>>36477391Telepathy is given to Pokémon not out of appropriateness/relevancy, but whenever the fuck the plot needs exposition and the writer(s) is/are too damn lazy and/or unimaginative to present it in a more organic way.
Either that, or when they want to shoehorn a guest star in like it's The Simpsons or something.
This has been obvious since that one Silver Islands Lugia who wasn't telepathic like the one in 2000 (was that one meant to be, like, a legitimately retarded specimen?)