>>56846287it's not that simple, though. there's dozens of dialogue lines in the gen 5 games pointing out the flaws in both a Pokeball-dominant society and a free-range society like N thought he was fighting for.
Pokeballs are confirmed across multiple games to reinforce rest and staying docile towards their trainer, and examples of Pokemon left outside of their Pokeballs by people who were inspired by Team Plasma's message in the first games are shown to not be very obedient, despite staying with their trainer.
The story ends with OUR Pokemon telling N that they want to be subservient cockfighters because of the unique bond they formed with US, the player, which we know is unique because N hadn't heard things like that from any other Pokemon before. It broke down the physical and mental walls Ghetsis built around him that limited his worldview.
If he talked to a Pokemon like Ghetsis's Hydreigon, it would probably spout every slur in Pokespeak it could before saying it would kill Ghetsis if it wasn't for the refreshing comfort of its Pokeball.
The point of Gen 5's stories was to ask the question "is the current system of catching Pokemon while we live in harmony with them, morally okay" and the answer we ended with is "for now, yes, as the positives outweigh the negatives, but it's not perfect"
Team Plasma's message can't work in the current time period of the Pokemon world, because of groups like Team Plasma and the amount of infrastructure in the world that's reliant on Pokemon cooperating with humans, but it could work at some point in the future.
