>>54019335Therefore it's fine to be in a romantic relationship with a Zoroark. Glad we agree on that much at least.
>if normal pokemon are sapient then why don't we see any of them build towns?First - it's fallacious to assume that building towns is a requirement of any sort to be sapient. It's not. Unless you also believe that humans weren't sapient before building the first settlements either and when they lived in caves... like animals.
Second - there is no need to build a civilization when there already exists one, where you're already widely accepted. In the parallel PMD world humans don't (almost) exist, so it fell upon Pokémon to build one.
Speaking of building, Pokémon technically DID build the civilization - in close cooperation with humans, you see that as early as in gen1 games. We do see Pokémon building encampments alone in the anime though.
I also recall seeing a quote from one of the creators the other day, regarding anime/game/alternative worlds, and it being stated that they're not different worlds, just alternate. The worlds might be different, but the building blocks are the same, Pokémon don't have different properties depending on whether it's a mainline game, PMD or anime. I can't back it up with a source right now, so believe it or not. Whatever, you don't seem like a type to be convinced anyway.
>every single one has a reason. we don't see that in traditionally non-sapient pokemon.You mean every single time you have an excuse to deny Pokémon their sapience. Again, absence of evidence, not evidence of absence. So what about these examples of explicitly non-sapient Pokémon?
>battling isn't the same, move limits aren't the same (...) so of course i think that this also applies to pokemon having a level of sapienceThat's just a ridiculous analogy. Sorry anon, but just because "dodge it" exists in anime it doesn't mean they are different creatures. It's absurd. And again, nothing ever states "clearly not sapient"...
