>>56102037Was it really 3000 years?
Anyway fair, but I do think that pre-pokeball world is much more inetresting than current formula of
>catch mon>let it rot in the PC for all eternityJust imagine exploring the world with your partner pokemon and actually befriending it instead of enslaving it and putting it in forever-orb
If there has to be a "catching" mechanic then make it work like in the Ranger games, where you "borrow" a mon. Off the top of my head that could be done using your partner to convince native mon to do you a favor, which would accentuate how important friendship and co-dependency between you two are.
And if there Absolutely has to be some pokeball stand-in, then there's this orb/gem (i don't remember rn) from the lucario movie. And if all fails let's not forget, that GF/TPC can just retcon anything they want, as they are known to do.