>>55940892>I don’t buy the idea that you can make a Pokémon stronger by petting and playing with them. Amazing how you manage to completely miss the point that is established over and over again in every single title in the series.
>Blue becomes Champion by collecting the strongest mons in Kanto and loses to Red because Blue was chasing a meta instead of properly bonding with his team>Silver and Karen in their entirety >Drake's monologue in Hoenn>Cyrus in his entirety >N and Ghetsis>Lysandre makes himself a Chosen One by unlocking Mega Evolution and still loses>Lusamine sees people and Pokemon as objects and gets used as an object in turn >I don't know anything about Sword and Shield >The AI Professor can't effectively utilize the Paradox mons because a robot can't form attachments Time and time again, it is established that you can have the strongest Pokemon in the world and it doesn't matter because you're not accessing their full power if you only see them as a tool or subservient. If two Trainers are equally matched, the one that has the stronger bond with their team will win every time.
