>>34654678It's fucking mechanical in many aspects no way around it, a levitating robot ball is more believable than magnetic crabs.
Any average joe and certainly game freak would call the magnemite line more mechanical than animalistic or at most a machine with animal attributes.
>sentientmuh feelings Pokémon don't have feelings :^)
>eggsso if eggs define animalisticness (?) then nidoqueen and entei aren't animals, can't eat your cake and have it too, also eggs are a mechanic in the game so that isn't an argument, just because it complies with a mechanic doesn't mean that it's an animal. If so then you have to believe that nidoqueen isn't an animal.
>rhinos can't breed in captivityThen why can nidoking breed, its also a fucking example