>>28971085>>28971570>But they're all smart enough to understand human speech.Actually this is on the major differences between the games and the anime. In the anime this is clearly true, undeniably.
However in the games, there a quite a lot of Pokémon species that are in no way smarter than regular real-life animals.
Just because you can give them instructions during battle doesn't mean they understand human speech, it's like giving an order to a dog : it doesn't understand or recognize any meaning in the word, it's just memorizing and associating a string of sounds with a certain action.
