>>26657712>You cannot give any justification why it isn't.Because it's not even anything special? I mean yeah, we don't see too many trainers who keep their Pokémon out of their Pokéballs, but that's because Game Freak is too lazy to make more than a few overworld models for Pokémon per game outside HGSS.
Is Lyra a Mary Sue for carring her Marill out of its ball?
Are all the trainers in Amity Square Mary Sues?
Is Jasmine a Mary Sue? She lets her Ampharos out of its ball.
Oh shit! Even Lance had his Dragonite out of its ball that one time in Mahogany! Is he a Mary Sue?
Is the trainer in Celadon who let his Poliwrath out of his ball a Mary Sue, or the Slowpoke trainer in Cerulean?
"He lets his Pokémon out of its Pokéball sometimes? That's completely unheard of! It' almost the same as having psychic powers and being able to talk with Pokémon!"
The entire cast of Pokémon Adventures must be Mary Sues, they sometimes let their Pokémon outside!
I mean some of them are here or there but you get what I meanWe don't "need" following Pokémon in a game, you're right. Not having following Pokémon doesn't kill a game. And it's a completely subjective opinion to not like following Pokémon, you're right. However, you are completely wrong in your use of the word Mary Sue, having your Pokémon follow you is a completely mundane feature that any trainer in the franchise would be able to do in-universe.
Like fuck, you could bring up that all the protagonists in the series stop an organized crime group singlehandedly, or how they meet highly powerful Legendaries, or even the fact that you seem to be the only trainer who can complete the Pokédex in each game, with any actions of past player characters also completing the Pokédex seemingly erased. To fixate on having a Pokémon outside of its ball out of all the things in the franchise that are much bigger oddities is retarded, and you are also retarded.
