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  • Lopunny, Gardevoir and Ninetails for me.
    Also pokemon understand human languages, just can't speak them themselves.

    Like I can speak german and english, understand a bit of french but can not speak it.

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  • br33d3r said:
    Lopunny, Gardevoir and Ninetails for me.
    Also pokemon understand human languages, just can't speak them themselves.

    Like I can speak german and english, understand a bit of french but can not speak it.

    Try saying that to Meowth in the pokemon anime

    Also Lucario, Gardevoir, and Lopunny for me

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  • For me Blaziken,Gardevoir,Lopunny ,Hatterene ,Delphox, Cinderace, Pheromosa, Incinoroar, Lucario, Zoroark, H-Zoroark, Snealer, Tsareena, and H-Liligant

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  • For me: Delphox, Primarina, Serperior, Salazzle, Reshiram, Lunala, Ninetales, Sylveon, Mienshao, Luxray, Liepard, Mightyena, Sneasler, Weavile, H. Zoroark, Lopunny, and Zeraora.

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  • Well, thing is that Pokemon *are* capable of understanding human language, and therefore capable of consent. In the animes and in the games humans are constantly communicating with Pokemon, and vice versa. Not to mention the Diamond and Pearl Sinnoh folk lore that state that people used to marry Pokemon and how people and Pokemon were once the same. (However that's only in the direct translation of the game, and the English translated version insinuates it, but does not outright say it.)

    So technically speaking, it's fair game.

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  • unknown_scientist said:
    Well, thing is that Pokemon *are* capable of understanding human language, and therefore capable of consent. In the animes and in the games humans are constantly communicating with Pokemon, and vice versa. Not to mention the Diamond and Pearl Sinnoh folk lore that state that people used to marry Pokemon and how people and Pokemon were once the same. (However that's only in the direct translation of the game, and the English translated version insinuates it, but does not outright say it.)

    So technically speaking, it's fair game.

    One thing that troubles me is how the Sapphire pokedex for Ninetales goes out of its way to specify that Ninetales is "highly intelligent" and "can understand human speech," and doing that feels like it implies that that intelligence/language ability is rare among Pokemon species. But who believes what the pokedex says anyway.

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  • voidspeaker said:
    One thing that troubles me is how the Sapphire pokedex for Ninetales goes out of its way to specify that Ninetales is "highly intelligent" and "can understand human speech," and doing that feels like it implies that that intelligence/language ability is rare among Pokemon species. But who believes what the pokedex says anyway.

    I read somewhere that the pokedex entries are written by trainers upon encountering a pokemon for the first time. If so, we could assume that that entry's author was not yet aware that ALL pokemon understand human language; maybe Ninetails was the first Pokémon he/she tried to talk to that actually felt like responding in a way that suggested understanding

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  • br33d3r said:
    Lopunny, Gardevoir and Ninetails for me.
    Also pokemon understand human languages, just can't speak them themselves.

    Like I can speak german and english, understand a bit of french but can not speak it.

    Actually, there are a few notable Pokémon who can speak, those being Hoopa, Team Rocket's Meowth, the Slowking from Pokémon: The Movie 2000, and that one talking Delibird from a Pokémon clip that only aired on Japanese airlines.

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  • br33d3r said:
    Lopunny, Gardevoir and Ninetails for me.
    Also pokemon understand human languages, just can't speak them themselves.

    Like I can speak german and english, understand a bit of french but can not speak it.

    Correction, they can speak, they just need to learn how. Telepathy is a common way for a Pokémon to speak.

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