A Certain Pokémon Interview and Some Questions

[Sniper670]

This implies that the attacks do kill, but he simply chose to make them faint instead of die, because death bad I guess

Does this give Pokémon attacks that cause opponents to faint something that cause opponents to die in crossverse? Perish Song, Sheer Cold(Already accepted as absolute Zero), Destiny Bond? And ohko moves

Question 1: “Why don’t Pokemon die?”
Tajiri: “When something you’ve raised dies, you feel incredibly sad right? Pokemon’s supposed to be fun and interesting, so I don’t want to make anyone sad. That’s why I decided not to have them die. When they lose to other trainers or wild Pokemon, they faint — but they absolutely don’t die. Since they’ve only fainted, you can take them to the Pokemon Center to heal them. There’s also Cubone, who was born from the thought of how sad it would be for a Pokemon to die. The bone Cubone holds is actually the bone of its dead mother. Cubone treasures it.”

 

[Thelastmlg]

i think we already accept those as death manipulation, fate manip for destiny bond's case