>>28067990I'd reason that pokeballs are specifically tagged with something that is unique to the human genome so that they won't work on people. But that would imply that a pokeball can read genetic information near instantly upon brief contact with organic matter. But this is in a world where teleportation exists.
Psychic types are, along with ghosts, my favorite types to write for so far, given the intelligence endemic to the former (typically anyway) and the implications that exist for the latter. I treat telepathy as a pretty common thing, but how effective it is comes down the pokemon and trainer dynamic as well as the species.
For instance, I gave the Ralts line the ability to pick up and learn human language and speak it telepathically, but things like tone don't exist if you aren't emotionally bonded with the pokemon (which is why Viola's voice sounds cold to everyone but Jo, who perceives it as musical), while the Natu line possesses the ability to speak the human tongue and switch between otherwordly booming tones in realspace or headspace. Meanwhile, the Beldum line can pick up the ability to properly understand human speech, but their capacity for speaking it is limited to incredibly short responses.
This just sort of scratches the surface though, as there's also all sorts of extra little peculiarities to communicating with psychic types (like emotion bleed when Viola loses her composure) or vision sharing (which is what d'Artagnan will eventually do.)
