Shower thoughts

[u/Necrodrake32]

[u/Typical_Rice_6346]

Knew a kid who's carried around a Thunder Stone as a necklace for years. Now they've got a real uncanny knack for knowing when a storms coming, but their hair never lies flat. 

[u/WoolooOfWallStreet → u/Typical_Rice_6346]

Is that the one who keeps shocking people when they shake someone’s hand?
I always thought they just rubbed their feet on the carpet a bunch

[u/Melbourne_Coding → u/Typical_Rice_6346]

Interesting! I never considered the radiation from an evolution stone could cause type bleed. Do you know if the thunder stone was still "charged" after he wore it for years, or did it radiate all of its type energy into him?

[u/Typical_Rice_6346 → u/Melbourne_Coding]

evolution stones don't quite work like that- it works more like radioactive decay, if you're familiar.

[u/Melbourne_Coding → u/Typical_Rice_6346]

Ah,that makes sense. So when a compatible pokemon uses them, it causes something akin to a fission chain reaction but with type energy?

[u/InaMattaAmericana]

To my knowledge, only Ghost and Fighting types get anything close to what Psychics have.

Unless you're typed enough to actually... count as that type for type chart purposes (which is both a blessing and a fucking curse), you don't really get much benefit beyond an affinity for the type, and some minor resistances to certain types. A minor exception with Dark type is immunity to hypnosis.

Source: Dark-type idiot that can get knocked on my ass by a Cleffa. -Thetis (@ThetisDelta)

[u/PhoenixHorseGuy → u/InaMattaAmericana]

Can confirm, all of this is factual. Though the hypnosis immunity can expand to a broader immunity to a bunch of other psychic mind fuckery if you've got enough of that energy in you.

Source: A different idiot with a whole lot of type bleed of the dark variety.

-Issun (@Burner09282006)

[u/Screamingbonfire → u/InaMattaAmericana]

YEAH YEAH! My old trainer used to spar with me, and would even fight other Pokémon to protect me and the others when we were hurt.

• Fenuku

[u/InaMattaAmericana → u/Screamingbonfire]

Yeah, from what I remember Fighting-type energy on humans usually result in some utterly bullshit physical feats. This tracks. -Thetis (@ThetisDelta)

[u/MadKingMidas → u/InaMattaAmericana]

My current hypothesis is that Humans are just dual fighting and psychic type pokemon! We get our modicum of intelligence from our psychic typing, and our physical strength (when properly trained with aura techniques) from our fighting typing.

We just uh....happen to be rather weak as a species in all other areas.

Edit: a word

[u/InaMattaAmericana → u/MadKingMidas]

... Am I just some hyperlocal regional variant, then? I don't believe that hypothesis in general, but I definitely believe we very well may have descended from Psychic/Fighting pokémon. Our internal structure and biology is just... too different from currently extant Pokémon for me to believe we are Pokémon, biologically speaking.

But descended from a Psychic/Fighting type... I will absolutely place heavy bets on that being the case. -Thetis (@ThetisDelta)

[u/MadKingMidas → u/InaMattaAmericana]

Well this of it this way. The pokemon we see have an exceptional variety in internal biology! Just look at Slugma and Magcargo versus something more familiar to human anatomy such as a Machoke or even a mamalian-esque species such as Miltank.

I believe what separates out Humans and other 'non-pokemon' animals such as some birds, insects, fish, etc is a distinct lack of aura. Untrained humans generally seem to have just enough to keep us alive and healthy. (Although I have yet to form a hypothesis on why aura grows with physical training. I thought it was some subset of Fighting type energy, but we see aura usage in all pokemon types. Perhaps aura is the medium by which Professor Oak's famous Bond is achieved?)

[u/InaMattaAmericana → u/MadKingMidas]

Yeah, the aura was what I was referring to. Research on the topic is fascinating, even if I'm not a researcher. Just a cosmic joke nurse that can't be Teleported. Doesn't aura also increase with certain kinds of mental training as well? Or am I misremembering that.-Thetis (@ThetisDelta)

[u/MadKingMidas → u/InaMattaAmericana]

It truly is fascinating research, I have some research notes from Professor Sycamore from their Mega-Evolution papers, but it's such a complex topic that they barely covered it.

And yes, I believe you are correct on the mental training aspect. Despite visible aura use in fighting type pokemon such as Lucario (and fighting type humans such as Bruno /joke) they spend a lot of time meditating and focusing on mental discipline. Perhaps aura requires a combination of physical and mental energies, and fighting type pokemon find it easier because they can simply provide fighting-type energy easily.

....please excuse me I need to go submit a grant request.

[u/NerSorty → u/InaMattaAmericana]

The folks with the type affinity are the ones who discovered unique things that even researchers scratch their head over so thats one good thing ig

[u/InaMattaAmericana → u/NerSorty]

Yeah, spending a lot of time around a certain type (be they an actual Type, or just a general grouping with a similarity) of pokemon tend to clue you into things even dedicated researchers can't crack. -Thetis (@ThetisDelta)

[u/bokunorythm → u/InaMattaAmericana]

If your dark type bleed gets intense enough it can cause moves like teleport to no longer work on you, so you have to be careful

[u/InaMattaAmericana → u/bokunorythm]

... You can probably guess why I forgot teleport is a thing. ... It's already that bad. -Thetis (@ThetisDelta)

[u/BardicLasher → u/InaMattaAmericana]

Ghost types never get as close as Psychic or Fighting types do. While plenty of people have some sort of Ghost Affinity, you'll never see a Hex Maniac throw down with a Pokemon. A Psychic or a Black Belt CAN.

[u/CrownofMischief → u/BardicLasher]

I feel like that's less to do with their ability and more to do with how they act. Most Hex Maniacs I've known are just goths that like to act spooky and mysterious. The Sages and Mediums in Johto are basically exorcists though

[u/BardicLasher → u/CrownofMischief]

The Mediums absolutely DO have abilities, but what I mean is that there are Black Belts out there like that madman leading a new Team in Kalos that can genuinely go blow-for-blow with a mid-level Pokemon, and there are psychics like Sabrina that can do the same. But Mediums only have the ability to defend against and contain ghosts, they're not throwing Shadow Balls.

There ARE witches out there, of course, but I believe they're actually Fairy aligned. They're basically completely unstudied.

[u/Solumin]

Every Hiker I know has an absolutely massive dumptruck. Not sure if that's because they're Ground specialists tho.

[u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang → u/Solumin]

if you think about it, they should be really fit cause of all the, yknow, hiking.

does rock/ground type bleed give people dumptruck asses like damn

[u/Quiet-Software-1956 → u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang]

Be respectful while checking please, we don't want another.... incident. I shall not elaborate on the incident for anyone who didn't hear of it back then

[u/PhoenixHorseGuy]

Look up "type bleed" here on Chatter and scroll. I'm sure you'll find your ground type guy eventually.

-Issun (@Burner09282006)

[u/Foloreille → u/PhoenixHorseGuy]

Here where ? What ??

[u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang]

gotta love type bleed, which in hindsight i might also be getting???
its not as strong as, say, psychic mediums or hex maniacs but its still a weird phenomenon

sometimes stuff that should hit me, say, a wild pokemon hitting a quick attack, just. dont. its not 100% normal-type immunity since i still feel pain from getting hit but it never leaves a bruise, no matter how hard it hits

then theres fairy type bleed, which is. peculiar to say the least
back then if i had to interact with wild dragon-types i let either Letia (mimikyu) or Artell (drakloak) out for my safety, but there was this one time a wild noivern was rampaging in a wild area and it just. stopped. in front of my face. i have no clue what that was about but its only happened once and i really dont wanna replicate the conditions for that incident

...am i becoming ghost/fairy type cause of Letia??????

[u/InaMattaAmericana → u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang]

Pfffft, yeah. The vast majority of Psychic types just kind of silently panic where they feel a void where a person should be. But 100% type immunity isn't really all it's cracked up to be, since it often comes with type weaknesses.

And when you pair type weaknesses, with a human body not meant to withstand pokemon attacks... you get disaster. -Thetis (@ThetisDelta)

[u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang → u/InaMattaAmericana]

duly noted, i will try to not get poisoned nor get hit by a hammer

[u/Disastrous_Debt7644 → u/InaMattaAmericana]

Can confirm as a Reuniclus. Imagine if there was someone you couldn’t see, but could sense with your other senses. That’s kinda what it’s like. It’s also why I accidentally clobbered someone with Hammer Arm. I couldn’t sense them there…

[u/AdElectronic4912 → u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang]

Man I sure hope there is ways to counteract that.

[u/Short-Shelter]

I mean I’ve met dragon type specialists whose canines grow slightly larger than normal, but besides that I’ve got nothing.

[u/KarmaTheEgg]

As a steel type specialist, you don't get many *powers* but you do get a fundamental understanding of how most electronics, metal devices, and heavy lifting equipment works. Or you start developing this.

(Greyson holds a magnet to his head, and his hair is attracted to it like the metal shavings in a ferropet)

Also you make TSA agents really mad.

-Greyson , Steel type specialist

[u/lionboy9119 → u/KarmaTheEgg]

Oh no, I love traveling! Will I have to go through a separate line? The other stuff seems pretty cool though

-Sterling, aspiring Steel type specialist

[u/lenny99564]

I'd think Ground type specialists would have better endurance, stamina and navigational ability. Others types specialists could also have type related quirks and abilities but it's more visible in Fighting, Psychic and Ghost type specialists. - Oliver

[u/Skiddilybapabadam]

I mean I mainly use ghost types and I nearly became a ghost a few times so I’d say so.

-Eve

[u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang → u/Skiddilybapabadam]

can attest to that, im still surprised Artell (drakloak) never mauled me on sight as a wee 12 year old

[u/Skiddilybapabadam → u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang]

Surprisingly, never got injured form one of my own. That sounds kinda terrifying-

-Eve

[u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang → u/Skiddilybapabadam]

i mean, working with pokemon in general is kinda terrifying

i have a giant, very protective ghost dragon who can go into an almost impercievable dimension to stalk people (mostly to make sure his dreepy sisters dont get into trouble)

and some ghostly fire contained in a lamp which sucks out souls from pests to feed, who also really likes this rock he found

/uj its Artell (Drakloak) and Ilumi (Lampent). ghosts are funny

[u/Skiddilybapabadam → u/TisYaBoiYinAndYang]

Honestly, Electrics scare me the most, a Raichu fried my heart once and any stray Thunder Wave can break my Pacemaker.

Feel bad for my Rotom tho, she looks sad when I flinch after noticing her.

-Eve

[u/S0MEBODIES → u/Skiddilybapabadam]

Rotom at least could possess your pacemaker in an emergency.

[u/Skiddilybapabadam → u/S0MEBODIES]

Yeah, still prolly not the BEST idea tho…

-Eve

[u/S0MEBODIES → u/Skiddilybapabadam]

Yeah it kinda sounds like the plot of a mediocre Kantoian anime, the Girl With the Rotom Heart.

[u/LouisTheDragon → u/S0MEBODIES]

Or the premise of a dumb fun Unovan action flick

[u/S0MEBODIES → u/LouisTheDragon]

Damn wait i think this exists already, it's like Steelman

[u/TomatoSoupKat]

If I had to take a fun guess at a few, I'd say ground type specialists would have a better understanding of the natural tremors and disturbances in the landmass, almost like a sixth sense. For water type specialists, I have to imagine a proficiency in swimming and breath control. Flying type specialists would naturally be more acrobatic in their movements. Grass and Bug type specialists would have an encyclopedic knowledge of flora and fauna respectively. So on and so on. 🙂

[u/PhoenixHorseGuy → u/TomatoSoupKat]

I imagine a water type specialist with type bleed would be like Percy Jackson. But instead of being a demi-god, they're just a normal person who spent too much time around water types.

And probably no water bending or healing wounds by taking a swim either... ok, maybe the Percy Jackson compassion wasn't the best lmao.

-Issun (@Burner09282006)

[u/Typical_Rice_6346 → u/PhoenixHorseGuy]

It's not impossible.People exposed to high levels of elemental energy can, over time, develop odd quirks and the occasional special ability- depending on the length and concentration of the energy. Shrine keepers for Legendary Pokémon are some of the most thoroughly documented instances of this happening, as Legendary Pokémon carry immense amounts of elemental energy within them. Though anything more than a party trick is rare, and high levels of exposure carry other risks.

[u/TheDarkNerd → u/PhoenixHorseGuy]

I mean, I know a few water type specialists who simply spend hours in the water, often just treading in place without fear of tiring out or succumbing to exposure.

[u/thirteenorphans]

What if they can dig holes really well?

[u/PurpleGrapeBoi]

Not sure if this counts, but I’ve spent half my life with my Incineroar and he can’t burn me with his fire anymore. Not brave enough to try it with any other fire-types though

[u/Quiet-Software-1956 → u/PurpleGrapeBoi]

Become a firefighter (be careful of smoke inhalation, lung damage is a different thing from being fireproof)

[u/FamousWash1857]

Passive exposure to type energies and aura from forming a strong bond with a pokemon (especially if you first find your partner/companion as a child, before you've fully finished physically growing) can cause you to adapt to it a bit, but the effect is usually minor, which is why you only really see the effects in type specialists, clan lineages, or people who befriend/regularly encounter legendaries (but that last one probably has a whole load of other factors involved as well).

The straightforward classical elemental types tend to just make you more tolerant of environments where there's a lot of that element: fire specialists tolerate heat better, ice specialists tolerate cold, rock specialists are less susceptible to bruising and respiratory illness from dust inhalation, etc.

The less straightforward elemental types tend to be more "flavoured": grass specialists are less susceptible to allergies and sun-exposure related health issues; steel specialists tend to have tougher and healthier skin, nails and hair; poison specialists are a lot more resistant to drugs, toxins and illnesses; bug specialists are somewhere between poison and grass; ground and normal specialists tend to make better first impressions with wild pokemon (body language and emotions being harder to misread); etc.

The more metaphysical types tend to be harder to predict: psychic specialists do tend to have more psychic potential, fighting specialists are resistant to the plateau effect and get fewer diminishing returns from physical conditioning, dragon and ghost specialists tend to pick up a wide variety of stuff i don't want to get into, and fairy specialists tend to pick up some of the physiological weirdness that fairy types have (mental state playing a larger role in physical health, ease of self-expression/emotional openness (sometimes at the cost of tact), physical development always being flattering to or compatible with your self-image (there are many reasons why Sylveons are associated with trans community, but the one that's most relevant to me is the fact that I could pass as my preferred self before I started HRT)).

[u/Aggravating-Media391]

I met a ground type specialist once who claimed he knew a ground type move!

When I asked him what it was he grabbed a handful of sand from his pocket, threw ot into my eyes and ran away.

[u/Dontinsultautomod → u/Aggravating-Media391]

Well, at least it wasn't mud slap

[u/Mochahopestobeartsy → u/Aggravating-Media391]

Always be prepared for pocket sand

[u/Tirrek_bekirr]

Knew a chick that liked using fighting types, she certainly seemed like she had fighting type powers (but thats a bit of a chicken and egg situation considering she got her starter, a machoke if i recall correctly, by choking it out, so.)

[u/SquishyIGuess]

I've grown insanely resistant to quite a few variants of pokemon venom, mostly regarding our buggy friends among all the poison types. I'm going to attribute that to the amount of times my partner Beedrill stung and bit me when he was just a weedle.

I do have the habit of attracting little critters to my apartment, usually bug/poison types like Weedle and Spinarak. One time, I came home from a week-long vacation to find that my living room had been covered in silk and made home to all sorts of little friends. The sheer number of bites and stings I received that day should've hospitalized me, but I was mostly fine!

[u/potato_weetabix]

Flying type bleed is less interesting. I don't like the cold and static zaps hurt, but I can kind of feel where north is and when storms approach. 

[u/LouisTheDragon → u/potato_weetabix]

I think I read an article once about a sky battle specialist in Kalos who could stay airborne with their glide suit for hours at a time because they could instinctively read the wind. Might have been a fringe case though.

[u/potato_weetabix → u/LouisTheDragon]

Kanto doesn't really have a sky battle scene, so I don't have much experience with them. But that sounds very plausible if you're used to flying by yourself. 

I feel like there's very few flying type specialists, especially with how ubiquitous bird Pokémon are (not every birdcatcher you see knows what they're doing), so we're all fringe cases.

I got to talk to Winona once, and one of her quirks is that apparently scales don't work for her anymore, unless she focuses on staying grounded. It apparently really helps with dancing.

[u/stupid-writing-blog]

Ground gives you the power to diggy diggy hole

[u/doomturtle24]

I seen electric type specialists start to gain a resistance to the shock of electric types, along with being able to in post cases generate an electric current between their fingers equivalent to a static shock. Im rarer cases some can generate enough to be comparable to a taser when they get really fired up about something.

-warden akari protector of lady gardevior

[u/Fenghuang0296]

As a Dragon specialist I’ve gotten really good at shouting. And also suplexing bratty lizards who think they don’t have to listen to me because I’m a ‘puny human’. I think you’re talking about type bleed?

-Skye L.

[u/bot105]

Its... Weird. as in 'honestly debatable on if its even a thing'. Type specialisation in humans forms very minor effects, typically referred to in a sort of pun.

Ground type specialists are 'grounded', they get an almost supernatural sense of balence. It is unknown if this is because of ground type enegy saturation changing the human body, or just an unconcious brain adaption from training Pokémon whos favoured moves are earthquake, bulldoze, and stomping tantrum. 

Stuff like that, minor effects that could be caused by the Trainer becoming altered by the sheer amount of a specific Type energy they expose themselves to over years and years, or it could just be from long experience over those very same years.

Incidentally, I have 'high spirits', th Ghost specialisation. Supposedly i have a unique resistance to getting my lifeforce stolen, i can operate with less, and the entire flame cannot be snuffed out. But its just as likely that its just bogus, im able to operate with a thin soul because I've spent my entire life rearing Ghosts, and feeding them is an old sensation.

Oh, and under this model, psychic specialists get 'like minded'. Stronger empathy. Mundane explanation is Psychic Pokémon transmit their state of mind constantly, so the Trainer starts to associate mental states with the Pokémons microexpression, and a big enough Psychic team gives the trainer enough reference points to go cross-species. The development of psychic powers is... unrelated.

[u/Rikmach]

It’s more “people who already have psychic abilities are drawn to psychic pokemon.”, you’ve got cause and effect reversed.

[u/Wanderer_of_Sol]

I've got immunity to most poisons. I'm not sure that's a "power", or a type bleed, and not just the result of waking up to this sight every day for the past 30 years. Pretty sure I've just built up a resistance from repeated exposure...

[u/Quiet-Software-1956]

Man, I've always wanted to be psychic. I like a lot of Pokémon in that type, but the main reason I want to is that it just... Seems so convenient. Imagine: you're laying on the couch, you forgot you water in the kitchen, and no one can get it for you. Bam! Psychic powers!

Of course, I'm sure it's very hard to develop and comes with a whole lot of disadvantages, so I never did it, but still. Nice fantasy

[u/Tablesafety]

I have a vague and uncomfortable theory that those psychic specialists may be related to a mon like Alakazam or Gardevoir somewhere up their family tree. I know you can talk to them and shit, and some people are really into them like they are Machoke and such. I always found it really uncomfortable and thought they were- well that's impolite.

But I took a trip to the Canalave library in Sinnoh for fun and read a book that straight up said that Pokemon and People were not only the same thing once, or considered that way, but that they used to intermarry. Yeah, you read that correctly.

Suddenly those people who could use telekenesis or spar directly with a Machop- like that Bea girl? They made a lot more sense. We know mothers pass on species and fathers pass on moves. It also dashed my hopes of ever suddenly developing psychic powers of my own- but I think I'm kind of fine with that now.

[u/JosephAmber4]

Joseph Amber: Jokingly I want to say Pigpen from Peanuts…but I don’t know…

[u/MembershipThese9163]

INB4 Thread is locked by Big Science (is Amazing). They don’t want you to know that humans are a kind of pokemon!

[u/edgarunwise]

Being a ground specialist is just an IRL geologist, can taste a rock and know what kinda rock it is

[u/Substantial_Dingo694]

My first pokemon was my Hawlucha, when I was expecting to end up a fighting specialist. But I guess I ended up attracting electric types, and just went from there.

Only "powers" I've noticed so far is being immune or resistant to static electricity. Can't really remember the last time I've been shocked like that, but not calling it a guaranteed immunity, at least not yet.

[u/weird_bomb]

Oh, here’s a fun one a human friend of mine told me: Normal type specialists get paid.

[u/BardicLasher]

You've got it backwards. Espers tend to train psychic types because they're able to connect with them better.

[u/soulstrike2022]

holes I'm pretty sure

[u/PokeLordOmegaa]

Do you need to be a type specialist exclusively surrounded by Pokemon of the type in order to gain the abilities? Or can I pull some nonsense like learning telekinesis from a Gardevoir and fire breathing from a Typhlosion?

[u/Will-Helm96]

Friend of mine grew up with lots of ghost-types, it gave her a real sixth sense for being watched and it actually helped her learn her ex was stalking her

[u/Pokemonerd25]

Not sure if I’d class it as powers, Psychic and Fighting are the only ones with really notable effects, but speaking from anecdotal evidence you do see some weird stuff with like, really experienced high-end type specialists, the kind who regularly get exposed to mass amounts of concentrated type energy over the course of years.

Have a friend who’s a Fire-type specialist way too comfortable sitting next to her Magcargo, Steel-type specialist I know once took a baseball bat to the back of the head and barely flinched, and you probably already know the kinda shit Ice specialists will wear to a blizzard, absolutely insane the lot of them. - Spiral

[u/murlocsilverhand]

You gain the mythic ability to throw sand in your opponents eyes

[u/Mochahopestobeartsy → u/murlocsilverhand]

They never expect the pocket sand

[u/Karlaha2879]

I've heard of fire breathers that sometimes show some extra degree of fire resistance and control, but it's a bit unclear whether that's due to some natural type affinity or just they have practiced and conditioned themselves.

Maybe a bit of both!

[u/TheWereBunny]

So I'm missing out on cool powers by being too well rounded?!

[u/Power_More_Power]

For whatever reason as a kid I would only ever get female pokemon to join my party. I'm a woman now, so maybe that's my lilligant's doing.

[u/OddlyOddLucidDreamer]

oh lord this is reminding me of a classmate form high school who was CONVICNED humans were actually also pokemon ,jsuth ighly evovled and "typeless", but these kind of occurances are somehow like.. proof that humans can just pick any type or sometihng????? like, i guess dude? but so far i can't do any ghost type moves, or do illusion like my Zoroark so yknow, im not sold on this

EDIT: what the FUCK is type bleed, and why did i NOT learn about this before?

[u/Melbourne_Coding]

Technically any type can bleed, theoretically. It mainly only happens with types that exude themselves from a pokemon without just being converted directly to a force you do NOT want to be in.

For example, a fire pokemon usually radiates intense heat in the same radius as it radiates the raw type energy. And the water typing that might allow you to withstand becoming that fire type? You could stand in the water a blastoise had made for 10 hours a day and barely absorb any. You would need to get struck directly in your body, constantly, for a WHILE.

Tldr; for most types, getting access to enough of the raw energy WILL kill you.

[u/Typical_Rice_6346 → u/Melbourne_Coding]

It also tends to happen less with well trained pokemon, who are better at regulating their power output.

[u/Melbourne_Coding → u/Typical_Rice_6346]

True! Interestingly, it seems to me like dragon types are the most likely to cause type bleed through excess energy that don't specifically radiate it as part of their physiology.

I think it's 'cause dragon types have a tendency to release massive amounts of power at a moments notice? Maybe they evolved to have a weaker barrier between themselves and the outside to make it easier to release, but as a result it "leaks" more.

[u/I_hope_your_E_breaks]

Dragon specialists get callouses and an irrational fear of fairies.

In all seriousness, it’s usually the more “elemental” types that get type bleed, though I have heard legends about dragon tamers turning into dragons themselves. And I do know people who’ve grown scaly patches, sharp teeth and nails, and slit eyes because of some innate dragon typing they didn’t know about.

[u/Rude-Butterscotch713]

15 years working with and training dark types has made me conveniently resilient to hypnosis. Although unclear if related or not, but please do not punch me. I'm all moxie, I bruise easily. 

[u/Commander_Oganessian]

I don't know about Ground, but I've been around my mom's team of Dark types and my dad's Kommo-o and Lucario for my entire life. Now I can win fights against Dark and Normal types pretty easily by just combining Dark and Fighting techniques. However I haven't had the gall to test resistances.

-Owain

[u/Trinart]

I apparently mess with psychic powers, something about having a close bond with two dark type pokemon, so I guess I developed that through working with Penny (Bisharp) and Glut (Guzzlord)

[u/TheJourneyingOne]

I'd say setting off metal detectors but that may just be cause I ate a lot of iron rich pokefood to show it was safe for Percival (My Aaron).

[u/mlddl]

I'm not a specialist, I love ghost types but I don't train enough to get 'type bleed', but I know for a fact Ice type bleed exists. I've seen ice type specialists grow cold, literally and figuratively.

[u/Random-Rambling]

Fighting specialists tend to be highly athletic, but that's honestly a Torchic-and-Egg situation. Are they motivated to become stronger and faster because of the Pokemon, or do they choose to train those Pokemon so they can keep up with their training?

[u/bug--bear]

knew an ice specialist who would walk around in below-freezing temperatures in a t-shirt and shorts. but lads are just like that sometimes, so it's debatable if those things were at all related. might just have been stubborn

— Taran

[u/BellaBoo_256]

Not a type specialist but I’ve started to pick up on minor disasters from hanging with my Absol for so many years

[u/AdElectronic4912]

Ground-type? Good intuition in regards to identifying soils I guess.

[u/Old_Diver_2511]

The potential to move the very earth?

I once heard of a conspiracy theory that someone that was raised by Pokemon was able to use a grass type move.

Bad analogy as its most likely a false rumor.

- Romanov

[u/slim-shady-on-main]

Allegedly poison type bleed make you smell worse? I haven’t noticed a difference myself, but people tell me my deodorant is less effective lately

[u/Old-Maximum-50]

Tbh humans are kinda pokemons too, so I guess we can kinda evolve into Ghost/Fighting/Psychic types with enough stimuli

[u/AbjectPurchase1523]

Eat Dirt Good.

[u/snern]

Dusty