A trainer’s ID number is one of the most widely used but most overlooked section of a trainer’s card. When a trainer receives a Pokedex, it becomes linked with their personal trainer identification number. This number also coincides with the digital marker encoded into a Pokemon upon capture, which then link to the Pokedex and their Storage System subscription. With this connection, trainers are able to look through their party’s status, moves, and general history through their Pokedex as well as the PC. While anyone can scan a Pokemon with their Pokedex for basic information, only linking said Pokemon with their personal ID will completely register it’s information and personal data (nature, move set, ect). While the IDs of all owners are encoded into a Pokemon for tracking and legal reasons, only the most recent ID allows access into the Pokemon’s statistics. This encoded ID also prevents other Poke balls from capturing an already captured Pokemon.
Trainers that do not have a Pokedex are significantly disadvantaged in terms of Pokemon rearing. While modern advancements in mobile technology allow for third party applications to link in with a trainer’s ID and display Pokemon information, in the early history of Pokemon Trainers, most people had to hike themselves all the way to a Pokemon Center in order to display concrete information and numbers on a Pokemon’s health and ‘stats’. Any and all information about a Pokemon (wild or owned) had to be taken by hand.
Older trainers who traveled before the time of Pokedex believe that the new stat system of rating a Pokemon’s strength undermines the value of bonding with one’s own Pokemon and gauging their strengths based on partnership and practice. The modernization of Pokemon Training has lead to an increase of illegal Pokemon breeding, the use of performance enhancing drugs, Pokemon abandonment and theft.
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You know what I want? Culture clashes between the pokemon regions.
- Someone from Unova travels to Kanto/Johto wearing a t-shirt with a big R on the chest. They get dirty looks for it and have no idea what’s going on.
- A Kalosian meets someone from Sinnoh and keeps standing too close to them. The Sinnoh native keeps stepping back uncomfortably, but the Kalosian keeps stepping closer.
- Someone from Johto goes to Unova and ????EVERYTHING IS SO BIG=????
- A Hoennian meets up with a Kalosian and the Kalosian goes for cheek kisses while the Hoennian goes for a gentle head butt.
- people from johto visiting sinnoh get pulled aside by police because they don’t know that keeping your pokemon outside its pokeball outside of amity square is illegal
- trainers from kanto and johto wondering why the game corner doesn’t give out pokemon as prizes
- kanto trainers expecting to be given a bunch of rocks for playing in the sinnoh safari zone and instead finding out that you’re supposed to throw mud at pokemon
- “what the fuck are you doing” “i’m slathering honey all over this tree to attract wild pokemon to it” “why don’t you just fucking headbutt it you dumb shit” “e-excuse me what”
- a lot of discourse on the proper way to plant berries (“just plant them in the ground it’s not difficult” “yes okay but have you heard of berry pots” “do you just plant them wherever? why would you do that just get your own berry orchard” “I CAN ONLY PLANT BERRIES IN MY DREAMS”)
- kalos trainers getting really confused when they take their clefairy to kanto and it’s getting its ass handed to it by fighting-types
- unova/kalos trainers getting really fucking sick of foreigners trying to eat their vanillite
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