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nihilistgirlfriend:

Everytime I see someone’s edgy theory about how capturing Pokémon is wrong, I remember that time in Sinnoh it was explicitly stated that Pokémon approach trainers specifically to engage in battle and how it’s implied multiple times throughout the series that Pokémon engage in battle and competitions for their own prestige and it’s just a symbiotic relationship that a respectful trainer gets a career for helping raise a powerful Pokémon while the Pokémon gets access to stronger opponents and more varied experiences than it ever would in its native habitat

Also in the first episode of the anime Ash asks why a wild pokemon is attacking Pikachu and his pokedex says that wild pokemon are often jealous of pokemon with trainers.

#keep your edgy shit away from my pokemon plz n thx

Pokemon are miniature blood knights who love beating the shit out of one another and dream of joining professional fighting squads that go around beating the shit out of one another and I think that’s amazing

It’s actually also officially stated that pokemon battle all the time against each other in the nature.
Just think about it: it’s how they EVOLVE, that’s how they grow and mature, and you meet evolved and high-leveled pokemon in the wilds, meaning they did a lot of fighting.
Also, a lot of people forget that the reason they have moves is because it’s how they harness their power in a relatively safe way.
That’s why they need to learn things like “Cut”, “Surf” and “Fly”: they could do all those things naturally, but they need to learn how to cut things without gutting creatures around them, how to swim without drowning you in the process, how to fly without having you falling from dangerously high heights.
They use moves precisley because that isn’t a brutal beat-down or a fight to the death, but a safe way of confrontation and personal growth.
And it was also stated that captured pokemon are stronger and level up faster than wild ones, meaning that once they bond with a trainer the whole challenging other trainers is actually beneficial to them, not cruel.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I FORGOT ABOUT THAT. this makes much more sense now.