Where do Rare Candies come from?

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This is something I thought about the other day.

The candies are even in wrappers, so it seems like they could be made at a factory, or maybe just a general food place; but then, the candies are not sold in shops (so how would they make enough money to keep producing?) and the name Rare Candy pretty much implies that they probably aren't a mass produced product.

So any crazy theories on this one? :I
 
Well, they seem to be a product of berries. I dunno, maybe they are what happens to berry juice when it ferments.
 
My own theory on Rare Candy is that once upon a time they used to be mass-produced, but only at one factory. It was a secret factory, and it would hide the various treats around the world. There was well over a billion, over a trillion even, that's how much candy was produced a day. Rare Candy used to be Sweet Candy. Until one day... One day, there was a terrible accident at the factory. Stuff blows up, and the secret recipe to Sweet Candy was thought to be lost forever. The employees hid the candy that survived all over the world, and Sweet Candy came to be known as Rare Candy for how rare it was.

It was only recently that the recipe for Rare Candy was discovered amongst the ruins of the old factory. It's why they're only purchasable at Battle Frontier facilities, and the PWT. They are made today again, but not to the degree that they used to be.
 
I've always wondered what would happen if a human ate one. Probably nothing, but you never know...
 
I know Shuckle's make them. The Pokemon world probably has factories that can synthesize them in a similar process. Although it probably takes either a lot of time and/or money in order to produce them and that's why they're "rare."
 
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smalllady said:
I've always wondered what would happen if a human ate one. Probably nothing, but you never know...
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For all we know, it might act like Bane's venom. Grants superhuman strength and durability.

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As for their rarity, maybe the synthesis is expensive and complex, involving many steps and expensive catalysts and reagents.

And as for why you can't buy them, maybe you need a special permit to sell and manufacture them and the pokémarts don't have that license.
 
Maybe the original maker of Rare Candies put a blanket ban on convenient selling of the Rare Candies. They can only be "bought" at Battle Frontier and the like because it's a treat, a reward, or a preparation for hard battles fought there. It adds meaning to the candy, and it would be lost if the Rare Candies were mass-sold at PokeMarts.
 
They're all handcrafted in small batches, which give them their strength, and it would be hard to mass produce them.
 
Shuckles eat berries, and turn them into the stuff. Shuckle are quite rare, therefore the "candies" will be rare too.
 
I never really thought about that...but I heard a rumor, if you have a Shuckle and you let it hold berry juice for a really long time it ferments and eventually becomes a rare candy. I'm not sure how long though. Well, other than that, here's my theory:
All the gym leaders, league champions, frontier brains, and Elite 4 people from all regions gather together secretly and make the rare candies themselves then sell it at the Battle Frontier or Battle Subway and stuff for BP. (I don't think it was factory made because the candies look hand wrapped to me)
 
smalllady said:
I've always wondered what would happen if a human ate one. Probably nothing, but you never know...
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The most probable result will be similar to N. Pokemon that ate rare candies only grow in levels, but their stats don't change. Same thing happened to N - he grew in physical size but he didn't grow mentaly. There's also a rare candy in his room to indicate that.

As for the candies, Shuckle make them.
 
Yeah, I'm guessing they were mass produced in a factory using the capabilities of some special Shuckle once as the Mystery Candy. Most of the Shuckle were then stolen by Team Rocket, and since then production levels haven't really been anything to write home about since there weren't much Shuckle left. This would have happened during Generation II.

Some of the Shuckle escaped and fled to the wild, where they were caught by many trainers. These Shuckle would then be used to get Rare Candies, as they were known since the Team Rocket theft, for their new owners. This would also explain why Shuckle can't be used to get Rare Candies in Gen III onwards, because all of the ones encountered there weren't handpicked for the candies creation because of their ability by the company and then stolen.
 
Now that you guys mention that Shuckle produce Rare Candies, I'm wondering; how come Rare Candies are already in wrappers when a Shuckle in your party makes one? Do the Shuckle produce the wrappers as well? Some aspects of Pokemon don't make sense, do they?
 
The only answer I can think of is Shuckle due to Generation 2 but that still doesn't answer who wraps them up. I guess the world may never know just like the tootsie pop commercial.
 
I think an old senile woman, her husband, and her hundreds of Shuckle make them. She does small business deals with Battle Frontiers and the PWT, and she gives them out to people who pay her a pretty penny, but she's very forgetful and drops a few on the road on occasion.
 
I've also wondered what this candy is. A long time ago I had this theory (I just repost it from another forum):

I came to realise something about >>Fushigi na Ame<< (mysterious/strange/miracle candy?) that increases the level of your Pokemon. There are also items that increase the stats of your Pokemon, like for instance >>Taurin<< increasing the Attack stat, and Bromohexin increasing (I don't remember, Spec Def?).

I remember having a shining Gyarados once, and I hated to train this slow-growing Pokemon, so I fed it with fushigi na ame to get it to level 100, I doped it in other words. Thinking back of how I doped my Pokemon, I start to wonder what fushigi na ame really is. They are no ordinary sweets, for that I'm sure; why else would they be >>mysterious candy<<?

My friend mentioned a few days ago, in a joke, how mad-doctors lured patients with >>colourful pills<< or >>colourful sweets<<. This makes me think again about this >>mysterious candy<<.

Why are fushigi na ame not sold anywhere in the games, whilst such as taurin is? Is it rare? No, I don't think so, not after seeing how much candy my Pachirisu picks up sometimes. By the way, the stat-increasing things are rare, too, some even more so! So, why does no shop in the entire Pokemon World (as far as we know) sell these sweets.

The only answer I can find to why it is not sold is, that it is illegal of course. What kind of drugs are we giving to our Pokemon?!

Is fushigi na ame good for our Pokemon?

Let's say it was sold, and rich kids would buy it and feed their level 5 Pocket Monsters till they grew to level 100. Good for the Pokemon? No. The Pokemon, being without battle experience, would be weak. (They have no EV points, they have about 60 stat points less that they should have.) Compare the Pokemon's base stats, with it's stats and its level to see if the Pokemon is below or above the average strength of that Pokemon. (For some reason, wild Pokemon have no EV, like all they did in the wild was eating those sweets, but I guess it's no fun to get an already trained Pokemon, so the programmers made it that way.)

Trained Pokemon does of course not take any harm from eating fushigi na ame, since they already have EV points.

I don't know what other effects fushigi na ame can have (like things not included in the games, because it is just a game after all), but the risk of people misusing it this way on their Pokemon could at least be one reason to why it is not sold.

Why do you find fushigi na ame in the wild?

I doubt it grows in the wild, so why do you find them out in the wilderness (as well as in buildings and other places). A simple answer is that someone has dropped it, but hey, do people have holes in their pockets . . .?


Please post what you think fushigi na ame is! As well as other >>mysterious<< items in the Pokemon World.
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But you see, I only believe what I want to believe :)
 
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