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I haven't ever gone backpacking before, but I understand that traveling around, even in a dense urban environment with plenty of supplies, requires the support of large backpacks to carry a sleeping bag, clothing, food, water, and other things. So, how can the main characters in Pokemon get away with carrying such small backpacks and yet manage to survive and stay healthy? May gets away with carrying around only a fanny pack. Misty survives a trek from Cerulean to the Pallet countryside alone with a bike and small red rag bag. (I don't want to even get into how she manages to fit a sleeping bag and a fishing pole in there) Drew doesn't even travel with any sort of belongings with him!

How do they do it? I'm guessing with the technology featured in the show that they somehow have the ability to miniturize objects or at least temporarily convert their belongings into energy based form, similar to how a pokeball works. Have they ever addressed this in the show?
 
Not really, besides in commentaries. I think it's just your classic plothole, and in the "real" pokemon world backpacks are much larger.

Then again, items in the game are stored in pokeballs, so...*shrugs*
 
Obviously technology that allows you to store things in small objects, like capsules in DB.

I mean, they already mastered getting large animals to fit into a base-ball sized object.
 
It seems to me that those backpacks are functionally equivalent to bags of holding.
 
The bike in the games folds up, so you could probably do that for fishing rods as well. They don't change their clothes, so that cuts down on space. Brock, I imagine, would carry all the supplies, and he has the biggest bag. The only thing I see as a problem is the sleeping bags. They can be crammed into a surprisingly small bag, but it would still be too big to fit in their bags.
 
Another Fan said:
I think pokeballs can store things. That makes things very simple.
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Yeah, that was proven in Primeape Goes Bananas when Ash accidentally caught a riceball. :)
 
Don't watch the anime but heard about that. Works for me, so most of the equipment is in pokeballs. Simple. Any problems still?
 
Well, finding what you are looking for could take a long time...
 
I'd guess they'd put some sort of labels on the Pokeballs. Perhaps like how Richie put those stars on his Pokeballs(even though those had Pokemon in them...). Or it could be like the manga where the top of the Pokeball is translucent, so you can see what's inside at a glance.

Unless you're not going by a "how will they tell things apart" standpoint...I suppose there might be several Pokeballs needed to hold everything, and that could get tiresome. Perhaps there are Pokeballs specially designed to hold not just items, but *multiple* items? It'd be convenient if, say, you could have firewood(...although given how forested the Pokemon world is, it might be just as easy to collect some every time you need a fire instead of keeping some in a Pokeball), a lighter, and tools for cooking things over a fire all in the same Pokeball. Or maybe there are special pockets in trainers' backpacks so that they can sort their item-holding Pokeballs in a way(sort of along the lines of the pockets in the 3rd gen. Those DID make it easier to find stuff...I think GSC had 'em too, but my memory's a tad fuzzy on that part).
 
GSC brought in pockets. RS expanded them. FR/LG put two pockets into containers in the Key Items pocket.
 
Well I remember in the early episodes of Pokemon they were definatly exagerating what the characters could stuff in their bags. In the 'School of Hard Knocks' Brock set up a table and a complete Tea set and banquet. Those bags of theirs definatly have some deep pockets.^_^
 
Nah. I bet they can hold more than one item. I mean farfetch'd can be in the same pokemon with its leek. Same with the five exeggcute that are holding an item. No reason not to have that.
 
There are still limits, though. See the episode with the ancient Pokéball, or the ones with Giant Gulpin and Giant Claydol.
 
Swifty said:
Yeah, that was proven in Primeape Goes Bananas when Ash accidentally caught a riceball.
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I don't think that Pokeballs hold anything but Pokemon. Did the riceball glow red when it was "caught", or did it just sit in there? It wasn't converted to any sort of energy form, it was just small enough to fit in the Pokeball.

It's a classic case of "hammer space" or a "party pocket": the power of extreme item compression.
 
...even more interesting is how TR goes around in that ballon loaded with God only knows what and doesn't ever have issues with the whole flying thing...
Yay for Pokemon physics...
 
I don't watch anime. So, I don't have to base any of my theories on the contradictions the anime throws out so I am fortuanate in that way. The pokball takes what it can take. I doubt if you throw it at a building it will change size. With in reason. Still, I depise the thought that only pokemon can go in because they're special like that. Huh. Like I said farfetch'd, cubone, kangaskhan, slowbro, magneton, etc. I don't say that if someone throws a ball at a building it will take everything including the things inside. I am saying that it will take any amount that is connected to the object near it when it opens other than things that break certain barriers. I can't make the rules, just to unexplainable but I won't say it can not hold anything heavier than this, any more items than that because it can. We can't say that if a pokeball hits the ground it will suck the world up but we can't say that it can't hold a piece of onion. We can't say that one object only cause practically everthing is made of seperate objects. Like if it hits the shellder on slowbro it will rip it off.
 
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