>>48928680>Dissidents would keep their Pokemon, even if just in secret, even if the Unova dragon's strong it won't stand up to an organized resistancegiven how Plasma would control the infrastructure used to catch and train Pokemon (eg, access to Pokemon Centers and Poke Balls, access to the storage system, etc, etc), they are at a massive advantage
and regardless of game stats, the game plots consistently portray the villain team obtaining the legendary as if it would give them the power needed to carry out their plans, because they are supposed to be incredibly, absurdly strong
in B/W, explicitly "razed the region to the ground" strong, people with ordinary Pokemon aren't going to really be doing anything about that
would controlling them backfire?
yeah, especially since previous games have shown it, but in-story, he wouldn't know
>>48928725>Utterly ridiculous. If anyone agreed with that logic they wouldn't own Pokemon in the first placeOwning Pokemon is an aspect of a society that no one really thinks about because it's pervasive, literally just "things have been this way for thousands of years".
also, you're entire idea of how things would play hinges on the masses at large not falling for bullshit, which fails as much in the Pokemon world as it does in the real world
>>48928771>Kinda weird that you didn't mention Malva in Kalos, an actual example of an evil team member/sympathizer being at the Pokemon Leaguehonestly, I'd like to forget about X/Y in general lol
>Also I really don't see how "corruption" in the Pokemon League would allow Team Plasma to build a gigantic castle underneath the League HQcorruption would mean that there were members of the League who authorized and covered up its construction
Plasma's plans are decades in the making (seriously, N is in his 20s or whatever and was raised to be king) this wasn't something that came out of nowhere.
It's definitely the dumbest thing in the entire story though and is impressively hard to defend.
