>>57792157Kind of, but not for art reasons. in the Unova Master's Initiative, trainers are allowed to have 3 active Pokémon. OOC it is because the GM plays all of our Pokémon himself (Standard for Pokerole) and he wanted us to focus on a few at a time. In character, it was explained that there is a new battle style that is all the rage, that is faster than normal. he also stated that in-game, being able to take care of 6 Pokemon on one team is something not everyone can do, and points to the video game's display of most people, even gym leaders and E4, do not have full teams. He points out that anyone who has 6 in the setting is kind of cracked or special.
Here is Quartz's patrat, it is just a normal patrat. his name is Eyeke and he is timid.