Pokémon

**Pokémon** is a multimillion-dollar RPG **videogame** franchise for **Game Boy**, **Nintendo DS**, **Nintendo 64**, **Nintendo GameCube**, and **Wii** created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996.

Its success was such that it covered other fields of entertainment such as an Anime series, Manga and a great variety of collectibles, such as letters, dolls, etc ...

All seasons of this series show how **Ash** became a Pokémon trainer.

## Etymology

The word Pokémon is the Romanized contraction of the Japanese brand Pocket Monsters, literally "pocket monsters", as such contractions are very common in Japan.

On the pronunciation of Spanish speakers in the case of Latin America, for the dubbing of anime, which is usually closer to the American, is pronounced/pokemon/. In Spain it is pronounced/pokémon/.

It is grammatically correct to say both "a pokémon" and "many pokémon"

## The Pokémon

Pokémon are a class of creatures based in many cases on real animals or mythical and oriental mythological creatures. Others are inspired by legendary and inanimate things. They are captured with a special attachment called Poké Ball

There are 18 types in which pokémon are organized. Although in the official series there were only 15 in the year 2000, 2 new elementary types were implemented (sinister and steel) arrived in pokémon gold silver and crystal finally in 2013 a new type (fairy) was implemented which arrived in pokémon xy.

### Types of Pokémon

* Normal
* Fire
* Water
* Plant
* Electric
* Ice
* Fight
* Poison
* Earth
* Flying
* Psychic
* Bug
* Rock
* Ghost
* Dragon
* Sinister
* Steel
* Fairy

The Pokémon are also ordered and divided in this way, giving advantages or disadvantages against others. For example:

* A water-type pokémon is more likely to beat a fire-type pokémon than a grass-type pokémon, since water-type attacks quench fire, while fire-type attacks burn herbs.
* Plants, on the other hand, since they grow with water, do not cause much damage to them. This sequence would be compared to the popular game stone, paper or scissors.
* Pokemones also have special abilities which helps them when fighting. Some are affected if you attack others. They are not affected by movements of some types and others are strengthened if they are affected. There are currently 191 skills. of them are:

**Abilities**

* Absorbs water (recovers a certain amount of ps to the damaged user if he was attacked by water attacks).
* Absorbs fire (same as the previous one but with fire)
* Absorbs electricity (same as the previous ones)
* Static electricity (paralyzes the attacker if he gave you a physical attack).
* Coarse skin (reduced health points to the attacker if he gave you a physical attack).
* Fugue (it helped to escape easier from a combat)
* Thickening (strengthens grass-like attacks if the user is subtracted 1/3 of their ps)
* Torrent (the same as thickets only water type attacks)
* Sea of ​​flames (same as Thicken and torrent but fire type attacks)
* Chlorophyll (increases the speed of the user if there is sun)
* Body flame (you can burn the attacker if you had a physical attack)
* Many more......

## Videogame

Currently there are 6 generations of Pokémon.

* **Pokémon Trainer**

Users of video games are called Pokémon Trainer. They aim to achieve two objectives: to capture all the pokémon species available in the region and thus complete the information of all the pokémon in the Pokédex, they must train them and face them to other pokémon to demonstrate their skills, strength, talent and thus become a Pokémon Master. To achieve this, Pokémon trainers travel throughout the regions of the Pokémon world, collecting gym medals, in a battle in which both the trainer and the gym leader face their pokémon to test their special abilities in a battle.

* **Initial Pokémon**

One of the constant aspects of Pokémon videogames since its inception with Pokémon Red and Blue for the Game Boy handheld console, up to the latest version, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for Nintendo DS, is that players, at the start of the game, receive their First Pokémon as a gift from the Local Professor. The established amount of Pokémon initials is three, of which the coaches can choose only one. They are always of the water type, fire type and grass type.

However, in Pokémon Yellow, the coach receives Pikachu as his initial pokémon. However, after the releases of Pokémon Red and Blue, Pikachu can be obtained during its search in the path of the game by a single player, something that is not possible in any other installment of the franchise.

Another constant aspect is that the player's rival, a character who also becomes a coach at the same time as the player, will always choose a Pokémon that has an advantage over that of the protagonist.

* **Pokédex**

The Pokédex in the fictional world of Pokémon, is an electronic device that intervenes in video games and the anime series. In games, its function is to record the data of a Pokémon. In video games, a coach receives a blank pokédex at the start of his journey. The objective is to complete the information of all Pokémon available in the region where you are. The trainer will receive the name and image of the pokémon that has been found.

## Anime

The series and films of Pokémon, form an anime that is based on the saga of videogames.

The series follows the adventures of Ash Ketchum, who wishes to become a Pokémon Master and who, in the company of his friends, travels around the world of Pokémon.

Ash starts his first Pokémon trainer day with his first (and own) pokémon, called Pikachu, unlike video games where the trainer can choose a Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle.

* **Pokédex**

In the manga and anime, the Pokédex is an electronic encyclopedia, which provides the trainer with information about a Pokémon that is unknown by simply exposing the pokédex in front of the pokémon.

* **Argument**

Ash Ketchum is a guy who likes pokémon and battles a lot. His passion for pokémon, has managed to set himself the goal of becoming a Pokémon Master, the highest level of Pokémon training, which is why he begins a journey in search of this title.

At the age of 10, Ash has the opportunity to receive his initial pokémon from Professor Oak. Unfortunately, he fell asleep one night before his first day of travel and by the time he arrived at the teacher's lab, all the initial Pokémon (Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle) had already been chosen by other coaches. His insistence on wanting a Pokémon, has allowed to receive as his initial Pokémon a stubborn Pikachu who does not like to enter the Poké Balls. With the time Ash becomes friend of Pikachu it knows Misty and later to Brook, with which it travels during a long time (this happens in Kanto), once Ash finishes the league of Kanto goes to different regions (Johto, Hoenn , Sinnoh, Teselia, Kalos and the orange archipelago) and he is separating from his friends and meeting new ones during his travels.