>>55417845>>55418223Guns don't exist in the world of pokemon.
>but that episode in the animeGen 1 is full of weird stuff that's reconned out of canon, like specific references to real-world places and events.
>but there are moves that reference bullets explicetlyBullets =/= guns. Slings used bullets for thousands of years before firearms were invented, for example.
>but people should have invented them, based on the level of technology we seeTechnology in pokemon is a mix of low-tech anachronisms and straight-up clarketech, and a lot of things we use technology for IRL can and are done by pokemon instead
>butLook. Shut up and suspend your disbelief. You don't ask these kinds of questions about Middle Earth, do you? Asking them is dumb and trying to answer them is dumber. It's better for both the author and the audience to just leave them out. Over-explaining things is worse than not explaining them, most of the time. There are no guns in pokemon. Okay?
>inb4 everything 