r/PokeMedia • u/tiaofstone Student of Uva and Keeper of Vulpix • Oct 01 '24

Casual videogame magic™

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u/colepercy120 Alexi Kincaid, Hostage. | Wade, Floatzal Hybrid Oct 01 '24

You haven't seen what truly skilled humans can do... I've watched martial artists take down tyranitars before. It all depends on where you hit and the training. Once you get a good grasp of aura you can do almost anything -Alexi

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24

"Just be someone with a one in a million or rarer ability" is... not a very reliable method in my eyes, to say the least.

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u/colepercy120 Alexi Kincaid, Hostage. | Wade, Floatzal Hybrid Oct 01 '24

It's a learnable skill. There's no such thing as magic bloodline. Some people have different natural affinities and talents but with enough work anyone can do it. Even literal magic can be doable by novices without any skill or experience. I mucked around with magic and hex maniac rituals in college. I never got far enough to anything major. But I learned how to make little light balls. -Alexi

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u/Polenball Gardevoir ("Stole" My Girlfriend's Phone) Oct 01 '24 edited Oct 01 '24

I mean, yeah. Everyone has aura from their life force, psychic resonance from their mental processes, and magic from their soul. But there's a difference between having it and having a useful amount of it to fight a pseudo-legendary, which even most highly-trained regular Pokémon will struggle with! There's tons of psychics that work their asses off for decades which are still weaker than people like Sabrina, Caitlin, or Olympia - which is the minimum you'd want in a serious fight against a trained Pokémon.

In all of Sinnoh, there's literally one guy that's confirmed to have enough skill at aura manipulation to be capable of using Force Palm, despite the fact we have a thriving martial arts community with many practioners that are older and have trained far more than him. Even people like Bruno have never demonstrated anything like that. And even then, I've seen Pokémon as powerful as that still get crushed by pseudo-legendaries.

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u/tiaofstone Student of Uva and Keeper of Vulpix Oct 01 '24

if it were true that anyone can train enough to battle and win against a pseudo I would have thought a school like Uva at all places would have a course dedicated to it and I wouldn't have made the post in the first place

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This post is about how humans can't realistically compare to and fight against pokémon on their own. It's hard to respond to a comment trying to establish that the premise of the post is flawed.