>>13766318Pokémon is a game calibrated to get people emotionally attached to their teams. Emotional attachment, plus something that hits previously established physical attraction triggers - even tangentially - equals a chance of establishing new physical attraction triggers. C.f. that old psychological study where they managed to give the participants a shoe fetish.
As for your "theory", it's predictable and not particularly well-thought-out; you could use the same line of reasoning on just about any fetish under the sun, and there's plenty of those that show up in real, flesh-and-blood relationships.
