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I recently(few weeks ago) realized while clicking that people gove stuff like protectors to Gyrados' and Soda pops to Skrelps and gems to their mons. But why? Is it for storage? I mean, protector does not evolve Gyrados in some Rhyrados does it now? Are they just out of their minds? Should I be doing it too?

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Welp, it's hard to explain this. Most of the time I give items to Pokémon I love dearly items that suit them the most from my perspective.
Maybe people do this to make their Pokémon more special, idk 🤷‍♀️ This is unexplainable imo.
As for whether you should do it or not, it's up to you. It's not necessary to give your Pokémon items except for evolving purposes, after all (^_^;)

Its their own prefference

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I personally like to give my most liked Pokemon items to hold for fun. The reason my Shiny Mew is holding a Saturn Sphere is a bit different, as I want to get a Shiny Saturneon once and I’m terrified of accidentally selling it to Emera Mall.

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That kinda' makes sense. Thanks! Any other reasons?

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some people do so to increase the pokemons' value. heres an example:
A regular magikarp is holding a mega stone and is put up for trade, ofcourse people would pay more to get it when compared to the price of a regular magikarp holding nothing at all

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Different people have different reasons for doing things like this.
For example: I have my Shiny Buneary, Candy, holding a Bottled Message. This is because his story is that he wants to be a part of a Guild, and this bottled message (Or message in a carbos container around his neck) is the first mission that he took before ever having a chance to join a guild.

It ties in to his story and the character itself.

I have another instance of this, where a Shiny Umbreon that I own is holding a dusk stone. Because his character design has him wearing a dusk stone carved in the shape of a crescent moon. (His trainer didn't realize that this wasn't how to get an Umbreon, but the gift was the final bit of happiness to let him evolve into an Umbreon that night)


Some users, like already stated, will hand off valuable items to pokémon because it keeps those items safe. Or it'll make a pokémon more valuable in the AH.

And sometimes it's just something that's done to make other users question "Why?" Lol. I know I've done that a few times, just to confuse other people.

The thing is that unless someone tells you why they have it done, it'll just seem random. Like my luck dragon (Fuku Ryu) is holding a fairy gem. Because, when I got him, it was practically impossible to get fairy gems, so a lucky dragon from the event holding one of the hardest items to get at the time? Made sense to me, and I just haven't ever changed it out. But, without knowing that, it's just an oddity with no purpose to it.

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