#Even my horrible demigod with a supercomputer for a brain isn't all knowing

[horizonboundtrainer]

May is a bona fide genius but like... she's very much limited by her own scope of knowledge. If you're talking about obscure Johtoan philosphers or wild Mightyena behavior, May is probably the most knowledgable people around. Genetics and Kalosian history... not so much. She's a script kiddy at best and absolute shit at any math more advanced than basic algebra.

She's got a decent amount of general knowledge about most subjects but for anything deeper than that, she'll probably to ask a friend / acquaintence for help because she tends to surround herself with people who can cover for her blind spots. If she needs a IT, physics, logistics or programming expert she goes to Metagross. If she needs a geologist she's got Steven, Roxanne or Maxie. Aqua and Magma act as her informants on the criminal underworld while her Devon contacts offer their insight on the corporate one.

( The trope of fictional geniuses knowing literally every field of study makes absolutely zero sense. And if some character has 10 PhDs w/o immortality as an excuse, that's a pretty good indication that the author has no idea what academia is actually like. Either most of those are honorary degrees or the guy is spending their entire life collecting degrees as a hobby. Real adacemics are too busy putting out studies and being worked to death by college administrators to go for more than one... Maybe two. If you're studying that many subjects, you're not gonna have the time to put any of that knowledge into practice. )

#There is A LOT of really mediocre scifi out there #always dumb to read a book and see the writers taking so many shorthands for 'This Is A Smart Guy' #while in practice they never actually do anything with it #the author seems to not understand that theres different types of intelligence #Even my horrible demigod with a supercomputer for a brain isn't all knowing #He's a 500 IQ moron who made wisdom his dump stat #he's the arcitect of so much of his own miseries bc that's got fuck all to do with IQ