Choose your Tennessee starter
4d 17h ago by lemmy.world/u/AbsolutelyNotSpez in memes
Skunk. He can only do his move about seven times in a row, but it's Super Effective on basically everything but owls.
Owls don’t mind skunk spray?
Birds pretty much universally have little or no sense of smell. Owls are one of the few predators that actually go for skunks.
Correct!
Great Horned Owls will also eat porcupines.
No smallish creature is safe. Foxes, turkeys, bats, fish, scorpions, snakes, other owls. You name it and it's around owl size or smaller, an owls will eat it.
Skunk spray isn't great for their eyes though. Here is an owl in with skunk sprayed eyes.
It can cause irritation or ulceration, and then animals will rub at their eyes, potentially causing further physical damage.
Why would you spray skunk in that poor owls eyes
He looked at me funny after I told him not to.
Thankfully I've only been in the building once so far when a skunk decided to blast us. The skunk baby was usually sweet and easygoing, but he sprayed 3 or 4 times in the clinic in a week.
It turned out the one pair of gloves (the orange ones) would freak it out and it would blast whomever was going to grab it. At least it was so small it barely had any booty juice, but skunk smell indoors is no joke. 🤢
The job is its own reward! Every animal bite is like a kiss from our dear Mother Nature!
Sounds like Animal Crossing mixed with Fight Club
I wouldn't call turkeys smallish, they're certainly larger than owls. At least the ones running the Twin Cities streets like gangs, they're the size of freaking ponies.
The toms get much bigger than owls. The young ones and small hens are sometimes doable for a Great Horn. The owl. Should weigh in around 3.5 pounds and small adult turkey hens are around 5 pounds. The owl will often just take the head.
Owls are also sometimes just that crazy.
Oh I don't doubt it!
Ugh, why am I a badger main?
snakeophobia?
RACOON ROLL ATTACK!
I would name that raccoon Samus
This made me unfathomably happy
Really missed opportunity for a Roll Out strategy.
It was literally game breakingly strong.
He’s gotta go. He’s gotta go fast.
Furry goofball lol.
Ok, why?
Raccoon isn’t getting enough love.
There’s a raccoon who’s obsessed with my barbecue, so maybe I can tame him
Ive been trying to convince my friends its the obvious choice, its got the tankiness of the possum and bonuses to crime
Honestly probably the closest thing to Pikachu we have.
Raccoon with a taser is IRL pikachu.
Might be one of the few animals actually capable of operating a taser thanks to those hands
Pikapika!
Try throwing a tennis ball that a dog's chewed open at him and see if he climbs in. If that doesn't work, throw a rat at him and try again once they've fought a bit.
Tough call between raccoon and possum but I gotta go with my boi possum.
Possum all day.
“Possum plays dead. It’s not very effective.”
“Possum takes critical damage “
Can't be killed if you're already dead! :taps forehead:
I choose Stinkachu!
So our options are:
- powerful but not afraid to lash out at you.
- strong secondary abilities but you will stink forever.
- terrible stats but will not hurt you.
Ya know, I don't think we should be doing animal pit fights with local wildlife, or at all maybe.
Raccoon wont lash out if youve got the gym badge silly
Have you seen possum teeth. ?
And based on what they eat, I'll make a guess a possum bite is going to go bad fast.
The thing about opossums is that they are notorious for not biting. Their defensive behaviours are hissing, running away, and playing dead.
Anecdotally, I've only ever seen one piece of footage of a caught opossum biting - out of hundreds of videos - and it was because the guy was holding the opossum my the scruff and sticking his finger in its face. This is why i believe those reports that oppossums aren't likely to hurt you, and why i said what I said earlier.
Skunk.
I will get banned from animal fighting immediately, however, I will also get the people there sprayed, making them incredibly easy to identify and apprehend.
Yeah, that's right. I'm a mole.
Raccoon no doubt. The theft stat is OP
The skunk is definitely a poison type.
I think I’ve made my choice 
Trash Panda, GO!
Y'know what? I'd be down for a Pokemon game set in a region based on the US Deep South.
It's all good until Gym Leader Floridaman has a team of Pokemon that only know Metronome
Instead of team rocket it's the KKK.
Raccoons are smart and have thumbs. I have to go with this guy 🦝 👍
Possums eat spiders. So there's that.
They're also very resistant to rabies so that's a plus they ever bite someone.
And ticks
Starters?? You fool, those are regional legendaries! Do not approach them! You don't have the skills!
They are the starters for the entire Eastern United States!
West coast has them too.
I'm going with Raccoon because it starts with Thief, which means free berries and left overs.
That's just most of North America.
In my neck of the woods you swap out the possum for a badger
No possums in my area, never seen one any where near. We have raccoons in small numbers. And skunk in small numbers too. Maybe swap for squirrels and you would be closer to the US.
Beavers are more widespread than any squirrel species and gets us the water type.
It depends on what party of the country you're in, really. I've got all 3 where I'm at.
Coons have hands just sayin
Yeah, beats covering your balls with peanut butter
We've got those on NorCal too but they're not starters.
Skunk so that way I'm not the one getting sprayed. Just have to be mindful of wind direction.
Can I grab all three and run away, Florida Man style?
"A very careful yoink"
Team Rocket, but you stole the space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space center instead of a hot air balloon. And it's meth powered somehow.
Raccoon for sure. Sure possums are cute, but raccoons are smart and adorable and mischievous
Normal dark, normal ghost, and normal poison
Two of these are Fire/Fighting types
poison/fighting (skunk), dark (raccoon) and psychic (possum... playing possum is clearly a psychic move)
The rock paper scissors works (kinda, not really. dark's immunity to psychic would either make the rival fight a little harder or very easy. Skunk should be poison /fighting for gameplay reasons)
You don't think racoon is fighting type?
Yea, maybe it makes more sense but would that make skunk dark type? The rick paper scissors for the starters wouldn't work then
Skuntank already exists.
A friend of mine actually has a skunk as a pet.
Cute little critters.
no armadillo? pfft.
Not as a starter, they're new arrivals
In TN and I'd have to go with raccoons bc they are so good at getting in attics
Ooh I can get it to pull wire for me! Fuck yeah
Possum, I choose you! Possum: plays dead and poops itself.
That coon well fed as fuck!
Racc
I'll take smiley.
Every time i see this meme the caption says a different location
What? You don't have rats? Or is that thing in the back supposed to be one?
Rattata is the first encounter on road 1
That's a possum, it's our continent's marsupial. They're adorable