>>43843312If it's purely for research purposes, why would it be a prize in a random raffle? That's like if I won a scratch-off from 7-11 and the prize was some plutonium and an instruction manual for it.
I'm not saying it doesn't make sense that research groups would acquire them in mass for research purposes, but from every other aspect of them we've seen, it doesn't make sense why average people would be able to acquire them so regularly, even if rare, or why it's so prevalent as an icon in the games/anime/manga/etc?
Plus, it's not like Silph Co. is a research facility, they're an appliance manufacture; sure they have research teams to help build newer inventions, but that's not the same thing as being a Pokemon Researcher.
Pokeball creation is also a vague concept, because we have entirely different companies producing Pokeballs with the exact same designs/attributes with no discernible differences, outside of specialized balls. If Silph Co had the world's only prototype, why would Hoenn already have access to them at the same time?
It's a good head canon, and I don't to take that away from you, but you can't make that case when ever the games aren't consistent with the history or rules about Pokeballs. The closest thing we have is one of the Anime Guides explaining that they were made to catch savage Pokemon safely, particularly with Primape in mind. There was another book handed out during a gaming event during RBY in Japan called the 'Encyclopedia Pokemonica' but it's never been translated into English.
