>>5759022>Ask Booker about Cutémon abilitiesLet's make sure she's wearing something on her head as she does so.
>Mons need the mental connection to their human trainer to develop their abilitiesThere's likely a
hopefully positive loophole to this. Wild Pokemon evolve without a trainer somehow anyway, Pokeballs weren't always a thing, and for better or worse what counts as a connection is a liberal definition in the setting.