Pokemon speed upgrade?

[Vrokorta]

So I was researching Beedrill for a Death Battle I was making, and I had been watching the pokemon anime for feats. In the episode Challenge of the Samurai, a Beedrill steals Ash's Metapod and Ash tries to return Metapod to its pokeball, but Beedrill dodges the pokeball's lasers and escapes.

I was wondering, if the pokeball's lasers are actual lasers composed of light, that would mean Beedrill dodged light, and that would make him FTL. My question is whether or not this feat actually puts Beedrill at being FTL, if so, other pokemon would scale to this.

Of course, the pokemon anime has some dumb logic sometimes, so this could all just be a misunderstanding.

 

[Golden_Void]

Read this and see if it helps

 

[Vrokorta]

Read this and see if it helps

That doesn't explain whether or not the beam from a pokeball is actual light or not, but thanks anyways.

 

[Gemmysaur]

Rice's link is one of the trippiest, yet logical things I've ever read with regards to Pokemon.

Regarding the pokeball thing however, imo, it's too vague to gauge how fast that thing is, as it could be real light, electromagnetic waves (that also travels at lightspeed, lol), or like the linked theory above says, wavelength gets shifted by the pokeball and turns the pokemon into data, which methinks is incalculable.

I'm no expert in anything though, so idk.

 

[Vrokorta]

I guess we'll leave pokemon at "at least transonic" for now, thanks for all the input.

 

[Golden_Void]

It is a great read, I enjoy learning about quantum mechanics and I find his theory to be highly plausible, though for simplicity's sake and the fact that its a kid show, we are shown things on a much more basic level.