me explaining to the other trainers that apricorns are unknown outside of Johto because of deliberate suppression by the Silph and Devon corporations to present artificial pokeballs as the only means of capturing pokemon and establish regional monopolies after they eliminate renewable sources
god remember when the pokemon anime was so desperate to keep up ash’s losing streak that they made some random dude bust out two fucking legendaries at the sinnoh league, raising a shit ton of questions all just to keep ash from winning anything
