>>24990826You give trainers to little credit
Trainerd do the managing:
>Picking what moves the pokemon will learn>Provide food shelter and healing(yes, the PC does this but it is a trainer's responsability take his pokemon there)>Device trainer routines(In games this means EV Training>Tactical support during battlesIf a pokemon can battle better without, you are just a shit trainer.
Also, Pokemon join humas to become stronger, they choose to do so.
They are in to get stronger, that is what they want.
They grow stronger with humans, that is why they join us. That is all there is.