Why do Nidorina and Nidorino evolve with a Moonstone?

Post by **Pikachu3828** » Mon 21 Mar, 2005 11:42 pm

Has anyone actually thought about this? I only did whilst I was battling Giovanni's Nidoqueen on Fire Red. Why on Earth do Nidorina and Nidorino evolve with a Moonstone?

I can understand PokÃƒÂ©mon like Clefairy - they're meant to come from space, so it's only natural they'd evolve with a Moonstone as it's also from outer space, it makes sense as far as PokÃƒÂ©mon goes, but why Nidorina/Nidorino? They have nothing to do with outer space of anything to do with the moon. They're simply little rabbit/mouse esque PokÃƒÂ©mon that like on Earth. Why would they need a Moonstone to evolve?

And another thing, why can't Nidoqueen or Nidoking breed? Youd've thought those would be two prime candidates for breeding

Maybe they're aliens? Gives reason to why they can't breed and evolve with a Moonstone. Who knows?

Website · Post by **Powerchu** » Tue 22 Mar, 2005 12:23 am

My theorys:

Moon Stone evolving - Happyness wasn't put in the original R/B/G so they just made them evolve with Moon Stones

Unable to breed - Too many steroids

Pikachu90000 · Post by **Pikachu90000** » Tue 22 Mar, 2005 12:58 am

My theroy: Didn't they say Pokemon can from space? Also they wanted to confuse poeple

Post by **Pikachu3828** » Tue 22 Mar, 2005 5:57 pm

While I'll agree not everything in the PokÃƒÂ©mon universe makes total sense, I fail to see why they'd actually want to confuse us?

Pikachu90000 · Post by **Pikachu90000** » Tue 22 Mar, 2005 8:22 pm

I have no idea, maybe some person in Japan thought it would be funny, or because the Nido's are releated with Clefairy

Website · Post by **Powerchu** » Wed 23 Mar, 2005 12:04 am

It's the way the creator and/or nintendo wanted it. lol

TaylorGS · Post by **TaylorGS** » Sat 26 Mar, 2005 3:54 am

Maybe it was so the Moonstone would have more purpose than just for two PokÃƒÂ©mon... wait... Forgot about the Thunderstone, never mind.
I always have wondered why Nidoqueen/Nidorina can't breed. That's... annoying.

tai73 · Post by **tai73** » Tue 05 Apr, 2005 8:34 am

Powerchu wrote:My theorys:

Moon Stone evolving - Happyness wasn't put in the original R/B/G so they just made them evolve with Moon Stones

Unable to breed - Too many steroids

these are pretty good theorys i was thinking the same thing wheni first came to this thread

Pikachugirl23 · Post by **Pikachugirl23** » Tue 05 Apr, 2005 3:32 pm

That is a possiblity, It could also be that when they were origianally created that they were going to be put as moon dwellers, or something simular.

Berserk Murkrow · Post by **Berserk Murkrow** » Sat 07 May, 2005 2:14 pm

I personally think it might have to do something to do with the back story of the Nido-family. Every Pokemon has something they were based on. Sunflora was based on a sunflower, Golduck & Ludicolo are based on the Kappas, and Ursaring is based on a Grizzly Bear.

If someone could figure out their background, it could possibly help.

fujeve · Post by **fujeve** » Mon 25 Jul, 2005 3:39 am

They look like they were based on dinosaurs,(like a horned T-Rex 0_0) but that's just a guess...

zen · Post by **zen** » Mon 25 Jul, 2005 4:18 pm

mabye a moon stone is sort of like a normal stone?

Pikachu90000 · Post by **Pikachu90000** » Tue 26 Jul, 2005 6:09 am

It's a stool from the moon. I mean stone. lol It's just a metorite with some powers

Magi of all · Post by **Magi of all** » Sun 21 Aug, 2005 9:47 pm

Nintendo just wanted to give you more pokemon to evolve with a moon stone so you had to work to find the two hidden ones,

Dreamer of the Ages · Post by **Dreamer of the Ages** » Mon 22 Aug, 2005 4:03 am

For myself, i have no clue why they did that. I've wondered for the longest how they could evolve with a Moon Stone, but never found a good answer. The theory that I seem to lean towards believeing is the one that Pokemon came from outer space. How many Pokemon do we know of that actually did?