Talk:Voltorb (Pokémon)

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VOLTORB ORIGIN =

Hi, I just wanted to point out that Voltorb (and Electrode too) origin may be due to that red-and-white plastic balls that are attached to high-voltage power lines, with the intention to make them visible from elicopters & similar. In fact, some pokedex entries says that they're used to travel using power lines...

Here is some pictures of them:

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Sometimes I see them and I think about Voltorbs :)

Sprites

Can somebody figure out what went wrong? I changed the dimensions of some of the sprites to what they should be and they are shrunk now. I tried refreshing but thats not fixing it. Are the dimensions set somewhere on the page? --Blake 16:20, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

NEVERMIND. I looked at them again and they were fixed. Weird. --Blake 16:21, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Strange...

There's no information in here about how Voltorb's were used in a plot to power some type of Device which could only be shut down by making the Voltorb's faint. --Arima 06:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Electrode... Not Voltorb. --ケンジガール 06:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Oh... oops. --Arima 06:08, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Mimics

Normally, there are monsters in RPGs that imitate treasure chests, usually powerful in order to act as punishment to greedy travelers (read: the game designers are jerks). Treasure chests in this series are item balls, which Voltorb and Electrode can be confused for, and the two can prove troublesome due to their capacity to paralyze and injure, potentially fainting, a trainer's Pokémon by exploding. With this in mind, is it possible that Voltorb and its evolution are the Pokémon series' equivalent to mimics seen in other RPGs? Somethin' to mull over, yo. --PantheonSasuke 03:48, 1 April 2010 (UTC)