mountmortar:

gladion has silvally AND porygon z on his team, two pokémon that came from experiments (one of which evolves via friendship), and then he’s got a crobat and a lucario (BOTH of which evolve via friendship) just to drive home that he LOVES his pokémon and has always loved them as proven by how he literally ran off with type: null and was homeless for a couple years just to protect it from lusamine and the aether foundation’s experiments. basically he has experience in caring for manmade & abused pokémon + he’s really good with all of them. why am i bringing all this up you may ask? well in this essay i will be elaborating on how out of all the characters in the games gladion would be the best choice to be a pokémon trainer for mewtwo