Telepathy vs Mind Reading

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Telepathy vs Mind Reading

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There are a few differences between Telepathy and what is considered reading someone's mind.

Telepathy is a highly specialized form of communication, but it is not mind reading in the traditional sense. To communicate telepathically, a message must be thought of and intentionally directed towards a pixelmon, or from a pixelmon to the person they've bonded with. This means you cannot "eavesdrop" on someone's telepathic communication. Telepathic communication only involves verbal messages, and only in the speaker's voice. This means you cannot transmit memories, visions, other voices, or anything other than your own speaking voice with the words you want to say when you want to communicate telepathically.

Mind reading would refer to being able to "dig into" a person's mind to access memories, personality, intentions, or anything else that the mind would store. Mind reading is virtually non-existent in the Toro universe. The only pixelmon capable of this are the god-like legendaries such as Giratina, Darkrai, and Cresselia. This is due to the fact that mind reading is essentially meta-gaming.

This also means several other things
  • Any pixelmon that is supposed to be able to "read someone's mind," in the established pokemon canon, such as Abra, are not able to do this. These pixelmon are simply using incredible powers of deduction to assume what one's intentions are. However, they are not actually reading minds.
  • Moves such as Detect, Mind Reader, and Lock-On do not involve reading the opponent's mind. For Lock-On and Mind Reader, the user is just using heightened abilities to predict where the opponent will be in order to make the next attack hit. However, in rp battles these moves can definitely miss if an opponent teleports. These moves cannot defy the laws of physics. For Detect, the user deduces how and where the opponent will hit them, and reacts accordingly to avoid it.
  • Ghost type pixelmon are not able to go into someone's head and read their minds.

If you have any questions about this or anything else, please be sure to ask myself and/or one of the other Lore Team Members!
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