Pokémon Trainer reactions

[The_real_cal_howard]

Kinda self explanatory and simple.

Given they command relativistic beings, they kinda need reactions on par if they command them in the midst of battle, like telling them to dodge and the like. They can shout to their Pokémon to react to Flash as well. Heck, Elio and Selene have an outlier MFTL+ feat of steering Solgaleo and Lunala through Ultra Space.

Just treat it like Jojo humans to a lesser degree. Not combat or movement speeds obviously, but reactions and just reactions.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

Maylene regularly spars with a bloodlusted Lucario and reacted to its aura sphere without even looking at it

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Apparently, if I'm not misremembering, Cynthia (on a bike) races her Garchomp as well.

 

[SauceSorcery]

Ah yes, I brought this up in chat.

Trainers can tell pokemon to dodge attacks made of light, so obviously, a trainer needs light speed or higher reactions.

... Wait, is that a relativistic+ bike?

 

[GyroNutz]

Playing Devil's Advocate here.

Ash and his friends dodged a Signal Beam in the XY anime. Giovanni dodged attacks from Mewtwo in the manga(?). Ash commanded his ultra beast Naganadel to battle a Lucario. Yet no trainer views a second, first stage or even a baby Pokemon in slow motion. Why should we consider Relativistic trainer reactions as legit when there's so many inconsistencies?

 

[SauceSorcery]

Just as we don't always use speed to calculate AP and a number of other seemingly logical links, unless they're proven to be consistent in the setting itself; time perception isn't always used to calculate reaction time and vice versa.

I would guess that it's not uncommon for a character to perceive a day as lasting a day (instead of an extremely long timespan), but can still react to things that move at light speed.

In short. Not every character that can dodge light actually has a slowed perception of time, only that they can mentally register things that occur in a short frame of time, possibly limited to instincts or skills trained to the point of second nature.

Even so... Considering that practically every decent trainer ever can command their pokemon in response to relativistic attacks, it seems that anti-feats surrounding early stage pokemon are the outliers here. (or early stage pokemon aren't as slow as we think they are.)

 

[DragonEmperor23]

why can't they be MFTL

 

[TrueBK98]

I agree that we should give them higher reaction speed. Due to the "hidden potential" element of the franchise, which i've talked about here, human can reach higher limits than they normally do and can be as strong as their Pokemon. This make sense as human had killed off countless Pokemons using weapons, in war, along side their Pokemon before.

 

[TrueBK98]

Bump

 

[SauceSorcery]

Almost every trainer ever can throw a pokeball at a pokemon and sometimes land it, possibly up to stage 3 pokemon. Sure, it's common advice to weaken the pokemon first, but trying to throw an object at someone who can dodge beams of light surely takes fast reactions and a fast throwing arm. The slower one of those two aspects are, the faster the other aspect has to be.

Throwing something is also way harder than just pointing your finger at someone and shooting a bolt of energy that travels at the same speed.

What do you say to that?

Also bump.

 

[TrueBK98]

In Pokemon Twilight Wings, we literally see Bea reacts to Machamp's attacks.

Bump

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

>Bae instead of Bea

Well you're not wrong.