>>45512216Team Rocket's Meowth is the most human out of all the pokemon bar none. I haven't watched the anime in forever but I'm fairly certain he probably gets special treatment until the other pokemon. Sorta of a Bugs Bunny and Sylvester the Cat scenario where one often gets treated as more of a person and the other gets treated as more of a pet. He's more of an exemption, I would think.
>>45515945I corrected myself since it was late at night and I had work. Also we don't know how intelligent a Gardevoir is, it's dex entry doesn't say anything about it being intelligent, As far as I know neither of those two would get treated any differently than any other pokemon and if Ash's mom has Mr. Mime eat like a dog sometimes than it probably depends of their trainers.
>>45516043That's what they say but is the way they portray human and pokemon interacting all that different from the way we interact with Earth's creature? I would say probably not.
>>45516097Going by dex entries most pokemon we aren't told how smart they are. While it may be fair to assume psychic types are equal or greater in intelligence than humans I don't think that's supported even if some of the smarter pokemon are psychic going by dex entry. Even so you still have pokemon like Lillipup who are said to be even smarter than human children and it's evolutions are said to be intelligent as well, meaning it may be fair to assume they're more intelligent than human beings.
>>45516175Understanding human language is, at least according to the pokedex, a rare thing that only a handful of Pokemon have.
>>45516193And it's probably going to stay that way because pokemon whole thing is to capture and battle monsters. It's easier when you portray your creatures living in the wild like animals and interacting a similar manner than portraying them as more humanlike.
