>>51198004Anon I'm sorry but I asked for a hard source and you're giving me a ton of conjecture, 'imply' is not the same as a confirmation and until you give me a text box or something that says 'yeah, Pokemon are totally non-responsive after being put in Pokeballs', which even that feels like bullshit, you have no way of convincing me Pokemon are 100% unconscious when in their Pokeballs.
The only thing stopping me from shutting this discussion down is the ambiguity of when Pokemon are and aren't in their Pokeballs ingame, there have been multiple instances in which someone will ask to see/talk to a Pokemon in your party, but the games don't show them coming out, leading to the possibility that they simple see said Pokemon from the Pokeball itself not unlike how the Adventures manga portrays them, but this its more than likely GF just doesn't want to show/doesn't care to make it explicit that the Pokemon is called out/comes out on its own. Maybe the only reason we don't see it ingame is because like, 3 Pokemon games have allowed for all Pokemon to be visible in the overworld.
But even ignoring that, if we use Amie as a reference, Pokemon can come out of their Pokeballs asleep, if they were unconscious 100% of the time in a Pokeball, this would always be the case. If they were in some state of unconsciousness or something close to it, it doesn't make any sense as to how they could pop out and be in fighting form after being forcibly put in a drug induced sleep going off your headcanon.
Like you said earlier, Pokemon willingly popping out of their Pokeballs is mostly an anime thing, and with how the gap between the games and the anime keeps getting smaller and smaller, right down to dumb shit like Ash in Masters, Jessie and James in Yellow/LGPE or Ash sending you his Greninja, I don't see why that can't also be the case in game also.
Of course this is also my 'headcanon', but there's way more backing this than lmao drugs.
