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Pokedex Accuracy

How accurate is the Pokedex?

  • All info in it is true

    Votes: 4 7.1%

  • Most info is true, with some exaggerations

    Votes: 38 67.9%

  • Most info is false, but with some grains of truth

    Votes: 14 25.0%

  • All info in it is false

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    56
Most of it is true. Measures, attacks, types, etc etc.

The entries... "with some exaggarations" is an understatement.
 
I call BS on a majority of it, but there are parts that ring true.
 
All of the above.
Besides, the 'Dex is a wank piece of shit which keeps you from accesing certain places until you've completed the regional version.
 
Some entries are exaggerated (like Tentacruel having 80 tentacles). But then again, there may be some truth into them (like the entries of Cubone and Marowak).
 
Look at Arcanines. Really? How about you water types? cough*Azumarril and Wailord*cough. look at you!
 
I wish some of the exaggerations were true. If so, I could have a lot of fun with psychic pokemon influencing other people's emotions...
 
The Pokedex entries are awsome, even if they are a bit out there. Really, who thinks that stuff up?
 
*cough*Tyranitar*cough*

so apparently it's invincible and can crush mountains

"oops there goes everest"
 
The Pokedex exaggerates too much, especially with Arcanine's speed, Rattatta's teeth, and so on... that pic/poster Pokemon Science comes to mind.
 
I voted for: Most info is false, but with some grains of truth.

But I would say a good bit of the info is true but with so MAJOR exaggerations that I more or less have to say "most info false, some grains of truth"
 
I would say maybe some of them are true like Gardevoir saving it's trainer if it senses they are in danger or an Psychic Pokemon able to connect by minds with their trainer or Alakazam being real smart.

But it's mostly just speculation, in the anime the pokedex always goes "Genger, no details known, Haunter, no details known much about this Pokemon" which makes those professors really stupid. How is that an Orange Island Champion, A Ghost Gym Leader, an Elite Four member etc all have a Genger yet there is no details known. I guess they never got to study it but those trainers had to start somewhere and I am sure they let a professor research it for a bit.
 
The way I see how the pokedex works... Neither.

Basically the pokedex doesn't have any information inside it, it starts empty. Upon sight and capture of a pokemon, it automatically researches all the data it can about it.
So it deppends of the accuracy of the sources it is gathering the information from, which very likely are exaggerated or even made up and the poor machine can only jump to sometimes idiotic conclusions.
 
Hmmm, I've gotta say Dunsparce...

It's measured as 4'11" in height. I never imagined one to be that huge.
Dunsparce.jpg

^^
(And that was from Anime... which contradicts the only anime episode to feature Dunsparce, they were shown to be handsized "item" pets that were compared to be the size of Chihuahuas)
 
feng277394 said:
Hmmm, I've gotta say Dunsparce...

It's measured as 4'11" in height. I never imagined one to be that huge.
Dunsparce.jpg

^^
(And that was from Anime... which contradicts the only anime episode to feature Dunsparce, they were shown to be handsized "item" pets that were compared to be the size of Chihuahuas)
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Maybe it meant height when it stands on its tail...i.e length...

I reckon that (as sanae kotiya said) after a trainer catches a pokémon [or in the animé's cases, sees a pokémon] the pokédex scans it and makes an entry about it on the fly based on information from the scan, which is why professors give pokédexes out to new trainers, to collate scanned data.

This could explain why some pokémon like the gastly line showed no data, because the pokédex wasn't able to scan them.
 
As some people tend to forget, the pokémon world is different from ours and can have different laws of nature. Also we have no other sources to disprove the things the pokédex tells other than our own world (which is no good source), thus there's nothing we can do but to just believe what the pokédex tells us (unless of course, the pokédex contradicts itself or movesets/abilites).

Thus I voted that all info in it is true. You simply can't disprove its statements.
 
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