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sayanishi
@sayanishi

i've always interpreted in-game HUDs as "things your character knows, but you wouldn't unless presented to you like this"

by extension, you know how you're canonically a total pokemon prodigy in every pokemon game? In my headcanon, all the status screens and numbers and levels and move lists are things specifically your character knows, and the reason everybody else in the universe comparatively sucks is because they don't see any of that, they just have the actual pokemon and have to guesstimate


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in reply to @sayanishi's post:

well wait hang on isn't that the pokedex?? i always assumed that was the pokedex. like in the tv show when ash is like "gotta check out this guy" and pulls up the dex and it reads out all that info

that said, i do love this interpretation, that your particular character is just a pokemon otaku and memorized all this shit

In the manga, it is! The pokédex is what they use to know a Pokémon's movedet, level, health, status, etc... A few of the evil teams even make a big effort to steal them because of the huge advantage it'd give them in their evil deeds.
One of the protags even has a good old "if you're nothing without the dex, you aren't worthy of it" arc.