I agree with mimkkyu and cubone, but i believe the fighting belt is also part of their bodies. Unless there’s canon proof of them removing it at some point?
Machoke Red/Blue Pokedex Entry: Its muscular body is so powerful, it must wear a power save belt to be able to regulate its motions.
Later entries also refer to the Power Save belt as an item consciously worn by Machoke to control its energy. I would take that to mean that Machoke could choose not to wear it? May or may not be related to the hold item Power Belt.
I didn’t watch any of the spookypasta videos about the ‘true reason Machoke wears a belt’ because they’re not canon.
Who knows, mate. There are so many idiosyncrasies introduced by the early games that the later ones had to grapple with.
In my mind, Machoke which live around humans voluntarily wear the brace, which keeps their strength under control so as not to accidentally harm them, but I’m open to the idea that Machoke further afield wouldn’t have them. As to where they could get the belt, it may be distributed through Pokecentres.
edit: fwiw I think the reason the whole ‘Pokemon (base versions) don’t wear clothes’ thing came about because of Gardevoir, where people thought Gardy was wearing a dress? Then they had to say, no, actually, it’s part of the Pokemon, but unfortunately people retroactively applied that to Pokemon which do adorn themselves in clothing or other items. Like, you won’t find people retrofitting that to say Farfetch’d’s (damn that looks awkward) leek is part of it.
I agree with mimkkyu and cubone, but i believe the fighting belt is also part of their bodies. Unless there’s canon proof of them removing it at some point?
Later entries also refer to the Power Save belt as an item consciously worn by Machoke to control its energy. I would take that to mean that Machoke could choose not to wear it? May or may not be related to the hold item Power Belt.
I didn’t watch any of the spookypasta videos about the ‘true reason Machoke wears a belt’ because they’re not canon.
That’s so confusing and lore breaking. The item just appears out of thin air when they evolve?
Who knows, mate. There are so many idiosyncrasies introduced by the early games that the later ones had to grapple with.
In my mind, Machoke which live around humans voluntarily wear the brace, which keeps their strength under control so as not to accidentally harm them, but I’m open to the idea that Machoke further afield wouldn’t have them. As to where they could get the belt, it may be distributed through Pokecentres.
edit: fwiw I think the reason the whole ‘Pokemon (base versions) don’t wear clothes’ thing came about because of Gardevoir, where people thought Gardy was wearing a dress? Then they had to say, no, actually, it’s part of the Pokemon, but unfortunately people retroactively applied that to Pokemon which do adorn themselves in clothing or other items. Like, you won’t find people retrofitting that to say Farfetch’d’s (damn that looks awkward) leek is part of it.