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Pokémon vs guns

Definitely depends on pokémon.

Ghost-types would probably be immune to gunfire but something like a flamethrower or stun gun might drive them off.

Rock, steel and ground types would probably be immune to anything short of high-caliber explosive or armor-piercing ammunition...the kind usually fired from vehicles.

Psychic types could probably shield against gunfire or telekinetically immobilize the shooter...if they can see/detect them.

Legendaries are probably immune to everything short of a nuclear warhead. Maybe even that. But every other type could be vulnerable to small-arms.
 
Drakon said:
Legendaries are probably immune to everything short of a nuclear warhead. Maybe even that. But every other type could be vulnerable to small-arms.
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I think fire types would burn off any explosives before they hit the Pokemon, making the shooter hurt/burn, and water types would probably use their moves to nullify guns.
 
Eh, if a Pokémon can take a Hyper Beam from an Arceus with no permanent repercussions, I don't see how guns would kill them.
 
In the anime, J uses some sort of gun to capture pokémon, albeit not a real-world type of gun. As far as I know, real guns aren't used in the pokémon world; villains tend to use pokémon for the same effect, but given that a traditional gun causes mechanical damage by sending away a high-velocity projectile, maybe we can use information about how påkémon fare against mechanical damage to say something about how they would survive a gunfight. In some games, such as mystery dungeon, you can throw rocks at opposing pokemon in battles, and there are also cases in the anime where pokémon are injured from mechanical trauma. There are, of course, also examples of pokémon surviving such trauma unharmed, so I guess it depends on the pokémon in question. Firearms would probably be potentially effective against most pokémon, although I wonder how much damage they would inflict upon e.g. a rock pokémon or a ghost pokémon. Probably none.
 
that's what I find weird now watching the few old episodes with guns it seems out of place with the rest of show and beside that logically you would think that a lot of Pokémon could be killed with a gun with criminals in the show used them more
 
I think a lot of people are also forgetting the types of guns.

Anyways, a shotgun would be more effective on a Blissey then a Flabebe due to it’s range, even if both would be killed in one shot.

Pokemon like Celesteela or Magearna could probably take hits without any negative effects. But Pokemon like Absol and Pikachu might not be so fortunate.
 
AnimePsyclone said:
I think a lot of people are also forgetting the types of guns.

Anyways, a shotgun would be more effective on a Blissey then a Flabebe due to it’s range, even if both would be killed in one shot.

Pokemon like Celesteela or Magearna could probably take hits without any negative effects. But Pokemon like Absol and Pikachu might not be so fortunate.
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Unless someone breaks out an anti-materiel rifle or a railgun. Then, even Celesteela and Magearna would be one-shotted.

And that's before you get into the propelled explosives, mini-nukes, and all of the other tasty inventions mankind has come up with for countering things with way more armor than any Pokemon has.
 
I think a lot of the above would make sense. Though, there's also the issue of aiming vs dodging the bullets. Can a Lucario with Extreme Speed dodge bullets? I also wonder what would a crossover with Fire Emblem/Advanced Wars/Nobunaga's Conquest be like with both medieval weapons and Pokémon.
 
henrymidfields said:
Though, there's also the issue of aiming vs dodging the bullets. Can a Lucario with Extreme Speed dodge bullets?
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If it's fired from far enough away and they know about it, a human can dodge a bullet. That's part of why tactics like covering fire came to exist.
 
Ereshkigal said:
If it's fired from far enough away and they know about it, a human can dodge a bullet. That's part of why tactics like covering fire came to exist.
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Do you reckon it could be possible to, say, use fast Pokémon - say, again Lucario, Blaziken with Speed Boost, or Pikachu from Smash Bros/the anime (not too sure about the Speed stat in the games) - to dodge bullets in WWI-style trench warfare and cross the other side? Or on the other hand use a Rhyperior, Aggron, or maybe even a Snorlax (in which the bullets will just bounce off Snorlax - because cartoon physics) to overpower the opposite trench?

And while we are at it, maybe use Charizards and Dragonites as a substitute/support to WWII fire-bombing planes?
 
henrymidfields said:
Do you reckon it could be possible to, say, use fast Pokémon - say, again Lucario, Blaziken with Speed Boost, or Pikachu from Smash Bros/the anime (not too sure about the Speed stat in the games) - to dodge bullets in WWI-style trench warfare and cross the other side? Or on the other hand use a Rhyperior, Aggron, or maybe even a Snorlax (in which the bullets will just bounce off Snorlax - because cartoon physics) to overpower the opposite trench?
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No.

WW1 trench warfare was one of the first times machine guns were deployed in a major conflict. They quickly were deployed using the "wall of bullets" strategy... basically, they overcame accuracy issues by simply putting enough ammunition in the air that dodging became impossible. That was why some militaries starting marching right behind artillery barrages when attacking, often close enough that any inaccuracy in the artillery would hit their own side. Others would simply wait for reload periods and hope sending enough bodies charging into the fray while there was a lack of full coverage would mean one or two soldiers could hit the opposite trench and take out a machine gun with a grenade.

Pretty much, it would be far better to coat something like an Abra with grenades, yank all the pins at once, and have it teleport to the gunners on the opposite side.
 
Ereshkigal said:
Pretty much, it would be far better to coat something like an Abra with grenades, yank all the pins at once, and have it teleport to the gunners on the opposite side.
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So for Britain and France/Kalos to win the war, they'll just have to mass-produce tons of Abras and grenades against the Germans. Problem solved! :D On a more serious note, I still fail to see how a Rock/Steel Pokémon like Aggron, Golem, or even a phalanx of Bastiodons, be flat-out unviable against early machine guns. I'm pretty sure that not even dynamite can scratch Golem (according to the Pokedex - and let's assume the Pokedex is correct for this particular excercise), and I assume that be the case for Aggron too. Or are we considering scenarios where we have a double line of both machine guns at front and artillery at back?
 
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