>>53224709>1 Evolution comes from struggle, any kind of stress big enough is capable of activating it, no matter the source of that stress, be it battle, loss, whatever
It¡s probable that people only have middle stages at most is that those kind of things only happen once to normal people, and you'd have to seek them out for them to show up multiple times
>2 Probably some political bs happening on the background, like "they're secretely raising an army" or "they use trainer data and feed it into an AI to monitor their citizens" or sumthng like that
>3 Those weak to it or known for being "old school", wanted to deny it, either implicitely or directly, and the rest just wanted to know more about it
>4 Mainly organizing the pokemon league challenges, gyms, working togheter if a big legendary or strong pokemon appears, & to stop wars from happening again
