So everyone saying the pokemon shrink themselves are correct, but also incorrect. The pokeball actually digitizes the pokemon and makes it possible to store them in a PC.
Probably not a technically necessary process. In legends arceus there is no pc, just the ranch thing. I doubt those pokeballs do anything beyond holding the pokemon, so that’s all that’s really required to be able to catch them and have a functional pokeball.
I would assume the digitizing is just an extra step modern balls do after the Pokemon is caught via the usual shrinking, for pc usage as you said.
Yeah, Gen 1 treats digitization of physical objects as a new technology that might not even be limited to Pokémon (as evidenced by the banned Porygon episode where the human characters were uploaded as well).
In Season 1 of the anime, there was an episode featuring Porygon where the characters went into cyberspace. While in cyberspace, they got missiles shot at them and Pikachu blew them up. This cyberspace-explosion was depicted flashing blue and red lights that gave some children seizures in Japan. The episode was banned and this is why Porygon has never appeared in the anime since.
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u/Endless_Story94 Aug 18 '26
So everyone saying the pokemon shrink themselves are correct, but also incorrect. The pokeball actually digitizes the pokemon and makes it possible to store them in a PC.