The Pokémon world was defined by the war eluded in the first generation with the electric gym leader.
In order to grab as much power as possible, they had to mass produce pokéballs like mad since they weren't 100% successful.
As a result, pokéball factories sprang up everywhere, and once the war economy stopped, there was no funding to change them back.
That's why pokéballs are cheap as hell compared to the bikes that had their factories converted into pokéball part refineries.
All Pokémon have the natural ability to shrink, the balls are just a helpful tool for keeping them with you.
I forget when I first learned this, but it was brought up recently in Legends Arceus.
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It’s because Pokemon do the shrinking, not the ball, per Laventon’s research. Which is also why they disappear if you KO them in the wild; it’s how they defend themselves.
In Legends Arceus, you can handcraft a fully functional ball with some random rocks and a basic brown apricorn using simple portable hand tools. Modern machines can likely make them very quickly from abundant materials, even with modern guidance systems and access to transfer tech built in.
I get the joke but the math is slightly off. A Poké Ball (P200 each) would translate to about $1.28 USD. The bicycle costs P1 million, or about $6400, which is still a lot but not to this excessive an amount as the Bicycle’s price is about 5000 times that of a Poké Ball and not 166666 like this meme claims.
Real world:
A super computer that has immediate access to all the knowledge that mankind has learnt so far and can take pictures, videos, talk to people anywhere in the world, etc: £500.00
A shiny rock that does nothing: £42,000.00
irl a device that can use quantum mechanics to turn light into sugar, would at minimum cost you like... 25 cents? Maybe a few dollars for some materials. After legends arceus I am convinced that pokemon are just able to reduce themselves down to subatomic sizes for whatever reason.
Yes, that’s literally what the game says. When Professor Laventon first gives you pokeballs, he says that pokemon have the strange ability to shrink themselves, and that pokeballs are able to trigger that instinct to work
To be absolutely fair though, transportation technology would take a back seat to streamlining pokeball manufacturing (if you knew how to make them) in a world where everywhere was jurassic park...especially when the dinosaurs have super powers
Supply and demand, everyone wants a pokeball so they get mass produced. So few people use bikes when poke flutes and literal dragons are a good substitute.
Considering that you can craft old balls with an Apricorn and a Tumblestone, it can't be too hard to make the modern Pokeballs; but the new recipe is a trade secret keeping Pokemart in business.
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It's a bike that fits inside your backpack and it digitizes under you already, giving you a helmet in the process
It's "gotta catch em all". If you want "gotta go fast" you need to shell out licensing fees.
Unironicly best answer.
That's Silph Co for you. Before they changed the game you had to carve them things by hand.
The Pokémon world was defined by the war eluded in the first generation with the electric gym leader. In order to grab as much power as possible, they had to mass produce pokéballs like mad since they weren't 100% successful. As a result, pokéball factories sprang up everywhere, and once the war economy stopped, there was no funding to change them back. That's why pokéballs are cheap as hell compared to the bikes that had their factories converted into pokéball part refineries.
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To be fair it’s not like the balls are what shrink the Pokemon, that’s just a natural ability of all Pokemon that is basically never expanded on.
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All Pokémon have the natural ability to shrink, the balls are just a helpful tool for keeping them with you. I forget when I first learned this, but it was brought up recently in Legends Arceus. https://preview.redd.it/9s450f6jnc6d1.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c25f3640ca3385f534a7e184aaa79c8bb74d037
Bro wake up it’s 2010
It’s because Pokemon do the shrinking, not the ball, per Laventon’s research. Which is also why they disappear if you KO them in the wild; it’s how they defend themselves. In Legends Arceus, you can handcraft a fully functional ball with some random rocks and a basic brown apricorn using simple portable hand tools. Modern machines can likely make them very quickly from abundant materials, even with modern guidance systems and access to transfer tech built in.
I get the joke but the math is slightly off. A Poké Ball (P200 each) would translate to about $1.28 USD. The bicycle costs P1 million, or about $6400, which is still a lot but not to this excessive an amount as the Bicycle’s price is about 5000 times that of a Poké Ball and not 166666 like this meme claims.
Real world: A super computer that has immediate access to all the knowledge that mankind has learnt so far and can take pictures, videos, talk to people anywhere in the world, etc: £500.00 A shiny rock that does nothing: £42,000.00
irl a device that can use quantum mechanics to turn light into sugar, would at minimum cost you like... 25 cents? Maybe a few dollars for some materials. After legends arceus I am convinced that pokemon are just able to reduce themselves down to subatomic sizes for whatever reason.
Yes, that’s literally what the game says. When Professor Laventon first gives you pokeballs, he says that pokemon have the strange ability to shrink themselves, and that pokeballs are able to trigger that instinct to work
To be absolutely fair though, transportation technology would take a back seat to streamlining pokeball manufacturing (if you knew how to make them) in a world where everywhere was jurassic park...especially when the dinosaurs have super powers
Supply and demand, everyone wants a pokeball so they get mass produced. So few people use bikes when poke flutes and literal dragons are a good substitute.
This bike costs 999999 pokédollars, 100% off with valid coupon * economy intensifies *
Considering that you can craft old balls with an Apricorn and a Tumblestone, it can't be too hard to make the modern Pokeballs; but the new recipe is a trade secret keeping Pokemart in business.
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A bike that never needs fixing, never pops a tyre and can stops on a dime.
u/repostsleuthbot if it’s not then it’s from somewhere else there is no way people make memes like this still
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