>>55945968Also, let's not pretend this franchise is not schizo as fuck anyway about this. It loves to push the love and friendship lalala message but then you turn around and leave the Pokemon you caught to fill a list to gather dust on a computer and then destroy entire ecosystems playing eugenics bike simulator 3000 by releasing thousands of breedjects.
And if you wanna get even pettier about this topic, hate to use the Ashinme as an example, does that mean that Ash never won a League until Alola because he simply didn't love his Pokemon enough until then? That he only truly loved his Alola team? That Alain loved Charizard more than Ash loved Greninja? That Tobias loved Darkrai more than every non-E4 and Champion Trainer in Sinnoh loved their Pokemon? Sucks for Cynthia too, I guess. Guess she never truly loved Garchomp. Now Ash x Lucario? Now that's a true relationship. Sucks for Leon and his Charizard too, I suppose, they didn't have a true bond after all.
Sucks for every non-Ace Pokemon too. They're not loved as much as Ace-kun and that's why they're weaker.
