>>39830753The lore has changed so much, so gradually, that it's impossible to find a definite answer. You're going to get contradictions. In season 1, ekans implies that they're forced to do things they don't want to do. There are plenty of pokemon caught who were unwilling - do you think Ash won the respect of a whole herd of tauros? Snorlax was belligerent until they put it to sleep to catch it. In the first movie, Mewtwo caught everyone's pokemon with pokeballs of its own design.
