>>31918861I always figured that for the pokemon that are said to be extremely intelligent, the Gardevoirs, Alakazams, Slowkings, species like that, they were smart in a different way than humans. It's a bit of... blue and orange morality, maybe? Or it works like Douglas Adams described dolphins in the Hitchhikers books.
>For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.So they're smart enough to understand us, and why we do the things we do, but their society and instincts run on completely different mental and emotional tracks.
