>Free food
>Free home
>Free healthcare
>Companion bested and caught you in a fair and square fight
>Companion does care about you
>Companion also trains with you
>Get to breed bitches, bitches love the spooning
>No need to understand conflicts when the easy answer is just to shit a lot of damage (coming out of a bastard whose mega is disgustingly min-maxed in power, it shouldn't be a 5kiq debate on how to deal with things)
>Implying it's slavery and not a fair trade, free shit for the price of being a mighty gladiator, don't need 5000IQ to take such an offer
>Said gladiatorial matches come with mad fucking honor, become stronger and stronger the more you fight and you get recognition as a powerful pokemon
A pokemon with 5000IQ would realize that being someone's pokemon is neither slavery or a bad trade, especially when it's Alaka-god damn-zam, one of the strongest pokemon (that aren't Uber tier) in the whole franchise so of course you'll be popular amongst trainers and won't be boxed forever.