Blue's Raticate: You Killed Him? | Pokémon | Toxobot's Gaming Mysteries

[@iMatt1801]

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[@QuietRiot3991]

It's a fun little theory but Raticate is a Pokémon that's only meant to get you through the early game and also prevent you from over leveling the others. Keeping it in your party by the time you enter Lavender town is only dead weight as it clearly begins to fall short when compared to Pokémon such as Kadabra, Wartortle or even Pidgeotto.

[@iMatt1801]

Yeah, I agree. I wonder if maybe the developers were trying to indicate that by having Blue not use it by that point. Most likely reason in the lore is that he put it in a box. I know whenever I play the Kanto games I use Raticate for HMs and that's about it.

[@TheAzulmagia]

I never liked this theory because it'd just be a random grimdark moment in the series out of nowhere, like the "Ash is dead" anime theory. Additionally, even if his Raticate did die, who's to say that someone else like Team Rocket didn't kill it? There is a pretty neat fan-manga called Festival of Champions that explores the idea of Blue becoming a much harsher trainer after Team Rocket does just that, though.