Power Gem[]
Proof[]
Power Gem's description in the games: The user attacks with a ray of light that sparkles as if it were made of gemstones.
Interpretation for Gigalith's in the manga: Gigalith absorbs energy from the sun. It then fires the collected energy as a beam from its mouth at the opponent.
Gigalith's Pokedex entries:" The solar energy absorbed by its body's orange crystals is magnified internally and fired from its mouth." "It absorbs rays of sunlight and shoots out energy. It's usually lurking deep beneath the surface." "The blasts of energy it makes from sunbeams have terrifying power. However, it's not able to fire its blasts at night or on rainy days."
Other light-related Pokemon that can learn it: Ampharos, Starmie, and most notably, Necrozma
I'd say it's real light.
Calc[]
Instead of just saying that dodging it is FTL, I'll calculate dodging it in game. For the record, it does say that Pokemon can avoid attacks, rather than them missing.
I also can't find an image for Gigalith using it, so I'll use Boldore, its pre-evolution.
Boldore: 91 px. Screen: 402 px.
Boldore's height is 35"
2atan(tan(70/2)*(91/402)=.213696179397
.213696179397*(180/pi)=12.2438891775
Plugging into the angsizing calculator, and saving conversion work, is 4.144264 meters.
t = distance/velocity = 4.144264 m /299792458 m/s
t=.0000000138 s
Assuming they moved one meter, it puts them at Mach 211264.6300755102, or 0.24 c, or Relativistic
The Pokemon defending is able to react to this and avoid accordingly, so would scale to Relativistic reactions, but I wanna calc what it would be to dodge it. If anyone can help, please do. Because I...don't really know how to calculate movement when it's not the entire body...
So technically, this is a WIP, because this is solely for reacting to this. And other Pokemon can move faster than they can track, so...yeah.
Flash[]
In hindsight, this is a lot less hard to prove.
Proof[]
Short version: It's Solar Flare. Used to light up caves since Gen 1, and always being portrayed as real light, used to blind other Pokemon when used in battle or keep wild Pokemon away (via bright lights) when out of it and not in a cave.
All the Pokemon who can learn it naturally have Illuminate as a Primary ability, and all Pokemon with Illuminate can learn Flash (so much so that even Bulbapedia took note of it)
If this isn't real light, Idk what is.
Somehow, it can be dodged, so gonna calc this.
Calc[]
(Only good image I could find)
Gonna use that alternate angular sizing method.
Volbeat: .7 m. Minccino: .4m
Volbeat: 147 px. Minccino: 60px. Screen height: 381 px.
Volbeat
- 2atan(tan(70/2)*(147/381)=0.361627606 rad
- Convert to degrees: 20.7197355792
- Angsize gets me: 1.9146 meters
Minccino
- 2atan(tan(70/2)*(60/381)=0.148956947 rad
- Convert to degrees: 8.53460439225
- Angsize gets me: 2.6804 meters
Subtract the distance between the two-->2.604-1.9146=.658 meters
t = distance/velocity = .658 m /299792458 m/s = .00000000219 s
Reaction time in this instance is this, which is FTL...shit, that's not good...