could use sun or plant their roots to feed.

Hitmonlee reminded me of "IT" from Adams Family and I assumed they absorbed nutrients into their bodies too like some other pokemon.
 
bobandbill said:
Well, if we're going by gameverse for the Pokemon in a cocoon, then they somehow would eat the berry... but if we want to apply some real-world ideas to Pokemon, then I'd say, IMO, that they simply do not eat anything. Like how a catepillar in real life as a cacoon doesn't eat anything - it just sits there and... uses Harden. -_-
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when you say "apply some real-world ideas to Pokemon", it almost sounds like you're implying the anime (which does kinda put a more realistic spin on the games). The thing is, however, that even the anime seems to have established that pupa Pokemon can stay in that form. Just look at Tsukushi. I doubt even a Gym Leader could've trained that Trancel to kick Pikachu's ass in less than a week (or however long butterflies tend to hatch).
 
I think that certain pokemon like Muk and Grimer would not need to eat because their plasma like bodyform would absorb the minerals they needed. Also how would slugma eat?
 
Muk and Grimer probably eat by engulfing an unfortunate victim with it's blob body. Slugma as well.
 
Slugma live near volcanoes, though. Not a whole lot of victims. They probably absorb minerals through the rocks they pick up.
 
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