The Players Are The Villains In Pok??mon GO
[ranking: 16]
This one is kind of a tag-team between comic artist Tim Buckley and Reddit user rejectsuperstar, who theorize that gamers of Pok??mon GO are "all collectively playing as the bad guys...Think about it. Team Instinct, Team Valor, Team Mystic. When was there ever a team in a Pok??mon game that wasn't the antagonists?"
Buckley, of CTRL+ALT+DEL, backed up this theory with a comic on where that sweet, sweet candy comes from.
You Play As The Rival In Pok??mon Sun and Moon, Not The Protagonist
[ranking: 3]
Reddit user ShinyBreloom2323 has a great theory on why Sun and Moon feel a little different from other titles in the series. Hau is typical of the protagonist that you'd normally play in Pok??mon titles - he is "bland, and seems to revolve around a single trait." He starts with a Pikachu, which is how Red and Ash (both protagonists) got started. He also always arrives later than you, meaning you get to a location first. This means you're more similar to the rivals like Wally and Silver. ShinyBreloom2323 explains:
"Hau isn't an obstacle to you. You are an obstacle to Hau. When you finally reach the Pok??mon League, you're ahead of him. You've completed the Pok??mon League in the same manner as Blue and surpassed him. You play the role of a stereotypical rival; and Hau plays the role of a stereotypical protagonist. [...] It's one of the reasons you find his jolly nature so insufferable. You've been that way every other game, so Sun is a change of pace due to his more adamant role in the scheme of things. You, unlike Hau, have multiple choices to choose from and more emotion to express."
Pok?? Balls Use Quantum Mechanics To Convert Pok??mon To Light
[ranking: 2]
Nerd alert! Reddit user nameless88 came up with a very detailed and complex theory about how Pok?? Balls could use quantum mechanics to convert Pok??mon to light and store them as data. Essentially, "Pok??mon convert matter to energy, Pok?? Balls exploit this in them and force this change to occur, storing them as data and light.
There's some actual science in the show that backs it up."
AZ From Pok??mon X/Y Actually Represents Players Who Abandoned The Series
[ranking: 7]
Reddit user Irish33 has some great insight on why AZ from Pok??mon X/Y is so old, and why he has such a unique connection with early Pok??mon: "In my theory, AZ represents the people that were attracted to Pok??mon Red and Blue as kids, and today swear off the series because 'there's [sic] too many Pok??mon,' or 'they made it too complicated.'"
Irish33 reasons that AZ is much older and an adult, as original Red/Blue players would be. He treasures a certain Pok??mon that is no longer in the world, and goes so far as to destroy all other Pok??mon in his quest to revive that nostalgic partner. This could be representative of the nostalgia that gamers hold onto RBY. In the end, he recalls that people, when they were children, were fascinated with raising and finding new Pok??mon. He remembers that joy in first discovering Pok??mon, which could also be gamers of RBY coming to terms with all the new generations of Pok??mon and realizing that the franchise is still a grand adventure.
Digimon Are Corrupted Pok??mon Files
[ranking: 14]
Some people feel that Digimon was just a bastardization of Pok??mon, and Reddit user Reethk_Vaszune has a theory that backs that up. When Pok??mon are entered in a PC database, they are presumably a data file. So he theorizes, what happens to corrupted files?
"I think that the Digimon universe is somehow interlinked or tapping into a networked quarantine PC directory for corrupted Pok??mon files. There are a lot of glaring similarities between Pok??mon and Digimon (affinity to elements, evolution process, etc.). If you look at the evolutionary process of Digimon, it's initially very sporadic and uncontrolled (they revert backwards often) until they develop some mastery of the process; perhaps skilled Digimon are files that are being repaired/reconstructed?"
Pok??mon GO Is Actually The First Game In The Pok??mon Timeline
[ranking: 9]
Twitter user @Ink_Virtue got the ball rolling on this theory and Reddit user mtws25 connected all the pieces. They believe that gamers are currently LIVING in the first Pok??mon game in the Pok??mon timeline. Before Gen 1, there was Pok??mon GO. They explain that, because not all of the original 151 Pok??mon were in GO when it was released, Professor Oak had yet to complete the Pok??Dex for the Kanto region. And, "just like in Safari Zone, when you encounter creatures in the street, trainers ONLY throw (recently invented) Pok?? Balls and try to capture monsters without battling to weaken it's opponents."
Thus, because the "concepts of strategic battles were not invented at this time," trainers don't know how to teach their Pok??mon new moves yet. They also don't know how to level up Pok??mon yet, "so they use Candies. Those candies were overused and in the future, by the time RBY takes place, they are very, very rare to find. They are now called 'Rare Candies.'"
mtws25 further speculates that the foundation for the Pok??mon League had yet to be laid in the GO world, which is "why Gym Leaders change all the time and there's no Gym Badges." They also theorize that "Aerodactyl, Omanyte, and Kabuto that are long extinct by the time of RBY," but they can still be caught in GO.
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