Current Events > I unironically believe that 1 billion lions would beat one of each Pokemon

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Flying pokemon?

This argument again? The only way lions win is if you handicap Pokemon by applying the video game logic to them while ignoring the Pokedex entries from the video games. But in the show, they don't have a cap of 4 moves, and there's zero mention of PP or the struggle attack (because that's all in the name of video game balance). So Pokemon would obliterate the lions.

In every iteration of Pokemon the "gods" are defeated by the protagonists

Let's use Pokemon mechanics.

The most opponents a Pokemon can ever have at once is 5, in Horde battles. The most PP a move can ever have is 64, so the most PP a Pokemon can ever have is 256. There are 1025 Pokemon, so if we assume that every one of their moves is a mythical 64PP move that instantly kills all opponents with 100% accuracy that doesn't exist, they only kill about 1.3 million lions before they're all down to Struggle. You can call me cynical, but I don't think every single Pokemon can Struggle nearly 1 million times before they faint. Lions win by sheer numbers.

In every iteration of Pokemon the "gods" are defeated by the protagonists

The kids dont write the Pokdex entry, the Pokdex generates that after scanning the captured Pokmon

IDK why people think a slug made of magma is totally fine but think the fact that its surface temperature doesnt directly affect its surroundings is too far for suspension of disbelief lol

The games themselves ignore the Pokedex entries.

Lions dont fly

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I can see why confusion over the dex stems from. Pokemon sometimes the way the dex depicts them, like how are most ghost type Pokemon allowed to live in cities? How are humans, who are lacking compared to Pokemon, the dominant species?

nothing in Pokemon's canon suggest that Pokemon are as strong as the Pokedex entries claim (that are written by 10 year olds btw)

The contradiction is intentional. Every kid wants a pet that is friendly with them that can also blow up a building with a laser beam at their command

How are lions expected to deal with ghost pokemon, ya know, the ones immune to physical attacks?

IDK why people think a slug made of magma is totally fine but think the fact that its surface temperature doesnt directly affect its surroundings is too far for suspension of disbelief lol

Why are a billion lions always getting pitted against stuff? Did it originate from something?

you are unironically wrong

nothing in Pokemon's canon suggest that Pokemon are as strong as the Pokedex entries claim (that are written by 10 year olds btw)

common example that makes no fucking sense:

Magcargo, 18,000 degree body is 2x the temperature of the sun. And yet the pokemon world isn't completely obliterated. Interesting.

"b-b-b--b-b-b-b-bb--but what about Ghost types?" nothing. If Lions are a normal type, then who cares? Bite is a dark type move that is super effective against Ghosts. I personally believe that because Lions are not Pokemon, they would be typeless, which would inflict neutral damage on everything (as seen in the Pokemon attack struggle), but even if they aren't, there's no reason why biting wouldn't work.

All the "GODS" of Pokemon are thwarted, again, by 10 year olds. And nothing these "GODS" do are unbeatable. Even in the Pokemon canon an Arceus can get beaten by a Rattata.

People vastly overhype the abilities of Pokemon for absolutely no reason.

Bite may be Dark type and lions may be no type but Ghost types are still GHOSTS. The lions would have to be able to get a hit in. Other Pokmon can manage because those are the rules and they have Types. But by your logic, lions being no type would not be able to hurt Ghost types even if they tried biting them because they are ghosts. If lions have no type, their bites also have no types and so the question would be if a lion can physically hurt something like a ghost. By our world's logic, they cannot. The lore of our world states that most ghosts do not have physical bodies.

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Let's use Pokemon mechanics.

The most opponents a Pokemon can ever have at once is 5, in Horde battles. The most PP a move can ever have is 64, so the most PP a Pokemon can ever have is 256. There are 1025 Pokemon, so if we assume that every one of their moves is a mythical 64PP move that instantly kills all opponents with 100% accuracy that doesn't exist, they only kill about 1.3 million lions before they're all down to Struggle. You can call me cynical, but I don't think every single Pokemon can Struggle nearly 1 million times before they faint. Lions win by sheer numbers.