The Science of Pokémon Battles: Examining Zhu/Zizhong’s Bone-Print Giant Crocodile and Carnival Dancing Duck

In fact, the illustration book tells you more than you imagined! Let’s take a trainer’s science class with Rock, a fantasy writer of Panke! Let me analyze with you how “scientific” the battles of these Pokémon are.

Bone-printed giant crocodile: New record for flame temperature

Ah ~ flames!

The ashes-level attack weapon in the fantasy world is also the opponent that utopian scientific writing often encounters.

In the past[Scientific Pokémon]it is not the first time that flames have appeared. It was mentioned a little in the second article about the science of Charizard. Later, because the illustrations of Duck-billed Charmander and Fire Eevee both mentioned the temperature of their flames, they were analyzed together in the same article, but that was already the first generation. It’s about Pokémon~ Now that the illustrated book has reached number 900, things are really different.

「Its gentle singing can heal the soul of the listener, and it will burn the enemy to ashes with 3000 degrees Celsius fire.”——Bone-print Loud CrocodilePurple versionnarrative^{Note 1}

The narration of the crocodile with bone pattern is very direct, that is, it directly stated the temperature of the flame it spewed out. compare with.

Charizard: at least 1400°C

Duck-billed Charmander: 1200 ℃

Fire Eevee: 1650 ℃

Fiery Beast: 800°C

Bone pattern giant crocodile: 3000 ℃

This is too high! ?Let’s not talk about how organisms can produce such high temperatures^{Note 2}it really takes 3000°C to burn people to ashes!

Generally, the crematorium that burns the corpse into ashes only needs a temperature of 1000°C, and 3000°C is simply overkill, and do you know what this temperature can do?

Most of the substances we know will melt or vaporize at this temperature. The only elements that can survive are tungsten, rhenium, osmium and some special polymers; It was burnt to ashes, and the whole body must have disappeared without a trace under a burst of white light… because at this temperature, the flame will not be the normal orange red, but white.

At this time, if the trainer of the crocodile with bone pattern is standing directly next to it, even if it is not directly hit, the hot gas and radiant heat emitted by his 3000°C flame which is more than twice the temperature of the magma^{Note 3}should be enough to cause the trainer to be severely burned in an instant, coupled with the strong light, it is absolutely unbearable to fall to the ground and gradually become a charred corpse, and then burn to the surrounding flowers and trees.

So if you want to ask your bone-printed crocodile to use flame jets, remember to dodge very, very far first, and then retract the Pokémon from a long distance after releasing the move, and then leave the incinerated and messy scene as soon as possible.

Carnival dance duck: which country’s super kick dance is this?

If you want to talk about how fighting-type Pokémon can boast of their strength in the illustrated book, the most common way is: throwing things out or breaking them.

In the previous articles on wrist power + heroic power + strange power, we can see various ways to boast about the strength of Pokémon, for example, “I can wrestle with 100 adults and throw them out”, “I can lift them with one finger Sumo wrestler”, “There is a way to lift a garbage truck”, “Fly people to the other side of the horizon”…etc.

And this time, our Carnival Duck Duck has the ability to kick over a truck.

「The strong foot that can kick over the truck with just one kick shows an exotic dance.“—— Carnival Dancing DuckZhubannarrative^{Note 4}

To calculate how exaggerated this is, we need to know one very important piece of information… what kind of truck is it?

Trucks are a means of transportation with many specifications. The lightest one, such as a small pickup, is only 2-2.5 metric tons, and the heaviest can reach 15 metric tons. Even heavier delivery trucks can be found in some heavy industrial areas.

Pokémon Zhu/Zi is said to be designed with reference to Spain. After some searching, the author learned that Spain has the highest proportion of light trucks in Europe.^{Note 5}The weight of this kind of truck itself is about 3~4 metric tons. If it is fully loaded, the weight can reach more than 10 metric tons. We will take an average of 7 metric tons here.

Then we have to define the thing of kicking over the truck: we assume that the Carnival Dancing Duck kicks halfway to the side of the truck with its feet, and then the car will turn over with one wheel as a fulcrum and land on its side.

After some torque calculations, we can know that to kick a 7-ton truck over, it needs to give a force of about 68600 Newtons from the middle… This is stronger than the force of a car engine when it is fully output~

But the most exaggerated is yet to come!

As a final step, we wanted to know how fast this leg of the Carnival Duck is! To get this result, I need to know the weight of the duck’s entire foot, because after all, it is the foot that is exerting force on the truck.

It is written in the illustrated book that the Carnival Dancing Duck weighs 62 kilograms, and its appearance is very close to that of a humanoid creature, so we first estimate it with reference to the human body structure. A human’s whole foot accounts for about 16~18% of the body weight on average. Our Carnival Dancing Duck seems to have slightly longer legs, and since it is a fighting type, its legs should be very strong. Let’s assume that its whole body The weight of only one leg accounts for more, about 25% of the whole body, and the weight is almost 15.5 kg.

To calculate the speed of its legs, the last assumption we need is to assume the contact time between the legs and the truck. According to previous experience, let’s set it to 0.1 seconds of contact, and then stop immediately after the kick hits, plus It is very unreasonable to force 100% conversion assumptions, but trust me ~ if you don’t do this, the answer will only be more ridiculous.

Applying the formula of Newton’s second law of motion, we can know that before the leg stops,Speed ​​up to 443 meters per second，That’s 1.3 times the speed of sound, this is too fast! How come your feet weren’t torn apart by the sonic boom? In contrast, the 17-meter-per-second kick of a Muay Thai master is a joke. If you are kicked by the carnival dancing duck, I think most of the Pokémon should have their internal organs ruptured and died.

It’s so scary, but carnival dance duck why are you bored to kick the truck? You should play football with this kind of foot strength! Also, which country’s dance has such training? really want to know~

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1. Another version of the crocodile with bone pattern is “a fire bird that can change its shape through singing. It is said that it is formed by a fireball that resides on its head.” From this description, we know that its flame is related to some kind of soul power. This is probably the secret why the flame temperature can reach 3000 degrees? In other words, the author is very sure that the temperature here is in Celsius, because it is written in the English version as 5400 Fahrenheit.
2. It’s also possible… the bone-print giant crocodile isn’t a creature at all! After all, it has ghost attributes, but does this mean that its appearance is not evolution at all, but death?
3. Here we are having our brains wracked by 3000°C flames, but you know what? This is not the most ridiculous thing in the Pokémon illustration. There are two Pokémon: the lava snail and the fire-breathing camel. Their illustrations describe that they can generate a high temperature of 10,000 degrees. The former is body temperature, and the latter is ejected Magma, are you sure it’s not an extra 0? At present, scientists have a way to produce the highest temperature is only 4990℃~
4. Another version of the description of the Carnival Dancing Duck is “It will captivate the opponent it sees with an exotic dance, and then split it with a feather made of water.” Why is the feather made of water? How is this possible? How is this different from a powerful water jet?
5. Fortunately, this generation of Pokémon does not refer to Germany, because this is the place with the highest proportion of heavy trucks in Europe. If the Carnival Duck Duck originated from here, his foot must be beyond the sky.