Actually, the situation is probably more tragic than we think. If EVERY Cubone is wearing its mother's skull, that means EVERY Cubone is an orphan, INCLUDING the ghost mother (and her mother, and her mother and so on back to the first.)

In retrospect, they probably should have made it so there could be only ONE Cubone in the game, and It was either unbreedable or, if bred, would NOT give you a Cubone back. I know the "one of a kind" usually only applies to legendries (which Cubone decidedly is not), but it WOULD have softened the blow a bit.

Chochobakke said:

Actually, the situation is probably more tragic than we think. If EVERY Cubone is wearing its mother's skull, that means EVERY Cubone is an orphan, INCLUDING the ghost mother (and her mother, and her mother and so on back to the first.)

In retrospect, they probably should have made it so there could be only ONE Cubone in the game, and It was either unbreedable or, if bred, would NOT give you a Cubone back. I know the "one of a kind" usually only applies to legendries (which Cubone decidedly is not), but it WOULD have softened the blow a bit.

Except it totally breaks down when you have eggs and breeding Pokemon. Get a girl cubone and a ditto together (all sex is with ditto - why would you ever take ditto out of the daycare?!), and you have a mom right next to the baby cubone with a "mother's skull" on its head. (If the ditto was the mom, then it's even more weird...)

NWSiaCB said:

Except it totally breaks down when you have eggs and breeding Pokemon. Get a girl cubone and a ditto together (all sex is with ditto - why would you ever take ditto out of the daycare?!), and you have a mom right next to the baby cubone with a "mother's skull" on its head. (If the ditto was the mom, then it's even more weird...)

That's sort of what I was getting at. The description of Cubone in the Pokedex is incompatible with the actual behavior we see of it in the game. The Pokedex HAS to be wrong.

Chochobakke said:

That's sort of what I was getting at. The description of Cubone in the Pokedex is incompatible with the actual behavior we see of it in the game. The Pokedex HAS to be wrong.

Pokedex is known for it's bullshit from the very beginning of Pokemon. A digital encyclopedia that arbitrarily decided that a Pokemon can do something without observing it happening with controlled cases and experiments? That'll never fly in the scientific community.

For example, this very situation. How can you possibly prove that 'Cubone wears it's mother's dead skull?' if you bred a male Cubone with Ditto? Or in more natural setting, how would a Cubone gets it's skull if its mother lays two eggs? Will one turn into not-Cubone?

Rathurue said:

Pokedex is known for it's bullshit from the very beginning of Pokemon. A digital encyclopedia that arbitrarily decided that a Pokemon can do something without observing it happening with controlled cases and experiments? That'll never fly in the scientific community.

For example, this very situation. How can you possibly prove that 'Cubone wears it's mother's dead skull?' if you bred a male Cubone with Ditto? Or in more natural setting, how would a Cubone gets it's skull if its mother lays two eggs? Will one turn into not-Cubone?

Well, since Cubone is the orphan pokemon, we can assume its father is dead as well, so if it is another Cubone, there is HIS skull........

But yeah, after god knows how many years of trainers breeding them, you'd think someone would have noticed this...

I suppose this also applies to a lot of other Pokemon with natural items. Kadabra's/Alakazam's spoon don't show up until they evolve, so they presumably create them (though that does mean that, since the Pokedex mentions that they can give their spoons to people, Kadabra/Alakazam's psychic power is SO great they can actually manifest physical matter.) But what about Farfetched? When a new one hatches, does it hatch WITH an Onion already in it's hand, or does it have to go out and pick one (we've seen in the anime that Fenniken/Braixen CAN replace their sticks if they break , and presumably, if you give a Cubone/Marowak a Thick Bone, it discards the one it had before, so I can certainly SEE Farfetched occasionally re-burying its onion when it begins to wither and picking a new one.)