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That isn't good. We shouldn't encourage it. Besides, making friends with humans will only put them in greater danger, both from us and from other monsters - they should not start thinking that we are safe.

I don't think they are actively deciding that or pondering it. I think they are aware of what we are and decided they don't care and the only way we could change their mind is by actively hurting them, yup. Like those underqualified trainers who borrow a friend's level 50 Nidoking and forget that pokemon can turn at any moment.

...people really should not be loaning those out like they are hammers.

I guess they don't understand rental Pokemon have special training.

[Ingo nods; he remembers those existing, at least, if not the specifics of their training. Probably he wasn't personally responsible for it anyway.]

I would let new trainers command Pokemon I had trained for mock battles sometimes. The ones from the Paths of Solitude, not my own team! But only the ones who had a good temperament for it, and only while I was present.

Lots of people don't think like that, nope. It will be like 'You're going against Elesa? Here uses my level 100 Hippowdon!'

Simplistic thinking. She must have a counter for ground-types. What sort of an electric specialist does not think about that?

Her Emolgas, but also if it has a normal move it would still work.

Which one? Going at each other with normal-type moves is inefficient - better to learn Grass Knot, if Emolga can. A great many Pokemon can! And the challenger should have rock moves, but likely they would be relying on pure strength and ground-type advantage, if bringing a powerful borrowed Pokemon was their strategy to begin with.