>>53875232Its honestly fascinating. Buneary starts with 0 friendship (legendary pokemon levels of “you cant train me”) and only evolves at 225 max love
Lopunny learns Return at Level 13, cementing your bond. But if Buneary hasnt evolved it learns Frustration at Level 13 instead (symbolizing how pissed it is that you havent gone all the way yet). “sexual” Frustration?
Wild Lopunny also have an extremely high base friendship of 170 I believe (for reference 99% of mons start at 50 or 70), indicating that feral and/or released Lopunnys are still deeply affectionate towards humans
Except in the most strictly anti-Pokephilia regions, human-Lopunny relationships would be normalized. They’d be tier one, along with a few other Pokemon like potentially Gardevoir / Jynx / Medicham (all Psychic and more capable of consent, probably). Tier two would be non-Psychic or semi humanoid mons. Tier three is slightly weird stuff. Tier four is genuine beasts like Houndoom and Rapidash. Then five is stuff like objectmons and Stage One evos
